The biggest "green lie" of all is that VFD's "save energy". When the pumps speed is reduced using a VFD, the Affinity Law states, "horse power is reduced by the cube of the RPM." Many people use this to try and show energy is being saved, by reducing the RPM. This is absolutely not true (See figure #3)).

Figure 3
When running the pump at full speed and maximum flow, the energy used by the VFD itself, along with motor losses from the VFD's sub-standard voltage wave form, causes more energy to be used per gallon. //

The only real energy savings, comes from the system that will last the longest. It takes a lot of energy to mine, manufacture, transport, and install pumps and controls. The longer a system last, the more energy and money is saved. It is very harmful to the environment to install a system that was designed to only last a short time. Our landfills are being filled with electronic components like VFD's, and non-recyclable pumps and motors. This waste a lot of energy and natural resources, leaches heavy metals into our water supplies, and drains money out of your bank account.

Create or De-rate?
When the flow is reduced, the amps drawn by a pump controlled by a VFD, and a pump controlled by a CSV are almost the same. The difference is that a VFD creates a smaller motor from a larger one, and a CSV de-rates the motor load.

When a VFD slows down a 10 HP motor, until it is only drawing a 5 HP load, it has "created" a 5 HP motor from the 10 HP. Even though the motor is only drawing half of a 10 HP load, the harmonic content produced by the VFD increases heat in the motor. The motor must be cooled as if it were a fully loaded 5 HP, which still requires 1/2 a foot per second flow. According to the submersible motor cooling chart, a 6" motor in an 8" casing needs a minimum of 45 GPM to remain cool. So a 10 HP pump and motor in 8" casing, cannot be slowed to less than 45 GPM, or the motor will overheat and be destroyed.

The same 10 HP motor controlled by a CSV doesn't need as much flow to remain cool. This is because the 10 HP motor has been "de-rated" to a 5 HP load. When a CSV restricts a 10 HP pump, the amps can also drop to a 5 HP load.

Head produced by a pump drops off by the square of the speed. Pumps that must lift a certain distance or produce a specific pressure (or TDH) have a minimum speed that will accomplish this task. The speed of a correctly sized pump can only be reduced a small amount if a static head or constant pressure is required. Horse power reductions by the cube of the speed can be insignificant compared to a full speed pump simply pushed to the left of it's curve. Before you can use the Affinity Law the following steps must be taken to determine the minimum speed possible from your pump. The affinity law can then be used to determine the minimum horsepower possible from your pump when using a VFD.

GBenton
3 hours ago
We don't know if their scams to fake support for Kamala/Walz will work yet, but I don't think they would need to do this nonsense if she were actually leading or they were confident in her potential to win.

So far, her whole campaign has been fake, defensive, manufactured, and insecure. //

Chuck in TX GBenton
3 hours ago
If they were leading or there was a real chance she'd win, Beyonce would have showed up.

You knew it was likely to be bad when they had to pull a "bait and switch" to keep people in the seats to hear her, saying there was going to be a special guest appearing, with CNN and others suggesting it was Beyoncé. But then the special guest turned out to be Harris herself. What a letdown. But you know that they don't think much of what they have to present when they have to play games and gaslight people like that.

Bottom line? They're lying because they know what they really think/believe would never go over with the American people. //

The Free Press @TheFP
·
“It is an insult to have an entire convention and not have any policy... Instead, all we get is ‘for the people’ and we're supposed to take that on faith. ”

@BUngarSargon reviews Kamala's DNC speech tonight on The Free Press #LIVE.

12:16 AM · Aug 23, 2024 //

Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom
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Kamala says that she stood up "for seniors facing elder abuse."

That's ironic!

10:50 PM · Aug 22, 2024

Isn't this the same lady who helped to cover up Joe Biden's cognitive decline, who wasn't straight with the American people about it? //

myop2
a few seconds ago
How dare you talk about elder abuse. You and jb have cut medicare ( after accusing trump and republicans of doing the same thing) and reduced our Medicare advantage plans, causing doctors to refuse to accept these plans. You, Kamala are the worst liar, cheat, and thief, and abuser.

