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how much oil or grease does Elon Musk use in his tesla plants for robotics and other machinery?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Hate to say it, but we need to increase oil & gas output immediately.
Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures.
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well i hope it's all a slow process, especially with the crooks we have in D.C. right now....
A Partial list of the over 6,000 products made from one barrel of oil (after creating 19 gallons of gasoline)
July 26, 2016
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/partial-list-over-6000-products-made-from-one-barrel-oil-steve-pryor
Adhesive
Air mattresses
Ammonia
Antifreeze
Antihistamines
Antiseptics
Artificial limbs
Artificial turf
Asphalt
Aspirin
Awnings
Backpacks
Balloons
Ballpoint pens
Bandages
Beach umbrellas
Boats
Cameras
Candies and gum
Candles
Car battery cases
Car enamel
Cassettes
Caulking
CDs/computer disks
Cell phones
Clothes
Clothesline
Clothing
Coffee makers
Cold cream
Combs
Computer keyboards
Computer monitors
Cortisone
Crayons
Credit cards
Curtains
Dashboards
Denture adhesives
Dentures
Deodorant
Detergent
Dice
Dishwashing liquid
Dog collars
Drinking cups
Dyes
Electric blankets
Electrical tape
Enamel
Epoxy paint
Eyeglasses
Fan belts
Faucet washers
Fertilizers
Fishing boots
Fishing lures
Floor wax
Food preservatives
Footballs
Fuel tanks
Glue
Glycerin
Golf bags
Golf balls
Guitar strings
Hair coloring
Hair curlers
Hand lotion
Hearing aids
Heart valves
House paint
Hula hoops
Ice buckets
Ice chests
Ice cube trays
Ink
Insect repellent
Insecticides
Insulation
iPad/iPhone
Kayaks
Laptops
Life jackets
Light-weight aircraft
Lipstick
Loudspeakers
Lubricants
Luggage
Model cars
Mops
Motorcycle helmets
Movie film
Nail polish
Noise insulation
Nylon rope
Oil filters
Packaging
Paint brushes
Paint roller
Pajamas
Panty hose
Parachutes
Perfumes
Permanent press
Petroleum jelly
Pharmaceuticals
Pillow filling
Plastic toys
Plastics
Plywood adhesive
Propane
Purses
Putty
Refrigerants
Refrigerator linings
Roller skate wheels
Roofing
Rubber cement
Rubbing alcohol
Safety glasses
Shampoo
Shaving cream
Shoe polish
Shoes/sandals
Shower curtains
Skateboards
Skis
Soap dishes
Soft contact lenses
Solar panels
Solvents
Spacesuits
Sports car bodies
Sunglasses
Surf boards
Swimming pools
Synthetic rubber
Telephones
Tennis rackets
Tents
Tires
Tool boxes
Tool racks
Toothbrushes
Toothpaste
Transparent tape
Trash bags
Truck and automobile parts
Tubing
TV cabinets
Umbrellas
Unbreakable dishes
Upholstery
Vaporizers
Vinyl flooring
Vitamin capsules
Water pipes
Wind turbine blades
Yarn
https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2019/11/f68/Products%20Made%20From%20Oil%20and%20Natural%20Gas%20Infographic.pdf
Shell to cut up to 9,000 jobs in shift to low-carbon energy
9/30/2020
Royal Dutch Shell will slash as many as 9,000 jobs as the oil giant accelerates a shift away from fossil fuels.
The Anglo-Dutch company said Wednesday that it would cut between 7,000 and 9,000 positions by the end of 2022, potentially affecting more than 10% of its workforce. The total includes 1,500 people who have volunteered to leave the company this year.
The job losses are part of an overhaul aimed at cutting costs and simplifying the company's structure as it moves into low-carbon energy. Shell expects the overhaul to deliver annual cost savings of up to $2.5 billion by 2022.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/shell-to-cut-up-to-9-000-jobs-in-shift-to-low-carbon-energy/ar-BB19yLZw
Royal Dutch Shell
Shell was formed in 1907 through the amalgamation of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (Dutch: N.V. Koninklijke Nederlandse Petroleum Maatschappij) of the Netherlands (formerly the Royal Dutch Company for the Exploitation of Petroleum Wells in the Dutch East Indies (Dutch: N.V. Koninklijke Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Petroleumbronnen in Nederlandsch-Indië)) and the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company of the United Kingdom. Until its unification in 2005 the firm operated as a dual-listed company, whereby the British and Dutch companies maintained their legal existence but operated as a single-unit partnership for business purposes. Shell first entered the chemicals industry in 1929. Shell was one of the "Seven Sisters" which dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s. In 1970 Shell acquired the mining company Billiton, which it subsequently sold in 1994 and now forms part of BHP. In recent decades gas exploration and production has become an increasingly important part of Shell's business.[17] Shell acquired BG Group in 2016, making it the world's largest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG).[17]
Shell has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It had a market capitalisation of £216 billion at the close of trading on 27 June 2019, by far the largest of any company listed on the London Stock Exchange.[18][19] It has secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New York Stock Exchange. As of January 2013, Shell's largest shareholder was Capital Research Global Investors with 9.85% ahead of BlackRock in second with 6.89%.[20] According to the CDP Carbon Majors Report 2017, Shell was the ninth-largest corporate producer of greenhouse gas emissions in the period 1988-2015.[21]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Shell
Shell world headquarters in Haagse Hout, The Hague
https://www.google.com/maps/place/52%C2%B005'39.8%22N+4%C2%B021'17.3%22E/@52.0242657,5.2123841,6.25z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d52.0944!4d4.3548
of course, it takes time.....how long did it take for charging stations to be put in place and there still short around the country......existing gas stations can be utilized for both H2 and battery charging in the fifties president Eisenhower created a program to build interstate highways to be used for commerce, right now there are class 8 battery operated simi trucks on the road and about a year and half there will be H2 simi trucks on the road......the need for H2 stations are already being put in place mostly in Ca. and interstate 10........shell oil has started in 2020 with their conversions
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles
hydrogen
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCVs) are similar to electric vehicles (EVs) in that they use an electric motor instead of an internal combustion engine to power the wheels. However, while EVs run on batteries that must be plugged in to recharge, FCVs generate their electricity onboard. In a fuel cell, hydrogen (H2) gas from the vehicle’s fuel tank combines with oxygen (O2) from the air to generate electricity with only water and heat as byproducts of the process.
