tjm

didn't polar ice cap used to cover most of the USA?

I can agree with this. And if the subsidies are made available at individual level I would be much more comfortable with them than I am with them being paid to corporations that can vanish. Still a fraud factor but it should be less. I don't recall what the transmission loss amounts to per mile but taking the transmission and switching out of the equation autocratically boosts the usable output. I think the battery technology will never take us where we need to be, there must be another means to store the energy. Pump water uphill when the sun shines and let it turn a generator on the down trip when there is no sun, some built in loss but it might work for a small installation.

Wind power isn't new technology, even as generators they have been "perfecting" it since at least the 1970s and Don Quixote was fighting windmills in 1605. The tidal stuff might be viable, the Brits supposedly had working systems in the early '70s that were said to be cost effective. I don't know why we have never given that a shot, at least tides are consistent and somewhat predictable. The beauty of wind generation is most wind comes at night when the demand is low and the power can't be stored ; the when peak demand happens there is no way to turn the wind on. Further "perfection" of this technology needs to be investment driven, and the subsidies need to stop. The key to a better world is to stop using electricity and plastic, even a cold turkey stop tomorrow wouldn't offset the damage those two lifestyles have already created in less than a century. If it takes another 50 years to understand that no matter how you make these things the cost exceeds the benefits, it will be too late- may already be too late. What we have been doing in this country is sweeping our crap under a rug and telling ourselves we solved the problem. We cleaned up our industry by sending it to other countries that don't care and have no restrictions, maybe resulting in worse overall pollution of the planet- but we convince ourselves we did a wonderful thing.

Wonder what that cost is in total carbon? I also wonder if any one has ever studied the down wind effect of wild mill created turbulence, if a butterfly wing can change air motion enough to cause a storm on the other side of the planet, what long range/long term effect might wind farms cause? It wold have to be a theoretical study or mathematical model, but has it ever even been considered?

can't argue that the best place to locate these things would be in the cities, short transmission lines would save enough that the payout would happen sooner. (although most existing roof tops aren't designed to carry the additional loads) Can't agree more in that the energy sources should not be mandated. I also think that any energy source should not not be government dependent nor directly subsidized unless by a referendum. wind generation has a lot more peripheral damage than just the birds, but I don't know of any studies that show a before and after of windmill areas, one of the big things is as soon as the subsidy stops or the mills need maintenance the owner corporations abandon them and go out of business so they can't be held responsible, while the principals start new corporations bilking the public in a new location building more government financed short term windmills.

Read about them in depth, been trying to figure out a perpetual motion machine too. The only alternative energy source that actually pays out is nuclear and if we look at waste disposal it doesn't look real good for the earth either.

Well, that figures, is there any one of the green industries that is not subsidy driven? Will the government pay to dispose of the hazardous material in a electric car at the end of it's life or is that another windmill deal? At least the cars don't kill passing birds at the same rate the windmills do. An interesting study would be to figure out the total loss of public monies lost subsidizing windmill and solar energy schemes that failed before the payout was reached. It would make expenditures on the war against drugs or the wars against religion look small.

So, by the laws of physics, every change in form of energy is a net loss of energy, fuel to turn generator, loss; generator motion to electric, loss; electric transmission, loss to friction and heat; every transformer en route is again a loss; the charger itself is a loss; unless your electricity is hydro generated and the charger is on site there is no way that any battery device can be "green". The very infrastructure to transport the electricity to your home has untold environmental cost that no one will even talk about. Anybody know how many gallons of fossil fuel are consumed in the growing, harvesting, transport, storage, and distillation of corn to get one gallon of ethanol and the how many more gallons of fossil fuel to distribute and mix that ethanol into my pump gas so that I can get 2-3 mpg less on the roads?

Al, does that calculation count the transport and shipping of Mo mined lead in ore form to some offshore country for unrestricted smelting and the shipping of the refined lead back to the battery manufacturing location? or just the battery manufacturing process? What is the useful life of these batteries?

