Here is a video I found of Lamido Sanusi giving a speech to young people on problems of Nigeria and how vested interests of political and religious leaders supercedes the national interests.
I know most people hate Sanusi for always speaking on the side of truth or what he perceived to be the truth. He was a prince and later became an Emir, he did not need to confront the powers that be and be on the side of the poor masses, but he choose the risky path and has been paying for that choice. Ironically, one would think the youth would support him, but the youth rather support the Atiku, Saraki, APC, PDP, in fact the status quo.
aloeman15: d mouth has more germs than genitals. that said, ur right. if u French kiss, etc then u already contracted any non genital fluids/germs in her system. op, have u heard of mono?
False statement. A woman's genitals harbours far more dangerous bacteria (and viruses) than any other part of the body except the anus.
Newguyhere: you stick, your dick into her pussy, kiss her, lick her cunt, etc still yet she can't use your brush You well so?
Exactly. You French kissed her and probably linked her in odd places like her ear, and you are worried about ordinary tooth brush. The amount of germs and the danger levels of the germs on her cunt and skin is more than the germs in her mouth.
helpee: You are right. I am beginning to see sense in this. I just don't know how to re plan this. I would have gone with the other packages of that man with direct solar cos he has ready made packages. Like packages for 9 fans, 15 fans etc. Unfortunately, most of our electrical wares runs concurrently. We can have a full ward most times meaning up to 15 fans May even be on at the same time. The two TVs are 42 inches thereabout and usually on concurrently. The computer is almost permanently on. I think that was why separate packages would have been the best for me but I didn't know how to calculate those loads.
I don't know how the other package would have worked. DC loads are only appropriate for small loads, but for loads of up to 1000w, you need an AC inverter system. Nothing wrong with the inverter system, the only problem is your battery capacity, ie run time. If you can add 4 more batteries and 2 more panels, you should be alright. In the alternative, you can reduce the load by replacing your appliances with energy efficient ones, change the desktop to laptop, change the fans to energy efficient ones, change the 42 in TV for 32 in ones and change the energy saving bulbs for LED ones. If you can reduce total load to about 700w, you will be OK.
helpee: Once again, thanks for your input. I now have two systems. Like I said, I paid for that 33 bulbs package first. It came with 33 LED solar bulbs(DC), 2 controllers, 2 200 amp batteries and 6 100w panels. The bulbs were 5w but very bright. I told him to create a completely new points for the 33 bulbs apart from security lights. He did it in such a way that the security lights goes by 7pm on its own and goes off by 7am on its own. Based on your advice, I now got a new single unit using my former 3.5kva inverter. This new company brought 4 200ah ALL GRAND BATTERIES, 6 340W SOLAR PANELS, 60AMP CHARGE CONTROLLER. I TOOK most of the bulbs away from from the unit allowing the initial 33 bulbs to run. So I have tested the two systems but I must confess, the guy with the 33 bulbs system is more reliable and efficient. I would have gone for his other packages. Why? The light is never off come what may. I run a hospital within but we don't put any big thing on the solar inverter other than one computer unit, 2 LED TVs and about 13 ceiling fans with some energy bulbs. But the single unit still trips off sometimes around 4am once there is no light. And you have the inverter to control as you wish. But for the direct solar...no inverter, you have nothing to worry about. You don't care about overloading it. Just on light and go. I think they have calculated it so much cos I begged him to make it 35points even if I will buy the bulbs and other stuffs but he said he was only generating energy to sustain the 33 bulbs for 24hrs. He said he could do it such that the light will only go on when someone enters the room and goes off when they leave but I told him I don't want. It means during the day, as long as someone is in the room, light must go on. Since there is light, we can as well put it off rather than running the battery down fast. So far so good, I have less to worry about the direct solar. Just press switch, you have light. No inverter to beep. Nothing to do at a for now. But the solar inverter ..you need to consider the load so you don't run down the battery fast. For the solar, it has been well structured for you. I am still observing the two systems but so far so good, it has never failed to bring bright lights both day and night. I would have considered his solar fan package too cos he said that one too will run anytime without failure but I didn't believe him.
The 33 bulb package is sound and will not give any issues. I like the fact that it runs directly from the controllers and hence no inverters. The whole 33 bulbs consume just 165watts, on a 12v system, the total amp drawn will not be more than 13.5a. With your battery being 400ah, a 12 hour night use will draw a total of 165ah. That's barely 40% DOD. Meanwhile the 6 solar panels will provide an average of 200ah per day.
