The elusive Nissan Prius parked next to my car:








Meanwhile, in the older part of the machine room:

 

 

 

^ pretty good.

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I don't know why I keep watching this:

 

Istanbul has weird weather.

It was 50F one late night, then it started raining, followed by a bone chilling cold wind and snow.
Dipped down to 23F with a full on snow storm and 8" accumulation, all in the space of less than 36 hours.

Still snowing.
We are happily stranded at home.
(I stockpiled tea and cigarettes, so we can last quite a while)

 

I thought Turkey was supposed to have a moderate climate!

 

Sign of the times...

This is as moderate as anything gets over here these days.
(Turkish social media is all but a soapbox for hate speech, for example)

 

And a birdie to you too, sir.

 

That seems like a lot of asbestos...


Something interesting came out of my oil pan this afternoon:



It's non-ferrous. And I'm fairly certain it's not even metal. I think it's a rock.

 

It's casting flash. If you dig through my thread I had the same thing come out.

 

The BP-Z3 block was made out of stone? Because that's what this is.



Unrelated: I love watching these very slow-paced videos of Germans making stuff, with no annoying music, no narration, no CG, no fancy editing, just... manufacturing.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/710104299134231/videos/910320979112561/

 

 

 

Common core fun

 

Tesla turbine. Relies on boundary layer effects and not direct impingement. Amazeballs.

 

Prediction:

Someone will connect a centrifugal air compressor to the output shaft, and claim on Youtube / GoFundMe to have invented an over-unity machine. They will only need a small amount of funding to develop it into a fully working commercial product and / or will find themselves persecuted and suppressed by large corporate interests.