Solar fields in canada isnt really the best thing. to much green space would be ruined by the size of solar fields needed. and the best tech ones would be the mirror fields, and with the amount of native birds flying around would kill ungodly numbers. (not to mention hail damaging equipment) im up near orillia and the last few years snow up here has been insane.
how much property do you have, i don't have enough land area to run solar panels where i can get to them, only place i have is the roof of a 2.5 story house. last year i had snow on my roof that was 3' deep. the pile in my front lawn just from shoveling my 2 car driveway was well over my head and much wider than my driveway. i dont personally want to be climbing 25-30 feet up onto a steep roof in the winter to dust off solar panels. some days it can snow the entire day and having to climb up and down all the time is not something that can be done while i am off at work.
as others have stated, when it is cloudy, even just a little, a 5kw solar panel will be outputting very little power, whats going to charge the batteries ?.
why not hold off on the incredibly inefficient power production until it reaches at least the 50% efficiency mark and go with something that works well and produces enough power for everyone safely. Nuclear power plants. gen 3 and gen 4 power plants are leaps and bounds ahead of the ones we currently have available.
Solar does not produce enough to be worth doing right now, hard to store the energy for using over night, power loss through transmission lines is also a problem.
yet you propose using more power than the solar panels produce to heat them to get he snow off, or pay people to dust them off. all of that hacks through the cost of running them and makes them suck up subsidies.
And look how much it is subsidised and how much people pay for the electricity.
My power here in ontario is already through the roof because of "green energy" the government has to subsidize. 1400sqft house, all compact fluorescent bulbs, off durring the day etc. 180 a month for power oved half that is in fees and taxes.
So when the panels are covered in snow, you propose tilting them. They produce no power when covered in snow. Where is the power going to come from? Heating is the same problem, when it is - 30 and snowing how much power is it going to take to melt snow and keep it melting for a full day if not more?
As i said think outside the box. If you are using more power than making there is no point to having them there when there are much more efficient means of generating electricity that arent effected so greatly by temperature and weather.
Now lots think about it. To run enough power for a city. How many panels would you need. And to clear the snow off all those panels to get the infinitesimally small amount of sun when it is cloudy and cold. You arent going to power squat. Especialy with the length of time needed to clean it all off.
Deductive reasoning my friend, think further than the end of your nose.
Hard to get solar panels to work when its cloudy, shortened daylight hours or snow on the pannels for more than half the year. Especially with the solar panels we have available right now. Wind and solar right now are so inefficient its not even funny. Totaly useless for anywhere other than the sunniest of places.
The solar panels i have seen up here on the motorized platforms 5 days out of 7 are sitting flat all day because there is no best angle. This happens from about september until april or may.
Havent been able tonsee the vid. But to hit it with bird shot at 200 feet is unlikely. And if a drone can be shot down by something with.05 joules of energy, then id have to have a fly go through a blade.
Yeah BULLETS are dangerous being shot into the air. Lead shot measuring.089" and weighing a very small fraction of an oz will do nothing. It would not make it into the air high enough to reach terminal velocity on the way back down. At 100 yards horizontal #8 shot is going about 299 feet per second. Straight up fighting gravity its not going to go much higher. And is going to feel like large raindrops hitting you. Do some research before spouting off when you quite obviously havent a clue about firearms other than what you see on TV.
Those 461 pellets are going to spread out over 20+ feet. If any of the toy heli's i have had can fly i to a wall and not break the props, i doupt the occational pellet is going to deal any damage at the 66 yards.
I shoot skeet, and anything past 40 yards is a waste of a round even with a full choke.
Maybe if the guy had a super tight turkey choke in the shotgun he might get the drone, but a standard choke is mod or improved mod. The pattern is going to be bloody huge.
#8 shot is smaller than a grape seed, and weighs about as much as a fly. Its likely going to bounce off a sheet of paper at 200 feet. A slug is going about 1500fps at the muzzle, #8 target loads are going 1200 fps. Slugs are about 1oz while target loads are about 7/8oz of pellets.
Yes hundreds of pellets smaller than a grape seed. I dont see something that small causing any issues to a drone, if it did a small beetle would cause a drone to crash.
