Today marks the 158th anniversary of Nikola Tesla’s birth. GorT has a bit of a bias and feels that Tesla is probably the greatest inventor in the modern age. Aside from being most famous for developing the modern Alternating Current … Continue reading →
Over at the sunnier climes of Professor Mondo, the great professor was highlighting how the President’s speech on Friday has been offending just about everybody given that it was a blatant ripoff of the already debunked and derided Professor Warren … Continue reading →
GorT received an update from MC 900 Ft. Meteorologist regarding a wrinkle that local DC customers of Pepco and BGE will experience in their next bill: Bill Stabilization Adjustment. Gort, More Maryland craziness: http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/212306/189/Pepco–BGE-Allowed-To-Bill-Customers-For-Lost-Outage-Revenue- WASHINGTON, D.C. (WUSA) Some of you … Continue reading →
‘Puter keeps a mental list of things that piss him off, and periodically shares them with his close friends. By close friends, ‘Puter means “anyone standing within earshot when he encounters something that pisses him off.” Here are a few … Continue reading →
Many of us here in the DC area are dealing with frustrating power outages. GorT lost power when the “derecho” storm hit late Friday night, regained power late the next evening only to lose it again Sunday afternoon (after partially … Continue reading →
So our dear readers write in to a screaming Czar about mechanical efficiencies when they have access to a time traveling robot?!?! Go figure. Well, before I dive into it, I’ll let GorT, Sr. chime in: I believe [the Czar] … Continue reading →
All-knowing and mighty Czar, Just curious, do you have any information on the efficiency of energy conversion for electric cars? It’s been decades since I took thermodynamics so I’m having a hard time wrapping my rapidly decaying old brain around … Continue reading →
Once joules come into the discussion, the Czar knows he’s fighting a losing battle with electrical engineering types. Because EEs don’t care about commercial or residential electrical distribution: they want to take everything down to capacitors and resistors, where stuff … Continue reading →
We’ve had a few operatives chime in on the electricity debate which I’ll get to in a minute. To respond to the Czar: Amperage is not how many amperes move through a circuit in a given time. Amperage is the … Continue reading →
GorT received the following from one of the followers (are you one, Herbert?) Oh Gort, the sandals of whose electrons, I am not fit to touch…I humbly suggest that some scurrlious, nay, heretical enemies of the Mechanissiah have crept into … Continue reading →
Yes, indeed, the Big G has been eructing some decent explanations for all kinds topics in political science, economics, energy, journalism, and vampires. One thing we still do, though, is provide you some background in topics chosen often quite at … Continue reading →
The EU’s ban on the sale of incandescent light bulbs went into effect this week. Retailers are allowed to sell off the remaining stock and then it’s the end. This isn’t the first ban (Australia already has one in place). … Continue reading →
One of the Czar’s messengers thought it necessary to interrupt his Pandora listening of Neil Sedaka with a news report about a Romanian teenager, Maria Barbu, who evidently electrocuted herself while twittering in the bathtub. “Pictures or it didn’t happen, … Continue reading →
The Czar hopes that there were some survivors of AF447, and was particularly saddened to learn there was an infant on board. In reading the subsequent we-are-out-of-news chatter on the web, the Czar read an article there on how dangerous … Continue reading →
Pennsyltucky has enacted a law mandating that electric utilities cut overall electricity usage by May 31, 2011. This law is so misguided on so many levels, it’s difficult to know where to start. First, Pennsyltucky is really telling Pennsyltuckians that … Continue reading →