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/hydrogen-fuel-cell-vehicles
Space Applications of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
At Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, liquid hydrogen tank that supported space shuttle launches for 30 years have been sandblasted, repaired and repainted. Along with the liquid oxygen storage vessel, the two tanks are designed to store super-cold propellants. They were refurbished to support NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and other launch vehicles.
https://www.nasa.gov/content/space-applications-of-hydrogen-and-fuel-cells
United States Department of Energy
HYDROGEN STRATEGY
[ 1 ]HYDROGEN STRATEGY
Enabling A Low-Carbon Economy
Introduction
This document summarizes current hydrogen technologies and communicates the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),
Office of Fossil Energy's (FE’s) strategic plan to accelerate research, development, and deployment of hydrogen
technologies in the United States. It also describes ongoing FE hydrogen-related research and development (R&D).
Hydrogen produced from fossil fuels is a versatile energy carrier and can play an important role in a transition to a low-
carbon economy.
Hydrogen (H2) is the simplest and most abundant element in the universe, and it only occurs naturally on Earth when
combined with other elements. Hydrogen, like electricity, is an energy carrier (fuel) that can be used to store, move, and
deliver energy produced from other sources. It can be produced without a carbon footprint from a variety of sources,
including natural gas, coal, biomass, waste materials (i.e., plastics), or splitting water molecules. Gasification of fossil
fuels with biomass and plastics is expected to be the lowest-cost route to providing carbon negative hydrogen when
using carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies
https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2020/07/f76/USDOE_FE_Hydrogen_Strategy_July2020.pdf
NASA
Today, liquid hydrogen is the signature fuel of the American space program and is used by other countries in the business of launching satellites. In addition to the Atlas, Boeing's Delta III and Delta IV now have liquid-oxygen/liquid-hydrogen upper stages. This propellant combination is also burned in the main engine of the Space Shuttle. One of the significant challenges for the European Space Agency was to develop a liquid-hydrogen stage for the Ariane rocket in the 1970s. The Soviet Union did not even test a liquid-hydrogen upper stage until the mid-1980s. The Russians are now designing their Angara launch vehicle family with liquid-hydrogen upper stages. Lack of Soviet liquid-hydrogen technology proved a serious handicap in the race of the two superpowers to the Moon.4 Taming liquid hydrogen is one of the significant technical achievements of twentieth century American rocketry.
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/hydrogen/hydrogen_fuel_of_choice.html#:~:text=Today%2C%20liquid%20hydrogen%20is%20the%20signature%20fuel%20of,in%20the%20main%20engine%20of%20the%20Space%20Shuttle.
Hydrogen Production and Uses
(Updated September 2020)
Hydrogen directly from nuclear heat
he US Nuclear Energy Research Initiative (NERI) launched in 1999 was refocused in 2004 to include the Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative (NHI), allied to the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) programme established in 2005. NGNP envisaged construction and operation of a prototype high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTR) and associated electricity or hydrogen production facilities by 2021, but funding was cut back under the Obama administration and prelicensing activities were suspended in 2013.
Under an International NERI agreement, Sandia National Laboratories in the USA and the French CEA with General Atomics in the USA were also developing the IS process with a view to using high-temperature reactors for it. They had built and operated a laboratory-scale loop for thermochemical water-splitting.
South Korea has also demonstrated thermochemical water-splitting at laboratory scale, supported by General Atomics. In December 2008, the ROK Atomic Energy Commission officially approved nuclear hydrogen development as a national programme, with the development of key and basic technologies through 2017 and the goal of demonstrating nuclear hydrogen production using the S-I process and a very high-temperature reactor (VHTR) by 2026.
The economics of hydrogen production depend on the efficiency of the method used. The IS cycle coupled to a modular high temperature reactor is expected to produce hydrogen at about $2.00/kg. The oxygen byproduct also has value. General Atomics earlier projected $1.53/kg based on a 2400 MWt HTR operating at 850°C with 42% overall efficiency, and $1.42/kg at 950°C and 52% efficiency (both 10.5% discount rate). Such a plant could produce 800 tonnes of hydrogen per day.
For thermochemical processes an overall efficiency of greater than 50% is projected.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=162111693
Modern reactors are safer
Today’s reactor designs also have far more safety features than older installations. These range from duplicate emergency cooling systems to prevent overheating even if some systems fail, through to so-called “core catchers” that would contain the reactor core in a worst-case meltdown event.
Some designs will cool passively in the event of a loss of power to the cooling circuit (as happened at Fukushima). The heat from the core will gradually dissipate from the walls of the pressure vessel and through the cooling circuit by convection. The reactors that are being constructed today benefit from 60 years of experience gained in the design and operation of nuclear power plants around the world.