For the inverter system things are a bit more complicated. Your load are certainly big, unless you are using a laptop which consumes about 80w, a desktop can consume up to 300w. 13 ceiling fans at an average of 80w, that's over 1000w. Then the LED TVs depending on size and make consumes about 35w each. You are looking at a total load of about 1500w, if running all loads at once. Running 1000w for 8hrs will run your battery down to 80%DOD, at which point your inverter will trip off. Note that running your battery consistently at 80%DOD will kill your batteries within 6 to 8 months.
Askme8: but it is an offence to own a Mercedes ml350 in your flat with a laptop. People don't have right to own cars,laptop and good phones again? If those boys are called frraudlers because they don't work, I ask again what is tinubu means of lively hood that warrant him to be going about with two bullion van? Is he dangote, or is he mark zuzu, if he is not also a fruadler. And u are a fruadler and a support of a fruadler too
You guys do not understand why the government is doing all those things regarding yahoo yahoo boys, it's eye service. Let me explain; The activities of Yahoo yahoo boys was causing great concern to western governments as lots of their citizens were losing money, some going into huge debts, so their government pressured the Nigerian government to take action or receive sanctions. At one time Nigeria was blacklisted by banks and financial institutions around the world of not doing enough to curb money laundering. Even when Buhari met with trump last year, the issue of yahoo yahoo was raised. So the government has to give the impression to the world that they are fighting international fraudsters.
professorval1: Perhaps if the big thieves are dealt with, the small ones will have a rethink.
Once I heard my Pops say there is no small thief. All thieves should be dealt with.
All we're saying is that Buhari, the 'anti corruption god' is not being fair in his so called fight.
What do you mean by Buhari, the 'anti corruption god' is not being fair in his so called fight? Since when has PDP been interested in anti corruption? We are talking about "corruption is not stealing" and "how much did Jim Nwobodo stole" PDP.
You guys are only interested in Buhari destroying his own party by fighting the major pillars of his party. You guys, want Buhari to arrest Tinubu, Amaechi, Oshiomole, based on what excuse? Conveying money with bullion vans and even planes was excused and explained away during PDP rule, but bullion van became an offence when it's APC.
Now, you guys are asking for Source of Tinubu's, but are ready do die for a custom officer turned billionaire without any source.
Sorry to say, but your pop is wrong, there are small thieves and big thieves. There are pick pockets, there are petty thieves and there are armed robbers. There are also the proverbial pen robbers who steal me and your future, and even the future of your grand children.
professorval1: Until Tinubu and co are made to prove their sources of wealth as legit, Buhari's anti-corruption war is a scam!
APC are just another copy of the PDP that looted Nigeria in the past afterall.
Why only Tinubu? Do any former governor, minister or any other public officer (including local government councillor ) live within his or her means. What of your own former governors, have you bothered to investigate his means of livelihood?
In Nigeria living above ones means is the norm rather than the exception. Police officers, military officers (lower rank), custom officers, immigration, junior officers of ministries, parastatals and agencies all live way above their salaries. I know very junior navy and army officers that own expensive cars and built houses in lagos and their villages, officers whose monthly salaries are less than N100k a month, some less than N50k.
Bridget95: is your brain programmed to reason like APC and lai Muhammed who must mention 'past administration' everyday as if we are living in the past .
People will not stop mentioning past administration because you guys were prepared to die for that administration, even though the budget and all other issues (apart from political appointments), we're not much different from now. I would even say it was even worse, because no visible infrastructure was built in the South East during that administration.
If Buhari is able to complete just one major road to standard, you should at least commend that feat, as he would have surpassed the last administration you so much love.
Bridget95: Buhari is the head of government and he should be held responsible for the small allocation of resources to the SE for infrastructural development not Rotimi the minister of transportation who is from the SS.
What then should be the job of the national assembly, Buhari is responsible for allocation of money to the various ministries and parastatals? Are you suggesting we are running a sole administration type of government?
Bridget95: Tell me something I don't know,Baba there is no single rail project in the entire SE and the budget allocation to SE is the smallest of the regions under buhari's watch.
And Buhari is solely to be blamed. You guys behave as if Buhari runs every single aspect of the Federal Government. You guys choose to forget that there is a budgeting process, in which all budgets from all ministries and parastatals are submitted to the national assembly and defensed before the budget can be passed into law. The minister of transportation is an igbo man, the Senate and house committes on transport has igbo men, the national assembly which eventually passed the budget has igbo men and women. So how come no other person is complaining? Also compare this budget with that of the previous government, which had lots of igbos in it, was the south east budget any different? (I am even not talking about budget execution yet).
Acidosis: No platform is 100% safe. Just try to stay above the game, explore all options. Don't use the same password on all online and offline accounts. An average Nigerian has at least 2 phone numbers. Switch numbers wherever possible. An example, I use different phone numbers for different bank accounts. Do not use your official email for social media. If you must, then change password. Your password shouldn't look like you never attended a primary school. Alternate numbers and alphabets, switch caps, to confuse scammers. They thrive because gullible people exist. Do not allow scammers render your education worthless.
