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.”
FROM: BILL BOWSER
