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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 7:30pm On Oct 23, 2020
When Hunter Biden went with Joe for the
first time [to Beijing] guess who they met
with? He met with Che Feng in Pangu
Hotel. Che Feng went to meet with
Hunter with assigned task which was to
befriend Hunter. To Che’s total surprise,
the first word Hunter said when he sat
down was, “I am so poor. How can I get
money? I need money. I wanted a house
but it costs 100-200 million dollars.”
Something like this. Hunter also told Che
that he was interested in hot girls and
asked if Che could introduce some to
him. In the end, just that cost over 1
million RMB (150,000USD Equivalent).
Che Feng later recalled that he was very
surprised by how easy it was to
compromise Hunter.

I'm. getting this from thegatewaypundit

NOW: @SenRonJohnson statement
Bobulinski/FBI interview request READ:
WASHINGTON — This morning lawyers
for Tony Bobulinski informed the Senate
Homeland Security + Governmental
Affairs Committee + Senate Finance
Committee that the FBI asked his client
to sit for an interview today
— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge)
October 23, 2020
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 7:04pm On Oct 23, 2020
salford1:
And those are the regulators I am talking about, the ones those electricians and line techs are working on, and not the china made binatones step up and step down you use in your face me I face you apartment to regulate NEPA voltage grin
The Chinese flooded the power market with gadgets that work when new. No timeframe guarantee that Manufacturer Company will be in existence and or that thereis No way of suing them while they are there

That's why I like Trump. They play hard, he also does.

Cheap can be expensive in the long run.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 6:47pm On Oct 23, 2020
salford1:
Trying to come after my qualifications. And where do you do this job of yours? Probably Nigeria grin

Oh. The salaries of those that manage the load flow is nothing. Drop in a bucket
If you could invent a floor that does not get dirty and requires no cleaning with your education You could become a dollar billionaire. I'm not one yet I could not be more happier if all my kids got the best in life.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 6:40pm On Oct 23, 2020
salford1:
Line losses but yeah, we have switching station and regulators along the line. So. Manitoba sells power to some states in the US. Saskatchewan buys from Alberta and Manitoba. Line losses is one of the least of our worries in getting power accross places.
Cost? Yes. Line losses. No.
A typical step up or step down transformer has almost a 99.8% efficiency.
Power line losses to a power gen utility is the biggest and I repeat the biggest operational cost factor besides paying off salaries of those who manage the load flow
Are you leading me on.
Generation utilities do 3 phase power, they use synchronous induction gen sets that obviously have a phase lag between the current and voltage produced at the end of their snout This phase lag adds to power loss and power outputs. I saw your posts of some Hitachi turbines/gens don't know why those guys hired you if you think power comes from socket outlets.
I used to install power factor correction equipment mainly of capacitor banks and inductors for a living BTW. And PLCs.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 6:19pm On Oct 23, 2020
salford1:
Sudan and Isreal. Were they ever at war? grin
Keep displaying your your ignorance. After 1967 war the League of Arab Nations came up with a slogan of 3 No's in a Khartoum declaration.

No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel.

Trump is breaking that. With Jared Kushner as a prime mover.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 6:07pm On Oct 23, 2020
benalvino2:
That's the resistance. Like wires increase resistance with length. So the current you will get at the plant will be different from what you get at the location you want to use the power. But yeah... The current can be boosted
Power losses equals Current squared Times Resistance.
And also equals Volatage squared divided by Resistance.

And Power delivered is Voltage Times Current.

Money tip, reduce current as much as possible. increase the Volatage as much as possible. And use low resistance conductors like copper.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 5:59pm On Oct 23, 2020
salford1:
What loses, you know nothing about electricity. Stop reading stuffs far right websites. The power is converted to AC to minimize loss before being sent down the transmission line. While there are HVDC transmission, it's not very common and rare.
As per your rare metal.(lithium and cobalt), they are fully recyclable. Next.
You can generate electrical power in the deserts. Transporting it involves losses that increase with conductor length.