Exactly. No platform is 100% safe. You have to educate yourself on safe behaviours. I been on social media and I have never been hacked, I also use banking apps for most of my transaction, and never had any trouble. These are some safety habits I employ;
Never use links to log into your social media accounts or banking sites. Either type the sites manually or use the stored browser's history.
Avoid typing your username and password each time you log into your social media or bank account. Akways use the links stored in the address window of your browser, This will prevent keyloggers from passing my keystrokes to hackers, if your phone or computer is infected with keyloggers.
Avoid clinking on questionable links. Although this is not practicable as the Internet is all about links. Besides, viruses and malware can be embedded on any file, ie pictures, videos, texts, music. The best solution is to buy a good antivirus with malware protection. If not, assume your phone and computer is already infected. If you are using a pc that you feel is insecure, make use of the virtual keyboard instead of the manual one.
Never, and I say never give out your bank details online under any guise.
nengibo: Lol, where exactly is the groung you're on, nairaland isn't a place to brag
I am on ground in Umuahia. All the guys from Niger delta are in unison in agreeing with the article, but someone who probably had never been to the Niger delta (not the political Niger delta) is arguing.
nengibo: Stop generalising every community is not the same 9/10 isn't factual in anyway
We that are on ground are generalising and you that is hundreds of miles away is telling us that 9/10 isn't factual. 10/10 of the community leaders, youths and traditional rulers in the Niger delta prefers cash to development. The youths would rather kidnap foreign health workers for ransom rather that receive free treatments and drugs. I have been involved in building clinics and we have to settled the community leaders and youths before we were allowed to start work on clinic which was provided free for them.
The Olu of Warri , Pere of Gbaramatu, Pere of Ogulagha, and every traditional rulers , prominent chiefs, are contractors to the oil companies operating in their land.
Chevron, Shell, Elf, Agip, Total have on their permanent staff children and relatives of these traditional rulers, chiefs, youth leaders.
The only Niger Deltans who are causal workers of the oil companies are those without any royal connections.
I am saying the above to expose the hypocrisy of those who regularly protest against oil companies about their lack of development and employment of Niger Deltans.
Ugborodo oil community that has Chevron tank farm is so underdeveloped, not because Chevron is not ready to develop it; Ugborodo community is poor, wretched and underdeveloped because of the greed, selfishness, nepotism, and wickedness of Itsekiri leaders...I mean the Olu, Thomas, Ayiris, Ugborodo Development Trust Fund, etc.
These Itsekiri leaders don't give a damn about the larger Itsekiri prosperity and development as long as Chevron keep on renewing their contracts to provide security, supply casual workers, supply food stuff, supply house boats, etc.
Those protesting are seeking their own patronage from Chevron; the protest will stop if Chevron add their names to the contractor list.
What happened to the one billion dollars Chevron gave to the Ugborodo Trust Fund for the development and rebuilding of Ugborodo community?
The people treating Itsekiri casual workers like slaves are not Europeans, Yoruba's; they are fellow Itsekiri chiefs and prominent sons.
These Itsekiri leaders will negotiate with Chevron to pay each casual worker four hundred thousand naira, Chevron will agree, only for these same Itsekiri leaders to pay each casual worker forty to fifty thousand naira. So who is the witch and evil one here? Chevron that agreed to pay four hundred thousand naira or the Itsekiri leader who collected four hundred thousand naira and chose to pay forty thousand naira?
These greed, wickedness, selfishness of Itsekiri leaders are also what you will find in ijaw oil producing communities, same with Urhobo oil producing communities.
People talk of Hausa Fulani oppression, oil companies oppression as if those who are carrying out the oppression and underdevelopment are not Itsekiri leaders, Ijaw leaders Urhobo leaders, etc.
When oil spill happened, the community leaders will tell the oil companies not to clean the spill, but rather convert it to money and give it to community people.
Oil companies conducting employment from Lagos are only possible because oil communities leaders have been settled with contracts and permanent staff employment.
Where is the agitation of a better, developed Niger Delta today? It ended after the agitators were settled with employment slots and contracts in NDCC, MND, NIMASA, Amnesty, etc.
The so-called agitation and resource control fight was all about cars, houses, hotels, girls to Bleep, people wives to Bleep, Nollywood actresses to Bleep and buy houses for at Banana island and lekki.
The agitation and resource control protest was all about supplying casual workers to Chevron, NNPC, Shell, Agip, etc.
The agitation and resource control troubles was all about providing security for pipelines, renting of house boats, providing catering services, etc.
