The magnitude of the effects of solar storms are massively exaggerated, it's not a nuke EMP. The ability to spark across some telegraph equipment doesn't mean the voltages are high enough to do much to transmission line equipment. What damages the grid is the relatively small induced DC current in the circuits, which saturates the transformers. Just disconnecting the grid protects it (a complete grid black start is not part of its design though). If you want to spend a little more you could put DC power supplies inside the circuit to offset the induced voltage from the storm.
For HVDC a solar storm's effect on the transmission lines just presents a tiny bit of extra load or a tiny bit of extra generated power.
I don't even mean that they would lose concentration, even with perfect concentration all through those 100 hours how can the overtime be justified in QA. They massive turn over, so cost of training seems unlikely be the reason to get most out of a single employee and I doubt hand over can justify all those overtime bonuses in the UK.
Is it just that because the devs have to suffer the QA team has to be made to suffer so as not to discourage the devs?
But Andy Serkis isn't unique, another good actor could replace him and only a tiny percentage of the audience would perceive the difference. A contract negotiation with him is consequently a lot easier than with Robert Downey Jr.
Buried superconducting conduits might make sense in some niches, but for the long haul stick to HVDC.
HVDC would survive solar storms by design too, not that retrofitting the existing grid to be solar storm immune would be all that costly... but no one is doing it, because there is no profit motive to do so.
I said "up to 54%". As or the intakes being outside the rainforest, I quoted the relevant part already... but I guess I can just do it again.
"Water diverted from the forest ranges from 7 to 17 percent of average flow throughout the year, with up to 54 percent of flow diverted from individual watersheds (table 5). A much higher percentage of average flow is diverted when intakes outside of the forest are considered (table 6)."
Why there are intakes in the forest at all I have no idea, but it is what it is... which is to say a significant perturbation, something the current researchers maintained did not exist. Maybe those scientists were as perceptive as you, or maybe there is a need to manufacture a consensus.
They discounted all other potential sources without justification or references. Diverting up to 54% of the water of watersheds inside the rainforest is significant enough by fucking common sense that it requires justification to discount.
Of course fucking common sense as well as normal common sense is in short supply, especially among modern scientists... the ones in 2007 were a little more honest.
"Given its long-term protected status (59), significant human perturbations have been virtually nonexistent within the Luquillo forest since the 1930s, and thus are an unlikely source of invertebrate declines. "
"Water diverted from the forest ranges from 7 to 17 percent of average flow throughout the year, with up to 54 percent of flow diverted from individual watersheds (table 5). A much higher percentage of average flow is diverted when intakes outside of the forest are considered (table 6)."
Climate change affects everything, but in close proximity to humans it's generally better to look for other causes... because we are far better at fucking things up.
The paper says : "Given its long-term protected status (59), significant human perturbations have been virtually nonexistent within the Luquillo forest since the 1930s, and thus are an unlikely source of invertebrate declines. "
Which is either stupidity or a lie. "Water diverted from the forest ranges from 7 to 17 percent of average flow throughout the year, with up to 54 percent of flow diverted from individual watersheds (table 5). A much higher percentage of average flow is diverted when intakes outside of the forest are considered (table 6)."
Multiple large fires of the coolant are worrying even if by happy accident it has only caused extremely expensive cleanup instead of radiation release. This has been a problem endemic to commercial scale sodium cooled reactors and 2 years runtime isn't enough to dispel that terrible fucking history.
Lead cooled is a nice pie in the sky alternative though. Only half a century or so delayed by the fucking morons who keep pushing sodium cooling... sodium cooled reactors are proof positive that only blaming environmentalists for nuclear's woes is short sighted. The industry is just that fucking retarded.
Let it run for a couple of years first... the BN-600 didn't do so well at not catching fire after all. It's a rather common refrain for liquid sodium cooled reactors.
Free speech which does not allow hate speech is not free speech, freedom of association which does not allow discrimination is not freedom of association.
Language evolves, to use liberal without a modern or classical qualifier in this day and age is obtuse or naive. The educators in the humanities are overwhelmingly modern liberals.
With previous large scale non European immigration, the guest labourers started working immediately and even after 3 generations they are still far behind the native population in educational attainment and labour participation. For refugees it will be far worse, when an entire generation spends its time on welfare it poisons a culture... it's very hard to get these cultures into the workforce without making welfare much less comfortable and they all vote left, so that's very hard before collapse.
