There used to be a "thing" called efficiency experts.
The did something called, generically, time and motion studies.
They would watch people work with a stopwatch and a notepad... Sometimes with a camera to record the smallest nuance of the work process.
They would do this with lots and lots of workers and then compiles that information into detailed procedures telling the workers how to do what they did.
Is this not robotic?
I just love how every cohort thinks they've invented some new thing when all they've done is to re-implement an old practice that, because they never bother to look back at how things like this were done before, they didn't know about.
One day they may even re-invent sex and try to patent it.
It will set a useful legal precedent to reign them in. You can't expect to play both sets of cards. That kind of win will show beyond any argument which set they've chosen.
> Great, let's wake up the CFO who happens to be the card holder. What if the card holder is on leave and is > unreachable for three days?
Unreachable for three days? What if the CFO is dead? Oops!
In some circles, this is called "the campus bus problem"... The guy who knows everything walks out in front of the campus bus. Now what.
This also used to be seen on University computer systems... Some grad student has written processes in use all over the place, running from the home directory... The graduates/moves on. The account is deleted; chaos ensues.
Universities learned and moved on.
If you're anything but a whiny kid, you own your mistake, learn from it and move on. Don't blame someone else. The fact they're whining in the quasi pay walled "The Medium" says even more (I for one am fairly tired on getting nagged by them).
> To conduct such attacks, the attacker depends on specialized hardware (so called software-defined radios) and a > customized implementation of the LTE protocol stack.... Ya mean like LimeSDR, BladeRF, ADALM-Pluto and OpenBTS? All those radios under $500.00
30 years ago, it was a BofA processing office. You think the front is interesting? Try a cute little idea they called man traps at the entrance to every floor I had to visit... Little, and I do mean little, booths. Walk in one side. door closes, and only then does the inner door open.
I hated to go there. It was a bear to get into the booth with my tools.
And looking around, it really doesn't have a front... Just one of those silly corner entrances.
It's a Central Office/Data Center building. Not too surprising it doesn't have windows. They tend to make temperature control... Interesting.
I once worked in an old building that they decided to put a modern switch into, but leave the south facing windows intact for the aesthetics... We got a 30 degree swing through the day. We put foam core panels with mylar space blankets glued onto one face in the windows to stabilize the temperature.
The substation is quite distinctive... Huge blockhouse/fortress looking building. Blank facades on all sides, with a door sized entrance, and truck entrance right next to that on folsom. That is 422 Folsom (fremont and folsom) and one I saw in the thumbnail on the map.
631 Folsom has a kind of blank facade and smallish plaza on Folsom, but it faces 2nd street.
Going against traffic from there, everything all the way back to third just look like very ordinary office building and/or condos.
I work down the street from 611 Folsom. In the Network diagram with thumbnails, the ominous building shown for that address is down the street and belongs to PG&E. The shots of 611 Folsom in the body are from the parking lot and the alley behind it... Not really very pretty or representative of the building. From the street, the building just looks like your everyday office building. Look at google maps street view.
I know, why is that important? Because when they go to that length to make it look bad, it makes me wonder why they couldn't just let the story tell itself?
And as someone else pointed out, old news.
Why is there SO much of this these days? It hurts the credibility of what good reporting there is
Yes, this is what happens when I do arithmetic in my head. It's a failing.
I'm guessing the engineers working for GM, Honda, Hyundai and Toyota are SO much dumber than you are or are outright frauds. None of those cars are on the road or can possibly be running.
Oh, and none of the solar driven hydrogen stations in California and Connecticut exist either. Nor are the Hydrogen/hybrid buses in the San Francisco bay area are really what they say they are. The 800 truck order by Anheuser Busch are a fraud on their stock holders.
It's all a massive fraud run by "big" whatever?
Really?
Of course, none of those entities are taking money from the public for pre-orders that are later and later and later either.
Never try to teach a pig to whistle. It wastes your time.
Yeah, let me know how successful you are with that. It's not JUST sugar/grains... Expand it to the more general and appropriate "carbohydrates" and then tell me what has carbs and how to scrupulously avoid them.
I the cheese you eat isn't extremely sharp, the residual lactose is a carbohydrate. Legumes, some "good" carbs (not digestable) still some "bad" ones too.