Resource control was never about infrastructural development, education, health, clean Niger Delta, houses, jobs, etc.
The motive behind resource control was all about material benefit, it was never an ideological struggle.
The Niger Delta struggle used to be about development and clean environment when it was championed by the legendary Isaac Adaka Boro , and the legendary Ken Saro Wiwa.
A struggle whose motive was greed to acquire properties is bound to be hijacked by all kind of questionable characters.
So who do we Niger Delta blame for our underdevelopment and lack of good governance? Oil companies or Hausa Fulani, or Yoruba in Lagos?
We Niger Deltans are the problems and solutions.
We must eschew or let go of greed, selfishness, and wickedness towards ourselves if we must developed and prosper.
I rest my case. And that is the truth of all truth. Femi Uwawah
Cc.. Clark Malcolm Godfrey Wisdom
*COPIED*
This is the gospel truth. I have withdrawn and boycotted all itsekiri meetings and agitation because they are nothing more that money sharing and greed. Developmental issues are never discussed. That is why I always say it is people who have never seen an oil sleek or oil spill before that go around shouting resource control or our oil. Not that I am against resource control, resource control should be about using money for development and not dashing monarchs,leaders, elders and youths money. Monies which they end up fighting themselves over.
UncletC: you are uninformed, the Arab nations once ganged to invade Israel, they failed... these countries were involved; Turkey, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Palestine etc. first plan; they plot to use air, parked about l00 fighter jets in Egypt airbase they intended to strike from, Israel through surveillance uncover the plot, Israel went to Egypt and destroyed all those jets, knowing their plot to use air was foiled, they resorted to using land.... the most convenient route being Gaza, the Palestinian govt gave access to the invading Arab troops, Israel fought back and they retreated.....Israel which was initially has about l8000 square km, after this Arab invasion got about 34000 square km as they seize territories including west bank, Gaza, the Jerusalem Al-qud where their mosque is. where the official Israel capital is now... so keep quiet. Israel can single handedly deal with any one nation or group ...
What are you ranting about? You are just yapping off point (OP). We are discussing the people that brought the idea of using terrorism as a weapon of war, and you are talking about the 1967 Arab Israeli war. Are you just trying to show off that you are wise? you are displaying the exact opposite.
Educate yourself about the King David Hotel bombing in 1946, carried out by the militant right-wing Zionist underground organization- the Irgun, on the British administrative headquarters for Palestine. This was before any terrorist attack by any Arab. - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing.
ScotMisile: Bro, my argument with you doesn't change reality.. if hizbollah, Iran or the Arab nation's could destroy The Us and Israel.... They would have done it a long long time ago... And that is why their desperation has led them to the idea of terrorism which I call a coward's style of warfare.
I don't need to research on internet sites....
What do you mean destroy the US? Are you talking about attacking the US itself? No country can do that. If you are talking of Israel, it is not impossible, it is only improbable, principally due to the support of the US. The Arabs did not introduce the idea of terrorism, the Israelis did, during their fight for independence from British rule.
[quote author=totalgreen01 post=78601673][/quote]Wow. What's the total capacity of your set up and how many s (series). Hope you are using a good BMS, preferably Batrium. Proud of you.
Let me tell you some observations and suggestions; 1. Those wires to individual batteries are too thin, you need thicker wires. 2. Arrange your wires in a more orderly manner. It's safer and neater. 3. Look towards using spot welding. Soldering degrades li-ion batteries and sometimes loosens creating weak joints.
UncletC: l did not put up this comment to still have people coming to tell me same stories....read the comment line by line and stop misinforming people that US have to be telling Russia before they strike, you lied big time... l thought you said US can never attack Syrian govt military because Russia is backing Syria, read that list of attacks Sir...
I hate having to lecture people who are stubbornly ignorant on how international diplomacy work. No matter the fiery rhetorics between Russia and the US in the Syrian conflict, they have a line of communication to prevent the two of them from accidentally entering into a conflict.
Syria air strikes: US ‘warned Russia ahead of airbase missile bombardment'
Members of the Russian armed forces at a Syrian government airbase bombed by the US were given advance warning of the impending military action, the Pentagon has confirmed.
UncletC: Those uninformed people saying US couldn't attack Syria because Russia is backing Assad , meaning US fears Russia... take this from WIKIPEDIA....
