Really? A loop rather than a tree structure? Running an extension doesn't mean a loop was created so I'm rather curious as to the wiring setup of the equipment.
I'm aware of load balancing issues. When I built my farm and USDA butcher shop I very carefully did the load balancing. I did all the electric, plumbing, concrete, design, engineering, permitting, etc so I'm familiar with these issues.
There is no "neighborhood" 3Ã. Everything is 240V180Â here (phase and a half or what ever you would like to call it to poke fun). To get native 3Ã would have been $80K and 1.5 miles of run just for me. Not worth it.
The 3Ã digital converter does a perfect job, load balances and only cost $5,500. This is not to be confused with rotary phase converters which consume and waste a lot of power.
I suspect from what you wrote that you did not understand what I wrote.
I have grinders, bandsaws, etc with three-phase (3Ã) motors.
The power coming from my utility is single phase (240@180Â almost two-phase as I said).
I have a digital phase converter that takes the two legs of the single phase and outputs 3Ã at 120Â as needed for the big motors.
The power company does not supply 3Ã to my neighbors either. The nearest native 3Ã is 1.5 miles and $80,000 away from me - not worth installing. I live literally at the end of the power line, or rather 840' beyond it. I know all about this since I spent a lot of effort looking into it so you can take my word on this rather than guessing.
Once again the EU tries to impose it's laws on the rest of the world. What this will result in is platforms leaving the EU. If the platform is not physically in the EU the EU has no actual control over them. Sure, the EU can convict them in absentia but so what. Just ignore the EU.
Actually, this sort of thing does have potential although non-electrical-engineers may not realize why. I have single phase (sort of almost 2Ã) at my farm. I installed a 3Ã digital phase converter (Phase Perfect for those who are interested) which uses very little power itself but generates a third phase and puts the other two in proper alignment so I can now run large motors (grinder, bandsaw in my butcher shop) efficiently. This makes the motors run smoother, cooler and last longer.
Actually, yes, phone bills and bandwidth have gotten a LOT cheaper. Rent not so much but that is a finite physical world resource which is quite different than energy or information resources. Moore's Law doesn't apply to apartments, so far.
Clarification: I meant that the person saying "70 year claim is bullshit" was wrong. They did have measurements that far back. Rereading my comment it almost looks like I'm responding to the other responder who had good points about the landfall.
You're wrong. I have an ancestor who was very into meteorology, tracking winds and temperatures over 200 years ago. He also did the first air crossing of the English Channel - very avant garde - in part so he could get data. Ironically I follow in his footsteps with similar scientific bends and research today.
Global Warming is real but it is not to blame for as much as it is being blamed for and what all too many fail to realize is not only are there losers but there are winners. Global warming in the past is associated with increased biodiversity and the expansion and thriving of life.
Now, Global Cooling is another story. You really don't want another ice age...
Actually, global warming is good for many people, plants and animals. In the past, the periods of global warming are when life thrived, biodiversity exploded and the ecologies expanded.
In contrast, periods of global cooling resulted in die backs and extinctions.
We are coming out of a global cooling period that was punctuated by some mini-ice ages as they are termed.
Global warming is benefiting people and ecologies who live in northern climates where the world's warming benefits life.
The problem, to humans, and specifically liberals, is that they built homes in urban areas which tend to be near oceans and other bodies of water that, particularly the oceans, are rising. When their very permanent homes go under water they get upset.
There have been a few studies that clearly delineated how there are people who are going to benefit from global warming but these are not exciting ideas so the media doesn't publicize them much. The media prefers FUD - Fear Uncertainty and Doubt - reporting since that sells more clicks and copies.
(By the way, I'm not particularly liberal or conservative but rather a scientist and farmer. I take the issues as they come rather than following dogma.)
Web developers are still doing a bad job. They fail to filter out unnecessary characters and reject perfectly reasonable input. Telephone numbers are a classic web dev fail. All of these should be valid: (508) 999-1010 1-508-999-1010 5089991010 508-999-1010 and more.