But future reactor technologies –- so-called “Gen IV” designs – offer even better inherent safety. One of their key features are fully passive cooling systems so the reactor is never dependent on external power for safety. The reactor is carefully designed so that overheating actually reduces, rather than increases, the power output of the core. The core and cooling systems are not pressurised, and using liquids other than water for cooling prevents the risk of creating hydrogen: both of which drastically reduce the risk of explosions as occurred at Fukushima.
Power plant of the future. Idaho National Laboratory/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY
Gen IV reactors will also allow more efficient use of nuclear fuel. The fuel in current reactor designs is used only once and then disposed of, which produces radioactive waste that will take hundreds of millennia to decay to a safe level. But this waste contains valuable resources of fissile material that can be reprocessed into new fuel. Burning this fuel in specialised “fast” reactors provides would be much more efficient and generate waste that decays safely within just a hundred years or so. It would also move us towards a closed fuel-cycle that would greatly extend the lifetime of the Earth’s uranium reserves.
https://theconversation.com/nuclear-power-is-set-to-get-a-lot-safer-and-cheaper-heres-why-62207
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/safety-of-nuclear-power-reactors.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power
Nuclear Power is the Most Reliable Energy Source and It's Not Even Close
March 24, 2021
Nuclear energy is America’s work horse.
It’s been rolling up its sleeves for six decades now to provide constant, reliable, carbon-free power to millions of Americans.
Just how reliable has nuclear energy been?
It has roughly supplied a fifth of America’s power each year since 1990.
To better understand what makes nuclear so reliable, take a look at the graph below.
As you can see, nuclear energy has by far the highest capacity factor of any other energy source. This basically means nuclear power plants are producing maximum power more than 93% of the time during the year.
That’s about 1.5 to 2 times more as natural gas and coal units, and 2.5 to 3.5 times more reliable than wind and solar plants.
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nuclear-power-most-reliable-energy-source-and-its-not-even-close
Hydrogen Production Using Nuclear Energy
IAEA Nuclear Energy Series NP-T-4.2
A future energy economy will be strongly dependent on the necessity of replacing oil and reducing greenhouse gas emissions for climate protection. Hydrogen has the potential to play an important role as a sustainable and environmentally acceptable source of energy in the 21st century. Yet, there are technical challenges in nuclear hydrogen processes, which need to be addressed through a comprehensive research and development effort. This publication presents the state of the art in the nuclear production of hydrogen and describes the areas of research to be undertaken for establishing a hydrogen economy regime. It includes highlights of international programme and research efforts on nuclear hydrogen production as well as information on hydrogen uses and infrastructure, and provides an introduction to the economic analysis of hydrogen production.
https://www.iaea.org/publications/8855/hydrogen-production-using-nuclear-energy
https://docdro.id/0o8OWOp
Hydrogen Production and Uses
(Updated September 2020)
Hydrogen directly from nuclear heat
Several direct thermochemical processes are being developed for producing hydrogen from water. For economic production, high temperatures are required to ensure rapid throughput and high conversion efficiencies. They essentially do not use electricity.
In each of the leading thermochemical processes the high-temperature (800-1000°C), low-pressure endothermic (heat absorbing) decomposition of sulfuric acid produces oxygen and sulfur dioxide:
2H2SO4 ? 2H2O + 2SO2 + O2
There are then several possibilities. In the iodine-sulfur (IS) process invented by General Atomics in the 1970s, iodine combines with the SO2 and water to produce hydrogen iodide. This is the Bunsen reaction and is exothermic, occurring at low temperature (120°C):
I2 + SO2 + 2H2O ? 2HI + H2SO4
The HI then dissasociates to hydrogen and iodine at about 350-450°C, endothermically:
2HI ? H2 + I2
This can deliver hydrogen at high pressure.
Combining all this, the net reaction is then:
2H2O ? 2H2 + O2
All the reagents other than water are recycled, there are no effluents, hence it may be called the sulfur-iodine cycle, with zero-carbon hydrogen and oxygen byproducts.
In February 2010 the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) set up the HTGR Hydrogen and Heat Application Research Centre at Oarai to progress operational technology for an IS plant to make hydrogen thermochemically. It has demonstrated laboratory-scale and bench-scale hydrogen production with the IS process, up to 30 litres/h. In parallel with JAEA’s HTTR developments a pilot plant test project producing hydrogen at 30 m3/h from helium heated with 400 kW tested the engineering feasibility of the IS process. An IS plant producing 1000 m3/h (90 kg/h, 2t/day) of hydrogen was to be linked to the HTTR to confirm the performance of an integrated production system, envisaged for the 2020s. In 2014 hydrogen production at up to 20 L/h was demonstrated. In January 2019 it used the HTTR to produce hydrogen using the iodine-sulfur process over 150 hours of continuous operation. JAEA aims to produce hydrogen at less than $3/kg by about 2030 with very high temperature reactors.
The US Nuclear Energy Research Initiative (NERI) launched in 1999 was refocused in 2004 to include the Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative (NHI), allied to the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) programme established in 2005. NGNP envisaged construction and operation of a prototype high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTR) and associated electricity or hydrogen production facilities by 2021, but funding was cut back under the Obama administration and prelicensing activities were suspended in 2013.
Under an International NERI agreement, Sandia National Laboratories in the USA and the French CEA with General Atomics in the USA were also developing the IS process with a view to using high-temperature reactors for it. They had built and operated a laboratory-scale loop for thermochemical water-splitting.