List of United States attacks on Syria during the Syrian Civil War Read in another language Edit The following is a list of United States ′s attacks on forces belonging to , or allied with the Syrian government during the Syrian Civil War. Other than the April 2017 Shayrat missile strike and the April 2018 missile strikes , all other attacks were officially announced by the Pentagon as having been carried out in defense of either the Syrian Democratic Forces or the Revolutionary Commando Army in Al-Tanf . The United States claimed that some attacks were accidental, such as the September 2016 Deir ez-Zor air raid , which killed 90 Syrian Army and allied troops. [1] List of attacks Edit April 7, 2017 May 18, 2017 June 6, 2017 June 8, 2017 June 20, 2017 June 18, 2017 February 7, 2018 February 10, 2018 April 29, 2018 April 14, 2018 April 14, 2018 April 14, 2018 Intentional attacks Edit Date Location Notes Ref. April 7, 2017 Shayrat Airbase , Western Homs Governorate Main article: 2017 Shayrat missile strike U.S. President Donald Trump ordered an airstrike against the Syrian government in response to the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack on 4 April. The United States gave Syria's ally, Russia , advance warning of the airstrike, allowing the government to move away most planes from the airbase ahead of time. Nine to twenty aircraft were destroyed and seven to nine soldiers were killed, including a general. [2] May 18, 2017 Al-Tanf , Eastern Homs Governorate See also: 2017 Syrian Desert campaign U.S. aircraft conducted airstrikes against vehicles, including a tank and bulldozer belonging to pro-government militias that were setting up fighting positions within the Al-Tanf deconfliction zone. Two tanks were destroyed and eight soldiers were killed. [3][4] June 6, 2017 Al-Tanf , Eastern Homs Governorate U.S. aircraft conducted airstrikes on over 60 troops, a tank, artillery, antiaircraft weapons, and armed technical vehicles from pro- government forces that had entered the Al-Tanf deconfliction zone. The attack killed an unknown number of men and destroyed two artillery pieces, an anti-aircraft gun, and a tank. [5] June 8, 2017 Al-Tanf , Eastern Homs Governorate U.S. F-15E shoots down an armed Syrian- operated drone and another aircraft destroys two armed pick-up trucks belonging to pro- government forced that moved near U.S. backed fighters at Al-Tanf. [6] June 18, 2017 Ja'Din, Eastern Southern Raqqa Governorate Main article: Ja'Din shootdown incident U.S. FA-18E/F shoots down a Syrian Air Force SU-22 after it allegedly bombed SDF fighters in Ja'Din. A Syrian Army statement claimed the aircraft was on a mission striking ISIL militants. [7][8] June 20, 2017 Al-Tanf , Eastern Homs Governorate U.S. F-15E shoots down an armed Syrian- operated Shahed 129 drone that advanced towards U.S. backed fighters at Al-Tanf. [9] February 7, 2018 Khasham , Central Deir ez-Zor Governorate Main article: Battle of Khasham The U.S.-led Coalition forces conducted air and artillery strikes to destroy pro-government forces that were advancing against a SDF headquarters, which was housing U.S.-led Coalition service members at the time. Over 100 pro-government troops were reported to have been killed and hundreds more were injured. In addition, Syrian state media announced that 10 Russian mercenaries had been killed. [10][11][12] February 10, 2018 Al Tabiyeh , Central Deir ez-Zor Governorate A U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone destroys a T-72 tank of pro-government forces in an air strike near the Al Tabiyeh gas field. The tank itself was not firing on the SDF and the coalition, but other elements in the formation were. [13][14] April 14, 2018 Damascus , Damascus Governorate / Homs , Homs Governorate Main article: 2018 missile strikes against Syria The U.S., U.K., and France struck a chemical weapons research center and a chemical weapons storage facility in response to the Douma chemical attack . [15] April 29, 2018 Near Deir ez-Zor city to the East of the Euphrates, Deir ez-Zor Main article: Deir ez-Zor Governorate clashes (April 2018) The Syrian Army , along with what is believed to be Iranian-backed militias, captured villages east of the Euphrates river near the city of Deir ez- Zor that were under the control of Kurdish-led forces in a rare clash with the Syrian Democratic Forces. Later that same day, the territory was recaptured by U.S.-backed proxy forces in a counter-attack spearheaded by the YPG with help from U.S. coalition jets. U.S. coalition jets hit the attacking forces consisting of the Syrian Army and possibly Iranian militias, according to a Western diplomat and a source in the SDF . [16] Accidental attacks Edit Date Location Notes Ref. September 17, 2016 Near Deir ez-Zor airport, Deir ez-Zor Main article: September 2016 Deir ez-Zor air raid The Deir ez-Zor air raid was a series of 37 U.S.- led Coalition airstrikes near the Deir ez-Zor Airport in eastern Syria on 17 September 2016 that killed between 90 and 106 Syrian Army soldiers and wounded 110 more. The United States said that the intended target was Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants and that the attack on Syrian soldiers was due to a misidentification of ground forces [17] while the Syrian and Russian governments claimed that it was an intentional attack against Syrian troops. The attack prompted Russia to call an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting. [18] Later, the Syrian government called off a ceasefire that had been the result of months of intense diplomatic efforts by the U.S. and Russian governments. [18]
Sorry I could not read the whole article, but I can confidently tell you that the US always inform Russia before an attack in Syria against Syrian forces or ISIS positions. This is to prevents Russian casualties and thus direct confrontation between the US and Russian forces. It is an arrangement that had been in place since the beginning of the Syrian conflict.
