Tim’s Tiny Home Project Notes 2

This is the second part of a continuing series.  Part one here.

Construction Issues

Many of the current tiny homes are built on trailers to avoid odious issues with building codes as well as to aid in their being more easily transported and relocated. While understandable, this imposes some serious limitations on the weight, size and height of the overall structure, as well as the type of building materials and construction details involved in the planning thereof. The smallest tiny homes are under a hundred square feet and the largest I’d consider ‘tiny’ would measure in at under twenty feet per side. Anything more than ten or twelve feet wide is going to be near impossible to relocate at any reasonable cost. Any way you slice it, portable or fixed location, a home with less of a footprint than four hundred square feet is definitely tiny by any normative American standard.

Editorial Conundrum

I’m in a bit of an editorial quandary.  Last year I ran a pro-wind piece extolling the virtues of sustainable wind power.  I don’t claim any special expertise on the subject other than being surrounded by a sea of these devices here in the Umwelt-sensitive district of Munsterland.   That said, I am in extremely close proximity to these devices.  They’re everywhere.   My enthusiasm for the technology caught the attention of some anti-windfarm group because there’s been an attempt to inject some anti-wind propaganda into the comment thread on that piece.

I’ve never blocked or banned a comment on this blog that wasn’t outright spam.  I even let the haters and the trolls take their shots.  I am willing to risk the potential of PTSD because, as a Vietnam-era service member, I know that shell shock is a risk of battle.  It’s been that way for men as long as there have been men.  But I digress.  This is not about my particular sensitivity to criticism or inability to take as good an ad hominem homo-baiting as the best of the Tea Party ‘tards has to offer.  It’s about whether I give exposure to what I consider is a coordinated attempt at consumer misinformation and propaganda.

Part of me wants to expose the anti-wind shill/idiot(s) involved.  Another part of me is reluctant to give them any publicity at all.  It’s an editorial conundrum I’ve not encountered in the past.  I’ve reviewed the material and visited the websites of the links that were attempted to be placed in my comment section and find them to be total rubbish and some of the more transparent anti-wind FUD propaganda I’ve ever seen.

About the only crazy claim not being made by these lunatics is that the windmills are somehow dragging down the rotational speed of the the Earth.

Just to give you one example of something we’re all suppose to be deathly afraid of?  The possibility of an out-of-control fire in one of these generators!!  As if a relatively small fire once in a blue moon, on a tower a high up in the middle of a field somewhere is suppose to be more scary than global warming or nuclear accident?  Give me a break.  It’s insulting.

Even though it would be fun to deconstruct the rather transparent attempts at misdirecting the public discussion on renewable wind power generation, I am going to set it aside for now unless prodded to do otherwise by an overwhelming request from the masses.

Enjoy.

 

E-cat Schematics Leaked to Public

Image of E-cat drawing exposing the inner workings of controversial LENR reactor. Meanwhile, Andrea Rossi threatens to sue “the snakes and puppeteers” who leaked document.

Huge and important BREAKING NEWS on the E-cat scene!  For those of you who trawl the nets, Twitter and Google, trying to keep abreast of the most important discovery of our era, this is something you won’t want to miss.

The E-cat is finally out-of-the-bag so to speak.   In the artist rendering above, the heretofore top-secret “special sauces” that power the inner workings of Rossi’s mystery E-cat are finally available for official third-party independent analysis.  Andrea Rossi won’t be happy, but with a breakthrough so extreme, normal business motivations and morality must be set aside in lieu of their relative unimportance in comparison to the benefits available to mankind.  I am not applauding the illegal release of Rossi’s top secret corporate designs, but in my heart, I am pretty sure it is what Jesus would do.

I won’t pretend to be smart enough to make heads or tails out of such sophisticated engineering drawings as those recently exposed.  That is something that only “experts” in the areas of Cold Fusion, LENR, and alien abduction research can intelligently sort out..

