Rich Catino of Metal Asylum.
Part 1 of a convErsATion recorded on Monday Evening, May 24th.
Jack Mangans Deadpan #168: Rich Catino Twin Guitar Attack, part 1
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Molten salt FTW! I agree with everything that TEB said. Our infrastructure is to heavily built up for oil use to simply switch to another source. What we need is a gradual transition. I’m heartened by the new electric cars coming out like the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Volt. We can gradually transition ourselves from gas refilling stations to getting our power off the grid. The grid can be gradually be supplied by new renewable energy sources such as solar thermal, wind, tidal generators and heat mining. Odds are we won’t see a complete transition in our lifetime.
Calgary needs to be added to that graphic, between Denver and Burj Khalifa
ditto, last I heard (7+ years ago) molten salt was good for about 3 hours. Glad to here they are making progress. That makes much more scene than chemical batteries.
“Make something hot that will stay that way along time” keep it simple!!!!!
I’m not sure what technology the was talking about either. I assume they just took solar cells and scaled it up but I could be wrong.
One of the things that I would love is home grown power but the entry price point is a bit high right now. If I should ever build a house I intend to use a GSHP and build the power converter for home made and grid power in to the building cost. I’m cheep but a very forward looking cheep.
Ouch – Just paid the guy for my new yard.
Beware the probe.
Well ‘The Losers’ was a film that appeared to be only half a movie.
Maybe the comic it’s based on would be better..
As to oil, we need better low powered tech, so making the transition to a non fossil fuelled world easier.
But we need to regonise the easy times are coming to an end and future renewable sources of energy are never going to be convenient as fossil fuels.
Right now, going by the last week or so, and looking out my window and the weatherman’s predictions for the next week, rain power is looking promising.
It’d be nice if it would rain here. The weather is nothing like that, but still… it would be a pleasant change.
Yes maybe extra tax on this people using power guzzling comPuters with 3D displays…
Cough
This coffee needs to get inside me faster. Gulp Gulp.
And, gooooood morning! Getting the kiddos ready for swim lessons. We go every day, but Friday.
Here is a chart comparing energy storage technologies
http://electricitystorage.org/tech/photo_technologies_technologies.htm
Thank you to everyone who hit up the website for Dan. It will make him happy to see comments and votes
I love you guys!
Here are some more energy storage charts
http://electricitystorage.org/tech/photo_percyclecost.htm
http://electricitystorage.org/tech/photo_ratings_2.htm
JR – when you get that list-o-comics made up …. hopefully you’ll give the Deadpan a first look at it . ????
Speaking of good bands gone bad…
Why the hell did Metric put an exclusive track on the new Twilight soundtrack? Balls.
I just ordered more butterfly larvae for my kids’ butterfly garden.
Now I gotta get everyone suited up for swim lessons!
tootles!
*wiggles nose at Vanamonde*
The plumber is here. Now I’ll be able to properly water my lawn… if it ever stops raining.
Have fun getting wet, Cj.
J0e, none of your links worked for me.
*pondering “have fun getting wet…”*
we have a new record:
http://rorr.im/digg.com/autos/the_real_world_record_for_parking_like_a_douche_pic/
hope the link works.
J0e your links didn’t work for me either.
apparently this is a trend in Japan
http://www.kancho.org/
Yeah, the JOe links short a chart for a fraction of a second and then I get a 404 message. A quick perusal of Wiki says that insulated molten salt can store energy for a week. But most molten salt power plants have about a 6 hour reserve. Thus capacity storage is limited by the size of the storage units themselves.
Japan, kancho have more self control?
TEB: I not only have Rolf Harris, I have the entire Weebl and Chums CD (ACTUAL PLASTIC DISC). Badger badger Badger badger…
Posts keep jumbling in front of my eyes…. could have sworn that said “My Monkee is now Level 15…” Beware of spanking…
reaper: the Edgar suit was MiB 1… Dear god, I’m a geek
Rhett, from what I’ve heard (on another podcast) it’s popular with young kids to do to strangers on the subways.
Strange.
Oh, and today only, you can wonder if it’s worth the price at 84% off…
http://www.nowthatsoundsgood.com/pubrvol1.html
*shakes head at the Japanese*
why why why…
Where is Lo Pan when you need a hilarious and inappropriate comment.
If I ever visit Japan, I’ll walk.
Lejon, Thanks for the clarification. I might be able to remember that if someone would watch it with me instead of a bad comedy for the 9000000000000th time.
I think I’ll market a brand of aluminum underpants to the japanese called “Youcant Kancho.”