panafrican: No matter how hard Iran can fight, they can't win a war against the US. This is just a matter of common sense. How do you win a war against an enemy who can blow you up from a 1000 - mile distance ? The world is tired of seeing innocent people dying or suffering. Enough is enough.
Wars are not won from a 1000 mile distance, except the US intend throwing a nuclear bomb on Tehran. Wars are won with boots on the ground. A war with Iran without support of European and Arab allies will be very difficult. Iranian strategy in a war with the US will be a simple one. Just hold out for a few years, five at most, and the US public will call for troop withdrawal. The American public does not have the patience for prolonged wars.
FirstCounsel: I see. I'm quite conversant with that stretch of road all the way to Enugu, Abakaliki and Nsukka via 9th Mile. Beats me hollow why GEJ "our son" didn't do jack about that road. Mind you I'm not a Mbuhari fan either. Just an advocate of good governance, that's all
You don't have to be a Buhari fan to say the truth. Agreed Buhari is far from perfect, he appears clanish and nepotic on federal appointments, he is not doing enough to combat fulani herdsmen, but on roads and federal infrastructure, he has done more than any government since 1999.
How did ojukwu hope to win the war, when he was insulting all the world powers and institutions. He was making an enemy of The Russians, the Arabs, France and the Anglo saxon empire (the US and UK). I think his lack of diplomacy on international politics cost him the war.
This irony got me laughing;
Her independence was and is a lie. Even her Prime Minister was a Knight of the British Empire!
Meanwhile, his father Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu was a knight of the British empire. He spewed so much venom against the British, but was educated in Britain.
It's the same irony with Nnamdi Kanu, he insults the British and Britain constantly, but is hiding under the protection of Britain as a British citizen.
pranil: if you cycle the LiFepo4 between 3.5 and 2.6 ( instead of 3.6 and 2.5) essentailly you are not using the full capacity and hence the cycle life will go up
One much less understood point about lithium batteries is after the end of cycle life the batteries can be still used for less demanding applications ( less current and less reliability) as there is still 80 % capacity left while LEad acid will have to be scrapped or recycles completely;y
You don't lose much capacity by cycling Lifepo4 between 3.5v and 2.5v instead of between 3.6v and 2.6v. I would say somewhere in the region of 5%, but your cycle life can be doubled. The discharge and charge graph of a LiFePo4 battery is not linear. See below for the discharge graph.
grandstar: "Cowardice" is far better than annihilation.
If the Germans can bring down France so easily, what would happen to the British if they attacked the Germans on mainland Europe? They would have been wiped out.
Of course, the British had an Intelligence Service which would have informed the army about the strength of the Germans. They had known that Hitler had started building a formidable army upon assumption of office in 1933. This army was millions strong and was bountifully equipped. At this time, I doubt the British army could boast of up to 200,000 troops and in terms of weapons, very poor when compared with the Germans.
The Germans would have eaten them alive were they too have stormed mainland Europe.
What happened to brave Japan that attacked Pearl Harbour in December 1941?
No matter how hard you try to make them see the senselessness of going into a war, you just can't win, they just can't understand. They think bravery is leading your military and people to be slaughtered, and then make excuses for failure.
Imagine saying the British should have gone on the offensive against Germany without enough troops, arms or intelligence. If they really persist with this belief, then they will never ever win any war. They can exhibit all acts of bravery the want, but will always lose the war.
Okay, let's play with the numbers: 8 units of quanta at 12v 200ah vs 2 battleborn 24v 50ah units.
QUANTA: Usable amphour - 200ah (9.6kwh at 50% DOD) Cycle life - about 500 cycles at 50% DOD (According to quanta datasheet) Lifetime amphour = 500 cycles x 200amphours = 100,000 amphour
Battleborn: Usable amphour - 50ah (2.5kwh at 100% DOD) Cycle life - 3,000 cycles at 100% DOD (According to Battleborn Datasheet) Lifetime amphour = 3,000 x 50 = 150,000 amphour
As we can see, theoretically, we should get more usable life out of the 2 small 24v 50ah, than the 8 12v 200ah quanta batteries.