You use HVAC to backhaul. Losses are minimal because Voltage squared divided by Resistance minimises losses. You think one should step down Voltage and increase Current ?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 5:47pm On Oct 23, 2020
benalvino2:
I don't know about this. But I know fuel energy efficiency... Like only 30% is used and 70% is lost in heat and other process. Whereas electric cars used 90% of its power efficiently. Electric cars has better torque and acceleration compared to fuel. Cause it's just the motor connected to the power when fuel... A lot is involved. Like most if the energy is lost in the transmission system. The gears and friction
A moving vehicle expends nearly all energy to overcome friction from the surface and air.
I gave oil engines 55% , In reality they could be doing 30% efficiency.
The idea of a magnetically levitated train is borne of the idea that opposite poles of a magnet repel each other with a force that can be directed in the horizontal direction. You power the track and train electromagnets and the train floats albeit an inch or two overcoming the surface friction. A hypothetical hyperloop uses a vacuum in the tube and the force created by opposite magnetic poles for propulsion.
You damn need energy and it gorra be reliable, unlike using solar when there are clouds no power is generated. Or wind power, there is no wind no power.
Guys spend a hell lot of time planning on reliable wattage hours to deliver to electric consumers They work out when to shut production depending on time of the day In the evening everyone is cooking and expending a lot of energy. Another idiot is running is a welding machine which uses a lot of current leading to losses.
In electrical Power losses are
the square of current and resistance Zero resistance means zero waste, which is not possible. That's why power transmission lines operate at very high voltages to reduce the current carried.
A lot of details go into that.
Fossil fuels are here to stay, we make them efficient until we find out how to make conductors with zero resistance.
Then we can generate all power from deserts and haul it to places needed.
But liberals would rather use taxes to subsidize solar panels so anyone can. afford them during summer
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 5:34pm On Oct 23, 2020
[quote author=bayelsaowei post=95254001][/quote]Back to that junk science hockey stick temperature changes? Which thermometer was in the sea in 1900?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 5:32pm On Oct 23, 2020
benalvino2:
This is oxymoron. Defeats the purpose of electric car. How can you use diesel generator to charge the car? You could as well buy an hybrid that uses fuel and battery and no need for charging stations
Liberal snowflakes will feel good cruising in the Teslas and Co.
After all power comes from that socket outlet
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 5:30pm On Oct 23, 2020
benalvino2:
Did we ever say we don't believe in science?
We believe in science not Junk science.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 5:25pm On Oct 23, 2020
benalvino2:
Chemicals cannot store the necessary energy needed for a lot of things. There will always be fossil fuel or we will need nuclear reactors. Nuclear reactors can work as steam engines or hotair engines (sterling engines) you can't have both on anything that is not close to water because they produce a lot of heat and needs cooling else you have meltdown and radiation leak
Why not just use fossil fuels to charge electric vehicles in order to please activists. Oil engines have typical efficiencies of less than 55%. Burn 100KW of fuel to produce max 55KW to power electric vehicles with less than 60% efficiency. Those are best case scenarios. Use 100KW to power EV which produces 33KW.
lunacy at it's best.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 5:12pm On Oct 23, 2020
bayelsaowei:
1. There have always been floods, heat waves and other phenomenons, however the intensity, rapidity and magnitude of it in recent times is becoming more of a concern which ofcourse is attributed to man's activities and carbon emissions overtime. There is nothing that happens in the world today that has not happened before, but when we see the same things happening like never before we must shrewdly get to the root cause.
Where is the evidence.
When was the thermometer to measure temperatures in the sea invented and recorded whether it's on those Egyptian scrolls or in PDF form.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 5:08pm On Oct 23, 2020
Timiofak:
Lmao I can make this argument for electoral college votes too, since we all want to be mad. Remove texas 38 EC and Hillary would have won easily.

Like everything isn't part of America.
I agree. Texas and Florida are a match made in heaven for Trump. Without them Reps would never win.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 5:06pm On Oct 23, 2020
Timiofak:
What does this have with what we are talking about?
Your kowtowing to China who brought us the Wuhan virus. Communists want global domination it took Reagan to bring their main sponsor down.
China cares about being dominant, whether their citizens work in sweat House they can always hold leverage on the big mega corps.
Many Chinese companies with a global reach have the govt as a primary backer or guarantee.
And people like Joe Biden are held by their balls by the Chinese
The panda cares about the panda simple.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:59pm On Oct 23, 2020
Timiofak:
Lmao, now minus how much California have on the gdp since we All want to be mad. And people should determine who leads them, not lands dammit.