Any use of electric power is anti environmental. Everyone say's "It's not Me screwing the earth" while doing exactly that. If we use plastic or electricity or any kind of powered machinery, we are the culprits. Hypocrisy is mans greatest achievement.

Every "green" gizmo fad out there costs the environment more than the stuff it replaces. The saviors of the earth can't do math and depend on second hand propaganda to make emotional decisions. Anyone that honestly claims to want to pass on a better world to their kids or grandkids would not be on this forum using up electric power generated by fossil fuels on a machine that created as much toxic waste in manufacture as the nastiest car out there. All those bass boats and jet boats fall in the same "green" category as MoCarp's Big Block muscle car, so anyone using one is on the same side he is.

Looks like all the environmentalist anglers would be using wind power.

Sounds like you had a good time, and the fish were bigger than I normally see over there, 3lbs are rare for me to see. I missed another opening day, I guess that makes about 35 in a row that I've missed.

Access is limited. 10 minutes from my house and I rarely fish it at all. If you found "a few places " ; i wish you would share with me. MDC /town access by 71B in Pineville, MDC Mt Shira access near Ginger Blue, MDC access at Mo43 are the only public accesses that I know of.

imo, no. The ferule will still be there, it just won't come apart or twist out of position. The sensitivity is designed into the taper of the mandrel and the thickness of the layup when making the rod. An exception might be if the ferule is very worn and loose. If the rod is tip over butt the two pieces were made on different mandrels to begin with and never were a single taper. This is just opinion, I have never actually glued ferules, though I have thought of it concerning 4 & 5 piece fly rods, just to eliminate the aggravation of jacking with so many parts. I have used rods that were left together for so long that the ferules stuck.

If you're wading, just keep the guides in the water while making the drift and retrieve. water is always above freezing. I can't imagine a reason to be in a boat when it's cold.

Are any of these true as identifiers? what makes some of you positive that it is a brown and some positive it is rainbow? spots on adipose = brown? Spots on tail=rainbow? Single spots=rainbow? haloed spots=brown? I'm not at all certain, what it is. Tend to go with the hen rainbow, but...

well, the idea is not to be ethical or legal exactly, the idea is to not get caught and ticketed, it took me a bit to understand that- I was seeing things as too technical This says that no matter where you were when the fish were caught (other state) you can only possess what is legal to catch in Mo. So, technically (that is the description of legality) if you have 300 bass in your freezer and they were all caught legally in whatastate you are in violation in Mo. Thing is just deny that it is your freezer. and only answer the agent in Hungarian. It's them against us, ain't it?

A warden lied to me all those years ago, i guess. So, if I continue fishing for sunfish and gullet hook a fish (trout) I am limited out on, how do I comply with the "unharmed" part of the immediate release?

COE doesn't show online purchase that I found, https://www.swl.usace.army.mil/Business-With-Us/Day-Use-Fees-Annual-Day-Use-Pass/ places that sell the annual pass https://www.swl.usace.army.mil/Portals/50/docs/operations/SWL AtBGateHouseLocations5-2-16.pdf

"A little dab'll do ya" Not very much at a time and start with the same small amount whether the hook is size 20 or size 2. Add more as needed as many times as needed. Some threads and dubbings work better with wax for me, but many times I skip the wax. Dipping finger tips in water will soften your skin and add friction to the mix, it will also reduce/eliminate static when using certain materials. If the noodle wants to keep rolling around the thread simply slide it up til a turn around the hook secures it and you can twist it tighter.

Where do the regulations say i can keep fishing after my limit is caught?

C&R at it's finest. Pride in conservation.

Ballast?

Do trout inhale 3-4" minnows? Why do streamers get tied with tandem/trailer hooks? I think the eating method depends on size of food size of fish and location in the water column, but that is just what I've always thought. I have observed the take and spit in real water and suckers can do that faster than trout, I think all fish do it. I have had many fish drag a night crawler around by the tail including rainbow trout and lmb. I watched 4" sunfish eat shiners from the tail one bite at a time. The only interest I've gotten on the mega worm though has been longear. Mostly I have fished water that allowed sight to 4' or more and at depth the fish may act differently.