we are not upholding the laws that he and some others like chuck Schumer violated and got us into this mess. We are seeking an answer and blaming every other bloke but the guilty ones. What is that called, when laws are not enforced? Anarchy? lawlessness? shades of the wild wild west with the drunken sheriff?
I do a lot of winter riding. Invest in a set of studded tires. As in carbide/steel studded, not knobby. Nokian and Schwalbe make some decent tires. You get what you pay for. Make sure you have frame clearance and if possible, get fenders. I have biked down frozen creeks, across frozen lakes, and thousands of miles of icy roads. Only been down a few times, mostly while messing around, not on roads. The tires have more rolling resistance, but they provide great grip on ice and hard packed snow. As for other things: Make sure you either dry your bike off after it thaws (if you bring it inside), or keep it frozen. Water can be your enemy, especially if it gets in brake cable housings. Footwear: The fat bike/winter biking revolution has led to more choices. Make sure you have waterproof footwear, and use foot retention. Gaiters can help to keep your feet/legs dry. Shell/layers: Avoid cotton layers. Cotton retains moisture and will leave you miserable. A waterproof/breathable shell helps when temps are hovering around freezing. Overheating was my main issue when I first started, over dressing and not shedding layers early enough, ending up drenched in sweat. Seat: avoid anything that retains moisture. Face: if it gets really cold in your area, invest in a pair of ski goggles, avoid bare exposed skin. Make sure you can reach your brakes with your gloves/mits!
shoulds don't help. Plain fact is that working at a billion volts is difficult to impossible. But if the capacitor is big enough, the voltage will never build up that high. Visualize a high voltage current source feeding a large capacitor. When the supply is gated on, the cap starts ramping up in voltage. The larger the cap value, the slower the ramp. So in theory you could have a very large ?F 100000 volt capacitor connected to a lightning rod. When or if the voltage exceeded 100000 volts, a spark gap could shunt the rest of the energy to ground. But how big a cap would you need to handle 3000 amps for 100?s? C it/v 3000x100?/100000 3?F. a 3?f 100000 volt cap seems difficult but not impossible. The next problem is the infrastructure. You would need millions of these scattered all around the US, each with it's extremely large and expensive high voltage cap, and a DC-Dc converter to convert that charge to AC, and circuitry to put it into the grid. How much energy would each of these supply? E ?CV? 15000 joules or 4 watt hours This is an extremely small amount of power. If you had 1000 bolts hit this, that would be 4 kW hours, still very small, worth about 20 cents. link: The average lightning bolt contains a billion volts at 3,000 amps, or 3 billion kilowatts of power, enough energy to run a major city for months. The United States gets hit with 4,000 lightning bolts a day.
So they won't get hit by vehicles. That was a required part of our uniforms when we worked on the flightline.
