Whatever: The Open Lines Thread

[ShayP]

Lock and load…

https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2022/03/04/big-invasive-parachuting-spiders-will-begin-to-cover-entire-east-coast-experts-say/

Fuck that shit.  I'm buying a flame thrower.  Or I'll just build one.  I have enough stuff in the garage I can light a match to and burn 'em.

[sean92008]

I found this article really interesting. Boring holes over 12 miles deep to tap geothermal energy. Boreholes could be placed literally anywhere on the earth. One of their concepts involves drilling near coal fired power plants and replacing the heat source for the steam generators from coal to super heated water. It successfully developed it seems to have significant advantages to solar arrays and wind farms. The infrastructure is already there at the power plants to tie into the grid.  Sun doesn’t always shine, wind doesn’t always blow, but the earth’s core will stay hot for a long time. Plus the geographic footprint is square meters, not thousands of acres. 

https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-deep-geothermal-millimeter-wave-drill/

Greenies talk about solar being a green solution.  Maybe in the desert. In Texas I know of two solar farms being built out of forested land. Millions of trees cut down in one fell sloop.  At least one of them just pushed the trees into piles and burned them.  Trees that would have converted CO2 into O2.  Now released into the atmosphere as carbon. Instead of being a carbon sink. Solar farms don’t convert CO2 into O2 and they don’t last as long as trees do.

Here are pictures I took a couple of months ago (January) of the huge smoke plum rising from the site of one of the solar farms in central Texas. I didn’t look for satellite footage but the smoke plume seemed to be over a mile wide at the base and the smoke cloud was easily 60 miles across.

Silly kids, it's not about saving the planet...

[TigerLily]

Sorry. I couldn't help myself. These are so clever and OwlKitty is so adorable

[TigerLily]

I found this article really interesting. Boring holes over 12 miles deep to tap geothermal energy. Boreholes could be placed literally anywhere on the earth. One of their concepts involves drilling near coal fired power plants and replacing the heat source for the steam generators from coal to super heated water. It successfully developed it seems to have significant advantages to solar arrays and wind farms. The infrastructure is already there at the power plants to tie into the grid.  Sun doesn’t always shine, wind doesn’t always blow, but the earth’s core will stay hot for a long time. Plus the geographic footprint is square meters, not thousands of acres. 

https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-deep-geothermal-millimeter-wave-drill/

Greenies talk about solar being a green solution.  Maybe in the desert. In Texas I know of two solar farms being built out of forested land. Millions of trees cut down in one fell sloop.  At least one of them just pushed the trees into piles and burned them.  Trees that would have converted CO2 into O2.  Now released into the atmosphere as carbon. Instead of being a carbon sink. Solar farms don’t convert CO2 into O2 and they don’t last as long as trees do.

Here are pictures I took a couple of months ago (January) of the huge smoke plum rising from the site of one of the solar farms in central Texas. I didn’t look for satellite footage but the smoke plume seemed to be over a mile wide at the base and the smoke cloud was easily 60 miles across.

The company I used to work for built a geothermal plant right on their property.

"In Texas I know of two solar farms being built out of forested land. Millions of trees cut down in one fell s[w]oop. ..."
And you have a lot of desert in Texas don't you? Texans just aren't that bright are they?

[KSM]

The company I used to work for built a geothermal plant right on their property.

"In Texas I know of two solar farms being built out of forested land. Millions of trees cut down in one fell s[w]oop. ..."
And you have a lot of desert in Texas don't you? Texans just aren't that bright are they?

You see, you're trying to make a statement there so the question mark is not necessary when the previous line was the question. Geez man  @TigerLily

[Walks_At_Night]

Guess even during a war, life has to go on.

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[Walks_At_Night]

Usually these gigantic snake deals are fake or manipulated but this looks kinda real.

Warning: Big Ass Snake

[Bart Ell]

And you have a lot of desert in Texas don't you? Texans just aren't that bright are they?

Ever notice how quickly people who move there pick up that silly accent?
Put Prince Charles in Plano for 3 weeks and he would be drawling like Ottis Toole.
It is like it gets inbreded in their brain.
I know what I typed.
Inbreded.
You can hang your hat on that.

[Walks_At_Night]

People can be such dicks.

[TigerLily]

Guess even during a war, life has to go on.

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He's making a political statement

[TigerLily]

People can be such dicks.

Don't make me laugh so hard first thing in the morning. I spit out my coffee

[TigerLily]

Usually these gigantic snake deals are fake or manipulated but this looks kinda real.

Warning: Big Ass Snake

Uhhh. Thanks for the warning. Gotta be a fake. She says hopefully

[TigerLily]

You see, you're trying to make a statement there so the question mark is not necessary when the previous line was the question. Geez man  @TigerLily

What? I don't get it?

[JUAN]

Quayle’s daughter is on with The Baptist Mullah on Newsmax.  She can jabber, but not like her father.

[JUAN]

Ever notice how quickly people who move there pick up that silly accent?
Put Prince Charles in Plano for 3 weeks and he would be drawling like Ottis Toole.
It is like it gets inbreded in their brain.
I know what I typed.
Inbreded.
You can hang your hat on that.

Ottis Toole spoke with a Northeast Florida accent, not a Texas one.  Get your regionalisms correct.