The Industry term is actually “Green Steel”, and the developments are mostly in the realm of using Hydrogen for refinement rather than Coal and Oxygen (which is difficult for a variety of reasons). Standard steelmaking (very basically) involves injecting Carbon (Coal, or equivalent) and Oxygen into molten Iron (or…

That makes a bit more sense. All of the Redwings I have are the severe-duty welted models, and I don’t have those same gait challenges to wreck the boots like that. Bumping up to heavy-duty boots on a daily basis and rotating two pairs should still help, but sending them out for resole before they're causing pain will…

How are you going through Redwings so quickly? If you’re wearing the same pair every single day get two pairs and rotate them, you’ll get vastly more life out of both pairs (3-5x or better). I have multiple pairs that have been rotated and they've held up for a decade in a Steel Mill environment (with monthly cleaning…

A lot of the longevity comes from the care you put into the boots too. I have a couple of pairs of metatarsal Redwings that have lasted 5+ years in a Steel Mill work environment (as an engineer not an hourly guy). I rotate between the two pairs daily to let the leather dry out, put in shoe trees to help with dryness…

That baffled me as well, until I read up on Aviation Horsepower ratings being different than those in cars. In a car you put your peak horsepower wherever the number is the highest, but in a piston-engined airplane you take the number at 2700 rpm and that’s your rating. Makes a lot more sense why they use such…

Billionaires?

I’m right there with you. Drove from Redlands, CA to Monee, IL in a little under 48 hours in a 1988 Dodge Dakota (in August with the A/C broken, would not recommend) last year when I relocated to the Chicago area. Two weeks later, while driving with my wife and our dogs, I departed for that same trip again and it took…

Pro Tip: Get your flight delay updates from Flight Aware (app or website). That information comes straight from FAA/ATC and updates nearly instantaneously. I used to fly a ton, and through that app I’d generally be able to figure out what was going on well before any ground crew announcements. You can also plug in…

It could be fixed *going forward* with a software fix, but for the cars out there a repair will require physical replacement of the flash memory. They’re wearing out solid state electronics with excessive use.

I believe the term is “Beefs”. Seriously.

Birmingham had a Hellcat Charger. They win.

The Lotus has a transverse layout straight out of a Toyota Camry, it’s essentially the same transmission as the supercharged 1st gen MR2 (with a V6). Ferrari hasn’t offered a manual transmission in their mid engined models since the F430 bowed out in 2009. The Lamborghini transmission is a specialty unit that costs a…

They print the stuff, they can have literally as much cash as they want. Not to say that they would pull that particular lever, but they certainly could.

Just a quick point on #3, the federal government (of the US specifically, but most other nations generally) absolutely does have that much cash. The federal budget of the US is approximately $3.8 trillion dollars which is 24 fully liquidated Jeff Bezos fortunes, they spend one Bezos (a new unit of measure) on just food…

There’s an argument where the economy actually improves in that scenario, as there is ample capital available for entrepreneurial ventures due to high savings rates and subsequent investment in the markets. I would think that things would go crazy for a while as various markets wound down or surged as appropriate.…

That can sometimes be a factor as well. I’m mostly familiar with Heavy Indutry, where downtime can cost ~$10k per hour or more. We don’t really worry about what shipping costs if it gets us up and running more quickly.

I’d bet it had something to do with downtime, which tends to be way more expensive than whatever the shipping costs might be. If you want the highest possible costs for large stuff, look at FedEx Custom Critical or similar. That shipping is literally the fastest possible dock to dock method, and it costs whatever it…

Gearing dictates top speed, power dictates whether you can get there, and how long it takes. I'd imagine it's not the quickest vehicle out there. 

As the owner of a $500 1988 Dakota, I’m 100% with you. Every problem I’ve had to fix with the truck was a direct result of previous owner neglect (and age). Since I’ve gotten things squared away, I drove the truck with a fully loaded 8 foot bed from Southern California to Chicago in the middle of summer without so…

Generally the airflow through a wheel is from the front and bottom of the car outward. That NACA duct is there to (theoretically) create a passive suction to draw air outward more effectively. In reality, Zagato almost certainly didn’t perform a CFD analysis on this duct, and put it there because they thought it…