Did you know protein can metabolize into glucose? Carbs.
do you really think 5000 PSI (344 BAR) is that much greater than 3300 PSI (SCUBA HIGH)? That's done in the back room of dive shops. 344 BAR is the standard pressure for the Nikola and with very few exceptions, every other FCEV on the market.
The arguments you present against the adoption of hydrogen fueling are the EXACT same arguments that were presented against battery charging before someone actually did it.... And by the way, the same that were presented against petroleum fuel for internal combustion engines before that.
You should be aware the Mirai carries 5 kilos at 10,000 PSI for about 300 range., the Nikola truck carries 10 Kilos at 5000 PSI for a 1200 miles range... Again, by the spec sheet; your mileage may vary. You might want to check the tables you're using, but I do appreciate your presentation of your figures.
The US is the only place in the world NOT making a major push this direction... But we have people in charge who don't seem to think climate change is real too and FAR too many people who can't seem to do simple arithmetic.
BTW, you kind of forgot the Hyundai NEXO. I don't think the equipment made by GM for the military really counts as production equipment BUT they apply pressure to the market to make fueling station equipment.
Of course homebrew rigs aren't as cost effective as they could be. The grownups are in the game and while various excellent motors and control system rigs grew out of batteries, for anything like the foreseeable future batteries and their chargers are far too limited.
I don't know about you, but in the area I live, housing expenses have gone through the roof. Activists fight rent increases tooth and nail, so property owners have zero reason to provide charging facilities.... There is no pay back on the investment. There are WAY too many non-home owners in need of transportation and charge-at-home-overnight/BEV just doesn't work for the vast majority of those cases.
As a result of those factors, the entire concept and argument favoring home charging is more than a little elitist. That doesn't even mention $100,000 in vehicle purchase price... The 30k car from Tesla is far behind schedule and the prospects are looking worse with every passing month.
There also have the rise of what are called super-commuters... 100 mile one way drives to and from work, resulting from monstrous housing costs closer in. This negates the idea that short range BEVs are enough for most. It's total urban utopian fantasy.
According the rollout at Nikola, those stations will be built and maintained by Ryder and available to all hydrogen vehicles.
Because of the federal regulation of hydrogen dispensers, there won't be any nonsense of this dispenser only works with this type of vehicle.
Yes, you have to pay... But believe it or not, with a Tesla too, you just paid up front. With the newer Teslas, the "all free" model has been withdrawn.
With every other BEV, you still have to pay... And wait while it charges.
Keep in mind, these are ALL EVs you just don't have to wait to drive with some.
Since you mention TVA, I'll presume you mean the Tennessee Valley Authority and I'll have to qualify my comments somewhat
There is an entity in every electrical region known, at the federal level, as an independent system operator. In California, it's called CAISO. A goole search seems to say the one in Tennessee is called PJM and it serves several states. This is where regions interconnect and energy producers connect to, to distribute what they make to consumers.
The independent system operator complained that managing interconnect and settlement with the number of mom and pop producers was too onerous and the work around was that they would do business with aggregators of mom and pop installations and those aggregators would manage accounting and disbursement, if any, to the small systems. The aggregator sells to both the property owner and to the ISO at radically different rates.
So, unless Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio are VERY special, it's extremely doubtful YOU are selling anything to anyone... But the people how installed your system are and they may even be directing the entity to issue you checks as a part of this. That seldom happens in California... You just get very small bills. It's call net metering.
Interesting to note. PJM was the very first recognized ISO.
Slashdot Mirror
Stop putting up Medium links?
I've gotten totally over the incessant nagging
Hmmm... How to say this.
I remember the 60's and I was there.
There used to be a "thing" called efficiency experts.
The did something called, generically, time and motion studies.
They would watch people work with a stopwatch and a notepad... Sometimes with a camera to record the smallest nuance of the work process.
They would do this with lots and lots of workers and then compiles that information into detailed procedures telling the workers how to do what they did.
Is this not robotic?
I just love how every cohort thinks they've invented some new thing when all they've done is to re-implement an old practice that, because they never bother to look back at how things like this were done before, they didn't know about.
One day they may even re-invent sex and try to patent it.
It will set a useful legal precedent to reign them in. You can't expect to play both sets of cards. That kind of win will show beyond any argument which set they've chosen.
> Great, let's wake up the CFO who happens to be the card holder. What if the card holder is on leave and is
> unreachable for three days?
Unreachable for three days? What if the CFO is dead? Oops!
