Progress With Electric Cars

In 1900, electric cars had problems with range, recharge time, cost, battery life and a lack of recharge stations along the road.

THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1900.

“the machine may stop in ten instead of twenty miles, as had been counted on. Again, if the power gives out between stations, it is impossible to replenish. At the present time, charging stations are few and far be- tween. In the near future, there will undoubtedly be more of them, but at present they are scarce. Another bad point in the system is the fact that it takes from two to three hours to charge a machine properly. The battery must gradually absorb the fluid electricity. It cannot be forced upon it, any more than a man can be forced to eat a square meal in two seconds. It takes time, and sometimes time !s precious. Furthermore, the deterioration of a battery is much  more rapid than the deterioration of any other system of machines.

In this case, the inventor will have many hard knots to untie. First, he must construct a stowage battery, which will carry a larger supply of the fluid. Second, the battery must not deteriorate so rapidly. Third, some attachment must be devised for re- charging more rapidly. This might be done if all stations were supplied with some quick charging device, or if the manufacturers would agree upon a standard battery which could be interchanged at the station for one already charged.”

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Oct 28, 1900, p. 20

In 1900, 38% of American cars were electric, and now it is less than 1%.

38% Of American Cars Were Electric In 1900 – CleanTechnica

The New York Times says electric vehicles are selling at a record pace of 5.6%.

Electric Car Sales Climb Sharply Despite Shortages – The New York Times

“The storage battery is, in my opinion, a catchpenny, a sensation, a mechanism for swindling the public by stock companies. The storage battery is one of those peculiar things which appeals to the imagination, and no more perfect thing could be desired by stock swindlers than that very selfsame thing. … Just as soon as a man gets working on the secondary battery it brings out his latent capacity for lying.”

  • Thomas Edison in The Electrician (London) Feb. 17, 1883, p. 329,

The Electrical Journal – Google Books

“ELECTRIC CARS

Edison’s New Storage Battery is Cause of Revolution.

SHORT LIFE CELLS THING OF PAST

Removes Last Objection to Electric Car Used by Advocates of Gas.

In the perfection of his new storage battery, Thomas A, Edison has inaugurated a new era in electric locomotion. The successful efforts of the electrical wizard will revolutionize the commercial adaption of vehicles propelled by their own power. The new batteries supply a long felt want In the electrical world and remove all objections to the electric automobile.”

09 May 1910, 4 – Des Moines Tribune at Newspapers.com

TimesMachine: January 20, 1911 – NYTimes.com

TimesMachine: November 12, 1911 – NYTimes.com

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Carbon Is Racist

The same weather as 1912 and 1897 is now proof of racist climate change.

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Superstition Based Science

In 2008, Australian experts announced the permanent drought in Southeast Australia

This drought may never break

Experts warn of never-ending drought

Shortly after they made these forecasts, it rained so much in Australia that it caused sea level to drop.

Australian floods of 2010 and 2011 caused global sea level to drop | Environment | The Guardian

Last year brought lots more rain to southeast Australia.

Australia floods: Western Sydney ‘greatest concern’ as more rain falls – BBC News

This year has also brought lots of flooding.

Australia floods: 50,000 on evacuation alert after deluge hits Sydney – BBC News

The last two years in southeast Australia have been “severe wet” or “extreme wet”

NACP – Drought Monitor

Alternating droughts and floods in Australia are driven by corresponding El Nino and La Nina events.

04 Jan 1876 – DRY WEATHER. – Trove

My Country by Dorothea Mackellar - Famous poems, famous ...

“My Country” by Dorothea Mackellar  September 5, 1908

“I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror – The wide brown land for me”

What is La Niña and how does it impact Australia?

Now the Guardian says climate change causes La Nina.

Weather tracker: La Niña and climate crisis behind recent Australia floods | Australia news | The Guardian

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August 11, 1891 – Deadly Heat In Chcago

“Deadly Heat at Chicago.

