I just read that Mercedes Benz has a new electric vehicle, the AMG GT, which is capable of charging at a rate of 600 kilowatts (KW). To put that in perspective, a typical home with a 200 amp. 240 volt electric service, is 48 KW. The equipment required to charge a vehicle at that rate costs between $120,000 and $150,000, and installation costs another $200,000. Assuming the charger is supplied with 3 phase 480 volts, it would require more than 720 amps. The cable used to connect the charger to the vehicle must have a recirculating liquid cooling system to prevent it from overheating. Just that cable can cost $10,000. At $0.15 per kilowatt hour it would cost $90 to operate that charger for one hour.
Otis was a single guy, living at home with his father and working in the family business. His father had been in poor health for years and doctors offered little hope that he would live another year. Otis knew that he would inherit a fortune once his sickly father died. Otis wanted two things:
• to learn how to invest his inheritance and
• to find a wife to share his fortune.
One evening at an investment meeting, he spotted the most beautiful womanhe had ever seen. Her natural beauty took his breath away.
“I may look like just an ordinary man,” he said to her. “But, in just a year or so, my father will die, and I’ll inherit 15 million dollars.”
Impressed, the woman obtained his business card.
Then… Two weeks later she became his stepmother.
Women are so much better at estate planning than men…
After watching a video like this…how can anyone EVER tear down a bird’s nest before the little babies are hatched? My husband saves the old, vacated nests for me and I display them.
I do a little sewing, I save my thread clippings and spread them along our shrubbery tops in the Springtime. Last year, a nest that my husband brought to me had some of my thread clippings woven into the little nest.
I consider that The Best Example Of Recycling Ever!! -Sheila Tolley-
Reykjavik, the capital city of Iceland, is the world’s northernmost capital city. The world’s southernmost capital city is Wellington, New Zealand.
Istanbul in Turkey is the largest city in the world to lie on two continents: It is split between Europe and Asia. Others include Oral in Kazakhstan, Port Said in Egypt and Colon in Panama.
New York is the most populous city in the United States with approximately 8 million people. It is not the most populous in North America nor the Americas as a whole. It shifts to fourth place overall in the Americas by Sao Paulo, Lima in Peru and Mexico City.
Delhi and the Indian capital of New Delhi are actually the same city, as New Delhi is a district of the larger city of Delhi.
Before Tokyo, the capital of Japan was Kyoto. The cities’ names are anagrams of each other.
A wine merchant’s regular taster died and the director started looking for a new one to hire. A drunkard with a ragged, dirty look came in to apply for the position.
The director of the winery wondered how to send him away. He gave him a glass to drink.
The drunk tried it and said: “It’s a Muscat, three years old, grown on a north slope, matured in steel containers. Low grade, but acceptable.
“That’s correct”, said the boss. Another glass…. “It’s a cabernet, eight years old, a south-western slope, oak barrels, matured at 8 degrees. Requires three more years for finest results.”
“Correct.” A third glass… ”It’s a pinot blanch champagne, high grade and exclusive,” calmly said the drunk.
The director was astonished. He winked at his secretary, secretly suggesting something. She left the room, and came back in with a glass of urine. The alcoholic tried it.
“It’s a blonde, 26 years old, three months pregnant – and if I don’t get the job, I’ll name the father.”
A Tourist walked into a Chinese curio shop in San Francisco. While looking around at the exotic merchandise, he noticed a very lifelike, life-sized, bronze statue of a rat. It had no price tag, but was so incredibly striking the tourist decided he must have it. He took it to the old shop owner and asked, “How much for the bronze rat ?”
“Ahhh, you have chosen wisely! It is $12 for the rat and $100 for the story,” said the wise old China-man.
The tourist quickly pulled out twelve dollars. “I’ll just take the rat, you can keep the story”.
As he walked down the street carrying his bronze rat, the tourist noticed that a few real rats had crawled out of the alleys and sewers and had begun following him down the street. This was a bit disconcerting so he began walking faster.
A couple blocks later he looked behind him and saw to his horror the herd of rats behind him had grown to hundreds, and they began squealing.
Sweating now, the tourist began to trot toward San Francisco Bay.
Again, after a couple blocks, he looked around only to discover that the rats now numbered in the MILLIONS, and were squealing and coming toward him faster and faster.
Terrified, he ran to the edge of the Bay and threw the bronze rat as far as he could into the Bay.
Amazingly, the millions of rats all jumped into the Bay after the bronze rat and were all drowned.
The man walked back to the curio shop in Chinatown.
“Ahhh,” said the owner, “You come back for story ?”
“No sir,” said the man, “I came back to see if you have a bronze Democrat.
There are officially more than 50,000 cities around the world.
According to the United Nations, 2007 was the year in which the population of the world shifted so that more than 50% of the people worldwide lived in cities, not rural areas, for the first time in human history.
Rome was the first city in the world to attain a population of 1,000,000 people. Incredibly, historians estimate this landmark was reached more than 2,000 years ago in 133 BCE.
The first city in the world to be home to more than 5,000,000 people was London in 1900. In fact, London was the biggest city in the world until it was overtaken by New York in 1915.
With a total population of more than 37 million people, the world’s most highly populated city is Tokyo.
Zagreb, Croatia, is the only capital city in the world whose name begins with Z.
The world’s largest French-speaking city isn’t Paris – it is Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa.
FROM: BILL BOWSER
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