Hey Van, have you seen this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/theadventuregames
I’ve heard it’s not bad but am wondering if you’ve tried it. (not available in North America until July)
I know this has been talked about a little here so please ignore if you don’t care but:
Re BOL & TNT:
I have gotten to a point where I am listening to TNT all the way through and skipping from 50-90% of BOL. I did listen to TNT first so I tried BOL first and skipped 45-80%. I know TNT is only 6 shows in so it might be a little early but I am getting close to dumping BOL
reaper: Hey, all I can say is that I’ve probably watched MiB a dozen times or more… and MiB 2… maybe half that… I hold no hopes for MiB 3
Lejon, Re Punky Brewster: My daughter use to watch the cartoon when she was little. Now, thanks to you, I have the opening music stuck in my head – boo.
TEB: I successfully got music stuck in another friends head. It took 15 years, but it finally got stuck… Gay Eskimo… Heh…
reaper: You said something? ;)
Because I refuse to go through this alone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lGnaIMCmU8
Actually, as far as theme songs go, it could be a lot worse.
Bunny, the watter mark is aptly named retrojunk
Sorry.
Here is a more “top level” link. Charts are there in various links
http://www.electricitystorage.org/ESA/technologies/
what the hell is html5:
http://www.focus.com/images/view/11905/
CW 30 rock s2e9
Netflix how i love thee
yep thats about right
http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/companies/outsourcing-cost-lie/
Kimberly Clark tried this about 7 years ago with 95% of the IT department
They have brought back 90% and lost nearly all the expertises they had. Cost them a fortune and Appleton a lot of talent.
Nice link, reaper.
I just recently read that there seems to be a second oil leak related to the original. Of course, BP denies it.
Also, it seems Goldman Sachs dumped a huge amount of its stock in BP a little before the leak erupted.
I find it amusing that electric cars are seen as the answer by so many. Electricity production is the hugely polluting. Not to mention, the batteries are every toxic, and the raw materials to build them are generally mined from third-world countries, with little to no compensation.
Also also, oil is used for plastics, things of that nature.
Vanamonde hit the nail on the head. It’s a step-by-step deal.
OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:
http://i.imgur.com/j5RRj.jpg
THAT is AWESOME!!!!
Johnny Null. One advantage you have with batteries especially when they are that big is they get recycled and they are very recyclable. That process is also filled with toxins but as long as it is done here it can actually be regulated and watched…
reaper: True. Of course, no one just dumps their cars in their backyards. :-P
Rock…. steady…. steady rockin’ all night long.
Goin’ shoppin’ fer pants.
The excitement is boundless!
There are a lot of different battery / capacitor technologies that are evolving. When electric cars are the norm, they won’t be running on lith-ion. But with batteries, we are talking about energy storage, not generation. Electric cars will be as clean as the generating systems of the power grid. Gas engines always produce green house gases.
JØ: um… You clearly haven’t lived in Iowa… lots of cars dumped in backyards never to leave. I personally lived on an acreage which had 3 in the middle of the overgrown grove out back…
I’m still holding out hope for fuel cells, especially converting water to hydrogen & oxygen. There have been recent advances in making this easier and cheaper.
CP: Earth, Sky, and C. — I Mother Earth
I remember I Mother Earth!
That’s not what I wanted to say. . . I wanted to say: “siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh”.
OK, I’ll get caught up in a bit.
ditto: (I beg forgiveness for trying to use my high-school chemistry to argue on this)
My understanding of the process of electrolysis is an energy loss leader.
You spend more energy to split water into hydrogen/oxygen components than you get from combining them… it doesn’t seem like a good idea, but maybe some other method is being used now.
Johnny Null, Good point. Around here I haven’t seen a car newer than 85 in a yard.
President Obama announced today his new “Hot Chick” energy initiative. Obama stated that there is credible scientific evidence that all of the nation’s power needs could be met by harnessing the heat output of hot chicks to drive steam generators. The announcement was greeted by skepticism on the right. Rush Limbaugh, standing beside his 4th wife, 33 year old Kathryn Rogers, said that such a high concentration of hot chicks in a generating facility would undermine the moral fiber of any community it was based in. Limbaugh then proceeded to pitch an alternate generator facility that ran on the blubber from baby seals. Opinions on the left were mostly favorable as long as the hot chicks in question were in fact vegetarians.
Lejon: Currently that is true, though I did say “there have been recent advances in making this easier and cheaper.” Of course it will always require more energy to split H2O than the energy you get out of the hydrogen, otherwise you could build a perpetual motion machine. Physics dictates that they cannot exist.
However, if the deficit is small, you can use battery power or something else to make up the difference. Then you can recover some of that the same way that hybrid cars work now.
I think the auto industry is being dragged kicking and screaming into a post-petroleum era, but as noted by many of you already, oil is used in many, many other things. Still, we need to re-evaluate our system if costs prevent us from making progress.
Look at that, we got Bunny into a political discussion!
Lejon I think the point of the energy ditto is talking about is to create is somewhere that is very very cheep to make and ship it. as long as to many people don’t rely on it you are fine. If you need to start pulling grid power you defeated the purpose.
course O could be wrong.
