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Manly Monday
This is the story of America’s massive forging presses built during the cold war used to build America’s most advanced machinery – the Heavy Press Program. Modern airplanes, missiles, helicopters, turbines – all have parts made on these giant machines!
Tech Thursday
We get a ton of people wondering if using online satellite maps is cheating and ruining the sport of fishing. Yes, online maps are shortcuts to spending hours on the water finding fishing spots, but aren’t Power-Poles just shortcuts to throwing a heavy, noisy anchor? And aren’t fish
Jay Leno’s Baker Electric Car
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Monday Nightcap
Dr. Robert Epstein told Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday that Google can manipulate votes by using tools that they have at their disposal exclusively, and that no one can counteract them. Epstein warned the senator of big tech election meddling during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing
Manly Monday
I filmed some running miniature engines. In the video you can see the details of the engine and listen the sound during the start up and revving. In order: – 1917 Caterpillar Holt 75 – scale 1:8 – 1921 Moto Guzzi Normale – scale 1:2 – 1954 Fiat 55 CL – scale 1:6
Are Electric Cars Really Green?
Are electric cars greener than conventional gasoline cars? If so, how much greener? What about the CO2 emissions produced during electric cars’ production? And where does the electricity that powers electric cars come from? Environmental economist Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, examines how environmentally friendly electric cars
‘On Yer Bike’ for Solar Power
Solar roads in France and the US trialled and failed miserably, but the Dutch in the land of the bicycle exceeded their projected solar power generation from an experimental 70-meter-long solar bicycle lane. “They had originally hoped to produce somewhere between 50 and 70 kW?h per square meter per
Manly Monday
The invention of induction motors permanently altered the course of human civilization. This hundred-year-old motor—invented by the great scientist Nikola Tesla—is the most common motor type, even today. In fact, about 50 percent of global electric power consumption is due to induction motors. Let’s get into the
Tech Thursday
A handful of US cities have banned government use of facial recognition technology due to concerns over its accuracy and privacy. WIRED’s Tom Simonite talks with computer vision scientist and lawyer Gretchen Greene about the controversy surrounding the use of this technology.
Battery McBoat Farce
Just when you thought it could not get any sillier, Phil Goff who needs to spend money on stopping the sewage polluting Auckland beaches, proudly announces that they will spend $18 million on a battery-powered tug boat for Ports of Auckland. Watch the video here. Auckland ratepayers must be so
Tech Thursday
If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz Watch Elon Musk’s Neuralink presentation Electric vehicles, rockets… and now brain-computer interfaces. Elon Musk’s newest venture, Neuralink, aims to bridge the gap between humans and artificial intelligence by implanting tiny
It Was Only a Matter of Time
There is a stupid advert on TV for an electric car where two old geezers throw pebbles at a window to wake some poor soul who tosses down an extension cord to the tossers in the car. This is a wonderful thing, we are told, to be able to charge
PulseJet, BMX, Rope, Crane & a Jet-Swing
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Tech Thursday
Watch Dennis Prager’s opening testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution regarding Big Tech censorship.