cannabineer
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Don’t ask me why, but I looked. Wiki says it was filmed in Noyo by Ft Bragg. My guess is that some of the talent was hired because they agreed to wear bikinis in Baja Vancouver.
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Fogdog
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The beach and town scenes, yeah, likely. I did a lot of diving in that area and the town seems familiar. That scuba scene was def NOT shot there and any woman (or man wearing a bikini or a swim suit in the water at Noyo had stone hard nipples. That water is cold. Even surfers who do no more than bob on the surface wear wetsuits there. I forgot my wetsuit hood on one trip to a place just south of Noyo and tried to dive without it but wearing the rest of my wetsuit. I got an ice cream headache and had to call it quits.
The type of kelp that grows in the Ft Bragg area is different from that shown in the trailer:
That kind shown in the trailer grows from Monterrey and south. Very thick beds of kelp like that are found in LA and SD areas.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Having waded (not swum; I don’t care for cold) in the Pacific south of San Fran, I can confirm the nipple index would be glass-shattering even that far south.
injinji
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The rich assholes will be fine. They will buy new mansions on new coastlines. It's the rest of us who will be looking for a warmer place to sleep.
PJ Diaz
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When I was younger I used to swim/surf/play in the Monterey Bay, and it sure is cold. It's been warming up a bit lately though, and inviting the sharks. This is the same beach that I posted Biden walking on last week:
Great white sharks are now spending summers at a popular California beach. How dangerous is Shark Park?
Juvenile white sharks have begun spending time off a Santa Cruz-area beach after warming...
DIY-HP-LED
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I don't think these are the only people working on heat pumps for cars and everybody designing a new product seeks to reduce the part count and drive down costs. Extracting heat from the traction motor could aid efficiency further, they have aluminum casings to dissipate heat anyway, so make them do double duty. A heat pump can get 3 watts of heat out of 1 watt of energy and if they use the heat the motors provide it can go much higher. I figure others will offer OEM cab gas heaters that can warm up batteries too and they will burn either propane or gasoline, but only a fraction of that used to power a car would be used for a few months of the year in cold weather. After market products could be available too, depending on demand, including plug in battery heaters, if the car doesn't have one already, most of the time charging the battery also heats it up. Most cars sold in cold climates will most likely have cold weather packages installed by the dealer that will include such electric heaters or even gas ones. Tesla and others are planning to use a mix of lithium and sodium batteries to improve cold weather performance and cars sold in northern climates will have a different mix of the two depending on conditions in the region.
Tesla Heat Pump | More Range in Cold Weather
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Heat Pump draws excess heat from the powertrain to maximize Supercharging speeds & driving range in cold weather. For example, your Tesla can use heat created by the battery & drive units to warm your cabin, saving energy & improving range on long drives. Heat Pump comes standard in every new Tesla.
Tesla Heat Pump | More Range in Cold Weather
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Heat Pump draws excess heat from the powertrain to maximize Supercharging speeds & driving range in cold weather. For example, your Tesla can use heat created by the battery & drive units to warm your cabin, saving energy & improving range on long drives. Heat Pump comes standard in every new Tesla.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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Great trivia! The movie is quite curious. I lived in eureka ca for a couple years and got to know that kind of cold coast vibe. Dark gloomy cold nor cal coast so I really dig this movie. I always wondered about them swimming in the water with sneakers on. They matched the scenery and color of nor cal so well in the Monterey shots.
DIY-HP-LED
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I never thought much about this, but after reading the article it looks interesting. I could see hundreds off these things cranking out battery cells in a battery factory, depends on what the equipment and the materials cost, it's gotta work and be profitable. It does appear to offer some outstanding cell performance though and a lot of design possibilities.
www.motortrend.com
Can 3D Printing Finally Make Solid-State EV Batteries Practical?
Sakuu’s Kavian 3D-printing process deposits metals, polymers, binders enabling cheaper, lighter, more sustainable and power-dense solid-state batteries.
Simpler, Smaller. Cheaper Manufacturing
With the Sakuu Kavian process, raw materials enter the machine and functioning batteries come out, passing through vastly less equipment. Relative to today's roll-to-roll battery manufacturing process, for a given output, Sakuu believes this approach can reduce factory footprint by 44 percent, lower capital expenditure by 23 percent, slash the number of operations by 69 percent, resulting in a total reduction in manufacturing cost of 33 percent. A single 30-foot-long machine like the one pictured above is expected to be able to produce 40 mWh/yr worth of batteries (about 500 individual EV's worth), incorporating all deposition and inspection steps to turn raw materials into working batteries.
What About The Batteries Themselves?
Sakuu's stated goal is to deliver double the energy density at 30 percent less weight than prevailing lithium-ion chemistries. And while the company claims its Kavian 3D printing process can be applied to other battery chemistries, inherently improving energy density on the order of 10-15 percent (by eliminating wasted space in the battery), the lithium-metal design in discussion here is currently building out at 800 watt-hours per liter. The company sees a pathway to 1,200 Wh/l but notes that cycle-life can decrease at higher densities, so if longer life is the goal, a more modest energy density may make more sense. The lithium-ion batteries powering today's EVs typically average around 350-500 Wh/l by comparison.
