Comments on: Roundup

By: M Smith

M Smith — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:35:00 +0000

The fuel comprises different types of sustainable resources, such as used cooking oil and animal fat waste, to name a few.

One hopes the jets are getting the good cholesterol, rather than the bad.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:21:35 +0000

Seems replacement for CFC refrigerant is flammable.

By: Oldflyer

Oldflyer — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:05:04 +0000

Back to front.
How many cows, pigs, etc have to die to provide the sustainable animal fat fuel for every flight by this SST ? (I never rode on the Concorde, but I did an airborne photo shoot of one, and got a tour of the cockpit. Unbelievably retro. My (well not really mine)British Aerospace produced Executive Jet was much more modern up front. Senior British Aerospace Execs always flew on Concorde when crossing the pond. If you were a certain class of Concorde passenger, your company jet or helo could park right next to the gate at JFK, so that you went directly to the “upper class lounge and never rubbed elbows withe the lower class. BTW, “upper class”, then “all others’ was the terminology used by Virgin Atlantic in their boarding announcements back int the day.)

Poor AG. Poor DOJ. Poor FBI. I expect everyone recalls their concern and outrage when BLM/Antifa were ransacking cities. Or when crazies were threatening Supreme Court Justices and their families in front of their homes. Or when they were lying on warrants and so forth to punish anyone associated with Donald Trump. Laughing ironically. Free advice, if you don’t want people to be infuriated, then don’t do infuriating things.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 22:51:36 +0000

T-Rex.

“Old Don’t Tread On Me” is a sentiment that everyone, bar none, feels should apply to them because nobody enjoys being stepped on.

So their discomfort with someone else, who holds contrary opinons to theirs… has to spring from a (perhaps) unconscious desire to be able to step on whomever they choose.

That tells where their heart lies, agree with me or else.

“Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.” David Horowitz

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 22:44:24 +0000

Renewlogy, a Utah company, has a process to recycle plastic back to diesel fuel and methane gas. Sounds too good to be true. Will the Watermelons like this? Nope. It doesn’t destroy capitalism.
https://tinyurl.com/4aw4y9fk

By: Philip Sells

Philip Sells — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 22:09:11 +0000

That SAF sounds like it could be a neat idea, only because and to the extent that it would mean that the jet could be powered by the bacon grease generated in-flight from all the fresh breakfasts ordered in business class. 🙂 (But that does bring up the question, in view of the considerably increased ‘Asian’ population of the UK, if there were a sufficiently high proportion of London-based Muslims on any given flight, would there be enough fuel to make it across the pond?)

By: T-Rex

T-Rex — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 20:43:34 +0000

I have been flying my Gadsden flag the past few days. I think not all of my neighbors like it.

By: Boobah

Boobah — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 20:25:28 +0000

Re: Ozone hole.

There was an ozone hole. Whether it was an anthropogenic process is questionable, since the proposed method was a much heavier-than-air gas (chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs) somehow making it to more-or-less the top of the atmosphere.

At any rate, the hole was detected, over several years of breathless doomsaying expanded to a little beyond the edges of Antarctica, and then started shrinking again. The greens cheered that banning CFCs had saved the planet, DuPont didn’t have to worry about royalty-free freon, and the folks paying attention to the supposed physics of it wondered how a gas that must have been building up in the atmosphere for decades just stopped doing anything because it wasn’t being used in new installations in the First World.

Now, my bias is obviously showing here. I think the ozone hole was a natural phenomenon revealed for the first time by new instruments to measure such things. That the myth was championed by green dupes who weren’t picky about what technology they hate. And they were funded in part by DuPont who had freon coming out from under patent and new, patented (but less effective) refrigerants to market.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 20:18:15 +0000

Al Franken always excelled at playing the fool.

KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: “I appreciate the question.”

Really? Then why don’t you answer it?

Only the fanatical could imagine that it makes sense to fan the flames of a political whirlwind.

Cooking oil for jets may be in short supply in 2023.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 18:50:07 +0000

Manufacturing plant for the Boom SST being built in Greensboro, NC. They claim it’s viable.