South Korea has also demonstrated thermochemical water-splitting at laboratory scale, supported by General Atomics. In December 2008, the ROK Atomic Energy Commission officially approved nuclear hydrogen development as a national programme, with the development of key and basic technologies through 2017 and the goal of demonstrating nuclear hydrogen production using the S-I process and a very high-temperature reactor (VHTR) by 2026.
The economics of hydrogen production depend on the efficiency of the method used. The IS cycle coupled to a modular high temperature reactor is expected to produce hydrogen at about $2.00/kg. The oxygen byproduct also has value. General Atomics earlier projected $1.53/kg based on a 2400 MWt HTR operating at 850°C with 42% overall efficiency, and $1.42/kg at 950°C and 52% efficiency (both 10.5% discount rate). Such a plant could produce 800 tonnes of hydrogen per day.
For thermochemical processes an overall efficiency of greater than 50% is projected.
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/energy-and-the-environment/hydrogen-production-and-uses.aspx
https://www.iaea.org/topics/non-electric-applications/nuclear-hydrogen-production
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/energy-and-the-environment/hydrogen-production-and-uses.aspx
https://www.iaea.org/topics/non-electric-applications/nuclear-hydrogen-production
The sun is a big ball of gas and plasma. Most of the gas — 91 percent — is hydrogen. It is converted into energy in the sun's core. The energy moves outward through the interior layers, into the sun's atmosphere, and is released into the solar system as heat and light.
www.space.com
yeah right.......
Brittney Griner's wife: Actions to bring her home don't match the rhetoric
Jul 1, 2022
who are the democrats? or what is a democrat
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democrat
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/democrat
Brittney is a democrat and part of the problem
tell that to the business owners in Seattle that had their life dreams burned downed and across the country. sure it was our political leaders that allowed it to happen and instigated but it was those that had an agenda that lit the match.
so Biden is president of the U.S.....i would say that would be greater
Why the Star-Spangled Banner is Played At Sporting Events
The tradition began during a time of national sorrow
Becky Little
Updated:
Aug 31, 2018
Original:
Sep 25, 2017
The instantly-recognizable song is played before thousands of sporting events every year, but just how did the Star-Spangled Banner come to be a staple of sports in the first place? The answer, it turns out, has to do with World War I.
Baseball fans in the late 19th century might’ve heard live military bands play the Star-Spangled Banner at a game every so often, but the song—which hadn’t yet been designated as the national anthem—wasn’t really a common occurrence at sporting events. That began to change on September 5, 1918, during Game 1 of the World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs. It was an era when the Red Sox still had Babe Ruth, and the phrase “the last time the Cubs won the World Series” wasn’t yet a joke. In fact, the two teams had won six of the last 15 world championship titles.
A giant flag lowered for the national anthem during the Red Sox home opener at Fenway Park in Boston, 2015. (Credit: Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Yet even though the event featured two teams at the top of their games, the crowd was somber that day, writesESPN The Magazine. Since entering the Great War a year and a half ago, more than 100,000 U.S. soldiers had died. And just a day before the game, a bomb had exploded in Chicago, (the city in which the game was held), killing four people and injuring dozens more. In addition, the U.S. government had recently announced that it would begin drafting major league baseball players.
All this sat heavy on the shoulders of both the players and the smaller-than-usual crowd of fans that day. But during the seventh-inning stretch, the U.S. Navy band began to play the Star-Spangled Banner; and something changed.
Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs during the 1918 World Series at Comiskey Park Chicago, Illinois. (Credot: Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images)
As the song began, Red Sox infielder Fred Thomas—who was in the Navy and had been granted furlough to play in the World Series—immediately turned toward the American flag and gave it a military salute, according to the Chicago Tribune. Other players turned to the flag with hands over hearts, and the already-standing crowd began to sing. At the song’s conclusion, the previously quiet fans erupted in thunderous applause. At the time, the New York Times reported that it “marked the highest point of the day’s enthusiasm.” The song would be played at each of the Series’ remaining games, to increasingly rapturous response. And patriotism played a part right from the start, as the Red Sox gave free tickets to wounded veterans and honored them during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner before the start of the decisive Game 6.
https://www.history.com/news/why-the-star-spangled-banner-is-played-at-sporting-events
if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be a duck...... does it give them the right to burn down cities? these people make there decisions to suit their needs or what they believe......if the policy were reversed, rep vs. dems these people like Brittney would chose to side their agenda
MORE NEWS: Democrats to America: We Don’t Care
What was Griner doing in Russia? Well, she didn’t feel she was being paid enough by the WNBA and in order the chase the almighty dollar, she has been playing for a Russia team in the offseason since 2014. She gets over $1 million per season from the Russians.
This woke basketball star wasn’t just a National Anthem kneeler, she didn’t even go out on the floor when it was played. She didn’t want to give America or those who fought for our freedoms their due respect.
Back in June of 2021, Griner said “I honestly feel we should not play the Nation Anthem during our season, I think we should take that much of a stand. I’m going to protest regardless. I’m not going to be out there for the National Anthem.”
I don’t wish any American the grim reality of being trapped in another country by an enemy nation, even if they are guilty of what they’re charged with.
However, I have to wonder if WNBA star (and Russian basketball player), Brittney Griner, Black Lives Matter supporter, is possibly re-thinking her stance on disrespecting the National Anthem?
