Radio Transcription

KI7ZI

Good afternoon and happy New Year to everyone. It was nice checking in with you at midnight, Jack, on the repeater there. It was foggy last night. I was charging up my car and it got all charged up. Overall, the electric car is going good. Sometimes the charging is a bit of a hassle, but so far I'm kind of digging it. It definitely has cut my fueling prices by at least half. So, let's see, long list of things to do today, the fog is kind of dissipating, I'm going to get outside in a little while, clean up my old key of soul, which Lisa left as kind of a mess. Just reading about gasoline powered stuff in California, first of all Tesla is kind of in trouble because they've now been ordered by the state to modify their advertising and stop using terms such as fully self driving and autopilot because that's been misleading and so they're facing the need to change their advertising and all that kind of good stuff or not have any sales in California, which is pretty severe. Then I was reading an article about gas powered stuff that's been banned in California, gas lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and so forth. He was saying, for example, the gas-powered leaf blower has as much emissions in an hour as driving from Seattle to L.A. and back. Wow. And I know when the landscaping people come and blow leaves here at my apartment building, it's pretty loud. And I know they've got electric leaf blowers that, you know, maybe you can't run them all day on a battery but they are very quiet, very, very quiet. Anyway, in fact, the website Planet Farm, Project Farm, anyway, had a review on leak blowers about a year ago and the big powerful ones, the Ryobi one, I think it's a 48 volt one, had the best performance and the quietest by far. So there are quiet leak blowers out there for sure if they're electric. Other than that, I've got a long list of steps to do, so I will get on with my list. Thanks for the net, KI7ZI.