Thank you for that. I had heard of the service but never checked into it because I assumed there was a charge (after all, they call themselves a "broker").
A mineral oil filled transformer could easily produce a pretty good fuel-air explosion. In the confined space of the turbine hall this could be devastating.
Well, a transformer explosion could have ruptured the penstock. However, the plant owners seem to be favoring the penstock or turbine lid theory over the transformer explosion one favored by the government. I expect that the engineers on the scene know by now what happened but they're too busy to talk to reporters.
> TFA says the transformer exploded while being "serviced". A good wild guess > would be they were welding on it and sparked some combustable gasses inside > the case.
That's a pretty good guess. Acetylene can form inside oil filled transformers.
PCBs have not been used in transformers for more than thirty years. These ones were almost certainly filled with mineral oil. If they had been filled with PCBs there would have been no explosion (though the BBC stories don't mention a transformer explosion anyway).
Low sulfur diesel will result in lower sulfur emissions but I don't see why it would result in lower NOX. The latter has to do with combustion conditions.
Disney is not considered a candidate, despite the Slashdot summary. They could easily borrow enough to finance a combination cash-stock deal for either of the other two (i.e., each Viacom shareholder would get some cash and some Comcast stock. The loan would be secured with Viacom's assets).
I don't think it will happen, though. Wall Street seems to be pretty down on the idea.
I don't think you realize just how small the "media conglomerates" are. The pundits don't seem to consider Disney a likely target despite the Slashdot summary and the other two are much smaller than Comcast. Disney is slightly smaller and Comcast made a bid for it once before. While the "media" industry is very loud, it isn't all that large.
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> It's free...
Thank you for that. I had heard of the service but never checked into it because I assumed there was a charge (after all, they call themselves a "broker").
> ...now find a modem that does it.
If it knows about IP numbers it isn't a modem.
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> Living "off the grid" means NOT using a credit card.
It used to mean either generating your own electicity or doing without.
So your uncle stands a stallion and ships semen for AI and you helped him collect. Hope you wore a helmet.
> Landlines, for me, Just Work.
Same here.
It's quite easy to generate a valid, unassigned SSN.
Greenpeace protests anything other than living in grass huts and eating windfalls.
A mineral oil filled transformer could easily produce a pretty good fuel-air explosion. In the confined space of the turbine hall this could be devastating.
The plant owners are saying that it will take months to get the plant back in production but years to get it back to full output.
Well, a transformer explosion could have ruptured the penstock. However, the plant owners seem to be favoring the penstock or turbine lid theory over the transformer explosion one favored by the government. I expect that the engineers on the scene know by now what happened but they're too busy to talk to reporters.
If you actually read what he wrote you will see that he said nothing about what it is used for in transformers.
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The BBC articles I read mention some sort of hydraulic surge. Other articles talk about a transformer.
> TFA says the transformer exploded while being "serviced". A good wild guess
> would be they were welding on it and sparked some combustable gasses inside
> the case.
That's a pretty good guess. Acetylene can form inside oil filled transformers.
> usually nasty (cancer-causing) PCB stuff too.
PCBs have not been used in transformers for more than thirty years. These ones were almost certainly filled with mineral oil. If they had been filled with PCBs there would have been no explosion (though the BBC stories don't mention a transformer explosion anyway).
Low sulfur diesel will result in lower sulfur emissions but I don't see why it would result in lower NOX. The latter has to do with combustion conditions.
Note that the volumetric energy density of diesel fuel is almost 10% more than that of gasoline while its energy density by mass is slightly lower.
> If we can do it I don't see any reason why major auto manufacturers can't do
> it...
Have your car's emissions tested.
...For Microsoft.
> As it's illegal in the US to argue over the accuracy of DNA evidence.
This is false, as a Google search will quickly show. There are books on how to challenge DNA evidence, and laws firms that specialize in the subject.
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Disney is not considered a candidate, despite the Slashdot summary. They could easily borrow enough to finance a combination cash-stock deal for either of the other two (i.e., each Viacom shareholder would get some cash and some Comcast stock. The loan would be secured with Viacom's assets).
I don't think it will happen, though. Wall Street seems to be pretty down on the idea.
> If it's good for the shareholders, it's good for you!
If you aren't a shareholder it doesn't involve you, but the shareholders don't seem to think it's good for them: the stock is down on the rumor.
> Time Warner did it with AOL, and look how well that .... errrr ... heh. NVM.
Lots of commemtators are pointing to that example.
I don't think you realize just how small the "media conglomerates" are. The pundits don't seem to consider Disney a likely target despite the Slashdot summary and the other two are much smaller than Comcast. Disney is slightly smaller and Comcast made a bid for it once before. While the "media" industry is very loud, it isn't all that large.