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The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money is spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children can't be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God-given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist from whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each God given right we only watch him tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? And good evening ladies and gentlemen. This is the evening intelligence report. I'm our kirky. Are we on air? we got you became a good okay by mark working and the better night one-day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the night lines and occupied territories west east and the north west well ladies and gentlemen you're listening to us on LibertyCribidio.4mg.com, where I aim at FM microstations, CB base stations, and ultra-net technologies east and west of the Mississippi, along with Alaska. www.indianafredimtalkradio.com Waving to the left coast where the state of Jefferson is a shining point with otherwise a disaster zone, a beachhead for foreign occupation through foreclosure on America being built by the California Soviet Socialist Democracy, the CSSD, with both Feinsteinism, the vomitus wretch, The excrement, filth, debris, detritus, oh, disgusting, along with the diaper stain of brown. Turning back to the east, we sweep across the plains over the Mississippi inland and the Smokies, where the restaurant crews, grammar teams, okay teams. And Ma Bell, Grab a Consortium, bring us the Golden Spike. Another independent system and building up in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area from another direction. So you guys are pretty busy up there. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, nail-loss its steel mills, but it's got a lot of stuff going for it and the surrounding areas. BK, it's clear it is cold outside. Clear day today, clear evening means none of that heat we might have got. It's not sticking around. What's it like in your neck of the woods and what is this date today, sir? It is January 3, 2014. Who would have thought we would make it this far? It is Friday evening at Nexus Quartermaster's Corner. It is a little nippy here. We peaked out around 30F today. We started out the week fairly comfortable. There was a couple of 40 something I was thinking, gee, I'd like to get outside and do a little bit of digging around. But Mr. Murphy, being what he is, those days I had other obligations. As soon as I got those cleared up, it snapped cold and we got snow, got a couple inches, and got a little chilly and all that sort of stuff, all our rats. So it goes. Tomorrow is supposed to be fairly warm but up in the 40s. And then they are predicting Sunday in the teens and Monday about 2 F. So that is not my idea of fun. I guess I've got some errands to do tomorrow because old BK intends to be in the Hobbit hole for the next couple of days. It's all possible. As a matter of fact, that may not be a matter of choice. There's no guarantee that any of the old cars will start up at 2 degrees Fahrenheit. Again, it's winter out there, so be prepared accordingly. A couple of little tricks. Remember the old light under the hood, if all else fails, a simple light bulb changes the dynamic. Something that is pretty straightforward. You can come up with a number of different solutions there. Most important, if you have a garage, get it in there. We order back, kids, just so at least you've got some protection before you go into startup phase. Go ahead, BK. Well, among the comedy of the week there is the ongoing saga of a combination tourist and research vessel, one of those eco tour vessels that got stuck in the ice and around Antarctica. One icebreaker after another is going in there and then having to be rescued by the next icebreaker. The Chinese are in there and the Australians are in there and all this kind of good stuff. and you know this vessel and all those icebreakers are having a tough time because the ice is so thick. Hey BK I got a question for you. Yes. You've been following that story is it true that the tourists slash the scientists on board were there to research ice melting in Antarctica because they were studying global warming and they got stuck in ice? That's exactly what I was getting to the purpose of that so-called trip now there are a lot of pseudo scientific things you know My dad used to go on a lot of these semi-scientific dive trips and so on. They go down there and they count fish and things like that. It's half play and half science. The purpose of this trip was to study the man-made global warming. They got stuck in the ice because the ice is so much thicker than normal. I'm coming around to the idea that it's possible that man-made global warming is real if we stipulate that the man who made it was Bobo because after all that means it would match the standards of craftsmanship of his healthcare reform and his economic management and his foreign affairs management and everything else that he's done. It would be all this excess ice. It's about power for any sort of global warming that he engineered. Interesting. Let's tie in with the fact that the embarrassment is out there for everybody to see what they've desperately tried not to really get into the subject matter of how did these poor people get there and what were they doing? How could they have been mismanaged in such a horrible way? Well, actually they were managing themselves. and look where they got stuck. And remember now, let's not forget the help that was sent. They're in the same boat and they're farther out into the ice field, BK. They are farther to the edge of the ice field which is really fascinating. I've had these global warming discussions with people and I've pointed out, I said you remember the case of the flight of P-38s that was last on the North Pole somewhere and they found them and dug down at 40 or 80 feet or something to get to those aircraft. 