HoneyBee

Yesterday I was reading an article in the "Tribune de Geneve" covering the yearly hot air balloon competition taking place in Chateau d'Oex. This is a ski resort in Switzerland which I have used many times in my youth. The pictures blew me away as there was no snow. Found a website that gives the snow conditions and it stated all installations closed. Darn these theories are really killing the ski season.....

My neighbors wants to put me up for adoption. I would make a great companion for your dog and his food is clearly to my liking.... Am 68 years old drink a little but do not smoke 😊 😊

Can you imagine expats walking around nude to try to stay cool ! As my dad use to say "I don't care what you do in public as long as you do not scare the horses" 😊

Out of curiosity what is the difference between the blue and the yellow planes ?

Thank you Ferret (use up my quota of reactions..)

Well I never intended to discuss about stuff made that requires petroleum. My thread was to have a civilized conversation about the contamination of the air we breath and the water we drink and the consequences of global warming (the 3r world war should handle the over population and its coming are way). So getting back to hydrogen you will note that it is being adopted by pretty much all truck makers.

Glad to see that at least you still have some common sense. Thank you

I think the key word in this article is "Temporarily".

Freightliner and Kenworth both have Hydrogen Fuel cell powered trucks in the works. From memory, Kenworth is using Toyota's fuel cell technology. On a side note, you can use battery packs to store energy produced by wind and sun to be used when needed. In my mind windmills have a good future. You mention the massive amount of lubricants they require. True, but a 165 MW gas turbine has a lubricant tank capacity of about 15 thousand liters (and this is by memory). Currently, they are in the process of building a 1000 MW wind farm off the coast of Connecticut, time will tell if it effects rain fall on land.

I believe that by 2030 you will see the results of the transition from dirty to clean energy. It takes time but look what has been achieved in the past 8 years, its impressive. Myself, after selling my tesla stock and building my first castle 😊 I got involved with Nikola Motors. Its not for the faint of heart as I bought my first shares at the equivalent of 580 pesos bought some more at 300 pesos and lastly at 23 pesos a share. They are now trading at around 13 pesos a share. But Nikola has finally started the commercial production of their class 8 hydrogen fuel cell truck in September of last year. Many car and truck companies are moving towards the use of hydrogen fuel cells to power their products. Time will tell (I may lose my investments but at least I was right in believing in fuel cells as the future).

The 1929 wall street crash 😊 Agree about urban structure effecting measurements but let me just say this, I grew up in the French speaking part of Switzerland and as a kid made several visits to the Rhone glacier which feeds the lake Leman. At that time they had a tunnel carved out so you could walk in to its guts. Today that glacier is nothing more then a pop icicle. Luckily, many governments are taking action by subsidizing wind and solar energy and just recently, the Biden administration infused billions of dollars for the production and distribution of green hydrogen. I hope to see this change before I go.....

According to a Reuters article this morning, 2023 was the hottest year on record world wide. In Chapala. the temperature climbed a little above 37 Celsius. I finally gave up and went to Mazamitla for 10days. Am making plans to spend several months in the Metepec area this summer because a seriously doubt we will see any improvement this year. To bad many do not believe in climate change. (you may go to paradise but it will probably be as hot as hell 😊).

Drove by Garage Gourmet today and from what I could see they seemed to be closing their business (shelving's where empty).

So I decided to stop by the Hola market today to see is they had jerky sticks. They had them and the price was 230 pesos a bag. Bought 2 because Costco sells them at 210 pesos a bag and from memory Pancho's sells them at around 340 pesos a bag. So my days going to Costco are over 😊 Just hope Pancho's does not find a way to put them out of business. Some of you may remember the grocery store that was located where the Tuesday market now operates. It was operated by a couple from Texas. Me and my mom use to shop there back in I think 2008. Well every week there was less and less stuff on the shelves and one day they just closed. The story I got is that Superlake where paying customs to hold back containers of stuff for this business. (Yes money rules in Mexico).

This is confusing. I pay SIMAPA every year at the Presidencia of Chapala using my debit card and get a receipt for each one of my water meters (have 7 total). I went Tuesday 2 of January and was done in no time and this included my property tax payments. Keep in mind that many do not pay their water bill since having water is a derecho humano......in Mexico.

Rule #1 in Mexico is there are no rules. 😊

The dollar used to be tied to gold now it is tied to the price of paper it is printed on. ☹️

There is a foot doctor who has a practice at the San Antonio Hospital (ground floor right side). I had an in grown tow nail partially cut out over a year ago.

Yes you are correct since back then they probably did not use the color coding pink are blue and then again these days its also best and safer to also include the rain bow colors as well. 😊

Actually I wish that France and Brazil had borders with Mexico like that I would have the option of great food and wine as well as some wild fun. 😊

And what if the just in time new baby was a girl..😊

The next time I see them I will take note if its on a weekend. 😊

You may have missed the fact that "they" do not have license plates on their toys. (I see them in my area and will add that they are nice toys to play with 😊).

I believe the Honda Fit is no longer available in North America and this since 2020. The Nissan March seems to be a popular little car.

it means good when pronounced with a French accent. 😊