Given the proof of concept drawings exposed above, breathless Ecat supporters (and the shills who love them) won’t have to rely solely on manufactured interviews and rehashing last years astroturfed headlines as if they had any relevance to the things we know today.

I am offering solid evidence any of you can link back to when you need to ground your Ecat arguments on solid evidence instead of the usual astroturf Ecat shill sites and their flimsy recycled interviews.  Think of how this will free up your time.  Just link back to me and leave all those other Ecat LENR bookmarks behind.

Track ALL YOUR ECAT news right here folks.  Totally free as always, but still, think of all you’ll be saved from:

You won’t have to pretend not to notice that the “interview” you are reading is nothing but a continuation of the never ending hype that astoturfing ECAT enthusiasts and free energy market manipulators churn out like plastic golf tees.

You won’t be forced to continue to ignore that at the very basic level of real LENR science, the HONEST DEBATE is whether these mystery reactions produce more heat than a flea fart, and not about hyped (2012) production of giant flea fart heat acquisition and dispersion units.

You will not be forced to engage in NOT speculating on the many apparent contradictions and exposed lies coming out of the Rossi, Defkalion based propaganda machine.

You will not be banned for identifying “bullshit” based solely on smell, texture and look, even if you haven’t actually confirmed your suspicions by tasting it.

Enjoy.

Killing The E-Cat

Another day in the never-ending E-cat charade. Since my last post, Defkalion is asserted (by the same set of shady sources) to have “tested” their “new and improved” E-cat. One is left to speculate on the ease of improving upon a fantasy device, but let’s play along anyway.

The obvious question is, “How did the tests go?”. According to (always unverifiable-duh) reports, the Defkalion tests were SAFETY tests and not meant to prove/test output power or efficiency. I am quite sure the big pile of junk they are trying to pass off as a fusion device is safe unless it falls on you (or you stub your toe on the unit by accident). So from where I am sitting, it looks to be just another in the long line of ECat stalling techniques, sure to keep the hopeless rubes excited but never really addressing whether the fantasy device actually functions.

Hold the presses. Looks like the initial reports on tests for safety are now being rewritten (because how do you test the safety of a non functional product!?). Here is the bit of PR fluff designed to patch over the earlier safety announcement test:

Mr. Lewan is reporting the test was conducted on February 24th and that it was not focused on safety because the product is not ready yet for such tests.

I love this next bit of misdirection:

To complicate things, the tests are being performed on bare reactors without cooling – the same reactors that are part of the Defkalion heating product called Hyperion.

“To complicate things…”, as if that wasn’t part of the entire E-cat ruse…LOL. I have to admit it is hard to add sarcasm to such blatant bogusness, specially the part about running the “reactor” without coolant. I guess this was the China Syndrome simulation? So we are left with news of an E-cat test that measured absolutely NOTHING. That is a smashing success in the world of ECat circle jerkers.

To engender even more respectability (not) into the mix, Defkalion has reportedly shut down their company blog forum. Of course it is too much trouble managing a (scam) forum when you have the real work of fooling people to contend with. To add even more “respectability” to the effort, Defkalion tosses in “throw away” info on the ever-present (and always mute) mysterious government officials on hand to witness their “tests”.

As to my poll on why the tests would fail? I didn’t see the “safety test” misdirection coming, but isn’t it telling that we’re suppose to worry about the safety of a device that hasn’t yet even been shown to function?! I expect the next “test” will be on the durability of the E-cat (the paint on the exterior of the unit but not the unit itself). Anything to keep from having to prove the dam thing actually works.

For grins and chuckles, I offer the following “news” taken from the myriad E-cat blogs. Suffice to say that the comments section of many of these latter day MySpace Ecat blogs is even more incredulous:

The Greek government has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement in the test, but it is most probably informed. (my emphasis)

No specific details or results have been released. For the Greek government’s position they neither confirmed nor denied its involvement in the test, but it most probably took place. (my emphasis)

Enjoy.

Defkalion Diddling

Guess the reason for the anticipated failure of Defkalion testing on their LENR reactor:

Enjoy.