30 or 80 feet of snow and ice on top of those airplanes if all the ice is melting. And they kind of look at me a little goofy and say, well, it's always snowing there. Yeah. Do you think those airplanes somehow got warm after they were shut down and they melted down through the ice? No. There's ice on top of them. And then some. In fact, what's interesting, have you, well, Any of the images that they've tried to show, have you seen the latest batch where they've tried to do aerial shots? Well, there's holes between the eyes. Yes, and even though there seem to be distances or at least crevasses, remember if you look closely you'll notice that as with icebergs, while there seems to be a little bit of water up above where there's some breakage, you might notice that that tapers towards what appears to be like, you know, it's like two tectonic plates. you know, rubbing together at regular points where there's a lot more even below the surface than there is above, even where there is slippage. Well that ice is just like every other ice, it's 90% below the surface and 10% above the surface. We can't have any of that. The other interesting thing about this is the crew that was sent in today, just as a sub note, another boat was actually requested. Apparently the Australians have somebody on standby. They were on their way to help somebody else, but it turns out that the helpers who were going to help the global warmest, well, they've called for assistance because they know they can't get out. They're now on not just stand, but they've been called in to assist. Well, the Australians are in there and the Chinese are in there and I think somebody else is going to have to go in there too. The icebreakers themselves are having problems because of all the warming and all of the melting ice, right? They did throw that jab out there for just a little bit. Well, the ice is melting around us. It's like making it sound like we'll be out of here in no time. It's like, well, the captain of the ship said, no, no, I don't think so. If the ice is melting around you, why are you stuck? Yeah, we're still here and we're gonna stay right here. And that's where it was like, well you need to evacuate these people now. It's like, okay. So now you get a permafrost vacation out there on the flat. Hopefully something will come along that's a predator of some kind that's unsuspected or heretofore not really documented. I wouldn't mind if it was an Antarctic Chuka Kombra. That would be kind of fun. It would be poetic. Not only did they die on the ice that wasn't supposed to be there, but it was by a fictional creature that up until this point was not really acknowledged as alive until we found the claw marks and the two bones. Then we realized, maybe there was some credence. It's just a lot farther south than everybody expected. It seems like the newest thing to do now is to go to Antarctica and get stuck in the ice. It's the next seasonal vacation issue. It's a nouveau thing. You go to the dinner parties and say, I was on the first boat. Well, I was on the second boat with the Chinese. Well, I don't know about you guys, but I had a great time with the Australians when we got stuck. Think about it. They're the best equipment. Here's the other thing I'm waiting for. You know what's going to happen. There's going to be about 4,000 people that claim they're one of the 52 people that are on the first boat. You know what I mean? I was on that boat with my good friend for a number of years. Really? I know him and I don't recognize you. That's like all the people who can't remember Bobo's in college. In reverse order, everybody will have been, and the penguins tried to help us. They warned us, they said, all of this is because of global warming. They spelled it out with their flippers, just like the sign language specialist in South Africa. In reality, the penguins are going to screw you. What I want to know is when are the rivets going to start popping in the holes of these boats? Isn't that ice tend to crush these things like a 7-up can? That's why they had them evacuate the ship, the first batch. That's why they've evacuated but they haven't been pulled out. They're actually on the ice now. Just in case, because if Mr. Heavyweight decides if one piece wants to go one way and the other piece wants to go the same way and they kind of meet in the middle, well, what little is there in the way of a hole probably isn't going to slow it down a whole lot. That's what they're worried about right now. I think they've already had some rivets go ping and they're just kind of going uh Why don't you guys go stand on the ice and get away from us? You're bad luck all you witch doctors all the witch doctors on the ship Who's the global who are the globalist wish doctors all of you over there? You're bad juju Your Jonas will leave you on the ice Frankenstein's out there somewhere. I saw the movie remember he ended up frozen in Antarctica on the ice He's out there. You'll find him and join him So, yeah, it's again an example of this is totally contrary to the whole scam