I served as an Army IG investigator for three years. I never encountered anyone engaged in epic misconduct who had not eased himself into that position with a series of baby steps. The panache with which Hamilton called members of the selection board on behalf of a particular officer is not something displayed the first time you do it. This is particularly true when meddling with a critical selection board strikes at the very heart of the integrity the system must have to be respected. Hopefully, the investigators are looking into other possible incidents of Hamiltion trying to influence a command selection board. Second, a male general breaking all known rules on behalf of a female subordinate looks like more was going on here than fighting racism unless that's what the kids are calling it this week. //

In short, given the public domain information available, there doesn't seem to be any empirical evidence to support Hamilton's claim that he was intervening to prevent an injustice to Black officers and a great deal of evidence to indicate that he was personally pushing the candidacy of one particular officer who happened to work directly for him and who appears to be totally unqualified to command.

If Wormuth removes Hamilton from command, the fallout from a liberal White woman sacking a Black man during an election year will make me a fortune in my popcorn futures investment. //

Chuck in TX
3 hours ago
That initial 0-5 vote should have been a red flag and warned him off. Five generals unanimously and without reservation put it firmly on the record she was unqualified. There was no way that was getting changed without setting off alarm bells. Hubris is a hell of a thing. //

flyovercountry
4 hours ago
We’ll soon find out he was having an unprofessional relationship with said LtCol, this was pay back on the investment.

streiff flyovercountry
4 hours ago
That's my bet, he was given an ultimatum by her to get her a battalion command slot or face the consequences.

Min Headroom llme streiff
4 hours ago
If it looks like a duck, and all that.

But as you note, an interesting thing is that the blatancy of this suggests he’s practiced at it. So he probably either doesn’t know or doesn’t care how it looks.

Laocoön of Troy
a minute ago
What Hamilton did was corrupt to the core. Sadly I cannot say that I haven't seen similar abuses in my beloved AF. However I don't hafta like it.

This entire thing is essentially out in the open and Hamilton is DARING the Army to do anything about his misbehavior. //

Laocoön of Troy
a minute ago
What Hamilton did was corrupt to the core. Sadly I cannot say that I haven't seen similar abuses in my beloved AF. However I don't hafta like it.

This entire thing is essentially out in the open and Hamilton is DARING the Army to do anything about his misbehavior.

With liberals, it often seems that it's opposite day. When they say they want to prevent the spread of misinformation, what they really mean is they want to spread propaganda and suppress truth. When they say they simply want people to be tolerant of other cultures and beliefs, they work to implement the most intolerant institutions imaginable. When they say they want to fortify an election, it means they want to ensure a pre-determined outcome.

Since January 6 they've been shouting that they need to protect democracy and taking action on multiple fronts to do the opposite, as Tucker Carlson and Victor Davis Hansen expertly outline in the newest episode of Tucker on X. In his monologue, Tucker said:

Liberals are now telling us they plan to protect American democracy, and that's the clearest possible sign that they intend to end it. //

This is not a legal proceeding. This is a grotesque parody of the system our forefathers created, the fairest in the world, that in the years since has been seized by power worshippers like Arthur Engoron. This is a dangerous moment. Without a legitimate legal system, people no longer follow the law, and the country will collapse.

This is not about Trump. This is about preserving the United States of America. But Trump is at the center of the story.

On Thursday night, following an evening that was cringier than a Zoom call with Jeffrey Toobin, Vice President Kamala Harris came on stage and actually spoke to a crowd of people. OK, they were friendly people who would never dream of fact-checking anything she says, no matter how ludicrous.

But former President Donald Trump harbors no such reservations. While Harris was speaking, so was Trump, calling out her claims, point by point, on his Truth Social media platform.

Here are some of the highlights.

The former president asked one great question right away:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
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2h

WHERE’S HUNTER?

In this question, I would caution Pres. Trump against asking questions to which you really don't want to know the answer.

This set the tone, with the former president answering the current vice president, not live on video, but via social media posts. The replies came, if you will, fast and furious. //

The upshot? As always: Kamala Harris can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie. That's what it all boils down to. Donald Trump can think on his feet. He can react and answer unscripted questions, and react to unscripted talking points, quickly, smoothly, and accurately. Kamala Harris can do none of those things.