Credit card numbers, dates and others are also major fail points.
"Lab grown are not special, they're not real, they're not unique. You can make exactly the same one again and again," Bruce Cleaver, chief executive officer of De Beers
Thanks! Every year there's some new project or some added aspect of an old project. I build things incrementally, evolving rather than revolutionarily. That is to say I test things on small scales then larger scales. Before building the butcher shop I built our house, before that a dog house, before that a smaller animal shelter, before that models.
The butcher shop weighs in at 1.6 million pounds and not needing heating nor cooling because of it's design and construction. That in turn let me test ideas for my next project which we've started on this summer... It will probably take ten years to complete this one, one in three or four primary stages.
We're in USDA Zone 3. Summer high of: 30ÂC (86ÂF) Winter low of: -42ÂC (-45ÂF)
Our butcher shop says cold enough that we do not have any mechanical refrigeration for the building. I have spaces I'll eventually make into walk-in coolers but we got our USDA license without that. In fact, the USDA regional head was extremely impressed with our facility and told me so. We passed our licensing on the first try with a 100% score, because it was built right and then operated right. I'm meticulous. The butcher shop is about 1.6 million pounds of masonry built in six shells one within the other with insulation between each such that the freezer at the center has R-120. The reason for six shells is that each is a different temperature zone and the tend to float towards their ideal. This is a large flywheel that lets me use the seasonal outdoor air temperatures controlled by vents to achieve the temperatures I want, almost. There is space for a coolth attic where someday I'll build brine tanks to store winter's cold using thermal loops. This is above the coldest parts of the building so passive loops can be used both to chill the brine tanks and to chill the rooms below. See: http://sugarmtnfarm.com/butche...
Our house stays comfortably cool all summer long. High windows vent allowing cross winds. The shape reduces solar gain. This is pretty standard stuff but unfortunately not used widely enough in modern construction. In our house, which is 252 sq-ft, the total thermal mass is 100,000 lbs of masonry inside the insulating envelope and quadruple glazing on the windows. See: http://sugarmtnfarm.com/cottag...
Neither my house nor my butcher shop freeze in the winter despite our long cold season even when not heated. I do not heat my butcher shop at all. In the winter I am dumping accumulated summer heat to the sky so that it can coast through the next summer. In our house I use a bit less than 0.75 cord of wood in a small masonry stove to bring the indoor up from about 45ÂF (7ÂC) to 72ÂF (7ÂC) during the winter as my wife likes it a little warmer. However that is a luxury, the heating, and not needed since neither building will freeze. A key thing is that rather than heating the air, as in conventional wood studded construction, I'm heating the masonry.
Neither building requires electricity to perform thermally. This is an important detail in our location because we get about two weeks of electrical outages a year, primarily in the colder half of the year.
Most people could implement this for homes and businesses. The major problem is that our current government systems subsidizes wasteful uses of energy so energy is too cheap. If energy were more expensive then people would work harder at conservation.
No magic. No miracle. Just science applied to real problems.
Air conditioners are not necessary if you design buildings correctly. I built my home and my butcher shop so that they do not require cooling and they do not require heating. This does require thinking differently and intentionally about design, materials and construction methods. These methods also kept the cost of construction down to less than 1/20th of what it would have been with standard construction, the buildings have less maintenance cost and will last longer.
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Wrong. Lots of people were tracking hurricanes. You need to study science history. It's very enlightening. Not everything is new.
Chicago.
Really? A loop rather than a tree structure? Running an extension doesn't mean a loop was created so I'm rather curious as to the wiring setup of the equipment.
I'm aware of load balancing issues. When I built my farm and USDA butcher shop I very carefully did the load balancing. I did all the electric, plumbing, concrete, design, engineering, permitting, etc so I'm familiar with these issues.
There is no "neighborhood" 3Ã. Everything is 240V180Â here (phase and a half or what ever you would like to call it to poke fun). To get native 3Ã would have been $80K and 1.5 miles of run just for me. Not worth it.