I defer again the the Dead Pan wisdom of:
“I have a penis what do I know”
as long as we where only using clubbing baby seals I’m all for it:
http://www.sysexrecords.com/oldsite/teeshirthell/StopClubbingBabySeals.gif
They are just ruining out way of life
Not Mario too!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.walyou.com/blog/2010/06/09/super-mario-killed-by-bp/
Oh, the humanity!
really:
http://i.imgur.com/5cPMh.jpg
I can just see the interview part of the article:
“As a cracker that would scare me”, Billy Bob
I have just the group of Seal Clubbers for the job, right there…
OK. I will now defer to MIT:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html
Lejon: This can help the scores of sharks with fricken lasers be more powerful! Now I won’t have to resort to ill-tempered Sea Bass!!
excellent article
reaper: so true. So true. Now if only we could solve the obese-kilt-wearing-scotsman issues plaguing society.
He scores!! Get in my belly!
Lejon, good point. There necks just scare me!
I actually wound up with no less than 5 splinters I didn’t notice before (all in my hands from struggling through my attic which consequently isn’t a ‘real’ attic, but a crawl space) and all have been removed and are healing nicely. Thank you for all the concern and imagination on their placement.
As for the comic sale list, absolutely the DeadPan will have first dibs. I’ll be putting them all on Craig’s List and didn’t want to ship, but for the deadpan, I’ll make an exception. If you have anything on your wish list from the 70s, 80s and mostly the 90s, let me know and I”ll dig through what I’ve got. Comic Con is coming to San Diego so I’m hopeful for a quick sale on a majority of the lot. I’d like to have dollars to take to Vegas in July :)
I feel like a candy bar. Any suggestions? An AbbaZabba sounds good right about not.
JR, Go with an Apollo Bar. It is the choice of island strandies every where!
or a nut roll
JR: what do you have in the way of graphic novels?
Thank you, reaper.
oooo… salted nut roll.
For Graphic Novels, I have most of the Cerebus novels, I have the Stray Bullets Hard Cover, and the Elfquest Hardcover. I’ll need to see what else I’ve got, but those on the ones I recall. I know I have several others.
it just occurred to me, that last salted nut roll I had was in Minnesota because they don’t have them here in San Diego. ARGH!
Now the chocolate salty balls song is CPIMM.
Working @ the relay bank night
I hate it when I forget to punch the “Submit Comment” button before I get up from my computer to leave for work.
Rhettro: Indeed, and electricity production is the #1 polluter in the world.
Lejon: You must’ve missed my near-fatal levels of sarcasm in that nipple. While we don’t have the sheer size of other states, we do have lots and lots of (ex-)farmland, or share of sprawl, and more than our share of people that change cars like pants, or have a car for each day of the week (seriously).
ditto/Lejon: As I understand it, one of the biggest problems with fuel cells is the transport and containment of the hydrogen. I always thought using nuclear power plants to produce hydrogen for vehicles pretty obvious.
JRMurdock: I really don’t eat that stuff anymore. But, if I did, it would require something in the peanut vein. Snickers or Reese’s Cups.
I’d like to plug the “Eat This, Not That” series. /plug
JRMurdock: The only old comic series I really still have is The Micronauts. I liked Groo, too, but the jokes got tired pretty quickly.
Looks like we’re going to a birthday party where we’re supposed to dress up as Barbie and Ken. Dress like Ken? WTF? I’m neither blond nor 6’4″. So I guess the only thing left is a polo and overly-creased slacks.
I’d dress like Ken from Street Fighter, but I don’t know if anyone in this crowd would get it. Which is a shame, IMO.
Johnny, that would be a brilliant way to throw the Ken meme on its head. There’s be one guy there who’d run up to give you a high five.
Or a Thousand-Hand-Slap.
Jack: Sweet!
I think the Ford Nucleon is really the answer to lowering oil consumption.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon
I believe it’s illegal to export them to Iran however.
The added benefit, groceries put in the trunk never spoil.
Oh, thought this was a pretty good one:
http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2010/06/lazy.html
Woah! Doc totally ripped off the Mr. Fusion!
Rhettro: Yeah, they just grow fangs and then they …. AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
LOL
Oh, speaking of that, I’d like to plug something else. When I was growing up, I loved the book “The Celery Stalks at Midnight”. Check it out for your youngin’s fer Halloween.
Game 6 currently in overtime, tied at 3.
Chicago scores and wins the cup. :)
body HURTS from kneeling and going through comics. ugh! and I’m still in the sorting phase. haven’t gotten to the ordering phase or cataloging phase. I can’t wait for the ‘selling’ phase :)
Le Coup de Stanley to Chicago!
Jack. Jack. Jack. When are we talking the Wall? :)
Jack, I think JR REALLY wants to talk to you about The Wall…
I, on the other hand, still need to know what the frack I’m supposed to sing.
yeah, I forgot. Montreal songs were what?
Are you ready?
I am ALWAYS ready!
wait… ready for what?
Firsties?