As RedState reported Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, had quite a bit to say recently on the subject of how a terrified Democratic Party War Machine is working so hard to keep third-party candidates like Kennedy off the ballot headed into the November elections. //

On Wednesday after a court appearance in New York state to appeal a ruling that effectively would keep him off the ballot, Kennedy himself went off on Democrats who have talked big this week at the Democrat National Convention about voting rights and democracy but who behind the scenes have gone to unprecedented levels to suppress third-party candidates:

"The DNC is in Chicago talking about their commitment to voting rights, while they're spending tens, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars to keep me off the ballot."

"There's a million people in this country who have signed petitions trying to get me on the ballot. 145,000 at least people here in New York State. They want to see me on the ballot. Why is the Democratic Party trying to disenfranchise those people? What's happened to the party?"

"I don't think my father would recognize this party, and I don't think my uncle would recognize this party." //

Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein
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Stop the gaslighting. Right now @TheDemocrats are trying to sue us off multiple state ballots, hiring spies and infiltrators to sabotage us, and even withholding public funds we qualified for months ago.

Democrats ABSOLUTELY cheat and change the rules to maintain their grip on… Show more

HOT SPOT @HotSpotHotSpot
MICHELLE OBAMA: “We don’t cheat others to get ahead. We don’t get to change the rules so we always win”
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1:53 PM · Aug 21, 2024 //

Otpkr2
8 hours ago
MICHELLE OBAMA: “We don’t have the luxury of cheating others to get further ahead—We don’t get to change the rules so we always win.”
Leftists always tell us what they are doing. They always accuse everyone else of doing the things they are doing first and most. It is how they work. Yes, these people really are that bad.

As the grand illusion, otherwise known as the Democrat National Convention (DNC), continues, it is proving to be just a lollapalooza of lies, half-truths, and hatred of Donald Trump greater than their love of America on full display. They also continue to float the same old, tired, worn-out ideas like: Democrats are the party of the middle class, minorities, and women. Thankfully, middle-class and minority voters are realizing this is not the case. And if we take a look at Democrats' past and present, it is easy to see that they are certainly not the party of women.

Christine Flowers @flowerlady61
·
The minute Monica Lewinsky’s molestor got on the stage, the Democrats lost the right to open their mouths about Donald Trump’s relationship with women.
9:33 PM · Aug 21, 2024

For instance, being a third-party candidate on a debate stage alongside Republicans and Democrats is borderline impossible thanks to rules that were created through a group founded by both Republicans and Democrats. I wrote of the Commission on Presidential Debates in 2016 and how it effectively pushed out the League of Women Voters to seize control of the debate stage:

The organization itself was founded in 1987 by a bipartisan Republican/Democrat effort, and has run the debates ever since. //

Before the CPD, the debates were run by the League of Women Voters from 1976 to 1984. The League withdrew when Republicans and Democrats made a deal that would give them full control over the debates, and how they were run.

Nancy Neuman, then head of the League, called the deal “outrageous,” and noted that the Democrats and Republicans wanted to control the questioners, composition of the audience, press access, and more. All of this was done behind closed doors. By the time the deal was done, the League was presented with 16 pages of non-negotiable rules for the debates.

The League departed with a statement that called out exactly what the dual parties were doing and remains accurate to this day:

“The League of Women Voters is withdrawing its sponsorship of the presidential debate scheduled for mid-October because the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter,” League President Nancy M. Neuman said today.

“It has become clear to us that the candidates’ organizations aim to add debates to their list of campaign-trail charades devoid of substance, spontaneity and honest answers to tough questions,” Neuman said. “The League has no intention of becoming an accessory to the hoodwinking of the American public.”

Even Walter Cronkite called it an "unconscionable fraud." //

No matter how insane you might think the person is, they deserve a fair shot at winning the people's affections. The rules should not be weighted against them, and the other parties should not be able to manipulate rules to keep them from reaching the people.

It's my honest opinion that a two-party system is incredibly dangerous and limiting. If America's economic system has taught us anything, it's that competition brings out the best in people and the best people overall. Yet, we're currently tied to a dual-party system so filled to the brim with corruption that sometimes it's hard to know where one party begins and the other ends.

Trump wrote:

"The highly overrated Jewish Governor of the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, made a really bad and poorly delivered speech talking about freedom and fighting for Comrade Kamala Harris for President, yet she hates Israel and will do nothing but make its journey through the complexities of survival as difficult as possible, hoping in the end that it will fail. Judge only by her actions!" //

etba_ss
3 hours ago edited
This is a great example of Trump's lack of discipline and focus.