In some circles, this is called "the campus bus problem"... The guy who knows everything walks out in front of the campus bus. Now what.
This also used to be seen on University computer systems... Some grad student has written processes in use all over the place, running from the home directory... The graduates/moves on. The account is deleted; chaos ensues.
Universities learned and moved on.
If you're anything but a whiny kid, you own your mistake, learn from it and move on. Don't blame someone else. The fact they're whining in the quasi pay walled "The Medium" says even more (I for one am fairly tired on getting nagged by them).
> To conduct such attacks, the attacker depends on specialized hardware (so called software-defined radios) and a > customized implementation of the LTE protocol stack. ... Ya mean like LimeSDR, BladeRF, ADALM-Pluto and OpenBTS? All those radios under $500.00
Oy!
You really protected us from the bad guys by building these tools and NOT plugging the holes they use
30 years ago, it was a BofA processing office. You think the front is interesting? Try a cute little idea they called man traps at the entrance to every floor I had to visit... Little, and I do mean little, booths. Walk in one side. door closes, and only then does the inner door open.
I hated to go there. It was a bear to get into the booth with my tools.
And looking around, it really doesn't have a front... Just one of those silly corner entrances.
It's a Central Office/Data Center building. Not too surprising it doesn't have windows. They tend to make temperature control... Interesting.
I once worked in an old building that they decided to put a modern switch into, but leave the south facing windows intact for the aesthetics... We got a 30 degree swing through the day. We put foam core panels with mylar space blankets glued onto one face in the windows to stabilize the temperature.
It was pretty though.
Yeah, different thumb.
That's the Folsom side of the building that faces 2nd street... Ugly as the worst thing people can imagine.
We want an ecosystem that encourages and allows choice... and then decide to force certain choices down you your throat.
wait... what?!
In general, I support the EFF. When this sort of fundamentalist thinking mode takes hold, the end is NEVER good, no matter how well intentioned.
Probably looking at different thumbnails then.
The substation is quite distinctive... Huge blockhouse/fortress looking building. Blank facades on all sides, with a door sized entrance, and truck entrance right next to that on folsom. That is 422 Folsom (fremont and folsom) and one I saw in the thumbnail on the map.
631 Folsom has a kind of blank facade and smallish plaza on Folsom, but it faces 2nd street.
Going against traffic from there, everything all the way back to third just look like very ordinary office building and/or condos.
Nothing to see here... Move along
I work down the street from 611 Folsom. In the Network diagram with thumbnails, the ominous building shown for that address is down the street and belongs to PG&E. The shots of 611 Folsom in the body are from the parking lot and the alley behind it... Not really very pretty or representative of the building. From the street, the building just looks like your everyday office building. Look at google maps street view.
I know, why is that important? Because when they go to that length to make it look bad, it makes me wonder why they couldn't just let the story tell itself?
And as someone else pointed out, old news.
Why is there SO much of this these days? It hurts the credibility of what good reporting there is
you are correct. I was reading from the wrong set of notes
Yes, this is what happens when I do arithmetic in my head. It's a failing.
I'm guessing the engineers working for GM, Honda, Hyundai and Toyota are SO much dumber than you are or are outright frauds. None of those cars are on the road or can possibly be running.
Oh, and none of the solar driven hydrogen stations in California and Connecticut exist either. Nor are the Hydrogen/hybrid buses in the San Francisco bay area are really what they say they are. The 800 truck order by Anheuser Busch are a fraud on their stock holders.
It's all a massive fraud run by "big" whatever?
Really?
Of course, none of those entities are taking money from the public for pre-orders that are later and later and later either.
Never try to teach a pig to whistle. It wastes your time.
I'm done teaching pigs to whistle.
Yeah, let me know how successful you are with that. It's not JUST sugar/grains... Expand it to the more general and appropriate "carbohydrates" and then tell me what has carbs and how to scrupulously avoid them.
I the cheese you eat isn't extremely sharp, the residual lactose is a carbohydrate. Legumes, some "good" carbs (not digestable) still some "bad" ones too.
Did you know protein can metabolize into glucose? Carbs.
I live this.
It's not fun but worth the effort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Density (at STP) 0.08988 g/L
or
0.8 Kilos per 1000 L
3.5 Kilos is 4000 L
This discussion has been extremely useful
Thank you
do you really think 5000 PSI (344 BAR) is that much greater than 3300 PSI (SCUBA HIGH)? That's done in the back room of dive shops. 344 BAR is the standard pressure for the Nikola and with very few exceptions, every other FCEV on the market.