The shot spread at 200 yards for #8 shot would be immense, #8 shot is also barely the size of the head of a pin. I dont see something smaller than a grape seed causing any damage to a quad copter at 200 yards.
Possibly for professional trap shooters. Standard distance for common folk for the clay to be launched is 36 yards from the shooter. Im having a hard time believing 7/8 oz load going 1200fps could reach 75 yards. I hubt duck and geese, and using 3.5" shells with 1.5oz of BB size shot going 1500 fps barely reaches 60 yards. And at that yard you generaly dont get a kill but you remove feathers enough to take it out of the air. General distance is 30 to 45 yards.
Not libertarian at all... While libertarians may not like authority, they dont want one persons actions to negativly effect others. In this case anti vaxxers are hurting more than their own.
I would say its closer to a liberal mindset of i know whats better for everyone else and expect them to do it while i do what the hell i want.
Sympomatic can be hard to figgure out as it may be a sniffle and a sneeze. Thats more than enough to sneeze in someones face at a mall or sneeze on some fresh fruit at the grocery store.
How much is this going to increase the price of an oven. And how often will parts need to be replaced and the cost to do such. Currently ovens may be inefficient, but they work, and don't break very often when they do its a case of a cheap fix, or replace the stove.
i would not want to see what the optical sensor would cost to replace, or the specialized elements. i cant see the cost of one of these stoves being anywhere close to the reward you get out of possibly faster cooking/energy saving.
The accidental shootings that would be stopped with this. can be stopped in much easier ways than by crippling the rights of hundreds of thousands of people. "Accidental shootings" i use quotes because there is no such thing as an accident, it is preventable. the parents have foolishly left a firearm laying around, the parents have not taught their children how dangerous guns are, and not taught them firearm safety. my 6 year old has better safety practices than many of the customers i serve every day.
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Solar fields in canada isnt really the best thing. to much green space would be ruined by the size of solar fields needed. and the best tech ones would be the mirror fields, and with the amount of native birds flying around would kill ungodly numbers. (not to mention hail damaging equipment) im up near orillia and the last few years snow up here has been insane.
how much property do you have, i don't have enough land area to run solar panels where i can get to them, only place i have is the roof of a 2.5 story house. last year i had snow on my roof that was 3' deep. the pile in my front lawn just from shoveling my 2 car driveway was well over my head and much wider than my driveway. i dont personally want to be climbing 25-30 feet up onto a steep roof in the winter to dust off solar panels. some days it can snow the entire day and having to climb up and down all the time is not something that can be done while i am off at work.
as others have stated, when it is cloudy, even just a little, a 5kw solar panel will be outputting very little power, whats going to charge the batteries ?.
why not hold off on the incredibly inefficient power production until it reaches at least the 50% efficiency mark and go with something that works well and produces enough power for everyone safely. Nuclear power plants. gen 3 and gen 4 power plants are leaps and bounds ahead of the ones we currently have available.
Solar does not produce enough to be worth doing right now, hard to store the energy for using over night, power loss through transmission lines is also a problem.
yet you propose using more power than the solar panels produce to heat them to get he snow off, or pay people to dust them off. all of that hacks through the cost of running them and makes them suck up subsidies.
Solar panels arent as efficient in colder weather.
And look how much it is subsidised and how much people pay for the electricity.
My power here in ontario is already through the roof because of "green energy" the government has to subsidize. 1400sqft house, all compact fluorescent bulbs, off durring the day etc. 180 a month for power oved half that is in fees and taxes.
So when the panels are covered in snow, you propose tilting them. They produce no power when covered in snow. Where is the power going to come from? Heating is the same problem, when it is - 30 and snowing how much power is it going to take to melt snow and keep it melting for a full day if not more?
As i said think outside the box. If you are using more power than making there is no point to having them there when there are much more efficient means of generating electricity that arent effected so greatly by temperature and weather.
Now lots think about it. To run enough power for a city. How many panels would you need. And to clear the snow off all those panels to get the infinitesimally small amount of sun when it is cloudy and cold. You arent going to power squat. Especialy with the length of time needed to clean it all off.
Deductive reasoning my friend, think further than the end of your nose.