and it doesn't really fit well with the script, does it, BK? No. Well, anyway, so go ahead. I know you've got more. Jump in there, please. Okay. This evening we have some interesting and cool applied technologies. Some of them are very interesting and some of them are physics. We may as well talk about both of them. One of the items that a few months ago was kind of setting the net on fire, I had some promotional videos when all viral and so on, is a hydrophobic nanoparticle product called Neverwet. You can see promotional videos of it on YouTube and the Never Let brand name and so on is trademarked by Westolium. They were saying, you know, coming soon to a hardware store near you, look at this way cool stuff. It is pretty neat stuff. It is super duper hydrophobic and it comes in an aerosol can. Actually, it comes in a pair of aerosol cans. One is a base coat and one is a top coat. What they do is they demonstrate that when applied to a surface, this stuff is so hydrophobic that it will not wet. Water gets on there and just completely beads up and runs off. It's extremely neat. You look at the videos and so on and they've treated fabrics and they've treated wood and they've treated this, that and the other thing. One of the demonstrations is they treated a piece of paper towel and then they throw it in a bucket of water and it floats. which is not something that paper towel is known for doing. And I throw a few pennies on top of it and it continues to float and it's just very neat. Somewhat reminiscent of the technology predicted in doing. You may remember, I don't know if I was in the movie or only in the book, but the Fleming had advanced technology for handling water to the point that the tiniest droplet of water would run down their chute and be accounted for precisely, do you recall that? Yes. Well, anyway, this seems to be like that. So, everybody was waiting on center hooks for this stuff. Never left. Wonderful stuff. You know, 20 bucks for a pair of cans and so on. Well, it has arrived. It's hit the market and the reviews are not so much. It's got some problems. The history of this is it was developed by an outfit called RAS Technologies for internal use. They had some need for it themselves. They developed it and are using it for something or other and they licensed it to Rustolium for mass production and consumer distribution. Rustolium packaged it up and is selling it and so forth. When people got their hands on it, The reviews tend to be extremely negative. The problem is that first off, it's rather complicated to apply. It comes as a base coat and a top coat. Two different aerosol cans take something like 30 minutes per coat to dry. The instructions say you apply two base coats and then a top coat and then a base coat and another top coat. You're already doing five coats to follow the instructions. So that takes 2.5 to 3.5 hours to do that and they warn you that the appearance will be a little bit milky so do not expect the appearance to be unchanged. don't take milky too seriously, it's basically a pale gray color. Okay, well, given that, how does it do? Apparently, it really does what they say. It really repels water. The only problem is that just as it doesn't stick molecularly to water, it doesn't seem to stick molecularly to anything else very well either. If you touch it, it will rub off. So it's got extremely low resistance to mechanical wear if you spray it on leather. Apparently it dehydrates the leather and makes it all crack, which is bad. Put it on fabrics like spray it onto tennis shoes or whatnot. It works great for half an hour and then brushing across the grass that we all rub off. and so forth, so it's kind of a bomb in that respect. There's probably uses for it that you could find, but for general consumer use, leaves something to be desired. There is a second version of it that is marketed in the form of a toilet plunger. The Rubbermaid Clean and Dry brand Turret plunger is treated with this stuff with the intention that nothing sticks to it. It's not a nasty sanitary problem. The water doesn't drip and stick and all this kind of good stuff, especially since when you're plunging the toilet, that's not nice water. People have bought that and they're not happy with those. The reviews on those are well, the coating works great and the water doesn't stick but it's a crummy plunger, costs $25 and it's stiffer and all get out and it doesn't work very well and doesn't fit and so on and so forth. Just like the aerosol can, it is vulnerable to soap and water, it is vulnerable to petroleum distillates, and it is vulnerable to friction. So once again, both Rubbermaid and Rustorium tend to have disastrous products on their hands, so do not buy the Neverlet. On the other hand, There is another similar product, which is also a nanoparticle creation. It is based on silicon dioxide, some stuff that sand and glass is made out of. Its brand name is Repel-Well. This stuff does not come in an aerosol can, it comes in a bottle with some sort of suspension or carrier or whatnot. 