2035

[stmitch]

Part of the issue with stuff backing up at the ports is due to the fact that CA has already put into effect a law that states big rig tractors cannot be more than 10 or 15 years of age (I forget the exact life they allow) and after that time they must be replaced. Along with that, they put into effect a law that ICE trucks cannot be used or sold in the state after I think 2030. So no trucking company wants to buy new tractors because they will have to turn them over soon, and there are not the electric or hydrogen alternatives available in quantity at this time, so there are not enough trucks. Add to that the fact that the unions managed to get through a law that independent operators are not allowed at the ports, only unionized drivers from large trucking companies and you can see why stuff is piling up at the ports in CA. So, yes they are already banning existing technology.

The registration ban for older diesels is part of CARB's "Truck and Bus Regulation":

Truck and Bus Regulation | California Air Resources Board

ww2.arb.ca.gov

They're now implementing the final phase, but all of this was written and enacted in 2008. The regulation basically states that diesel trucks must have working 2010 model year (or newer) emissions hardware in place (DPF and DEF/SCR systems). Any business owner has had over a decade to prepare for this final phase out of older diesels. It's not a rolling time frame, where 10 year old trucks will continue to be banned each year or anything. It's just that they're not going to register diesel trucks with unregulated emissions. The regulation does allow for older trucks to be registered if it can be proven that they're compliant with MY2010 regulations, and there is some financial assistance for qualifying businesses to upgrade.

 

[Bill]

Part of the issue with stuff backing up at the ports is due to the fact that CA has already put into effect a law that states big rig tractors cannot be more than 10 or 15 years of age (I forget the exact life they allow) and after that time they must be replaced. Along with that, they put into effect a law that ICE trucks cannot be used or sold in the state after I think 2030. So no trucking company wants to buy new tractors because they will have to turn them over soon, and there are not the electric or hydrogen alternatives available in quantity at this time, so there are not enough trucks. Add to that the fact that the unions managed to get through a law that independent operators are not allowed at the ports, only unionized drivers from large trucking companies and you can see why stuff is piling up at the ports in CA. So, yes they are already banning existing technology.

No, that has nothing to do with the backup at the ports. It started with people buying a lot more junk junk from China during COVID, then they had a shortage of people working in the port due to COVID, then a combination of a shortage of truck drivers combined with drivers just not going to the port because they didn't want to wait in line for 8 hours to pick up a load. This resulted in the containers taking up all the room in the port and ships having to wait off the coast. Now there's a shortage of rail workers.

Over $31 billion in trade is rail-landlocked or stuck at anchor off U.S. coasts

Tens of billions in trade is backed up as a result of rail and shipping vessel issues at ports on both the East Coast and West Coast of the U.S.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Uncle Gump]

I'm glad to see this is back on more of the direction I was hoping it would go...

I dove into hydrogen fuel cell tech a little when the last EV post was on fire here. It seems to me the big hold back on that technology (I hope I remember right) was a critical element helium 3. Which is pretty scarce on earth. If I remember right it's plentiful on the moon.

Coincidence that today was to be the first trip to the moon in a half century with the largest cargo rocket ever put into space?

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Rocket was a no go...

They can do the fuel cell thing with different things, they started out with propane in the 50's.

 

[fastpakr]

Hydrogen has several hangups. One of the biggest is the enormous amount of energy spent trying to split it. It might work for big systems with a few defined refueling ports, but I really don't think we'll ever see it for over the road vehicles.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Funny kinda...

Was cooking dinner while the mews was going on the TV.

I heard them mention the rocket launch delay and that part of future missions to the moon were to mine materials to make fuel for future missions back to the moon.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Funny kinda...

Was cooking dinner while the mews was going on the TV.

I heard them mention the rocket launch delay and that part of future missions to the moon were to mine materials to make fuel for future missions back to the moon.

Just wait until they find oil up there...

 

[rumblecloud]

They will put a Nuclear plant there and beam the power to the states.
Hopefully it will go straight to Lala land and separate it from the mainland....

Tongue in cheek for all you LA dwellers. Move out now before it's too late..

Seriously though I did read about NASA considering nukes on the moon. I'm in.

Nukes on the moon

 

[pjtoledo]

oh great, the energy transfer beam will lose it's focus and guess what happens then

maybe a highly polished tin foil hat will protect us.

 

[oldgeek]

oh great, the energy transfer beam will lose it's focus and guess what happens then

But, my, what a nice tan!

 

[pjtoledo]

hmmm,,

random thoughts about the proposed energy beam sending power down from the Moon

I'm old enough to know that once upon a time TV technicians fine tuned the picture of cathode ray tubes,, (AKA big 'ol antique tube TVs) with magnets placed around the back of the tube that altered the electron beams trajectory.

it won't be long before hackers attach gigantic magnets to drones so they can divert (steal) the energy beam to their offshore receivers

 

[Uncle Gump]

Radiation burns are no joke... it's more then a tan... it a burn that keeps burning. This one continued to burn for nearly two months. It's now more like alligator perma tan.

 

[oldgeek]

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Radiation burns are no joke... it's more then a tan... it a burn that keeps burning. This one continued to burn for nearly two months. It's now more like alligator perma tan.

Yikes! What did you do???

 

[Curious Hound]

Yikes! What did you do???

He insulted his doctor

 

[Uncle Gump]

Yikes! What did you do???

Was receiving a radiation treatment for a severe case of basal cell skin cancer. Their machine went haywire and absolutely cooked my arm and thumb. After four months from my final treatment... I still have numbness and limited dexterity in my thumb... not sure it will ever be the same honestly.