About 1): Nice initiative, seems promising About 2): Bad Idea..... Now the turbines will spin up. And the increased rotational forces may severely damage the turbine, or blades.
A better long term solution is increasing national interconnection withing the European grid. Middle term would be improvement of existing HV connections, building new HV connections. A long term sollution would be to build and EHV DC backbone accross Europe, from spain to Russia and from Rome to Stockholm.
Why EHV: Extra High Voltage: this must be done to decrease transport losses Why DC: this must be done to prevent oscilations (standing waves) and capacitive/inductive currents, which hinder real power transfer. Another advantage of DC is that it doesn't couple frequency cycles of local nets, thereby allowing coupling between nets with differing frequency policies. (Ex: US: 60 Hz, Western Europe 50 Hz within a few percent, Russia, 50 Hz withing a few Hz.)
The existance of such a EHV DC backbone would allow for more efficient use of renewable energy, since most forms of renewable energy are neither constant nor predicable. Coupling with such a grid would allow for a statistically more constant level of renewable energy.
In the Netherlands, the legal minimum power factor for any aparatus is 0.8.
That means that is you have 220 V and 1 Amp, there should be at least 176 W of power consumption. What is the reason behind this regulation. Well imagine that same 176 W of consumption with a power factor of 0.1. This would imply an 8 Ampere current. This current does move through the wires, say 10 metres in your house and 100km in the utilities wires (ok transformed up, but still). These wires have resistance, so this current produces heat. Apart from the question of who pays for these losses, there is something more important: The maximum energy transfer capacity along a line is mainly limited by its thermal capacity. (Crudely said: As long as the lines don't melt, they function). At a power factor of 0.1 the real capacity (I.E. the number of W transfered to the other side) of a line would be at least a factor of 64 lower than at a power factor of 0.8 minimum (losses are relative to the current squared).
So depending on your legislation (how it defines power factor, just under load conditions or all conditions) the computed power use by these apparatus may well be close to the values you computed.
I don't think it is a CPU problem, or not enough power.
I have often seen the same behaviour the poster described, and it is linked to figures and figure placement.
What i suspect is that the program goes into some strange loop that goes like this..
"Hmmm where shall i put this picture....
here,
hey the placement marker now is on the next page, and is absolute, so i think i should move the pic to the next page.
here,
hey the placement marker now is on the previous page, and is absolute, so i think i should move the pic to the previous page. "
If there is only one marker, it resolves pretty quickly, but once more than one marker starts to jump pages all hell breaks loose.
And we are not even talking about the joys of OLE...
One of the "problems" is that many installs have $EDITOR defined as vi (or a close clone).
While this is all nice, handy and dandy for experienced users, a user who just starts with unix/linux doesn't understand it.
Sure vi is powerfull, sure you can do many neat things with it *if you know how*.
That is exactly the problem. The new user doesn't.
In this case it would be much better to have $EDITOR be something like pico or joe...
*WARNING DONNING ASBESTOS SUIT"
Besides....
Emacs is superior to vi:-)
Note however i didn't suggest that new users be saddled with emacs either.
Microsoft being a "rechtspersoon" (:=person as defined by a law) is subject to local law. A good example would be: can an american sue Shell? It is a British-Dutch comany after all. Like kv-tje writes a sale in a country is subject to the laws of that country. This case is made easier by the fact that MS has a specific office for the Benelux... All countries will strive to prevent allowing legal disputes at home being fought in a foreign country.
umm, When i make coffee, i use boiling water. If it is hot, i wait till it has the correct temperature (which varies according to the outside temperature and mood:-) ) If any joint sells me coffee at "drinking temperature" it usually means tepid. It also means that the customers have no choice about the temperature at which one drinks. If the coffee is served hot, you do have a choice, however freedom of choice requires a certain amount of responsibility. And if you are not up to even such responsibility....... Hey how's that, changing the temperature of coffee to a "free choice" issue:-)
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About 1): Nice initiative, seems promising
About 2): Bad Idea..... Now the turbines will spin up. And the increased rotational forces may severely damage the turbine, or blades.