Trump is not antisemtic. That's absurd. The left is. They know it. We know it. They are lying.

If Trump had left off "Jewish", attacked Shapiro, and then said that the Democrats wouldn't pick him for VP because he was Jewish and they hate Jews, he would have made the point he needs to make. I think that's what he meant and that Shapiro was happy supporting a party that wants to see Israel destroyed. He could have mentioned that as well.

Instead, his sloppy rhetoric gives them an opening to lie. Then the right has to come to his defense and explain what Trump meant and how they lie instead of highlighting how antisemitic the left is.

It's just beyond frustrating that he can't stop doing this after 8 years of stepping on rakes. I want to win. This stuff doesn't help. We know we've got to fight against the media, pop culture and the Demonic party. We don't need to score goals on ourselves, especially on an issue we should be beating them with. They've got terrorists outside and inside their convention demanding genocide agaisnt Jews, not us.

However, for a legacy media that has been overly committed of late to the polishing and reinvention of every aspect of Kamala Harris' history, they continue to steer clear of the paterfamilias. Professor Donald Harris has a long history of scholarship at Stanford University and presently consults on economics. Why has no one asked Harris the daughter about her father and his work? //

Seven years later, one marriage, and being elected vice president hasn't even rendered a statement from him about how proud he is of his very accomplished daughter? It's a bit suspicious, particularly in their drive to paint her as the second coming. //

One fully understands wanting to avoid the media spotlight and to steer clear of the circus of politics. But the fact that Donald Harris is never mentioned and hasn't even made an appearance (even via video) at the DNC is troubling. It's as offensive as that Molech Mobile outside of the DNC. It's as if Kamala Harris wants to abort her own father from her history. Single mothers appear to be the ultimate GOOD with the Democrats. Practically every speaker has led with being the product of a single-mother home. Single motherhood is lauded above traditional marriage, and if there are any couples on the stage, it's couples who wanted abortions or who claim they were barred from IVF. //

But a father who was marginalized from his children's lives due to divorce? YAWN. Not worthy of Democrat's focus, and definitely not something the top Democrat nominee wants as part of her story.

This also gives insight into Harris complicated relationship with Black men, from WiIlie Brown, to Montel Williams, to the thousands she capriciously imprisoned when she was San Francisco's District Attorney and California's Attorney General. An Economist article probably came closest to hitting the nail on the head. Papa Harris is a proud Marxist economist and his philosophy is a window into Kamala's own socialist leanings. Donald Harris and Sen. Bernie Sanders would be sympatico on most everything, including being property owners while the rest of the world has to give their fair share. //

Mr Harris, for his part, retired from academia in 1998 to focus on policy work, including advising the Jamaican government. For all his earlier radicalism, he has recommended fiscal discipline and crime reduction, as well as export-led growth and industrial strategy. In the end, however, perhaps his greatest economic legacy will be his daughter. //

Betsy Ross anon-fl4c
17 minutes ago
Kamala is Obama. Educated, but not intelligent. Vapid, spoiled, narcissistic and all around void of the ability to lead. Both are are followers.

The group that submitted the petitions Friday did not submit an affidavit identifying paid canvassers by name, as required by state law, Thurston wrote in a Wednesday letter to Lauren Cowles, executive director of Arkansans for Limited Government, the ballot question committee supporting the proposed constitutional amendment.

State law also requires ballot question committees to provide “a copy of the most recent edition of the Secretary of State’s initiatives and referenda handbook to each paid canvasser” and to explain to canvassers the legal requirements for soliciting signatures before canvassing begins.

AFLG did not fulfill these requirements while the sponsors of other proposed ballot measures did, Thurston wrote. //

The AFLG appealed to the Arkansas Supreme Court, which ordered a recount of the signatures. That recount certified 87.675 signatures as legitimate and Thurston's decision was upheld. //

Today's ruling seems to have put the issue to rest for this election cycle.