Once collapse comes, communists or fascists will have to solve the problems modern-liberals and poor geography wrought... best case. We could just become anarchic tribal states like the one Somalians fled. >To where? Those brains going to move to the US and enjoy our low-paid jobs? If necessary, sure, they are high attainment individuals... they'll work themselves up.
Lets take a large central African immigrant population in my country, Somalians... over half of the potentially economically active Somalians are on welfare.
We won't have enough qualified young people to support our economy either way, but now we ALSO have to support all these extra people on welfare. Sure in theory we could reduce welfare and force them into the labour pool by creating more low paid jobs, like the US does, but as I said they all vote for leftist parties.. This will eventually destroy our economic competitiveness and unlike Japan we don't have social cohesion to keep our best and brightest in our borders as the economy takes a consistent downturn.
Massive brain drain is the future of Western Europe. For the moment highly industrious Eastern Europeans immigrants (minus the gypsies) are still offsetting the less useful immigrant streams (gutting the Eastern European countries in the process). That can't last though, Europe is a dead man walking.
The connection to real currencies exist at the mercy of government, they treated crypto with kid gloves for a while but it was never going to last. Once all the billionaires are out and there's no one lobbying for cryptocurrency it will go the way of e-gold.
People who pretend cryptocurrency can somehow route around government are deluding themselves. If the EU and the US don't allow banks to cooperate with conversion or transact with any foreign bank which does, cryptocurrency is dead.
Most of them end up in welfare or the exact same work which is disappearing any way because of automation. Meanwhile they all vote for leftist parties, so economic adjustment becomes very hard.
Yes, we could use a few more foreign nurses... we don't need 10 dependents contributing no GDP per extra nurse, that's only going to hurt us.
Half of Africa is getting ready to migrate to Europe and Europe doesn't have the determination to stop them. Partly because the media keeps screaming about climate refugees while their reduction in per capita water resources because of population growth dwarfs that because of climate change.
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The magnitude of the effects of solar storms are massively exaggerated, it's not a nuke EMP. The ability to spark across some telegraph equipment doesn't mean the voltages are high enough to do much to transmission line equipment. What damages the grid is the relatively small induced DC current in the circuits, which saturates the transformers. Just disconnecting the grid protects it (a complete grid black start is not part of its design though). If you want to spend a little more you could put DC power supplies inside the circuit to offset the induced voltage from the storm.
For HVDC a solar storm's effect on the transmission lines just presents a tiny bit of extra load or a tiny bit of extra generated power.
I don't even mean that they would lose concentration, even with perfect concentration all through those 100 hours how can the overtime be justified in QA. They massive turn over, so cost of training seems unlikely be the reason to get most out of a single employee and I doubt hand over can justify all those overtime bonuses in the UK.
Is it just that because the devs have to suffer the QA team has to be made to suffer so as not to discourage the devs?
But Andy Serkis isn't unique, another good actor could replace him and only a tiny percentage of the audience would perceive the difference. A contract negotiation with him is consequently a lot easier than with Robert Downey Jr.
Buried superconducting conduits might make sense in some niches, but for the long haul stick to HVDC.
HVDC would survive solar storms by design too, not that retrofitting the existing grid to be solar storm immune would be all that costly ... but no one is doing it, because there is no profit motive to do so.
The US doesn't borrow, it prints.
Money softens the blow.
Projection.
I said "up to 54%". As or the intakes being outside the rainforest, I quoted the relevant part already ... but I guess I can just do it again.
"Water diverted from the forest ranges from 7 to 17 percent of average flow throughout the year, with up to 54 percent of flow diverted from individual watersheds (table 5). A much higher percentage of average flow is diverted when intakes outside of the forest are considered (table 6)."
Why there are intakes in the forest at all I have no idea, but it is what it is ... which is to say a significant perturbation, something the current researchers maintained did not exist. Maybe those scientists were as perceptive as you, or maybe there is a need to manufacture a consensus.
What I refuted was their assertion there were no other significant perturbations.
They discounted all other potential sources without justification or references. Diverting up to 54% of the water of watersheds inside the rainforest is significant enough by fucking common sense that it requires justification to discount.
Of course fucking common sense as well as normal common sense is in short supply, especially among modern scientists ... the ones in 2007 were a little more honest.
Indeed.
"Given its long-term protected status (59), significant human perturbations have been virtually nonexistent within the Luquillo forest since the 1930s, and thus are an unlikely source of invertebrate declines. "
"Water diverted from the forest ranges from 7 to 17 percent of average flow throughout the year, with up to 54 percent of flow diverted from individual watersheds (table 5). A much higher percentage of average flow is diverted when intakes outside of the forest are considered (table 6)."