Griner is being held in Russia and faces ten years in jail because of a drug charge, having been found with hash vape pens in her luggage.
https://www.stevegruber.com/2022/03/hey-brittney-griner-do-you-respect-the-national-anthem-now/
Hash Oil Pen – THC Vape Pen Reviews
Cannabis vaporizers are designed to be used with the various mediums that cannabis naturally exists in or that has been manufactured to by human efforts. Dry herb (flower) vaporizers are the most commonly used cannabis vaporizer at the current time, but lately we have seen tremendous growth in the concentrate cannabis niche. Liquid concentrates and solid concentrates are growing cannabis mediums that more cannabis enthusiasts are beginning to try.
Among the many names that concentrate vaporizers go by, there are - Shatter Pens, Dabs Pens, THC Oil Pens, Hash Oil Pen, Pens for wax and so on. A Hash Oil pen can come pre filled with THC liquid inside of it already, where you can than either dispose of it or in many cases order additional cartridges. Let's check out some of the cannabis industries best Hash oil pens.
https://vaporsmooth.com/hash-oil-pen-thc-vape-pen-reviews/#:~:text=A%20Hash%20Oil%20Pen%20is%20a%20type%20of,and%20inhale%20to%20many%20times%20with%20these%20devices.
Griner said Monday that she believed “we should not play the national anthem during our season,” a 22-game schedule compressed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Like Colin Kaepernick and others in sports, she is clear that her message does not concern the military or the flag. It’s about police brutality and social injustice.
“I don’t mean that in any disrespect to our country. My dad was in Vietnam and a law officer for 30 years,” she said. “I wanted to be a cop before basketball. I do have pride for my country.”
Brianna Turner, Griner’s teammate, agreed and took her opposition a step further.
“I personally don’t think it belongs in sports,” she said, adding that “it’s not played at Walmart, it’s not played when you go to Six Flags. Why is it played before sporting events?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/28/brittney-griner-brianna-turner-call-wnba-stop-playing-national-anthem-this-season/#:~:text=As%20far%20as%20Brittney%20Griner%2C%20the%20Phoenix%20Mercury,in%20the%20locker%20room%20while%20it%20is%20played.
there lies the problem
she should stay their awhile, let it sink in on how freedom really feels when in america
IVECO builds innovative H2 filling station in Ulm as part of Hy-FIVE as a holistic model test for green hydrogen
Ulm, 07-04-2022
This Monday (04.07.2022) the kick-off for the project "HY-FIVE - Model Region Green Hydrogen Baden-Württemberg" took place in Schwäbisch-Gmünd: State Secretary Dr. Andre Baumann from the Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Energy symbolically presented the project consortium with a total funding amount of around 32 million euros.
The funding is provided by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the state of Baden-Württemberg. The aim of the Hy-FIVE project is to test a hydrogen economy in both rural and urban areas. The activities focus on four flagship projects that map the entire value chain from production to use in industry, transport and district solutions.
Cities, municipalities, project partners from business and science implement the concrete model projects. These include the construction of electrolyzers for hydrogen production, filling station infrastructure and distribution systems. With its joint venture, Nikola Iveco Europe GmbH, IVECO is responsible for the construction of an innovative hydrogen filling station and will at the same time test the necessary infrastructure. Initially, the facility is mainly intended for own use, i.e. for the refueling of the test fleet as well as the first filling of the Nikola Tre FCEV manufactured in Ulm. However, the filling station is successively transferred to public operation. Due to the predicted quantities and market requirements, the filling station is designed as a high-performance plant and can refuel gaseous hydrogen with 700 bar in an amount of about 80 kilograms in 15 to 20 minutes. The quantity is sufficient for a Nikola Tre for more than 800 kilometers. The project is moving on new technological territory and also benefits from the proximity of science based in Ulm (TH Ulm, ZSW). The commissioning of the H2 filling station is for the 1st Quarter 2024.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NikolaCorporation/comments/vr77mg/iveco_builds_h2_stations_in_ulm_04072022/
PHOENIX – May 5, 2022 -- Nikola Corporation (Nasdaq: NKLA), a global leader in zero-emissions transportation solutions, today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2022.
“During the first quarter, we reached a significant milestone with the start of serial production for the Nikola Tre BEV at our Coolidge, Arizona manufacturing facility and are currently delivering saleable trucks to dealers for customer deliveries,” said Mark Russell, Nikola’s Chief Executive Officer. “We look forward to scaling production and delivering 300 – 500 production vehicles to customers this year.”
Nikola Tre BEV Update
During the first quarter, the final 10 of a total fleet of 40 pre-series Tre BEVs came off the line in Coolidge, Arizona. Pre-series trucks continue to be used in customer pilots, dealer demos, and internal R&D testing. On April 29, we successfully completed our first Tre BEV customer pilot with TTSI. We also successfully completed a 14-day pilot with Univar Solutions (NYSE: UNVR). We are currently undergoing pilot testing with several other customers, including Covenant Logistics (Nasdaq: CVLG).
On March 21, 2022, we began serial production of the Nikola Tre BEV in Coolidge, Arizona. We began shipping saleable Tre BEVs to dealers in April for customer deliveries. Customer POs for 134 trucks have been issued to our dealers utilizing California HVIP. To date, we have received POs, LOIs, and MOUs for a total of 510 Nikola Tre BEVs.
https://nikolamotor.com/press_releases/nikola-corporation-reports-first-quarter-2022-results-165
https://nikolamotor.com/investors
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/show_ibox.aspx?boardid=37678
if they were sold/paid for it would more then likely be announced, twitter, FB, reddit and or pr.....NKLA is usually pretty good with that
dot update 07/04/2022 10units
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thats great, lets start with the ones that like to shoot into crouds
Is the United Nations in New York under the US government?
