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For those unlike Bill who have to pay for the DC fast chargers (Tesla calls them Superchargers) it is on par with gas costs. $0.43 per kWh around me, which is close to $4 per 30 miles hence the on par with gas comparison. My home rate is about 1/4 of that, so excluding long trips I would pay about $1 per 30 miles.

The normal exception for currency regulations at DZs I have jumped at is the spring season startup, most everyone is un-current, but no one is like "everyone needs to jump with an instructor before anyone else" But of course that is a 6 month layoff, not a 10 year one.

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nice reference

The grid is strained in the afternoon and early evening, but overnight has capacity. My charger is set to only charge my car between 11pm and 6am when the rates are lowest. That cars need to pull power from the grid doesn't mean they are bad for it, in fact electric cars will eventually be able to help smooth the power grid demands by functioning as a giant distributed power source when they are plugged by discharging their batteries during peak demand.

Drive-In

I read the obit of Sean Kelly, the one-time editor of the National Lampoon and founder of Heavy Metal magazine. The rabbit hole I went down lead me to Son-O-God, the satirical comic series published occasionally in the Lampoon in the '70s. Fascinating to read, very funny, but also of its time. https://web.archive.org/web/20160310030108/http://dialbforblog.com/archives/417/index.html

landing strip

years ago I disassembled a sky tie and replaced the cordura with left over tie die from my rig. The elastic in band has failed so I got some new elastic band and am going to disassemble it and replace the band. Was there anything in how I sewed it (other than my fail on straight lines) that made it prone to failure? (I have maybe 250 jumps on it)

clipper ship

that's a great pic. just from the tease point of view, as so much is left out of frame. I assume it is a balloon with a custom exit point on it? and you with the engines on your legs...how did they work? we are left to guess.

making decisions

it's not useful to post links that are behind paywalls. The link had a video that I could watch that had impressions from WSJ staffers from all over the world who were given experiences in electric cars to see how they compared, but I have no idea if that at all related to the actual article. I have had my Tesla Model 3 for 10 months and put 12000+ miles on it. I have had no nightmare experiences. I assume that the writer of the article did not have a Tesla, and therefore had trouble finding fast chargers, which is a temporary problem. I am not sure what point @brenthutch is trying to make. Is he trying to say the world is making a huge mistake going electric and we will all live to regret it? Or just pointing out that buying a non-Tesla may make road trips harder in the short term?

Jersey Shore (slut + Bon Jovi)

Thanks for sharing that with us. I took a course from Luigi Cani back in the day, and he got his course materials from you, so in a way I got a course from you. I never got a chance to meet, but your name to me is always going to be synonymous with canopy training.

bridesmaid

better man (that was really sweet. we've been to open mics in Nashville!)

Drama

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