25 bucks for a bottle is probably about a pint, I don't know exactly what's in it. The information that we have is it seems to work very, very well and it is more resistant to mechanical insult. Now there is less data available for repel well. When we had less data for Never Let, the available data was all positive. Right now we have less data for Repel Well and the available data is all positive. We'll have to actually get this into consumers' hands. What we have heard so far is that apparently the Repel Well version which is a different product, different company, all that kind of good stuff, but online only for the moment as far as I can tell, seems to be getting good reviews to the small extent that we have any reviews. So, that would be very interesting if somebody wanted to get their hands on this, apply it to an old booney hat or something and give it a try. It would be fascinating to hear their results, see if it really worked and so on. What I expected to do is to work very well at shedding the water. The question is how durable is it in terms of holding up to use. I have seen some reports that it survived several trips through the washing machine. If that's accurate, then that would be very, very interesting stuff back in my days as a voice sprout. We carved with very primitive substances of this sort. One of the stupid scout tricks was to put your finger up against the inside of the tent when it was raining. That would cause the otherwise waterproof tent to develop a drip. You would put your finger on the inside of the tent over the other guy and then he would get dripped on all night. This is considered the height of cleverness and fumer. It says more about adolescence perhaps than it does about water dripping substances. But if RepelWell does in fact work as well as early reports suggest, then that could be a fascinating product. So I would encourage anybody who is listening and adventurous and willing to gamble 25 bucks in an old booty hat or 25 bucks in an old pup tent or something along those lines. to grab a bottle of this stuff, try it out and let us know how it works because this appears to be a very interesting technological product. It looks like the Never Let Guys kind of almost got it right and probably got it right well enough for their original industrial application but rushed it to market on a consumer basis a little bit before it was ready. But the with parallel brand from what we have heard seems to be usable. So that's a new technology available to us and one to keep an eye on. Comments? One of the interesting things is if it would survive several washings, remember that in field use you're not going to beat up the material as much as you'd see with machine washing with detergents. Again, as long as you're not worried, well, remember, coloration. If it's gotten a little dirty, perspiration from the inside would be an issue. in a bacteria count. But if it's simply external dust or dirt, leave it because remember we've talked about that as enhancing the camouflage depending on the area of operation and if you're going to continue to work there. So if it's water repellency and external service life is as durable as was indicated simply by the machine washing left in its normal state, I would say probably good for an indefinite period of time. The other considerations, whether or not it stiffens to any great degree the clothing if it still allows for reasonable flexibility the way it bonds to the cloth. That would be another issue. With headgear especially it would be priceless. I pointed out before remember BK, guys remember your uniforms when they came out with the new Woodland uniform back in the late middle 70s. Remember if you looked at the composition of the headgear Two things that they were trying to improve was, again, water repellents and thermal reduction. That's why the old patrol caps, when they first came out with the copy of the Ranger hat, the coffee can hat, that's why the composition was a very different set of materials from your 50-50 cotton polyester uniform. So in both cases, both for the headgear, this would probably have even enhanced that as it is. The idea was to offer more water repellency, repellent potential so that you didn't have that water there sucking calories out of the top of your head, which happens anyway. Your head's a chimney. It's why everything's in composition, why our body's built the way it is. But with a water repellent potential like this, one of the other things I would consider is actually even resurfacing ponchos. Yeah, pine shows, head gear, all of that sort of stuff. The other thing that would be of interest to us, and we will not find out from user reports, we would have to do these tests ourselves, is to get some of this stuff under some night vision and see what effect that has on the visibility of the fabrics that are treated and something maybe Don could do. If we could send them a hat that has been treated, take a look at it and see whether that affects the visibility of that. So, I think we're going to prioritize getting this stuff in hand and seeing how it interacts with the thermal reduction material. First of all, by itself, what do we see in the way of an end result? Does it create reflection? Does it enhance and create a brightening effect or a brightener effect that we see with detergent? Which, of course, is another issue. If it does, Then we need, again, on top of what's already been used and to determine whether or not it interacts, is the thermal reduction cloth additive that's applied to the outer layers of the cloth. As long as it's not going to interact or react negatively, that would neutralize what might be a possible reflection or enhancement issue with regard to how it appears in night vision, because that is an issue. Some unit patches people have purchased. They didn't think about who was building it. And while the uniforms have the thermal reduction or are fairly subdued, the unit patches in some cases, guys, are flares in night vision or in thermal. Something