The arguments you present against the adoption of hydrogen fueling are the EXACT same arguments that were presented against battery charging before someone actually did it.... And by the way, the same that were presented against petroleum fuel for internal combustion engines before that.
You should be aware the Mirai carries 5 kilos at 10,000 PSI for about 300 range., the Nikola truck carries 10 Kilos at 5000 PSI for a 1200 miles range... Again, by the spec sheet; your mileage may vary. You might want to check the tables you're using, but I do appreciate your presentation of your figures.
The US is the only place in the world NOT making a major push this direction... But we have people in charge who don't seem to think climate change is real too and FAR too many people who can't seem to do simple arithmetic.
BTW, you kind of forgot the Hyundai NEXO. I don't think the equipment made by GM for the military really counts as production equipment BUT they apply pressure to the market to make fueling station equipment.
I'm guessing this doesn't count either:
http://nelhydrogen.com/news/h2...
Of course homebrew rigs aren't as cost effective as they could be. The grownups are in the game and while various excellent motors and control system rigs grew out of batteries, for anything like the foreseeable future batteries and their chargers are far too limited.
I don't know about you, but in the area I live, housing expenses have gone through the roof. Activists fight rent increases tooth and nail, so property owners have zero reason to provide charging facilities.... There is no pay back on the investment. There are WAY too many non-home owners in need of transportation and charge-at-home-overnight/BEV just doesn't work for the vast majority of those cases.
As a result of those factors, the entire concept and argument favoring home charging is more than a little elitist. That doesn't even mention $100,000 in vehicle purchase price... The 30k car from Tesla is far behind schedule and the prospects are looking worse with every passing month.
There also have the rise of what are called super-commuters... 100 mile one way drives to and from work, resulting from monstrous housing costs closer in. This negates the idea that short range BEVs are enough for most. It's total urban utopian fantasy.
Let us hope. I've know too many with all of the serious complications.
I'm always leary of "it's a target"
It reminds of the old Microsoft joke... "it's gonna be great"
Only in the US is there a lack and even here the infrastructure is going in:
https://www.triplepundit.com/2...
According the rollout at Nikola, those stations will be built and maintained by Ryder and available to all hydrogen vehicles.
Because of the federal regulation of hydrogen dispensers, there won't be any nonsense of this dispenser only works with this type of vehicle.
Yes, you have to pay... But believe it or not, with a Tesla too, you just paid up front. With the newer Teslas, the "all free" model has been withdrawn.
With every other BEV, you still have to pay... And wait while it charges.
Keep in mind, these are ALL EVs you just don't have to wait to drive with some.
The article refers to type one diabetes, not the far more common (and epidemic) type two.
Nice, but not as useful
Since your dog likes the taste of your homework:
https://www.alibaba.com/produc...
There are a number of others along side the HHOs and I will be first to grant spec sheets are NOT the be-all end-all.
But the tech is there, it works and is more than the snake oil that has been sold and now looks as if is about to do an Enron or Madoff.
Since you mention TVA, I'll presume you mean the Tennessee Valley Authority and I'll have to qualify my comments somewhat
There is an entity in every electrical region known, at the federal level, as an independent system operator. In California, it's called CAISO. A goole search seems to say the one in Tennessee is called PJM and it serves several states. This is where regions interconnect and energy producers connect to, to distribute what they make to consumers.
The independent system operator complained that managing interconnect and settlement with the number of mom and pop producers was too onerous and the work around was that they would do business with aggregators of mom and pop installations and those aggregators would manage accounting and disbursement, if any, to the small systems. The aggregator sells to both the property owner and to the ISO at radically different rates.
So, unless Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio are VERY special, it's extremely doubtful YOU are selling anything to anyone... But the people how installed your system are and they may even be directing the entity to issue you checks as a part of this. That seldom happens in California... You just get very small bills. It's call net metering.
Interesting to note. PJM was the very first recognized ISO.
Try again. 300 mile range. Look at reality... Existing vehicles.
Wikipedia articles of unknown provenance that fail even think about what exists? Please.
Dupes like you will continue to fund and promote fraud while wishing for Unicorns and puppies.
Next you'll say the earth is flat.
And bumble bees can't possibly fly.