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Post by sperrytops on Mar 10, 2020 21:59:34 GMT -5
I'd love to see a steam car race. Hard to imagine those babies doing over 100 mph.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 10, 2020 22:01:23 GMT -5
They've been talking about high speed rail between Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio for the last 10-15 years. I don't think that it will happen in my lifetime. It would be easier in a country that wasn't so heavily populated. And people here are serious about their property rights.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 10, 2020 22:06:33 GMT -5
Steam is cool? But I have always been fascinated by the early electric cars. I wish I could get a White electric.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 10, 2020 22:08:54 GMT -5
I'd love to see a steam car race. Hard to imagine those babies doing over 100 mph. The ones in Ireland passed our bus and we were doing around 55mph. It wasn't a race, just a rally. When we got to Dromeland Castle they were arranged on the lawn and we got to get a close look at them. One of the highlights of the trip for me anyway. |
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Post by toshtego on Mar 10, 2020 22:56:05 GMT -5
Then there is the Sedlytz-Dumbrowski Steam Helicopter of the 1940s or 50s. I read about it in a magazine many years ago.
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Post by Legend Lover on Mar 11, 2020 6:48:42 GMT -5
When we were in Ireland we got in the middle of a steam car rally. Mostly Stanley's. I know that they could do over 125mph. The ones that we saw smelled good too as they were burning peat 😁🤠 Everything smells good in Ireland!  |
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Post by briarbuck on Mar 11, 2020 10:23:32 GMT -5
Then there is the Sedlytz-Dumbrowski Steam Helicopter of the 1940s or 50s. I read about it in a magazine many years ago. A Polish Helicopter.  |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 11, 2020 10:36:07 GMT -5
When we were in Ireland we got in the middle of a steam car rally. Mostly Stanley's. I know that they could do over 125mph. The ones that we saw smelled good too as they were burning peat 😁🤠 Everything smells good in Ireland! This is true. Mostly in the summer the inland smells like flowers, the ocean smells fresh and clean, and on cold days in the villages it smells of peat. When we got off the plane back in Houston it was like climbing down into a septic tank. |
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Post by trailboss on Mar 12, 2020 22:29:37 GMT -5
Relive the days of your yute, Ron.... Irish spring soap.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 13, 2020 10:15:21 GMT -5
Relive the days of your yute, Ron.... Irish spring soap. Which smells NOTHING like Ireland. Too strong too. |
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Post by bigwoolie on Mar 13, 2020 10:24:28 GMT -5
Magnesium and water is great fun you just have to be more creative and no I will not divulge my source for Magnesium. Old laptop computer frames?  I had a buddy years ago when I lived in Texas that worked for a Texas Instruments laptop plant out of Temple. He would bring home magnesium and we would put it in the campfire I had out behind my house, then in buckets of water. (I was out in the country outside of Belton). He once brought home a block of it that must have been 8" square. |
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Post by trailboss on Mar 13, 2020 10:34:42 GMT -5
Out at Ocotillo wells In California back in the day the off-roaders would place a magnesium VW engine block on fire and drop propane tanks onto it... I guess it was pretty spectacular.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 13, 2020 11:53:42 GMT -5
Out at Ocotillo wells In California back in the day the off-roaders would place a magnesium VW engine block on fire and drop propane tanks onto it... I guess it was pretty spectacular. Hold my beer..... 😜🤠 |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2020 16:42:02 GMT -5
 Leftover agent orange drums Alkali lake Oregon. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2020 16:44:44 GMT -5
 This is a uranium disposal cell in Green River, Utah. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2020 16:53:52 GMT -5
 Where everything to nasty for mankind in the US ends up. |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Mar 13, 2020 17:58:22 GMT -5
Your gubmint lookin' out for you^^^^^^^!!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2020 19:35:40 GMT -5
Well at least they try to put it where no one in their right mind lives.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 13, 2020 21:20:45 GMT -5
That's really awful and not in the national news. Not in the local news either for last 4 years. Why would they bury metallic sodium next to plutonium waste? I wonder if any engineers were consulted about any of this.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2020 22:26:46 GMT -5
The sodium is a coolant. They wanted to store nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain because that whole area glows already but Harry fought them tooth and nail over that. So they just moved the dump one valley over. Yucca MTN is a extinct volcano water table at 5000 ft. Billions were spent making the tunnels as they fight over the impact of storing the waste next to the Yucca Flats. Doh
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2020 22:28:39 GMT -5
 Yucca Flats with above and below ground testing craters. People used to drive out from Las Vegas to watch the mushroom clouds. |
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Post by trailboss on Mar 14, 2020 0:08:10 GMT -5
Where everything to nasty for mankind in the US ends up. That is where I made my last few trips, US Ecology owns the place, and is my employer. A lot of harmless retail waste ends up there too...I hope nobody in or Beatty drinks well water. |
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Post by trailboss on Mar 14, 2020 0:11:39 GMT -5
The sodium is a coolant. They wanted to store nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain because that whole area glows already but Harry fought them tooth and nail over that. So they just moved the dump one valley over. Yucca MTN is a extinct volcano water table at 5000 ft. Billions were spent making the tunnels as they fight over the impact of storing the waste next to the Yucca Flats. Doh I agree... that was scandalous... Harry was about the sleaziest politician ever, even bragging about his lies being so good after the damage was done...a pretty vile person. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2020 7:19:03 GMT -5
I could be wrong but US Ecology has the small dump of 80 acres. The US Government has a big yard with guards and when you top the hill after passing the guards you are greeted with a valley of colorful barrels stacked as high as you can get them. I wonder if Beatty still has a cat house next to the sheriffs dept. Anywho it has been many years since I stumped around that neck of the desert but if your company has a 4x4 let me know. I know about all kinds of cool stuff not even on the Test Site.
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Post by trailboss on Mar 14, 2020 9:48:22 GMT -5
The site is 480 acres,USE doesn’t own the facility, it is owned by the state of Nevada and operated by USE. Whenever I go up there which going forward is hopefully rare, I want to spend as little time around there as possible... most of the company employees out in the field are a pretty anal bunch about everything.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 14, 2020 10:14:16 GMT -5
I am no expert but a friend of mine who works Los alamos National Lab assured me the spent Plutonium is not, repeat not, stored in 55 gallon drums which are stacked up in someone's back yard.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2020 18:54:15 GMT -5
They put that crap in a used warhead container with a hydraulic door on one end. That is reinforced to handle a train wreak. But that is only when folks are watching and probably in the last 20 years or so. Before that i heard they used paper bags and left it at rest areas.
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