you need to be able to pay attention to and also do a survey of. Again, that's what Mr. Velcro is for. If you're fascinated with Velcro, it's gone. When you don't need it around, it goes in the pocket. When you want to use it for unit identification or for heraldry on site, it goes back on. The big thing is, again, we do need to field test this, but as a lifesaver, we've talked about this also, the cold wet cycles are the most deadly. Water repellency is especially critical. Gore tax is now available. Ponchos have been available. And headgear typically is the weak point. Something to think about there, guys, but we can also enhance the older pieces of equipment. The existing nylon ponchos have a tendency to sog after a while. If we can apply this to that type of polymer cloth with a finish on it, we probably can improve it dramatically. which would help a great deal too. And POMChills are a critical tool that we are going to keep in the inventory. We're going to continue to carry. So that needs to be taken into consideration. Gore-Tex doesn't need an enhancement. But not everybody could afford Gore-Tex. The cost prohibitive issue there is why it takes time typically for people to accumulate Gore-Tex in good quantity for the people that they have. It doesn't mean they don't necessarily prioritize on it. It's a chunk of change. So everything else that we're using, including our field jackets, which would be another issue, remember a lot of times you may not necessarily want to pull out the rain gear if you're a mild mist or wet environment, but with an enhancer like this, the field jacket would be sufficient, BK. That would be a good combo between the headgear and the field jacket. So another place where it might be just applied there, but not with the rest of the uniform. Right, and doing that this stuff is initially going to be fairly expensive, we might also run some experiments and decide which portions of the field jacket needs it, and other portions can be skipped and not certified too. The best way to do that is remember the Swiss did research on that years ago and their early herringbone twill, heavier multi pocket coats, which are actually field gear. The pockets are all there for all your mags and everything. They enhanced at key positions, the shoulders, the elbows and the forearms, and the lower legs of the pants. They were water repellent specific. They didn't do the whole of the uniform. They just did key areas that would see the most contact or that were most likely to be exposed because you have to be able to move around in the environment. So a good point there too is that we can mimic what's already been researched and done by people who spent a lot more money on it in the past. Fred, that also brings up another topic before we move on. You're going to run an experiment with Rain-X and GasMes. Did you ever get around to doing that? Actually, we got into the whole... Somebody thought that there would be an adverse reaction between the plastic and the Rain-X. I think not, but only the experiment will tell for sure. There are different Lexan type materials that have been used or other polymers. Obviously, it doesn't have any effect on the glass and a good portion of the units that are out there like the M17 is glass. So we don't have any problem with it there. The only thing is that there's also an anti-fogging agent that's used on the inside. And so you apply the Raynix on the outside with the glass, apply the anti-fogging agent on the inside. I have mass that are damaged that I would test these on. That way we don't lose anything if we lose the lens, but we have the proper plastic to test. This can also be tested to see what it does to the lenses too because if it sheds water to that extent, it could buy Raynix. Right, exactly. Well, that's another, see that's one of the other things, there have been other materials and other products that have been offered on the market, and they have been around for quite some time, they've been successful enough. The big thing is, again, we may have to also be prepared to reapply because a little different environment where we're moving through brush or material, scuffing things, in the long run we're going to end up having to probably do at least a second application or a third application progressively while we're in the field. because the material itself, though it certainly works right down obviously into the crystalline structure of the metal the way it's built, and it permeates it effectively for whatever period of time. I don't know what it must be, well it has to be just natural erosion because of water contact. I think there would be more wear with vehicles and or aircraft because obviously velocity forward, water striking it and progressively you know the old Chinese drip ripple effect where it just keeps you know you know tap tap tapping until it irrigates the material away. I think it would last longer in the gas mass simply by the nature of the environment. You know we're not traveling you know anywhere from 60 to 3 or 4 or 500 miles an hour and being pelt with waves of rain. It's usually just doing ground speed. Well if this stuff were cheaper, I could see just getting up there with a power sprayer and doing the whole work. Save on the shingles you mean? Well, save the shingles from having to do any actual work. If everyone just beads up and runs off. There you go. It eliminates most of the problems. You don't have little bits of the shingles wearing away and little pebbly pieces which then compromise the