The first image shows population density, while the second shows how lands determine
Without Calif votes, Trump beat Clinton in popular vote count

Calif has been saying they want to secede, a decision they cannot pull on their own. With worlds 5th or 7th largest economy It would put a dent on the Fed tax income though. The leftists in Hollywood had said they would relocate to Canada among other nations had Trump won. None except Tom Hanks who moved to The Mediterranean made good their promises. Tom Hanks was a too close guest of Epstein, Qanon has it's ridiculous explanation for that.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:53pm On Oct 23, 2020
Timiofak:
Ok
The Sierra Club chair was trying to sell ice cream to Eskimos. He met Lion Ted.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:49pm On Oct 23, 2020
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:43pm On Oct 23, 2020
Timiofak:
you have said it is not real before, and NASA said it is, so why should I argue with you about it.

so enjoy.
You ain't the type that goes down taking Trump signs off people's backyard, neither would you block a MAGA hat wearing they/them service
Watch the video, you will know where I'm coming from RE Climate change junk science.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:37pm On Oct 23, 2020
Timiofak:
First of all I have told you, Trump winning 2016 was an unprecedented error. Second of all Trafalgar group polls predicted a trump win. So when you say Msm had it wrong, no they didn't
A popular debate moment is when the proponents of a topic invite the worthy opponents to cross the floor and join them.

Trump doing 46% is yuuge. Bigly.

He won 30 states to Clinton 20, won 2600 counties to Clinton 476 . That's how the EC was defined to function. Furthermore minus California Trump had more popular votes than her.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:31pm On Oct 23, 2020
bayelsaowei:
seasonal inconsistencies especially even in Nigeria which ofcourse has really changed a lot in recent times.

Increased heat. Floodings. Global warming. Etc.Plenty of evidence.

I know trump says there's nothing like climate change and so at this point you have no choice but to also irredeemably align with him..reality will hit you hard and by then we will be right here waiting to tell you "but we told you"
Before the first milliliter of oil was ever used, there were no floods, no hot summer heat waves, gazillions of polar bears, no buried islands etc
Don't conflate smog with climate change.
I had posted a link about climate change junk science some time ago. Here is the link.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/global_warmings_50_years_of_fraud.html


I always say for all economies we would rather have educated people hawking say roast chicken than illiterates.
I have also posted a link to Sierra club senate committee hearing a few minutes ago.
There is climate change caused by fossil fuels, where is the evidence?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:16pm On Oct 23, 2020
Timiofak:
Even trump himself knows climate change is real, he was asked yesterday, he gave a retarded answer. Assuming he didn't believe it real, he would have surely said that there is nothing like climate change. But some people that have zilch idea about climate say it's a lie okay na
Climate change evidence of it being real.
Sahara, Atacama deserts et al were caused by burning fossil fuels
When you bring an argument that 99% of scientists in peer reviewed papers have said so. It's called a strawman argument.
A video of Ted Cruz grilling a Climate change scientist Sierra Club who only had that strawman argument.
Watch and be enlightened on how this guy has no proof before a senate committee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl9-tY1oZNw
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:07pm On Oct 23, 2020
Timiofak:
From Rasmussen, the same people that gave him a 52% approval rating lmao. Enjoy your fabu
The same people who had Hillary up.

On its final poll released Nov. 7, the
day before Election Day, Rasmussen
had up 2 points on
. Clinton won the
popular vote by 1 percentage point,
even though Donald Trump beat her
on electoral votes.
No other pollster tracked by
RealClearPolitics came as close to the
final results.
No other pollster tracked by
RealClearPolitics came as close to the
final results.
"The media created a false narrative
about the 2016 presidential campaign,
and most polling reinforced it,"
Rasmussen wrote on its website
Thursday. "Our polling showed that
issues, not the media-fed
controversies, would ultimately decide
the election."
Only one polling entity tracked by
RealClearPolitics had Trump leading
going into Election Day: A
collaboration poll between Investor's
Business Daily and TechnoMetrica
Market Intelligence that had Trump
leading by two points.
Most other polls tracked by
RealClearPolitics showed Clinton
leading by three or four points. The
Monmouth University poll showed
Clinton leading by six — the furthest
off of any poll tracked by
RealClearPolitics.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:01pm On Oct 23, 2020
bayelsaowei:
I even expect trump to be talking more about carbon capture storage as a way to handle carbon emissions even if he insists on dieing in fracking and oil exploration/production. I expect him to discuss about ways to reduce carbon emissions. But the guy has come out to throw down the scientific researches and findings on climate change..