The 3Ã digital converter does a perfect job, load balances and only cost $5,500. This is not to be confused with rotary phase converters which consume and waste a lot of power.
I suspect from what you wrote that you did not understand what I wrote.
I have grinders, bandsaws, etc with three-phase (3Ã) motors.
The power coming from my utility is single phase (240@180Â almost two-phase as I said).
I have a digital phase converter that takes the two legs of the single phase and outputs 3Ã at 120Â as needed for the big motors.
The power company does not supply 3Ã to my neighbors either. The nearest native 3Ã is 1.5 miles and $80,000 away from me - not worth installing. I live literally at the end of the power line, or rather 840' beyond it. I know all about this since I spent a lot of effort looking into it so you can take my word on this rather than guessing.
Once again the EU tries to impose it's laws on the rest of the world. What this will result in is platforms leaving the EU. If the platform is not physically in the EU the EU has no actual control over them. Sure, the EU can convict them in absentia but so what. Just ignore the EU.
Actually, this sort of thing does have potential although non-electrical-engineers may not realize why. I have single phase (sort of almost 2Ã) at my farm. I installed a 3Ã digital phase converter (Phase Perfect for those who are interested) which uses very little power itself but generates a third phase and puts the other two in proper alignment so I can now run large motors (grinder, bandsaw in my butcher shop) efficiently. This makes the motors run smoother, cooler and last longer.
Actually, yes, phone bills and bandwidth have gotten a LOT cheaper. Rent not so much but that is a finite physical world resource which is quite different than energy or information resources. Moore's Law doesn't apply to apartments, so far.
Clarification: I meant that the person saying "70 year claim is bullshit" was wrong. They did have measurements that far back. Rereading my comment it almost looks like I'm responding to the other responder who had good points about the landfall.
You're wrong. I have an ancestor who was very into meteorology, tracking winds and temperatures over 200 years ago. He also did the first air crossing of the English Channel - very avant garde - in part so he could get data. Ironically I follow in his footsteps with similar scientific bends and research today.
Global Warming is real but it is not to blame for as much as it is being blamed for and what all too many fail to realize is not only are there losers but there are winners. Global warming in the past is associated with increased biodiversity and the expansion and thriving of life.
Now, Global Cooling is another story. You really don't want another ice age...
Actually, global warming is good for many people, plants and animals. In the past, the periods of global warming are when life thrived, biodiversity exploded and the ecologies expanded.
In contrast, periods of global cooling resulted in die backs and extinctions.
We are coming out of a global cooling period that was punctuated by some mini-ice ages as they are termed.
Global warming is benefiting people and ecologies who live in northern climates where the world's warming benefits life.
The problem, to humans, and specifically liberals, is that they built homes in urban areas which tend to be near oceans and other bodies of water that, particularly the oceans, are rising. When their very permanent homes go under water they get upset.
There have been a few studies that clearly delineated how there are people who are going to benefit from global warming but these are not exciting ideas so the media doesn't publicize them much. The media prefers FUD - Fear Uncertainty and Doubt - reporting since that sells more clicks and copies.
(By the way, I'm not particularly liberal or conservative but rather a scientist and farmer. I take the issues as they come rather than following dogma.)
Web developers are still doing a bad job. They fail to filter out unnecessary characters and reject perfectly reasonable input. Telephone numbers are a classic web dev fail. All of these should be valid:
(508) 999-1010
1-508-999-1010
5089991010
508-999-1010
and more.
Credit card numbers, dates and others are also major fail points.
...as consumers.
Oh, wait, Amazon has even that automated with their Dash!
Wow. You're _VERY_ new and arrogant.
Before you make statements like that take a moment to check if you're wrong. You are.
"Is this mere arrogance on Microsoft's part, laziness to do a quick Google search before using a name, or is it something more sinister?"
A corollary of Occam's Razor comes to the rescue:
There is no need to invoke maliciousness when mere laziness or stupidity suffices to explain the situation.
It's called Jeffries' Corollary.
Target locked on...
Hmm... I wonder if this is a nice person or a nasty person?