format. And that's how you eventually the shingles break down. So instead if it was sealed, that would be true. Okay, so, you know, Rain-X and Repel-Well need to be tested both on, you know, the Repel-Well and fabrics especially, but, you know, broken probably on the masks too, so whether there's any effect on visibility through the lenses, if there's any effect on the plastics, that kind of stuff. If you've got, you know, beater masks that could be experimental subjects, that would be a cool thing. Yeah, we actually have damaged ones I can use, so that's what we'll do. That is a priority because it's going to be part of what we're going to integrate into the night vision. We want to test to see what reflective qualities, how it changes because we have both treated and untreated that we can demonstrate, which would work out quite well. The other thing here is, again, it's purely an issue if it comes down to where you're in exposed positions or if you're looking at just civilian response and not a battlefield situation. If this product works, to any degree, especially for evacuation or emergency slash distress situations like where you have prep material and where you have a tornado belt. Having this stuff on hand, you know, treated with certain pieces of equipment that are non-military tactical but are disaster tactical wouldn't be a bad idea. Because if we've got one wave of storms and weather, typically you'll have more in the future. You're not going to see the integrated support if the bad guys, you know, if we're in the middle of a national battlefield situation, now other natural occurrences take place. Having the material available and usable with other tools and equipment, and other clothing and equipment that's going to be needed wouldn't be a bad idea. Even if it may not have the military application for stealth, It certainly would help a great deal with regard to physical health and welfare because it is the most common areas where we will see casualties are cold, wet. That's where the big casualties pile up. We get into a cold, dry, and the world changes again. It's amazing. People, once they're acclimated, the weather is, you know, we get crunched under the foot instead of sloshed. Things stabilize. That's actually a very safe period because everybody expects and understands the threat. That transition period is where people typically get hurt or die. That's what we need to be watching out for. This is a good solution. The moisture issue is the most common thing that pulls calorie from the bodies. The young and the old are the first susceptible. And since the young and the old are probably not going to be in fighting situations but will be in risk situations, while we certainly want to be able to conceal them if it's conventional civilian wear but it's good sturdy semi-tactical material, well yeah, we could treat it this way and it makes a big difference in having to worry about health and welfare for those people. So this is a good plus thing when you really, really need to test this, guys. It's something that needs to be prioritized as a matter of fact because it is anything like this it brings us a step a step up from just having to make do with what we've got. Go ahead BK. Alright, so changing topic, a while back I spoke of adjustable eyewear, adjustable eyeglasses. These are not adjustable as in how fat is your fat, but adjustable as in how many diaptics your eye both needs. One of the brands that I mentioned was one called Eye Justers. Now that is one that uses two or and they slide back and forth to develop a different effective variable focal length. I got my hands on a pair of these and BK's review is mixed. The good news is they do actually work. These are ones that have a removable adjustment screw. The screw looks like a thumb screw from your PC. But it's plastic and it's magnetic and you stick it in there twiddle it around get things the way you want and then pull them out I guess they decided that a screw permanently set there was unsightly or something like that the bad news on those screws is that they did the screwdriver slap backwards meaning that they made the removable piece as a as a groove and there is a embedded in the glasses. So you cannot use a screwdriver as a field expedient if those little pieces get lost. If those little thumb screws get lost then you've got a problem. On the other hand they do provide two of them and either of them will work on either side. So until you lose both of them you are not out of luck. The good news is that they work. The bad news is that I would call them very special purpose, plus the fact that at 40 bucks they're too expensive. These things should come down in cost. They're just, they're plastic lenses, they're molded. They shouldn't cost more than five bucks for a pair. They cost 40 bucks for the time being. All of the organizations that sell these things think that it's wonderful to charge you trouble and send one pair off to Biafra or someplace for every pair they sell. Well, somehow they got the idea that all the Americans are rich and should be drained into involuntary charity to foreign countries. The bad news on these things is that the point of focus is very, very narrow. So if you move these around just a tiny little bit on your head, the point of focus will change. As you can imagine, since they move laterally in and out to adjust, if you look laterally to the side, you're getting a different focal length than if you're looking straight forward and so on. They tend to look straight forward type