An as yet unexplored opportunity is the freedom of form-factor proposed by 3D printed batteries. Last year we explored the possibility of incorporating battery materials into a vehicle's body structure. Sakuu's Kavian process for producing Swift Print batteries certainly seems like another potential enabler of this concept, and when the battery's mass is serving a dual purpose that would otherwise be performed by another material, it's no longer a burden to the propulsion system.
Can 3D Printing Finally Make Solid-State EV Batteries Practical?
Sakuu’s Kavian 3D-printing joins metals, polymers, and binders for cheaper, lighter, more sustainable and power-dense solid-state batteries for future EVs.
Can 3D Printing Finally Make Solid-State EV Batteries Practical?
Sakuu’s Kavian 3D-printing process deposits metals, polymers, binders enabling cheaper, lighter, more sustainable and power-dense solid-state batteries.
Simpler, Smaller. Cheaper Manufacturing
With the Sakuu Kavian process, raw materials enter the machine and functioning batteries come out, passing through vastly less equipment. Relative to today's roll-to-roll battery manufacturing process, for a given output, Sakuu believes this approach can reduce factory footprint by 44 percent, lower capital expenditure by 23 percent, slash the number of operations by 69 percent, resulting in a total reduction in manufacturing cost of 33 percent. A single 30-foot-long machine like the one pictured above is expected to be able to produce 40 mWh/yr worth of batteries (about 500 individual EV's worth), incorporating all deposition and inspection steps to turn raw materials into working batteries.
What About The Batteries Themselves?
Sakuu's stated goal is to deliver double the energy density at 30 percent less weight than prevailing lithium-ion chemistries. And while the company claims its Kavian 3D printing process can be applied to other battery chemistries, inherently improving energy density on the order of 10-15 percent (by eliminating wasted space in the battery), the lithium-metal design in discussion here is currently building out at 800 watt-hours per liter. The company sees a pathway to 1,200 Wh/l but notes that cycle-life can decrease at higher densities, so if longer life is the goal, a more modest energy density may make more sense. The lithium-ion batteries powering today's EVs typically average around 350-500 Wh/l by comparison.
An as yet unexplored opportunity is the freedom of form-factor proposed by 3D printed batteries. Last year we explored the possibility of incorporating battery materials into a vehicle's body structure. Sakuu's Kavian process for producing Swift Print batteries certainly seems like another potential enabler of this concept, and when the battery's mass is serving a dual purpose that would otherwise be performed by another material, it's no longer a burden to the propulsion system.
Fogdog
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Yeah, I agree. Noyo, especially is a quirky town that is tucked into a bowl with cliffs all around and a small harbor. A picture in IMBD showed a beach that had a beach with small pebbles instead of sand. That area gets hammered by storms all winter long. Dark, gloomy cold. A perfect setting for the film.
Weird movie. From the descriptions it sounds like Rosemary's Baby meets Alien in a B-movie horror film at the sea.
Roger A. Shrubber
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throw in a lot of soft core boobies and you got it...i saw it once years ago, and that is my take away, bad acting, bad makeup, bad premise, nice boobs...
DIY-HP-LED
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Why not? They are a NATO country, Germany can defend them! Goes to show you how some former Soviet republics view Russia, as do most of the their former vassal states like Poland. Vlad has many enemies and all Uncle Sam has to do is arm them, no motivation required, no nation building either.
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Estonia donates all of its 155mm howitzers and other weapons to Ukraine
The government of Estonia has decided to give all of its 155mm howitzers to the Ukrainian army, Ukraine's military General Staff wrote on Facebook on Jan. 23.
Roger A. Shrubber
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apparently Estonia realizes that if Ukraine loses the war, NO ONE in Europe will be safe from the russians.Why not? They are a NATO country, Germany can defend them! Goes to show you how some former Soviet republics view Russia, as do most of the their former vassal states like Poland. Vlad has many enemies and all Uncle Sam has to do is arm them, no motivation required, no nation building either.
Estonia donates all of its 155mm howitzers and other weapons to Ukraine
The government of Estonia has decided to give all of its 155mm howitzers to the Ukrainian army, Ukraine's military General Staff wrote on Facebook on Jan. 23.
Roger A. Shrubber
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i think you posted in the wrong thread and i reacted before i realized it...Why not? They are a NATO country, Germany can defend them! Goes to show you how some former Soviet republics view Russia, as do most of the their former vassal states like Poland. Vlad has many enemies and all Uncle Sam has to do is arm them, no motivation required, no nation building either.
Estonia donates all of its 155mm howitzers and other weapons to Ukraine
The government of Estonia has decided to give all of its 155mm howitzers to the Ukrainian army, Ukraine's military General Staff wrote on Facebook on Jan. 23.
BudmanTX
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yeah, shit was pretty heavy in the SE.....14 tornados crossed through texas going into Louisiana when that front hit....we didn't get anything except about 1/2in of well welcomed rain....
injinji
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I got a little over an inch and a half this morning. (my newly planted pine seedlings are liking it) The front got here around 0500. Still a few showers here and there, but the bad stuff is well past us now.
BudmanTX
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we're cool and clear now and tonight.....wonder if i can see that comet tonight...hmmm
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
best time is after midnight; you’ll need binos
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BudmanTX
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thanks man, i get a chance to try out my old/new binos 10x70'sbest time is after midnight; you’ll need binos
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