Next, we must consider the possibility of failure:
Quanta (Lead Acid): Failure occurs if the batteries aren't fully recharged often enough due to sulphation. This is more likely if the batteries are out of balance and charge up to varying voltages, likely leading to one or two batteries not getting to full charge.
Leaving batteries partially discharged over a long period of time can also lead to failure.
Obviously, low cell voltage also adversely effects capacity.
Battleborn (LiFePo4) Irreparable failure can occur if cell voltage gets too low, which is mitigated with the internal BMS shutting off discharge.
Failure can also occur at high voltages, 4.2v per cell, but again, this is mitigated by the internal BMS shutting off charge
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So in essence, you can leave your lifepo4 batteries at 50% state of charge and not be worried about capacity loss, while with lead acid, YOU MUST get all those batteries to a 100% state of charge as often as possible, else premature failure would occur.
The advantage of the 8 12v quanta batteries in this case vs the small 24v 50ah BB would be the backup time you would get while the quanta batteries are still in good shape. Running a 500 watt load on those 8 batteries, you would get 20 hours of back up time compared to the 5 hours of backup time you would with the 2 BB batteries. However, over the lifetime, the 2 BB batteries would give you more total hours of backup.
Recharge times: Quanta Lead Acid: 8 12v batteries charging at the recommended C/10 charge rate, 40 amps, would take 10 hours to charge to full from empty or 5 hours to charge from 50% to 100%. This obviously doesn't account for the time you would need to spend in the absorption phase, which for most inverters is about 2 hours, or a factor of how ever long the bulk phase was. So you could be spending 8 hours to get from 50% to 100%, because that absorption phase is extremely important for lead acid.
BattleBorn: Those 2 little 24v 50ah units can be recharged at C/2 rates and DO NOT NEED AN ABSORPTION PHASE, which means with 25amps, you'll be done charging in just 2 hours. If you don't mind taking a hit with your cycle life, then you can recharge at 1C during an emergency and have that battery full in just 1 hour. So instead of running your gen for 8 hours waiting for your battery to charge, you'd just need about 1 hour 30 mins of gen time to be back for another cycle.
This was just to show that 2 24v 50ah battleborn units can somewhat match the 8 12v 200ah quanta units. Obviously it would be better to have 4 12v 100ah battleborn units for a 48v system than 2 24v 50ah units.
I am doing more research into building lifpo4 packs from cheap cells since Battleborns are very expensive, but I truly believe lifepo4 is the future of solar, at least as the prices keep crashing downward like solar panels, hopefully.
I am also looking at building Lipo4 battery packs for inverters as they far out perform lead acid. Replacing lead acid batteries every 1 to 2 years is making inverter and solar set up as expensive as running generator, thereby discouraging many people from going solar or acquiring inverter systems.
Your analysis is very good and details but with slight corrections. The capacity of a lead acid battery is heavily dependent on the rate of discharge. The 200ah specified by the quanta battery is at a rate of discharge of C/20. Most inverter and solar set ups discharges at far less than C/20, most times its between C/5 and C/10. Most people neglect this little detail in calculating battery capacity for lead acid. This is why most people complain they get less capacity than written on the battery pack.
Even though Lipo4 also suffer some loss of capacity with rate of discharge it is very small compared to lead acid.
Another fact with liPo4 is that charging voltage and discharge voltage has a huge impact on cycle life. Nominal voltage for LiPo4 is 3.2v, while maximum voltage is 3.6v. Charging to a maximum of 3.5v can double cycle life. Same thing too for minimum discharge, minimum voltage is 2.5v, discharging to 2.6v can also greatly increase cycle life.
One problem with lead acid which I learnt through experience is power wastage. Lead acid wastes a lot of voltage while charging. This is noticeable with a solar set up. When I measure open voltage with a 100w, 5a solar panel I read 4.2a in direct sunlight, but when I measure current going into my lead acid battery, it is usually around 3.0a. I am losing a whole 1.2a just charging the lead acid battery. When I measure current when charging lithium phosphate, I get more than 4.0a. It seems the internal resistance of lead acid is far higher than that of Lipo4.
The draw back with lithium batteries is that they are unforgiving if you don't handle them well. They are prone to explosions and fire if you overcharge, undercharge or if out of balance. That why proper charger and balancer is crucial.
panafrican: The increasing scale of perversion all over the world is one of the major threats to humanity today .
Of all the problems facing humanity like world hunger, climate change, widening gap between the rich and poor, malaria which kills millions yearly, wars and threats of nuclear annihilation, it what two adults do in their private bedrooms is your major concern.
Temple1288: In New York, when a child escaped abortion, the mother can still request the child killed within 24hrs.. Anduku is trying to explain to you what's happening and you don't seem to understand.
