The only thing you need to know about Earth Day

Whale oil provided the lighting to read the breakthrough novel of 1870, the story of Captain Nemo in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. That was also the year of the foundation of Standard Oil. The result of that foundation is that we didn’t hunt the whales to extinction, but instead turned to kerosene to light the latter part of the 19th century, moving to electricity only in the 20th.

It really isn’t hyperbole to insist that John D. Rockefeller saved the whales by his making mineral oil products so much cheaper than the cetacean-derived equivalent. And that’s really all you need to know to understand Earth Day and what to do about it.

Greens believe in an imaginary past where happy & content man, beast & nature lived in perfect harmony. It was never thus.

@tomo

Tesla suspension failure cover-up ?
https://dailykanban.com/2016/06/tesla-suspension-breakage-not-crime-coverup/

@DaveS, Apr 21, 2018 at 12:08 PM

Tesla suspension failure is a recurring problem on all models:
http://teslabears.club/t/tesla-suspension-hall-of-shame/78/25

imho weight saving gone too far - aluminium arms/wishbones/rods at ball-joints & bushes is not thick enough.

Components look more like motor-sport where they'd be replaced after each race. Kudos to engineer who made Tesla drop idea to use rose-joints.

Re: STEM Degree course not requiring science/maths A level

See: Its students will be called “learners” because there will be no lectures, studying or traditional exams and they will not graduate with an honours degree. Nor will they specialise in a particular type of engineering, such as mechanical or electrical. Instead they will work on real projects in groups of five, for nearly a month at a time, and build up a portfolio proving their skills, leaving with a pass or fail in a masters degree.

Blogger Tim N's verdict

This isn’t about getting women into engineering; it’s not even about engineering at all. It’s about pretending dim middle-class women are cleverer than they are by having them play-act a serious role. They might as well take them to a petting zoo and a garden centre and call them farmers. I shudder to think what my female engineering colleagues think of this.

On "projects": I rather like Formula Student. What are your views?

See google and:
https://www.imeche.org/events/formula-student
http://www.racecar-engineering.com/formulastudent/