Hard to get solar panels to work when its cloudy, shortened daylight hours or snow on the pannels for more than half the year. Especially with the solar panels we have available right now. Wind and solar right now are so inefficient its not even funny. Totaly useless for anywhere other than the sunniest of places.
The solar panels i have seen up here on the motorized platforms 5 days out of 7 are sitting flat all day because there is no best angle. This happens from about september until april or may.
When the pellets that fall down are smaller than a orange seed and waigh as much the danger is non existant.
Havent been able tonsee the vid. But to hit it with bird shot at 200 feet is unlikely. And if a drone can be shot down by something with .05 joules of energy, then id have to have a fly go through a blade.
Yeah BULLETS are dangerous being shot into the air. Lead shot measuring .089" and weighing a very small fraction of an oz will do nothing. It would not make it into the air high enough to reach terminal velocity on the way back down. At 100 yards horizontal #8 shot is going about 299 feet per second. Straight up fighting gravity its not going to go much higher. And is going to feel like large raindrops hitting you. Do some research before spouting off when you quite obviously havent a clue about firearms other than what you see on TV.
If the prop blade does t brake hitting a wall, i don't see a #8 pellet hitting it and breaking it.
Those 461 pellets are going to spread out over 20+ feet.
If any of the toy heli's i have had can fly i to a wall and not break the props, i doupt the occational pellet is going to deal any damage at the 66 yards.
I shoot skeet, and anything past 40 yards is a waste of a round even with a full choke.
Maybe if the guy had a super tight turkey choke in the shotgun he might get the drone, but a standard choke is mod or improved mod. The pattern is going to be bloody huge.
So. With calculations using extrapolations for #8 shot since there are none. .09 a weight of 1.06 grains is .069 grams.
#8 shot has a dia of
Muzzle velocity of 1200fps
A velocity of 400fps at 75 yards.
Calculates out to 5.5J of energy.
Im pretty damn sure i can flick harder than that.
Home owner has even more reason if it is hovering around the height of his daughters window.
#8 shot is smaller than a grape seed, and weighs about as much as a fly. Its likely going to bounce off a sheet of paper at 200 feet.
A slug is going about 1500fps at the muzzle, #8 target loads are going 1200 fps. Slugs are about 1oz while target loads are about 7/8oz of pellets.
Yes hundreds of pellets smaller than a grape seed. I dont see something that small causing any issues to a drone, if it did a small beetle would cause a drone to crash.
The shot spread at 200 yards for #8 shot would be immense, #8 shot is also barely the size of the head of a pin. I dont see something smaller than a grape seed causing any damage to a quad copter at 200 yards.
Possibly for professional trap shooters. Standard distance for common folk for the clay to be launched is 36 yards from the shooter.
Im having a hard time believing 7/8 oz load going 1200fps could reach 75 yards.
I hubt duck and geese, and using 3.5" shells with 1.5oz of BB size shot going 1500 fps barely reaches 60 yards. And at that yard you generaly dont get a kill but you remove feathers enough to take it out of the air. General distance is 30 to 45 yards.
Not libertarian at all... While libertarians may not like authority, they dont want one persons actions to negativly effect others.
In this case anti vaxxers are hurting more than their own.
I would say its closer to a liberal mindset of i know whats better for everyone else and expect them to do it while i do what the hell i want.
Sympomatic can be hard to figgure out as it may be a sniffle and a sneeze. Thats more than enough to sneeze in someones face at a mall or sneeze on some fresh fruit at the grocery store.
How much is this going to increase the price of an oven. And how often will parts need to be replaced and the cost to do such. Currently ovens may be inefficient, but they work, and don't break very often when they do its a case of a cheap fix, or replace the stove.
i would not want to see what the optical sensor would cost to replace, or the specialized elements. i cant see the cost of one of these stoves being anywhere close to the reward you get out of possibly faster cooking/energy saving.
Aye there is a Difference.. and i used the Correct one.
The accidental shootings that would be stopped with this. can be stopped in much easier ways than by crippling the rights of hundreds of thousands of people. "Accidental shootings" i use quotes because there is no such thing as an accident, it is preventable. the parents have foolishly left a firearm laying around, the parents have not taught their children how dangerous guns are, and not taught them firearm safety. my 6 year old has better safety practices than many of the customers i serve every day.
with good, reason because they can see where things will evolve to.