Search results

Meanwhile, yahoos are saying this tragedy is caused by California's poor forest management. Which ignores the fact that the currently burning parts of Los Angeles are not a forest. For that matter, 57% of the forest land in California is owned by the federal government.

That ain't how insurance works.

He's got over a million subscribers and has the most successful mountain biking channel on youtube. So I dunno about "wannabe".

Unfortunately, in the Real World it is well-understood that if you are explaining, you are losing. Public mass media is an ineffective tool for communicating subtle differences or fine technical points to large populations. We will never win the argument in that venue.

I don't consider myseld an "anti-ebiker". What I think I am doing is looking at what is going on and drawing conclusions. What I see is a promising technology with multiple product safety issues and an extremely bad public image which is being made rapidly worse by many electric bike owners...

So let me get this straight. On the one hand, we argue that law enforcement and the legal system can't distinguish between various types of e-bikes but that means we shouldn't enforce any laws about e-bikes. On the other hand, we are shocked when the media and general public cannot distinguish...

This stuff is awesome for protecting wooden decks: https://www.flamestop.com/documents/Flame-Stop-II.pdf

You can still have a wood or metal-framed home that is resilient in the face of earthquakes but have the exterior be concrete, metal, vinyl, or stucco all of which are sufficiently fireproof to be as survivable as you are going to get. There are also these really cool vents that are fire safe...

Lots of them are. Heck, in places like LA after decades of ruthless natural selection most of them are. And it often doesn't really matter. If the fire is intense enough the radiant heat will ignite materials inside the house no matter what the exterior is made out of. I doubt you'd find a...

How nothing really changes. This is from 1962:

Kind of depends. This Jack Dempsey is a freshwater fish native to Mexico and Central America.

I have direct personal experience with how insanely and dangerously stupid people can be during conditions of high fire risk. And bluntly the reality is often worse than the rumors. If only because of the old saying, "Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense." My two...

One of the things that climate change is driving is periods of very high rainfall followed by very dry periods. The periods with very high rainfall produce a lot of vegetation growth, which is nicely dried out and provides even more fuel for the next fire during one of those dry periods...

Extremely sort of. This is all extremely approximate but I'll try to give a simplified explanation: Imagine if you take an electric motor and feed a constant voltage. The motor will spin at a certain speed (RPM) for that voltage. Increase the voltage and you'll get more RPMS. You haven't...

Volts are not power. Watts are a unit of power. Watts are the product of Volts and Amperes. Literally the product.

Oh c'mon, we know everybody online has spent years fighting wildfires and is an expert on the topic. Having said that, most of the politically motivated criticism is based on ignorance that would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic and pathetic. And politically motivated criticism of wildfire...

Funny thing is, in dry and extremely windy conditions you don't fight a fire by putting water on it. You're better off putting that water on stuff that hasn't burned yet to try and slow the damned thing down. Fighting a fire in extreme conditions is like fighting a tornado. Sometimes literally.

I just heard about it this morning. Still not Ukraine:

The places in the PNW near the Canadian Border look Nothing At All Like Ukraine. In places if you squint hard maybe parts of Slovakia, without the people. Not Ukraine: Most definitely Not Ukraine:

Meanwhile, in civilized parts of the world: https://www.intertraffic.com/news/road-safety/amsterdam-30-speed-limit