glasses, and they're a very small sweet spot for use. So these are suitable, in my opinion, for emergency use and they are suitable for workbench use. You can dial them up and you find work when something along the lines of a dissecting microscope is more than you need. So they do have some benefit, but I would not call these the solution, the general solution, anybody who walks up and you equip them with eyewear. They are not the general solution that I would hope them to be. Now, there are other technologies. One of them is the fluid lens in which you use a syringe, a piston, or whatnot to adjust the curvature of the lens. That one seems to be, in my opinion, a little bit more versatile, probably a better lens that's round intrinsically. But the ones that are available right now are designed to cost a dollar apiece for the third world, but for Americans with $600. So the fancier ones than the ones that are designed for export, but still, $1 versus $600 is a significant ratio. So right now it is a celebrity toy. Maybe those will come down a little bit or a lot, but for the time being they have not. There are other brands of the sliding style. There's one being advertised on television right now that might be a slightly larger lens. We all have the same intrinsic weakness that is laterally there will be a narrow sweet spot. So I do not expect them to be all purpose. all terrain type eyewear. But there is some benefit to these things in that one unit serves users that are just not as good as I had hoped them to be. And at $40 they're still too expensive. So while getting this pair to experiment with and I use them workbench equipment, but I would not recommend them for general use. Don't go out and get 20 of them and put them in your point they are not quite ready for prime time. Okay, last item and I think we've got enough time for this. There's an interesting experiment that I stumbled across while poking around on YouTube. Background is that a couple years ago an outfit that we occasionally call out, gold mine electronics, got a load of ultra-capacitors. The brand name on these is BoostCap, and these were used. They came out of city buses. Apparently, they are swapped out on a timed rotation basis and changed for new. Even though they have not yet failed. So these were sold on the market through Goldman Electronics. At that point you could buy a 3000 fahrenheit boost cap for $10. These are a little bigger than a D. So, and a lot of people brought those up and have had a great deal of fun with them. They like building big sparks of them charging them up and then making sparks and doing other such adventurous things. Regular listeners here have heard me of on alternative energy storage systems in the lead acid and the Edison cells and so on and saying, well, lead acid works and is the available technology, but I look forward to the day when we buy energy storage by the megafire rather than by the hundred weight of lead. Ultra capacitors are coming down, but they're coming down slowly. Nowadays, you can buy those 3000 farad capacitors new for about $65 a piece. Only a couple of years ago, they were $350 a piece, so they are coming down. Goldmine has another batch available, but the older ones sold so fast and were so popular that this time they priced them at 20 bucks a pop, so that makes them kind of swell. I would like to be able to afford enough to store up 20 kilowatt hours or something and not have to deal with lead acid and offline off grid application. But we are not yet at that point. However, somebody has done an experiment that I found rather cool and very interesting. They took a half a dozen of these 3000 Farad capacitors. They are 2.7 volts each, stacked them up in series and said, I wonder if this would serve as a replacement for an automotive battery. We're getting more complaints about the level of my audio apparently. I'm supposedly throwing the mic. In fact, the mic looks like it's practically sticking out of my ear off to the side. It's the best I can do. Sorry. As far as I took half dozen of these boost caps of 3000 fahrenheit guys, stacked them up and made a 12 volt equivalent and stuck it under his hood as a replacement for his 12 volt automotive battery and he found that surprise, surprise, it starts his car just fine. And he ran this experiment on a small A subcompact automobile, probably only a little 1.6 liter computerized guys and so forth. That worked and replaced 30 or 30 or 50 pounds of lead in a battery. So they said, okay, I wonder if smaller ones will work. It turns out you can buy 350 ferrite units for about $11 a piece. right now from any of the usual vendors, Mouser, Digi-Key, that kind of stuff. So he tried those and sure enough they worked too. So for a small automobile, a half dozen of these 350 Fairide caps do actually work. He charged it up, parked it on a Friday evening, it started up as card just fine on Monday morning. has a little voltage regulator and a voltage display in there to determine how much the voltage has bled off. The rumor is that these super caps have a horrendous self-leakage problem in that the charge dissipates over time. What he found is that over almost three days It did lose some voltage, went from 13.5 volts down to 10.5 or something like that, but it started the car just fine. So with his small engine, the 350 worked adequately. And then he elaborated the experiment a little bit. He ganged up a lithium battery in parallel with it, the notion being that charging up the lithium battery, it would keep the tax. and