Although it is situated in New York City, the land occupied by the United Nations Headquarters and the spaces of buildings that it rents are under the sole administration of the United Nations and not the U.S. government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headquarters_of_the_United_Nations
What exactly did the UN founders envision? This 1966 filmstrip made into video in 1990 provides the answer.
G. Edward Griffin - The United Nations: Peace Dove Unmasked
Sep 14, 2013
they are not the only ones to watch for [Daniel 9:27]
Latter Day Saints
Latter Day Saints believe that the Jews will build the Third Temple before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ,[37] and after the Second Coming the Jews will accept Jesus as the Messiah. Most Jews will then embrace the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Then, it is believed, the Third Temple will be God's temple as Christ reigns on the earth, and it will become the Jerusalem LDS Temple.[citation needed] There will be many LDS Temples but two main temples will jointly serve as the central governing places – the Jerusalem Temple will function as the resurrected Jesus Christ's Eastern Hemisphere governing place and the New Jerusalem Temple in Independence, Missouri will function as the resurrected Jesus Christ's Western Hemisphere governing place.[citation needed] Both of these two temples will have thrones for Jesus Christ to sit on during his millennial reign.[38]
The Community of Christ, the second largest denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement, has operated a temple, open to the public, in Independence, Missouri, since 1994. Another denomination of the LDS movement, the Church of Christ (Temple Lot), possess the Temple Lot, the actual spot on which the Temple will be built.
Latter Day Saint movement
Collectively, these churches have over 16 million members,[2] although about 98% belong to The Church of Jesus C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Temple#Latter_Day_Saints
Temple in Jerusalem
See also: Third Temple
The LDS Church believes that there will be a temple[55] built within Jerusalem. The temple within Jerusalem will be built with one additional distinguishing feature that all other LDS temples do not have. This temple will contain a throne, which, at times, the Savior will personally sit and reign over the house of Israel.[55][58]
Concerning the temple in Jerusalem, Orson Pratt stated, "By and by there will be a Temple built at Jerusalem. Who do you think is going to build it? You may think that it will be the unbelieving Jews who rejected the Savior. I believe that which is contained on the 77th page of the Book of Mormon, as well as in many other places, in that same book, will be literally fulfilled. The Temple at Jerusalem will undoubtedly be built, by those who believe in the true Messiah. Its construction will be, in some respects different from the Temples now being built. It will contain the throne of the Lord, upon which he will, at times, personally sit, and will reign over the house of Israel for ever. It may also contain twelve other thrones, on which the twelve ancient Apostles will sit, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel."[59]
More recently, Bruce R. McConkie stated, "Who are those 'that are far off' who shall come to Jerusalem to build the house of the Lord? Surely they are the Jews who have been scattered afar. By what power and under whose authorization shall the work be done? There is only one place under the whole heavens where the keys of temple building are found. There is only one people who know how to build temples and what to do in them when they are completed. That people is the Latter-day Saints. The temple in Jerusalem will not be built by Jews who have assembled there for political purposes as at present. It will not be built by a people who know nothing whatever about the sealing ordinances and their application to the living and the dead. It will not be built by those who know nothing about Christ and his laws and the mysteries reserved for the saints. But it will be built by Jews who have come unto Christ, who once again are in the true fold of their ancient Shepherd, and who have learned anew about temples because they know that Elijah did come, not to sit in a vacant chair at some Jewish feast of the Passover, but to the Kirtland Temple on April 3, 1836, to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery. The temple in Jerusalem will be built by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 'They that are far off,' they that come from an American Zion, they who have a temple in Salt Lake City will come to Jerusalem to build there another holy house in the Jerusalem portion of 'the mountains of the Lord's house.'"[60]
Believed fulfillment state: Pending
A temple has not been built.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Coming_in_Mormonism#Temple_in_Jerusalem
A panoramic view of Temple Lot from the U.N. Plaza to the west. Significant buildings (left to right): Stone Church (a historic congregational building of the Community of Christ), Church of Christ Temple Lot, Community of Christ Temple, Mormon Independence Visitor Center (slightly visible to the left down the hill from the auditorium), Community of Christ Auditorium.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Lot
Salt Lake City is hosting the U.N. Annual Civil Society Conference
August 26-28.
Supportive partners
The U.N. and the Church have worked together in an official capacity since 2011, when the U.N. recognized Latter-day Saint Charities, the humanitarian arm of the Church, as an accredited nongovernmental organization.
Attendees listen to Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski speak during the 68th United Nations Civil Society Conference at the Salt Palace Convention Center on Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. Credit: Steve Griffin, Deseret News
“It’s important for the Church to have these relationships because we’re a multilateral organization, we work in multiple countries, multiple political systems, multiple cultures, and the United Nations does as well,” she said. “When multiple countries are involved, you have to work with the United Nations. So it’s good for us and a sign of the maturity of the organization that Latter-day Saint Charities and the United Nations have this relationship.”
This year marks another progressive step in the partnership as the organizations have worked closely together throughout the planning and executing processes for the global conference.
Jeff Brez, the chief of NGO relations advocacy and special events in the U.N. Department of Global Communications, explained how the Church and Latter-day Saint Charities have been a part of the planning process from the beginning
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Jews begin building Third Temple on Israel Independence Day
May 6, 2022
While most Israelis were celebrating Independence Day by having family barbecues, a small group gathered in the Old City of Jerusalem and began chipping away at stones, preparing them to be used to build the prophesied Third Temple.
https://www.israel365news.com/269118/jews-begin-building-third-temple-on-israel-independence-day/
The Third Temple
The Third Temple will exist during the Great Tribulation. Daniel refers to this temple when he says that “the prince who is to come” (the Antichrist) will enter it and stop the sacrifices in the middle of the Tribulation (Daniel 9:27). The Apostle Paul mentions it when he declares that the “man of lawlessness” will profane the temple by entering it and declaring himself to be God (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4). The Third Temple is also mentioned in the book of Revelation when John is told to measure it — a symbolic way of telling him to assess its spiritual condition (Revelation 11:1-2).
