California Requires New City Buses to Be Electric by 2029

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California Requires New City Buses to Be Electric by 2029

If the CARB mandate is met with four years - 2023 - one in four new city busses bought in California will be electric powered. By 2029, all new busses will be electric. It's an aggressive mandate, maybe not fully reachable but it will certainly incentivize public transit authorities to invest in the substations, charging equipment and electric maintenance equipment to make an all electric bus fleet possible.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/climate/california-electric-buses.amp.html

Washed my truck, got boots and windshield wiper.

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Washed my truck, got boots and windshield wiper. Of course, I couldn’t get it on in the dark, they’re never simple. Drove home with the windshield wiper (on the passenger side) flipped up. Only 4.5 miles of expressway most of the way but of course there had to be a complete white-out, I could barely see the road as it was snowing so hard. And it’s like 35 degrees out with a light drizzle when I left. Go figure.

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I measured this LED Christmas light string, and got remarkably excited that it has a power factor of 0.96, as it has no capacitance except from the wire.

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I measured this LED Christmas light string, and got remarkably excited that it has a power factor of 0.96, as it has no capacitance except from the wire. LED Christmas lights are simple, as they don’t contain any electronics or power supply except for a diode bridge and a small resistor that doesn’t dump that much residual voltage as heat. 2.8 watts for the 50 bulb string or roughly 0.05 watts per bulb which makes sense at 3.6 volts dropped at 20 mA.

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NPR

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6 Simple Rules For Saving Money : NPR

All good advice. Saving money these days is so easy with automatic withdrawal and so many low cost index funds and higher interest FDIC insured online only savings accounts.

December 17, 2018 Evening

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Good evening! Going home time on this Monday evening. I’m tired. Cloudy and 35 degrees in Delmar. ☁ There is a west-northwest breeze at 15 mph. 🍃. There is a dusting of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 8 pm. ☃️

This seems like it will be a good commute home, as the bus was right on time and traffic is moving remarkably well for rush hour. 🚌 Probably because it’s the week before Christmas and half of the state workers are off shopping and burning off their remaining vacation time for the year. 🎁

Tonight will have a slight chance of rain and snow showers before 7pm, then a slight chance of snow showers between 7pm and midnight. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 21 degrees at 6am. One degree above normal, which is similiar to a typical night around December 16th. Maximum wind chill around 7 at 5am; Blustery, with a northwest wind 17 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2017, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 18 degrees. The record low of -9 occurred back in 1919.

The plan after dinner is to go and wash the mud off the truck, 🚘and then buy boots and a windshield wiper. I’m annoyed about having to replace the wiper but the rubber just failed after two years. Probably all those muddy roads. I’m going to keep the old boots for a while to use for winter camping. And winter ice. Then probably work on some little electronics projects around my apartment. I actually find working with the soldering iron to be therapeutic when I don’t burn myself.

It’s winter so I don’t have any big plans but that’s fine as despite the higher heating bills I usually have a little extra money here and there to invest in the winter, although first I need to spend less money on groceries.🍏🍛🍤 My pantry is well stocked, I should eat more of it as I really don’t have any more room in the freezer. I just am trying to mix up what I eat each day and include more vegetables.

No they haven’t fixed the lights in my office yet, but I saw a light bulb changer there and once he figures out they need an electrician I’m sure it will get fixed. 💡

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 76% illuminated. The moon will set at 2:24 am. The Cold December Full Moon 🌕 is on Friday night with partly cloudy skies expected. The sun will rise at 7:20 am with the first light at 6:48 am, which is 38 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 57 minutes of darkness, an increase of 15 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 27 degrees at 3pm. Eight degrees below normal. Blustery, with a northwest wind 15 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph. That’s going to be a pretty frigid day tomorrow. Then again it’s the second half of December. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies with more clouds in the afternoon. The high last year was 37 degrees. The record high of 60 was set in 1921. 17 inches of snow fell back in 1887.❄

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 46. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 38. Typical average high for the weekend is 34 degrees. Sunday actually sounds pretty decent for late December.

In four weeks on January 14 the sun will be setting at 4:46 pm,🌄 which is 23 minutes and 2 seconds later then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had sunny and temperatures between 16 and 3 degrees. Yeap, I updated the data table over the weekend to reflect actual 2018 data not stuff from 2017. Took a bit of reprogramming as I’m getting my weather history data from a new source. Typically, you have temperatures between 30 and 14 degrees. The record high of 66 degrees was set back in 1932.

Looking ahead, New Years Eve 🎆 is in 2 weeks, Coldest Week of the Year 🌬 is in 4 weeks, Martin Luther King Day 🖤 is in 5 weeks, Presidents Day 👴 is in 9 weeks, Average High is 40 ☀️ is in 11 weeks, St. Patrick’s Day 🍀 is in 3 months, April Fools Day 🤡 is in 15 weeks, Tax Day 💰 is in 17 weeks, Earth Day 🌎 is in 18 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 23 weeks, July 🏊🏿 is in 28 weeks and Last Sunset After 8 PM 🌆 is in 34 weeks.

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The Adirondack Northway

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The Adirondack Northway

"The "Adirondack Northway" is the designation given to the current I-87 stretch from Albany to the Canadian border, running through Albany, Saratoga, Warren, Essex and Clinton counties in upstate New York. Commonly referred to as simply "the Northway," this interstate highway stretch was constructed through a series of extensions beginning in 1957 and lasting a decade until its final connection in 1967. The road to completion, however, was not a smooth one, and plans for the northernmost sections of the Adirondack Northway were met with much opposition."