he blew up a battery by trying to jump start his tractor on the road or something along those lines because the living batteries do not like being discharged at maximum rate. So, we discovered that there was a limit to that. I would suggest that if anybody wanted to do this sort of thing, they should probably put some very high wattage, very low resistors in so that there's a limit to the current that can be drawn. particularly on charging because even if you tried to jump start a car that's got capacitors, you would probably do bad things to the donor car as it tries to drop 2,000 amps or something along those lines. Flat capacitors are a dead short, but once you get it charged up, then tapping it off with a charger would not be a problem. So if you put 1 quarter ohm or a half ohm high wattage resistor in the circuit you should be able to get an initial charge on these guys with a conventional battery charger. But if you can buy 350 Farad capacitors for $11 a piece, then for $66 you have built a six pack of capacitors and that has re-closed an automotive battery. Given that they have shut down Do-1, we are now down to zero primary lead smelters. Lead is going to be coming more expensive on the ground. This is an interesting substitute technology, at least for the automotive market. It is still not cheap enough to use for off grid work. If you have solar panels and all that kind of good stuff, but it is starting to operate in the bulk energy storage market. Also, I imagine that if you're running a bigger V8 or something like that, the 350 Farad caps probably would not be up to the task. You might end up doubling or tripling them up or going with the three. The 2,500 Farad devices are still in the middle of the 60 bucks each. You can find this video on YouTube if you search for BoostCap. You will probably get a hit on this. The guy demonstrates his experiment and shows you the six-pack he built. I would not recommend ganging up a battery in parallel the way he did. I would just go with a straight capacitor and carry on board a charger with a series resistor there to limit the current dual when the things get flat. His experiments suggest that a six-pack of these guys does not lose charge so fast that it becomes a problem. Certainly it survives overnight, but in his case it survived from Friday night to Monday morning and did start the small 350 cap. So the 2600s or the 3000s should do just fine for even a larger vehicle. So that's an interesting and novel application, a technology that is slowly coming down to feasible price range. As long as the charging system is operational and it accepts a charge and will register it, then I can't see it being a critical factor unless the vehicle is used for reserve purposes or in a cache. with other equipment material at a retreat. That would be one of the major considerations. Right, in which case you might have to charge it up from some other vehicle or generator or whatnot. Or solar panel. On the other hand, you might put a small solar panel on the phone because that might be all you need to maintain charge if you don't expect to start it up from zero to charge the caps. It might take a few days to charge from a modest sized solar panel. Something that will deliver a couple of amperes at 12 volts might be plenty to maintain charge on an indefinite basis, just parked. And again, only six were required to replace the normal battery, correct? Right. They're rated 2.7 volts because of the chemistry. Two volts each times six yields your 12 volts nominal. 2.7 times six. The biggest thing again is availability around the country. Most of the service companies that we are talking about or the industry surplus companies access these from a number of different change out points I assume. Well, I've only seen them at the one place, Globe Mine Electronics. They may have an inn with some city that's changing up from city buses or something along these lines. But the 350s are available for $11 a pop new. And the 2600s or 3000s are around $60 or so new. So the surplus, I used units of 20 bucks or a bit cheaper. They're more expensive now than the first time around because they saved so well, the merchants decided to charge more. They confirmed the market and now they've applied they've adjusted the cost deals the the expenditure accordingly The tag has gone up, but that's expected because they've demonstrated positive performance. Well, that's the way merchants operate, you know, they don't allow you to cross me there so I'll charge you know a fair you know margin and figure out how much can I get away with. Which is why I would never be a good merchant. And we are at the top anything else go ahead before we go? I know we're going to hear the music. Very good. Guys, we need the spreadsheet. It's free to give you the ability to keep track of what you are putting on the shelf so that you can balance out your inventory. Remember, we need to achieve a certain level of performance and then enhance. First, we want to get to one tier, then the next, then the next progressively until we're at, well, I guess you call it professional grade. Well, we know better than that, actually. Just a better level of preparedness. God bless the republic. Jeff to the New World Order. We shall prevail ladies and gentlemen, the Empire is on the run. We and our capacitor batteries are on the mark for day and night. No, don't touch that, you'll... Ahhh! Ooh, that had to sting. Always wear your waterproof hat. Thank you, BK. God bless. You're welcome. While we try to reconnect.