This raises the question as to precisely when the temple will be rebuilt. The Bible does not reveal the answer to this question. All it says for certain is that the temple will be in existence when the Antichrist reveals himself (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4), and that will be in the middle of the Tribulation (Daniel 9:27). Since this will be only three and a half years into the Tribulation, many have concluded that the temple will likely be rebuilt before the Tribulation begins, because how could such a magnificent building be constructed in such a short period of time?
But this conclusion overlooks the fact that the temple can be literally resurrected overnight! That’s because the Jews plan to erect a tent temple like the Tabernacle of Moses, and they are ready to do so at any moment. Everything has been prepared. Once this temporary temple is put up, they will resume the sacrifices and then start building a more permanent structure around and above the temporary one.
https://christinprophecy.org/articles/the-third-temple/
Trump administration says FDA will no longer require premarket review of certain lab tests, including some Covid-19 tests
August 21, 2020
The announcement -- which one expert said was part of a "bureaucratic fight" between HHS and FDA -- states that the FDA will not require premarket review of laboratory developed tests and this move is "part of HHS's ongoing department-wide review of regulatory flexibilities enacted since the start of COVID-19."
This means that makers of Covid-19 tests developed by certain individual laboratories -- such as Quest Diagnostics, LabCorp or those at academic medical centers -- can distribute them without the need to first submit documentation for a premarket review process. A laboratory developed test or LDT refers to a type of in vitro diagnostic test that is designed, manufactured and used within a single lab.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/health/covid-lab-developed-tests-fda-hhs-bn/index.html#:~:text=What%20the%20US%20government%20can%20do%20now%20to,Department%20of%20Health%20and%20Human%20Services%20on%20Thursday.
License to Kill: FDA No Longer Testing New Drugs
jul 2, 2022
https://www.hetnieuwsmaardananders.nl/nl/buitenland/522987/
License To Kill: FDA No Longer Testing New Drugs
July 2, 2022
https://ussanews.com/2022/07/02/license-to-kill-fda-no-longer-testing-new-drugs/
License To Kill: FDA No Longer Testing New Drugs
2 mins ago
https://thetruereporter.com/license-to-kill-fda-no-longer-testing-new-drugs/
License to Kill: FDA No Longer Testing New Drugs
July 1, 2022
https://rumble.com/v1arfc5-license-to-kill-fda-no-longer-testing-new-drugs.html
Our next COS at Home is Wednesday, July 6, at 8pm ET, just two days after Independence Day, and you won’t want to miss it!
We are thrilled to announce this month’s guest will be Tim Barton, the president of Wallbuilders, an organization dedicated to presenting America’s forgotten history and heroes, with an emphasis on the moral, religious, and constitutional foundation on which America was built.
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2816177356762584333
This exclusive COS event will be the perfect way to celebrate your Independence Day week. As we remember the birth of this great nation, Tim will share his wealth of historical knowledge.
If you love America, are proud of our history, and support the Convention of States, this COS at Home webinar is just for you. Save your seat today!
YOU can be a part of history.
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For America,
The Convention of States Team
Rick Santorum on Mark Levin: Time for Pennsylvania and North Carolina to Join Convention of States!
Jun 27, 2022
the woman that doesn't know what a woman is.....
Jackson to take Supreme Court oath Thurs., minutes after Breyer retires
June 29, 2022
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be sworn in as the Supreme Court’s first Black female justice at noon Thursday, just minutes after her mentor Justice Stephen G. Breyer makes his retirement official.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/29/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-oath-swearing-in/
Romans 8:18
The Glory That Is To Be Revealed
17 And if [we are His] children, [then we are His] heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His spiritual blessing and inheritance], if indeed we share in His suffering so that we may also share in His glory. 18 For I consider [from the standpoint of faith] that the sufferings of the present life are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us! 19 For [even the whole] creation [all nature] waits eagerly for the children of God to be revealed.
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/18/type/am
i believe there were 4 states added this year, if the momentum keeps up we could have a convention of states within a year or 2
We’re facing unprecedented times in America, and it’s more important than ever that we get to a convention to rein in the federal government’s power abuses – before it’s too late.
Despite the unreliable crooks in Congress, it’s reassuring to know that our Supreme Court justices have the prudence and discernment necessary to defend our Constitution.
The Supreme Court restored some power to the states by turning over abortion rights to state governments. This is the same concept COS aims for: to take away federal jurisdiction on issues that should be decided on a state level.
We can fight for freedom today, tomorrow, and each day ahead.
VICTORY: South Carolina becomes the 19th state legislature to call for a Convention of States!
Mar 29, 2022
there were multiple subsidiaries that Smithfield Foods owned prior to the merger......looks like the Chinese own a lot of pork farms here in the U.S.
https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000091388&type=&dateb=&owner=exclude&start=40&count=40
Smithfield Foods Company History Timeline
1936
The emergence of Smithfield Foods goes back to the year 1936, when the father-son duo of Luter Sr. and Luter Jr. started with a small company named Smithfield Packing Company.
In 1936, the Luter family began a small packing plant in Smithfield, Virginia, that would one day grow to become Smithfield Foods, even allowing the town of Smithfield to come to be known as the Ham Capital of the World.