These assertions are not mutually compatible.
Climate change affects everything, but in close proximity to humans it's generally better to look for other causes ... because we are far better at fucking things up.
The paper says :
"Given its long-term protected status (59), significant human perturbations have been virtually nonexistent within the Luquillo forest since the 1930s, and thus are an unlikely source of invertebrate declines. "
Which is either stupidity or a lie.
"Water diverted from the forest ranges from 7 to 17 percent of average flow throughout the year, with up to 54 percent of flow diverted from individual watersheds (table 5). A much higher percentage of average flow is diverted when intakes outside of the forest are considered (table 6)."
https://www.fs.fed.us/global/i...
There has been a massive increase of diversion of the water from that rainforest.
https://www.fs.fed.us/global/i...
Lets not confuse the issue though ... it's all climate change.
Multiple large fires of the coolant are worrying even if by happy accident it has only caused extremely expensive cleanup instead of radiation release. This has been a problem endemic to commercial scale sodium cooled reactors and 2 years runtime isn't enough to dispel that terrible fucking history.
Lead cooled is a nice pie in the sky alternative though. Only half a century or so delayed by the fucking morons who keep pushing sodium cooling ... sodium cooled reactors are proof positive that only blaming environmentalists for nuclear's woes is short sighted. The industry is just that fucking retarded.
The US doesn't have CANDU reactors and allowing the US to export its MOX to Canada isn't entirely uncontroversial.
Let it run for a couple of years first ... the BN-600 didn't do so well at not catching fire after all. It's a rather common refrain for liquid sodium cooled reactors.
https://www.wiseinternational....
Dunno about psychologists, but psychiatrists got half the US hooked on psychotropics with a net negative result.
Free speech which does not allow hate speech is not free speech, freedom of association which does not allow discrimination is not freedom of association.
Language evolves, to use liberal without a modern or classical qualifier in this day and age is obtuse or naive. The educators in the humanities are overwhelmingly modern liberals.
With previous large scale non European immigration, the guest labourers started working immediately and even after 3 generations they are still far behind the native population in educational attainment and labour participation. For refugees it will be far worse, when an entire generation spends its time on welfare it poisons a culture ... it's very hard to get these cultures into the workforce without making welfare much less comfortable and they all vote left, so that's very hard before collapse.
Once collapse comes, communists or fascists will have to solve the problems modern-liberals and poor geography wrought ... best case. We could just become anarchic tribal states like the one Somalians fled. ... they'll work themselves up.
>To where? Those brains going to move to the US and enjoy our low-paid jobs?
If necessary, sure, they are high attainment individuals
Lets take a large central African immigrant population in my country, Somalians ... over half of the potentially economically active Somalians are on welfare.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2017...
We won't have enough qualified young people to support our economy either way, but now we ALSO have to support all these extra people on welfare. Sure in theory we could reduce welfare and force them into the labour pool by creating more low paid jobs, like the US does, but as I said they all vote for leftist parties.. This will eventually destroy our economic competitiveness and unlike Japan we don't have social cohesion to keep our best and brightest in our borders as the economy takes a consistent downturn.
Massive brain drain is the future of Western Europe. For the moment highly industrious Eastern Europeans immigrants (minus the gypsies) are still offsetting the less useful immigrant streams (gutting the Eastern European countries in the process). That can't last though, Europe is a dead man walking.
Use Tether or Gemini ... it won't last though, they are essentially e-gold v2.0 and they will go the same route.
The connection to real currencies exist at the mercy of government, they treated crypto with kid gloves for a while but it was never going to last. Once all the billionaires are out and there's no one lobbying for cryptocurrency it will go the way of e-gold.
People who pretend cryptocurrency can somehow route around government are deluding themselves. If the EU and the US don't allow banks to cooperate with conversion or transact with any foreign bank which does, cryptocurrency is dead.
Most of them end up in welfare or the exact same work which is disappearing any way because of automation. Meanwhile they all vote for leftist parties, so economic adjustment becomes very hard.
Yes, we could use a few more foreign nurses ... we don't need 10 dependents contributing no GDP per extra nurse, that's only going to hurt us.
Half of Africa is getting ready to migrate to Europe and Europe doesn't have the determination to stop them. Partly because the media keeps screaming about climate refugees while their reduction in per capita water resources because of population growth dwarfs that because of climate change.
With a small enough population we can all live in luxury, with a large enough population we can all live in hell.
Where is Tuf with his sterilization fruit tree when you need one.