Vaccination Doubt
Though very harshly buried by government and media (including by me,) there continue to rise to visibility serious questions from reliable sources concerning adverse results from the vaccination such as this report of patients over 65 dying two-thirds as often from vaccination adverse effects as from catching COVID preventable by the vaccination:
“Thus, for 6 (95% CI 2–11) deaths prevented by vaccination, there were approximately 4 deaths reported… that occurred after vaccination, yielding a potential risk/benefit ratio of 2:3.”
Above is from a reference provided in August 2021 in Medscape, a totally reliable medical source and website:
Such serious questions about the vaccination cause peoples’ intelligent refusal of vaccination.
Government firing them is illogical, unjustified and travesty of justice but then twisting the knife by denying them unemployment is cruel despotism!
Liberals hate us wrongly assuming we are ignorant, deplorable Trump supporters. Will they ever recognize the truth that we are not?
Merck’s New COVID Pill
This new pill molnupiravir doesn’t cure or prevent COVID but, taken immediately by those already infected, does cut in half the chances of hospitalization or death.
“This anticipated drug has gotten a little more hype than it deserves,” says William Schaffner, MD, professor of preventive medicine and infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Many suggest a reality check.
“It’s not exactly a home run, like penicillin for strep throat,” agrees Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, professor of infectious diseases at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
“But it is encouraging,” he said. “It will probably be an incremental improvement on treatment we have, and anything we can do to keep people from getting sicker is a good thing.”
“The data in this higher risk group show molnupiravir reduces the risk of advancing to severe disease by 50%,” Schaffner said. That’s a clear benefit for half, but nothing for the other half, he said.
Energy
Linked below is an excellent and very exhaustive library of charts issued in March 2021, by our U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
The chart above is one of the charts. Here’s my reading of the numbers off the chart:
U.S. Energy Consumption
Quadrillions of BTU
- Fuel Current 2050
- BioFuels 2 2
- Hydro 3 3
- Nuclear 8 7
- Wind&Solar 8 18
- Coal 9 7
- Natural Gas 32 37
- Oil,Gasoline,etc 34 39
- Total 96 113
Thus, according to DOE, we are now using CO2-producing energy for 77 QBTU (80%) and non-CO2-producing energy for 19 QBTU (20%) of our total 96 QBTU. By 2050 if their forecast is accurate, we will still be using CO2-producing energy for 85 QBTU (75%) and non-CO2-producing energy for 28 QBTU (25%) of our total use of 113 QBTU.
This is very bad news for our hopes to reduce our CO2 production greatly and quickly.
With the auto industry turning very strongly and quickly toward electric cars & trucks, my belief is that we must quickly build huge additional electric generation in non-CO2-producing sources. Though we will build more wind and solar farms, I believe our new electric sources must be primarily hundreds of new nuclear power plants to supply the huge coming increase in demand caused by massive change to electric vehicles.
Serious issues in our change to electric vehicles will be:
- Charging stations, expensive, largely in homes, and with large multi-car stations along highways.
- Vehicle range reductions, now typically maximum 200 or 300 miles between full charges.
- Charging times, 30 minutes for each short drive, but 8 to 17 hours after a 300-mile drive.
There will need to be restaurants, RV campgrounds and motels near every highway public charging station for people while they wait during their charge.
CO2-producing liquid fuels, gasoline, diesel, aircraft fuels will continue to be required for some cars and trucks, locomotives and aircraft because they allow carrying the very high energy fuel in the vehicle.
Electric Car Charging
One gallon of gasoline has about 120,000 BTU equalling 35 KWH of energy. To charge a car with electric energy equal to one gallon of gasoline on the typical small home 2 KW charger takes 18 hours, or with the large 7 KW home charger takes 5 hours.
Electric cars include a plug-in charger for home use. California already has over 17,000 public charging stands.
Electric car full-charge ranges are mostly from 200 to 300 miles, with some more expensive models going up to 400, even up to 550 miles.
Average electric cars “burn” about 0.34 KWH per mile with the best fuel-mileage achieved being 0.24KWH per mile in a Tesla 3.
A 20-mile trip in the average car takes 5.5 KWH and a 100-mile trip takes 34 KWH. A 300-mile trip takes 100 KWH.
Charging time on a 120VAC 2KW home charger for the 20-mile trip is about 3 hours and for the 100-mile trip is about 17 hours.
Charging time on a larger home 240VAC 7KW charger, the highest-power charger many cars accept, for the 20-mile trip is about 45 minutes, for the 100-mile trip is about 3 ½ hours and for the 300-mile trip is about 8 hours.
There are also larger 240VAC 11KW chargers and 480VAC 3-phase units outputting up to and over 50KW but few currently produced electric cars will accept these larger chargers.
BTU is British Thermal Unit, a worldwide standard unit of energy.
KWH is Kilowatt Hour, another unit of energy, use of one thousand watts or one kilowatt of power for one hour.
Consumer Reports recommends hybrid cars for now above full electric- the gasoline engine for long range with the electric motor for cost saving on our short around-town trips.
Their top recommendation today Oct. 9 is Toyota RAV4 Prime AWD Plug-in Hybrid in XSE version for better seats, price range $38,350 – $41,675.
They were unable to test the 2021 Ford Escape SE Plug-in Hybrid SUV at Base $33,075 which has similar characteristics and also received a major model upgrade in 2020 that much improved its reliability over 2019 and earlier models.
Dave Bunting, Oct. 11, 2021
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