“We find that the secretary correctly refused to count the signatures collected by paid canvassers because the sponsor failed to file the paid canvasser training certification,” the majority wrote. //

Having lost the fight to create a US Constitutional right out of whole cloth, they are now working to enshrine the right to infanticide in state constitutions. There are nine other states with pro-abort constitutional amendments on the ballot in November: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, New York, Nevada, and South Dakota. A pro-abort amendment was added to the Ohio constitution in 2023. //

C. S. P. Schofield
42 minutes ago
While I believe that abortion should be legal, under clear restrictions, I fully expect to see it widely banned before I die, simply because the Abortion Establishment is arrogant. They had decades to persuade the public and instead condescended and relied on a SCOTUS ruling that any amateur student of Law could have told them was built on thin air.

Even since Roe was overturned, they have not realized that they must play by the rules. They preach to the choir and indulge in peruse fantasies like THE HANDMAID’S TALE, an unoriginal piece of thinly disguised Dom/Sub pornography that stole its central repressive theocracy from Heinlein’s future history.

If the Pro-Life forces can refrain from mirroring the arrogance of the Abortion Establishment, they will continue to win most of their goals, until legal abortion is available only in a few Deep Blue strongholds.

And, as the Kermit Gosnell scandal proved, there isn’t necessarily any great difference between a legal abortion clinic and the ‘back alley abortionist’ of legend.

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The editors of the Free Press write in a new editorial:

https://www.thefp.com/p/how-long-harris-avoid-press

Her speeches have been heavy on the rhetoric and light on the substance. Most notable of all is that she has yet to give either a press conference or an interview—not even for a hagiographic profile in Time magazine.

What is Kamala Harris afraid of? //

The reasons for Harris’s evasion of the press are her own, but we think she has two chief motivations. First, she understands that without having to answer tough questions, she never has to worry about straying from her message. The second is that Harris doesn’t want to answer direct questions about her record—and her plans for the future—because both are lacking.

Both of those are true, there can be little doubt of that. But there's another reason, and it's one that, even more than the others, should remove Kamala Harris from any serious consideration for any elected office: She's incompetent. //

The Harris/Walz campaign has not posted one policy position on its campaign website. Kamala Harris has made one speech outlining an economic policy that could have been lifted from the pages of "Das Kapital." And if Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and the legacy media have their way, that's how it will stay. Kamala Harris is poorly informed, arrogant, and not very bright - and the legacy media are running cover.

You'll notice various polls showing that men are growing increasingly conservative, while women are becoming more leftist. Not surprising given that Democrats have embraced feminism as one of its core ideologies. It's going to be very women-centric, catering its message to females at every turn. However, Democrat logic is that all the most important groups under its umbrella are victims, and you can't have a victim without an oppressor, and men were chosen to fill that role.

Men... who make up around half of the voting population. //

The election hasn't happened yet, but rest assured, Democrat strategists are not happy that so many men have turned their backs on the Democrat Party, but it's its own fault. They decided to pick a fight with masculinity, the essence of humanity that is literally designed to fight and win.

And this problem is only going to deepen as Democrats continue to hate men.

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Syncthing Debian/Ubuntu Packages

The Nextcloud desktop client does not provide a way to change the local sync directory. However, it can be done, though it is a bit unorthodox. Specifically, you have to:

1. Remove the existing connection which syncs to the wrong directory
2. Add a new connection which syncs to the desired directory

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This opens the Nextcloud Connection Wizard, which you can see above, but with an extra option. This option provides the ability to either: keep the existing data (synced by the previous connection) or to start a clean sync (erasing the existing data).

given the attack at the DNC on billionaires and the rich, while dragging out their own incredibly wealthy people, including the Obamas, Oprah, and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. But they're hypocrites.

She also spoke about "income inequality," although she was able to become a billionaire in this country.

But Trump had the best response to Winfrey's appearance at the DNC.

The Trump War Room account dropped a letter from Oprah where she says it was one thing "to live a life of integrity — still another to have people like yourself in office...Too bad we're not running for office, what a team!" //

She also had him on her show in a very welcoming way to share his views.

He's been consistent in his thought; it's they who have changed. Even then, he was talking about his concern for the country. They loved him and his money until he was put on the "bad list" by the narrative. //

Winfrey also promoted JD Vance's book at one point as well. That was prior to the narrative being constructed against him.

Instead of promoting a positive view and positive policies for America, the DNC has spent most of their time attacking Trump, having him live rent-free in their minds. They also spent a lot of time lying and ignoring reality, including about things a jobs report that scaled back the jobs created by more than 800,000.