A better long term solution is increasing national interconnection withing the European grid.
Middle term would be improvement of existing HV connections, building new HV connections.
A long term sollution would be to build and EHV DC backbone accross Europe, from spain to Russia and from Rome to Stockholm.
Why EHV: Extra High Voltage: this must be done to decrease transport losses
Why DC: this must be done to prevent oscilations (standing waves) and capacitive/inductive currents, which hinder real power transfer.
Another advantage of DC is that it doesn't couple frequency cycles of local nets, thereby allowing coupling between nets with differing frequency policies. (Ex: US: 60 Hz, Western Europe 50 Hz within a few percent, Russia, 50 Hz withing a few Hz.)
The existance of such a EHV DC backbone would allow for more efficient use of renewable energy, since most forms of renewable energy are neither constant nor predicable. Coupling with such a grid would allow for a statistically more constant level of renewable energy.
In the Netherlands, the legal minimum power factor for any aparatus is 0.8.
That means that is you have 220 V and 1 Amp, there should be at least 176 W of power consumption.
What is the reason behind this regulation.
Well imagine that same 176 W of consumption with a power factor of 0.1. This would imply an 8 Ampere current. This current does move through the wires, say 10 metres in your house and 100km in the utilities wires (ok transformed up, but still). These wires have resistance, so this current produces heat. Apart from the question of who pays for these losses, there is something more important:
The maximum energy transfer capacity along a line is mainly limited by its thermal capacity. (Crudely said: As long as the lines don't melt, they function).
At a power factor of 0.1 the real capacity (I.E. the number of W transfered to the other side) of a line would be at least a factor of 64 lower than at a power factor of 0.8 minimum (losses are relative to the current squared).
So depending on your legislation (how it defines power factor, just under load conditions or all conditions) the computed power use by these apparatus may well be close to the values you computed.
I don't think it is a CPU problem, or not enough power.
I have often seen the same behaviour the poster described, and it is linked to figures and figure placement.
What i suspect is that the program goes into some strange loop that goes like this..
"Hmmm where shall i put this picture....
here,
hey the placement marker now is on the next page, and is absolute, so i think i should move the pic to the next page.
here,
hey the placement marker now is on the previous page, and is absolute, so i think i should move the pic to the previous page. "
If there is only one marker, it resolves pretty quickly, but once more than one marker starts to jump pages all hell breaks loose.
And we are not even talking about the joys of OLE...
One of the "problems" is that many installs have $EDITOR defined as vi (or a close clone).
:-)
While this is all nice, handy and dandy for experienced users, a user who just starts with unix/linux doesn't understand it.
Sure vi is powerfull, sure you can do many neat things with it *if you know how*.
That is exactly the problem. The new user doesn't.
In this case it would be much better to have $EDITOR be something like pico or joe...
*WARNING DONNING ASBESTOS SUIT"
Besides....
Emacs is superior to vi
Note however i didn't suggest that new users be saddled with emacs either.
Microsoft being a "rechtspersoon" (:=person as defined by a law) is subject to local law. A good example would be: can an american sue Shell? It is a British-Dutch comany after all. Like kv-tje writes a sale in a country is subject to the laws of that country. This case is made easier by the fact that MS has a specific office for the Benelux... All countries will strive to prevent allowing legal disputes at home being fought in a foreign country.
Bohr was danish :-)
I can know that being dutch
off course, except if MS deliberately put an DOS checking code in win 3.1
If that is the case, it is more comparable of a Ford refusing to drive on tires not authorized by the Ford Motor Company...
First read, and think before reacting...
That would prevent blunders as this one....
umm, When i make coffee, i use boiling water. If it is hot, i wait till it has the correct temperature (which varies according to the outside temperature and mood :-) ) If any joint sells me coffee at "drinking temperature" it usually means tepid. It also means that the customers have no choice about the temperature at which one drinks. If the coffee is served hot, you do have a choice, however freedom of choice requires a certain amount of responsibility. And if you are not up to even such responsibility....... Hey how's that, changing the temperature of coffee to a "free choice" issue :-)