I am in Lagos, so I would not know much about new York state laws, but if a law is enacted that allows new borns to be killed within 24hrs of birth, then that law should he challenged at the courts. That law would be unconstitutional, as the US constitution provides for rights to life for all legal persons. Once a baby leaves, the womb, it becomes an independent legal citizen. The law would be termed legislative murder.
I am trying to imagine how the law was supposed to work. Does the mother just stab the baby with a kitchen knife or give the baby poison. Maybe she throws the baby down a bridge. The mother does not need a doctor to murder her baby.
zendi: I am a man, religious and a prolifer, generally, but not strictly for religious reasons. Otherwise I would be opposed to abortion under any circumstance. I believe, as stated in earier post, that from the detection of heartbeat, life has started and life, it seems to me, is more than something we should be creating and discarding wantonly. Better a woman adopts strict contraceptive measures to bypass the need for chastity. Your second idea that men want to punish promiscuity by saddling women with pregnancy I find so ridiculous, even hilarious that I'm still laughing. But I understand you might be existing in an environment where child bearing is regarded as drudgery, yet immigrant children are made so sacred that when an infant dragged through the wilderness by the supposed parent dies near the border, the national outrage will drown the wails of citizen parents whose kids also died in hospitals around the country that day.
Obviously you are a religious man, most prolifers are are religious men
No contraceptive is 100% safe. What happens if the contraceptive fails. You know that the chances of birth defects are higher with fail contraceptive drugs.
Why put all the responsibility of pregnancy on the women, since you guys are keen on controlling whether a woman keeps or abort a baby. Why not impose some responsibilities on the men also. Men should also take contraceptives, and any man that gets a woman pregnant and not ready to marry her or share the pain of raising the child should be punished too.
You are using the old age tactics of emotional blackmail to justify imposing your personal moral views on society. What concern infants dieing at the border with the abortion debate, except you are insinuating the baby died at the border before birth. First of all not all women want children, it might surprise you to know that some women view pregnancy and children bearing and raising as drudgery. Quit trying to impose your personal view on other, it will make you no different from ISIS.
zendi: I'm not a doctor, but commonsense tells me it's from first heartbeat. You can't declare somebody dead whose heart is beating. Before the heartbeat, and at any other point when the mother is faced with health risk, I am open to abortion for those chose. It's madness to claim a baby who somehow stubbornly survived the aborting efforts still poses a risk to the mother as some infanticiders claiming. Finally, rape should not be accepted for exception, except in clear cases of armed robbery or terrorist attacks. Otherwise any woman who wishes to abort will just claim raped. Sexual encounters have no witnesses.
As I said, it's a matter of opinion of when a fetus becomes a baby. The only argument of prolifers is religious, nothing else. Outside that, the real reason mostly men are against abortion is to control women sexuality. They reason that any woman that commit sexual sin should have a baby by force as punishment.
My opinion is that no one has the right to dictate to a woman to have a baby she does not want. Furthermore, no man has the right to tell a woman to remain chaste until she is married. Even at that no one has the right to force a married woman to have a baby she and her husband does not want for any reason. The choice of going through the pains of pregnancy, giving birth to the baby and raising the baby should be left to the woman and her spouse/partner and not the society, especially if the society is not ready to help in raising and caring for the baby. You will be surprised at the number of married couples that opt for abortion because they do not want any more children.
Having said that, I am also against late term abortions. It is more painful and dangerous to the woman's health and can inflict long term damage to the womb. So my own view is that late term abortion can be banned, maybe from after the first trimester. Any woman that found her self pregnant and does not want to keep the baby should make up her mind within 3 months.
Edoloaded: I've tried all i can but the thoughts keep coming. Only time i feel better is immediately after waking up but before 5 mins it just starts all over again.
Sometimes i just feel like walking in front of a moving vehicle...
I need help
I need something to save me from my thoughts
It's like grace has deserted me..
I've become so unlucky these days it's like i was cursed..
Just this month of may which is my birthmonth , 3 bad things has happened to me already..
When will it end
You need to see a doctor, a psychiatrist. Depression is a mental health issues that is under diagnosed in Nigeria. We generally do not take mental diseases seriously.
zendi: Okay, agreed, language technicality is not my point. But pro-choice extremists now want such murders in the services available to mothers who so choose in abortion clinics in the event the baby is born alive, which is why I call them New Age Barbarians,.
As I said killing a baby immediately after leaving the womb is murder in any jurisdiction is murder. No law can change that. The bone of contention among proponents and opponents of abortion is when the fetus becomes a biological and moral baby. Some say it's immediately after conception, others say it is when the first heartbeat is detected, others still say it's when the baby draws it's first air.
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