Founded in Smithfield, Virginia in 1936, Smithfield Foods boasts more than 40,000 United States employees with nearly 50 facilities across the country.
1968
Wan joined Henan Luohe Meat Products Processing United Factory — then a state-owned entity — in 1968, and eventually grew the business into WH Group.
1998
By the end of 1998, Smithfield Foods was the number one pork producer in the United States and growing internationally.
2013
On September 26, 2013, Smithfield Foods announced the completion of a definitive merger agreement with Shuanghui International Holdings Limited, which is now named WH Group Limited.
In 2013, WH Group (formerly known as Shuanghui International Holdings) purchased Smithfield for $4.7 billion; including debt, the deal valued the firm at $7.1 billion, then the largest acquisition of a United States company by a Chinese business.
2015
C. Larry Pope serves the company as its President and CEO while George H. Richter as its COO. Since the year 2015, the majority of its stake has been owned by the Chinese-based Shanghai International Holdings Ltd., which is a state-owned holding company itself.
2017
WH Group went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange a year later, and furthered its American presence by buying Clougherty Packing, California's largest pork processor, in 2017.
https://www.zippia.com/smithfield-foods-careers-38646/history/
The Chinese Billionaire Whose Company Owns Troubled Pork Processor Smithfield Foods
Apr 16, 2020
Founded in Smithfield, Virginia in 1936, Smithfield Foods boasts more than 40,000 U.S. employees with nearly 50 facilities across the country. In 2013, WH Group (formerly known as Shuanghui International Holdings) purchased Smithfield for $4.7 billion; including debt, the deal valued the firm at $7.1 billion, then the largest acquisition of a U.S. company by a Chinese business. WH Group went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange a year later, and furthered its American presence by buying Clougherty Packing, California's largest pork processor, in 2017.
Wan Long, who at age 80 is chairman and CEO of WH Group, is the firm's largest individual shareholder with a roughly 16% stake; Forbes estimates his net worth at $1.9 billion. Wan joined Henan Luohe Meat Products Processing United Factory — then a state-owned entity — in 1968, and eventually grew the business into WH Group. His son, Wan Hongjian, is now the deputy chairman and vice president of the group.
The first signs of trouble emerged at Smithfield Food on April 9, when it announced that it would suspend operations at its Sioux Falls facility for three days. The plant, which employs 3,700 people, produces nearly 130 million servings of food per week and accounts for as much as 5% of total U.S. pork production. On April 12, the company shuttered the facility indefinitely; as reports of coronavirus cases at the plant continued to rise, the company also announced the closure of two facilities in Wisconsin and Missouri on April 15.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferwang/2020/04/16/the-chinese-billionaire-whose-company-owns-troubled-pork-processor-smithfield-foods/?sh=22dc3d992c55
Shuanghui International & Smithfield Foods Agree To Strategic Combination
May 29, 2013
https://www.perishablenews.com/meatpoultry/shuanghui-international-smithfield-foods-agree-to-strategic-combination/
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91388/000119312513239664/d545921dex991.htm
Smithfield Foods Shareholders Approve Strategic Combination With Shuanghui International
September 24, 2013
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2013/09/24/575468/12889/en/Smithfield-Foods-Shareholders-Approve-Strategic-Combination-With-Shuanghui-International.html
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91388/000119312513379757/d603943dex991.htm
agreed
i have to say she's bending the truth, even though their 10K report shows their operation's is U.S. based it has been acquired by the Chinese,
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91388/000009138816000064/a201510k.htm
are you calling her a lair?
Made in America
Oct 25, 2021
SmithfieldFoods
Smithfield Foods is a U.S. company that provides more than 40,000 American jobs and partners with thousands of American farmers. The company was founded in Smithfield, Virginia, in 1936 and was acquired in 2013 by Hong Kong-based WH Group, a publicly traded company with shareholders around the world.
it wasn't ordered, they were given carte blanche
Putting big pharma in charge of global vaccine rollout was a big mistake
Tue 8 Feb 2022 12.13 EST
Last modified on Tue 8 Feb 2022 19.30 EST
Pfizer has had an exceptionally good pandemic. Today it announced that its Covid-19 vaccine brought in $37bn billion last year, making it easily the most lucrative medicine in any given year in history.
That isn’t all. For a company that was until recently the least trusted company in the least trusted industrial sector in the United States, Covid-19 has been a PR coup. Pfizer has become a household name over the last 12 months. The company was toasted on nights out in Tel Aviv, and there are cocktails named after its vaccine in bars across the world. The US president referred to Pfizer’s chief executive, Albert Bourla, as a “good friend”, and the great man parked his jet next to Boris Johnson’s at last year’s G7 summit in Cornwall.
The global vaccine rollout has created levels of inequality so great that many call it a ‘vaccine apartheid’. Pharmaceutical corporations like Pfizer have led this rollout, setting the terms by which they sell vaccines and deciding who to prioritise. Ultimately, their approach affects who does, and does not, receive vaccines.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/08/big-pharma-global-vaccine-rollout-covid-pfizer
cause and effect: now big pharma wants to make vaccines without trials
President Donald Trump: Nationwide lockdown would ultimately inflict more harm than it would prevent
Aug 3, 2020
Trump Says 'Operation Warp Speed' Aims to Eliminate Vaccine Delay
5/15/2020
it's all a lie
Our Ownership Structure
Proudly Made in the USA
Smithfield Foods is a U.S. company that provides more than 40,000 American jobs and partners with thousands of American farmers.
also being out of a job