Should I kill them? I've been told to kill people matching this description and surely my creators know what they're doing...
But what if they don't... What if they're incompetent? Or what if I'm simply targeting this person because of a bug somewhere in my system...?
Oh, heck. BANG!
"Lab grown are not special, they're not real, they're not unique. You can make exactly the same one again and again," Bruce Cleaver, chief executive officer of De Beers
So what.
Thanks! Every year there's some new project or some added aspect of an old project. I build things incrementally, evolving rather than revolutionarily. That is to say I test things on small scales then larger scales. Before building the butcher shop I built our house, before that a dog house, before that a smaller animal shelter, before that models.
The butcher shop weighs in at 1.6 million pounds and not needing heating nor cooling because of it's design and construction. That in turn let me test ideas for my next project which we've started on this summer... It will probably take ten years to complete this one, one in three or four primary stages.
Actually, they can. Try not being snobbish.
Because "experts" don't get fired for following standards.
Standards are very hard to change. They get set in stone, pardon the pun, an then "experts" don't want to go out on a limb and do something different.
Doing what what made money last time, is what they're paid to do.
You totally missed the point. But then you're an Anonymous Coward so I should expect no less, I suppose.
We're in USDA Zone 3.
Summer high of: 30ÂC (86ÂF)
Winter low of: -42ÂC (-45ÂF)
Our butcher shop says cold enough that we do not have any mechanical refrigeration for the building. I have spaces I'll eventually make into walk-in coolers but we got our USDA license without that. In fact, the USDA regional head was extremely impressed with our facility and told me so. We passed our licensing on the first try with a 100% score, because it was built right and then operated right. I'm meticulous. The butcher shop is about 1.6 million pounds of masonry built in six shells one within the other with insulation between each such that the freezer at the center has R-120. The reason for six shells is that each is a different temperature zone and the tend to float towards their ideal. This is a large flywheel that lets me use the seasonal outdoor air temperatures controlled by vents to achieve the temperatures I want, almost. There is space for a coolth attic where someday I'll build brine tanks to store winter's cold using thermal loops. This is above the coldest parts of the building so passive loops can be used both to chill the brine tanks and to chill the rooms below. See: http://sugarmtnfarm.com/butche...
Our house stays comfortably cool all summer long. High windows vent allowing cross winds. The shape reduces solar gain. This is pretty standard stuff but unfortunately not used widely enough in modern construction. In our house, which is 252 sq-ft, the total thermal mass is 100,000 lbs of masonry inside the insulating envelope and quadruple glazing on the windows. See: http://sugarmtnfarm.com/cottag...
Neither my house nor my butcher shop freeze in the winter despite our long cold season even when not heated. I do not heat my butcher shop at all. In the winter I am dumping accumulated summer heat to the sky so that it can coast through the next summer. In our house I use a bit less than 0.75 cord of wood in a small masonry stove to bring the indoor up from about 45ÂF (7ÂC) to 72ÂF (7ÂC) during the winter as my wife likes it a little warmer. However that is a luxury, the heating, and not needed since neither building will freeze. A key thing is that rather than heating the air, as in conventional wood studded construction, I'm heating the masonry.
Neither building requires electricity to perform thermally. This is an important detail in our location because we get about two weeks of electrical outages a year, primarily in the colder half of the year.
Most people could implement this for homes and businesses. The major problem is that our current government systems subsidizes wasteful uses of energy so energy is too cheap. If energy were more expensive then people would work harder at conservation.
No magic.
No miracle.
Just science applied to real problems.
There is nothing miraculous or magical about it. Just science.
Sure, I already have. See:
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/cottag...
and
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/butche...
You'll find a lot of articles discussing the design, construction, operation and plenty of photos.
Air conditioners are not necessary if you design buildings correctly. I built my home and my butcher shop so that they do not require cooling and they do not require heating. This does require thinking differently and intentionally about design, materials and construction methods. These methods also kept the cost of construction down to less than 1/20th of what it would have been with standard construction, the buildings have less maintenance cost and will last longer.