Chicago, Aug. 10.—Corpses found among lumber heaps, women dropping dead while washing, men falling from ice wagons and drays were the thermometers that registered yesterday’s heat. A dead man named Bertram was stumbled upon by John Slift in the afternoon, the sun having killed and left him lying in a lumber yard. Mrs. Mary Dahil, aged 38, employed in a Thirty- first street laundry, died from the effects of the heat, Many others were prostrated. About 6 o’clock a bolt of lightning tore through the black clouds and struck with a deafening crash at the corner of Hermitage avenue and Polk street. ‘Two big balls of fire, each as large as a half bushel, fell in the middle of the street and for a moment blinded the fifteen or twenty persons who were standing in the vicinity. Several men were hurled to the ground and a live girl was slightly burned.”

Lemars Semi Weekly Sentinel, Aug 11, 1891, p. 1

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CNN Climate Reporting Circa 1935

CNN’s Technical Director explained the goals of their company over the past few years – overthrow President Trump and create panic about a virus and the use of low cost reliable energy.

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Even Application Of The Law

“The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent.”

– Malcolm X

“Dear Attorney General Garland: We represent investigative journalist James O’Keefe and the not-for-profit news media company Project Veritas in defense of your Justice Department’s protracted attack on them. … You and I both know that if the New York Times gained possession of the diary of former President Trump’s adult daughter, it would have published it page-by-page for weeks on end, selectively editing the content to publish the most salacious entries in the diary, without regard to the harm it would have done to the person in question. Mr. O’Keefe and Project Veritas took an additional step that further affirmed their responsible journalism. Through an attorney, the journalists turned Ms. [Ashley] Biden’s diary and personal effects into local law enforcement in the jurisdiction in which the source had indicated the items were found. … The facts and law here lead to the inescapable conclusion that your prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have engaged in an unprecedented and politically motivated attack on the free press, without factual or legal justification, and in violation of DOJ’s regulations, guidelines, and your pronouncements. … How on earth can you allow the attack on Project Veritas and its journalists to continue, and avoid being fairly tagged as a partisan, political hypocrite who wields your power in defense of an adult child of the President? There appears to be no adult supervision in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York. It is for you to decide whether to allow your prosecutors to continue to set dangerous precedent, gut First Amendment protections, and facilitate the decline of a free and independent press, or to put your money where your mouth is, demonstrate that your memorandum was not a petty political ploy aimed at the prior administration, and terminate this abhorrent action that threatens a free and independent press.”

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“These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, was raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.

Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before, and it’s important that you know that it wasn’t just my home that was violated – it was the home of every patriotic American who I have been fighting for since that iconic moment I came down the Golden Escalators in 2015.

I stood up to the Radical Left’s corruption. I restored power to the people and truly delivered for our Country like we have never seen before. The establishment hated it.

Now, as they watch my endorsed candidates win big victories and see my dominance in all polls, they are trying to stop the Republican Party and me once more. The lawlessness, political persecution, and Witch Hunt, must be exposed and stopped.”

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“What trees can survive Arizona’s megadrought?”

Question : What trees can survive Arizona’s megadrought?

Answer : Trees that can survive very wet soil for long periods of time.

Flagstaff, Arizona — I-40 Webcam (U.S. National Park Service)

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September 15, 1927 News

On September 15, 1927 the US was experiencing a deadly heatwave, Japan had a deadly typhoon, and dancer Isadora Duncan was killed when her scarf got caught in the wheel of the car she was riding in.

Benton Harbor News Palladium, Sep 15, 1927, p. 1

My beautiful wife Kirye prepared these graphs of typhoon history.

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Climate Under Pressure

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1939 – “Greenland’s Glaciers Melting, Scientist Says”

“CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1939.

Greenland’s Glaciers Melting, Scientist Says

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (INS)—
All the glaciers in eastern Greenland are rapidly melting, declared Prof. Hans Ahlmann, Swedish geologist, in a report to the Geographical society here on his recent expedition to the Arctic sub- continent.

“Everything points to the fact that the climate in that region has. been growing warmer during recent years,” the professor said.

“It may without exaggeration be said that the glaciers—like those in Norway—face the possibility of a catastrophic collapse.”

Cedar Rapids Gazette, Dec 11, 1939, p. 25

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