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But imagine a literally all-electric world—you are reduced, confined, required to get the energy you need to live from one source, one centrally (by necessity) controlled source that everything you own runs on, one centrally controlled source that can cut the power to your specific home anytime it wants. – From “The Psychology of Electricity”
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Power Vacuum: How the State Wants to Suck Electricity from the SUV You Are Required to Buy – by Thomas Buckley – via mises.org
A literal power vacuum—that’s what California Senate Bill 233 proposes.
And what is to be sucked? Your electric car.
The bill—which has passed the Senate and is now winding its way through the Assembly—states that all new electric vehicles to be sold in California after 2030 be “bidirectional.”
Because the state has decided to essentially go all electric without having the ability to actually provide enough electricity, the climate warriors have gotten a bit creative and now see the millions of electric vehicles (EVs) in the state as tiny batteries to make up for their incompetence.
Currently, not every EV can send power back to the grid (like home solar panels that ship excess power to their local utility.) The bill—almost certain to pass because this is California—would change that.
The bill, however, is only the first step in the process of being able to drain your EV, as the technology to get the electricity back onto the grid does not actually exist. As with so many other Golden State climate-related projects, it is based on being able to do it someday . . . probably . . . maybe.
While this approach allows solons and nabobs to tout their green-a-fides, set even more absurd future goals by assuming things will work eventually, increase state spending to fund such projects, and create an excuse to not actually do anything practical—like build natural gas generators—to shore up the state’s extremely wobbly grid, it does nothing to address California’s self-imposed “energy insecurity.”
The idea becomes even more absurd when one considers that shortly after announcing all new vehicles sold in the state by 2035 must be electric, the state asked the public to not charge their EVs after work because the grid couldn’t handle it. In theory, this bill raises the specter of electricity being drained out of your full Tesla to power your neighbor’s empty Volt.
Furthermore, the concept is extremely dangerous. Imagine an emergency situation in which you have to leave your home immediately but you cannot because the state drained your car. The implications for fire evacuations, earthquake response, etc. are terrifying.
And its not terribly clear if you would get paid for your power and/or if you would have to buy it back.
Beyond the impracticalities, the concept does shine a light, as it were, on how easily the electrical power supply can be controlled and—if the grid is your only power option (no gas cars, no gas stoves, no propane, etc.)—how easily the public can be controlled through it.
From “The Psychology of Electricity”:
Now, a person can go to a gas station, put solar panels on their roof, buy propane at the hardware store, use natural gas in their home, even cut down trees to burn for heat. In other words, there are options other than electricity; there are literally millions of ways to not need to use electricity.
But imagine a literally all-electric world—you are reduced, confined, required to get the energy you need to live from one source, one centrally (by necessity) controlled source that everything you own runs on, one centrally controlled source that can cut the power to your specific home anytime it wants.
Conceivably—see China/social credit systems/central bank digital currency/“you’ll own nothing and be happy” and smart city concepts—[the] reasons for the power being cut will move beyond just being bill-related but conduct-related.
The power of energy as a social control lever is nearly limitless.
And that’s another reason why this legislative initiative is a very bad idea.
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And in related trippy news… if you’re so inclined to retreat to your vehicle from time to time for a bit of the nasty, you know, a spot of extracurricular adult activities with a consenting adult whether in person or on the world wide waste…be careful now:
Auto Manufacturers Are Now Tracking Your ‘Sexual Activity’ and ‘Genetic Information,’ Along with ‘Predispositions’ – via winepressnews.com
Vehicle manufacturers are now tracking and storing some very personal data inside the car’s internal computers, including things like if you have sex inside the car and even your unique genetics. (read more)
Jesus, Mary and holy St. Joseph! This is now beyond embarrassing that the gods choose to keep this clown world going.
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Today’s musical offering:
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, ‘Turkish’
Like Mozart’s other violin concertos, this is an early work. It dates from December of 1775, when the composer was nineteen years old. Who it was written for is not known, but it is possible that, among others, Mozart himself may have played it, since he was said to be an accomplished violinist.
The work has several strikingly original ideas that are not found in his earlier concertos. For one, the work begins with an Allegro orchestral introduction, but then the violin enters with an Adagio of only six bars before resuming the Allegro. It is a beautiful and unexpected touch.
It is the third movement that gives this concerto its nickname, the “Turkish Concerto.” In the middle of a graceful minuet movement, the music suddenly switches to an Allegro in the minor mode, and the meter changes from 3/4 to 2/4, as the violin and orchestra take up what is meant to suggest wild Turkish music. Turkish culture enjoyed a considerable fashion in eighteenth-century Europe with Turkish coffee, Turkish subjects in dramas and paintings, popular stories about Turkey in many operas, and many rulers creating janissary bands for their armies. Those janissary bands included not only loud wind instruments (e.g. fifes and shawms) but also “exotic” percussion (cymbals, triangles, and various drums), effects that many European composers imitated for special effects.
Mozart famously wrote “Turkish” music in parts of his opera The Abduction from the Seraglio and in the well known Alla Turca that ends one of his piano sonatas. Here, in this violin concerto, he has no percussion or outdoor wind instruments in the orchestra, but he imitates the effect with strong accents, exotic chromatic scales with sudden crescendos, and a percussive drone of the cellos and basses striking their strings with the stick of the bow (col legno). Following this unruly middle section, the music returns to its graceful minuet. – via baroque.boston
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, ‘Turkish’ | NCO & Henning Kraggerud
(starts at the 0:43 mark) – I. Allegro aperto 00:43 II. Adagio 9:15 III. Rondeau – Tempo di menuetto – Allegro – Tempo di menuetto 20:05
Dispatches from the Asylum 
WATT’s up with all this SHOCKING news. Now Tubularsock is all AMPED up! Under the CURRENT issue things become more controlled and WIRED up! Tubularsock suggests we turn that BREAKER off before Tubularsock blows his FUSE!
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And in unrelated trippy news . . . NOAA has today as its landing page a scorched-Earth photo of Lahaina. I suppose that’s something like the infamous naked girl photo running from the nuclear bomb on the cover of Time—the latest victim of our climate change not-war. https://www.noaa.gov/ Unfuckingbelievaable!
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Unfuckingbelievable indeed!
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Just read the ‘psychology’ piece you linked, he’s good, thanks for the intro!
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🙂 Cheers!
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