A human with zilch knowledge about science disputing scientific findings that we see the evidence day in day out..
What evidence have you seen about climate change apart from 99% of scientists funded research.
I have seen beach fronts being snapped up by Obama, Kerry, Been Sanders, Al Gore etc at dirt cheap prices.The same unscientific clowns who predicted Manhattan being under water by 2020.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 3:57pm On Oct 23, 2020
After the debate the Rasmussen polls have Trump at 46% approval among blacks.
Morning Reader Data Points: National Daily Black Likely Voter Job Approval For @POTUS – October 19-23, 2020 Mon 10/19 – 25% Tue 10/20 – 24% Wed 10/21 – 31% Thu 10/22 – 37% Fri 10/23 – 46% — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) October 23, 2020
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 3:38pm On Oct 23, 2020
Timiofak:
If you still believe the hunter Biden story, na you sabiii ooo

below is a report from a fox news reporter.
Did Joe Biden lie about him and his family ever receiving Chinese Remnibi.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 3:29pm On Oct 23, 2020
salford1:
So we should continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid.
We should keep destroying our environment because Russia and China are doing it?
Should people continue stealing, because a few others are getting away with it?
Is this a Nigerian logic? I hope not.
Batteries have components of rare earth metals, their extraction is extremely wasteful and damaging to the environment.China gives a rats arse about the environment, they control 90% of world's rare earth metals.Western societies were forced to shut down their mines, they too have plenty of rerserves of them, but green activists had them shutter.
We are not conflating clean environment with Climate change. Cleaner efficient fossil fuels are the way to go we all agree. But banning fossil fuels to transition to renewable energy is at the tail end of a pipe dream.
Sahara has the sun most of the year, a lot of solar can be produced there. The real problem begins with transportation of that power . Losses abound.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 3:09pm On Oct 23, 2020
Timiofak:
So wait your point is there can't be electric planes and ships, lmao.

Sir I am sorry to tell you, you need to read about renewable energy more.
You are the one who needs to read. Where is this power coming from?
You make it sound simple like building Panama canal by just digging a trench between the two coasts.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 3:04pm On Oct 23, 2020
benalvino2:
The batteries to make them is not renewable and you have more emissions from making those batteries li-po than you get from making gasoline.
Just plug the charging point into the socket outlet.
Most children have iPhones or Android powered smart phones, the world is changing.

Yes the world is changing, but where is the power to let all the devices operate coming from.
I always go for hydro, that is usually a project of magnanimous proportions few nation's can afford to build and operate

At the same time liberals have called for banning nuclear power which is very clean new advances are being made every day for a worst case disaster scenario.

It remains oil will power the world for a few more hundred years. Developing efficient engines is a major work in progress like the Dreamliner or A380.

And feel good liberals give subsidies to companies going green. This allows these mega corps to recoup their losses in the green energy division And pay less taxes.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 2:47pm On Oct 23, 2020
benalvino2:
Trump and Elon mosk are good buddies... But I doubt you would want to fly in electric plane cheesy

Electric ships? The range of electric cars while it has improved still pales compared to gasoline and the time it takes to charge. We are getting there but we have a long way to go.
The whole problem with liberals and green energy is that they know power comes from the socket outlet.
Just buy a car with a charging plug . hook it to the port for a few hours , and you are good to go for 200 miles.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 2:39pm On Oct 23, 2020
salford1:
Trump can't get the smart girl out of his mind. Timid men like Trump can't stand highly intelligent women.
She was baffled by a dumpster.
https://www.tmz.com/2019/05/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-garbage-disposal-apartment-scared-blown-away-funny/

And then her Chief of staff said the Green New Deal was about grabbing power.

[b]
Oh, you thought the Green New Deal was
all about fighting climate change? Well,
think again. Turns out it's a green-
glossed Trojan horse designed to
increase government control over the
economy.
Just ask Saikat Chakrabarti, chief of staff
to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.,
the author of the deal. "The interesting
thing about the Green New Deal is it
wasn't originally a climate thing at all,"
Chakrabarti said. "We really think of it as a
how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy
thing."
Just how much change would the Green
New Deal bring to the economy? Put
simply, it would bring it to its knees.
We know, because when we tried to use
the Energy Information Administration's
National Energy Model to assess how the
plan would affect the economy, the model
crashed.
The Green New Deal is big on vision, but
sparse on details. For example, it calls for
reducing greenhouse gas emissions to
60% below 2010 levels by 2030, with the
ultimate goal of reaching net-zero
emissions by 2050. But it doesn't say
how to get there.
[/b]


Where do you guys get your role models?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 2:27pm On Oct 23, 2020
PrideofLincoln1:
You need to check your mental health. Being in this game all my life and not a transplant like you. It's first Amendment rights for freedom of speech and that includes criticizing your leadership because that's the highest form of patriotism. If you can't deal with that, that's your cup of tea. I didn't see you wet your mouth when these Coons get were calling Obama and Michelle monkeys. So why are you getting your blood pressure up about a country I have been contributing to all my life. You need to recalibrate your brain.
You rather seem unpopular here. We like to engage in healthy discussions not copious repeated statements 18 hours a day

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