I'm glad its working, but 7 MW of power is just a drop of water in a puddle The coal station was pumping out 500 MW when it went down, so the battery made up less than 2% of the shortfall. Yes it did help, yes it did aid synchronisation, but only a little.. The article is sensationalist bullshit. Who are these 'stunned industry insiders'?
Exactly. I have made a reasonable stack of money in futures, but must admit that trading in a market that halts twice in a day seems like a recipe for tears,
Weatherill (the South Australian Premier who is trying to enjoy his last few days in the sun, before he gets voted out of power) has also bought 276 MW of diesel fuelled generators "the state Labor government will purchase nine new GE TM2500 aero derivative turbines through APR Energy, providing up to 276 MW of generation to the grid when required." . These of course will be very useful for providing baseload power when the wind doesn't blow.
"How about campaigning for affordable healthy food?"
How about just buying affordable healthy food? Buy a chicken, roast it. Buy some frozen peas. Buy a cabbage. Boil them. Buy sweet potato and pumpkin. roast them(no fat).
Which part of that is beyond the culinary abilities of a 10 year old? Which part is expensive?
Whenever someone starts getting sanctimonious about safety I ask them if they fit the best possible tyres to their car for the next journey. If not then they are prepared to sacrifice safety for cost or convenience.
What total denial is that? For at least 10 years (I recently found a post from back then) my position ha been that all things being equal more CO2= more temperature, and that the increase in atmospheric CO2 strongly correlates with the burning of fossil fuels in the last 200 years, if you work out the masses involved, about 60% of what we put up there hangs around. So where's the denial AC?
64 million tons eh? That sounds like a big scary number. Oooh scary. That should get the panic merchants panicking. Of course since the atmosphere contains 2.996×10^12 tonnes already, one might imagine that an additional 0.002% is really not going to make much odds.
The summary says two emissions scenarios were looked at " one in it continues emitting at current levels". The article says RCP 8.5 was used. RCP 8.5 is quite incredible. Nigeria has a current population of 200 million. Under RCP 8.5 it is envisaged that this will grow to 1.5 billion by the end of the century, turning a rural country into one with the same population density as the Vatican Cty.
Also of course, TFA relies on the same sort of computer models that have currently been overpredicting temperature rises consistently since 1990.
Yup, that seems to be a reasonable interpretation. Incidentally very few interns actually do more useful work than they absorb in training them. They are fun to work with and the 3 month long interview is an excellent way of figuring out if they are worth employing. Given the expense of the high fuck up rate of employing fresh graduates I suspect it actually works out cheaper to have an intern program, simply because you end up employing known quantities.
That's an interesting point but (and as someone told Tyrion everything said before 'but' is irrelevant) I think the intention is to reduce the number of engineering students as well as improving them. I agree it will tend to weed out poorer students, which is unfair, but then, what's the point of training them in some half ass degree mill so that they are still unable to find an engineering job (if that's what they want).
In my experience Indian engineers who have made it through India's best universities are still pretty hopeless by and large, although the best engineering manager I ever ran into was an Indian woman.
Ah climate change, the metaphysical mechanism that can be blamed for every possible outcome. Droughts, Floods, higher temperatures, lower temperatures More hurricanes. fewer hurricanes. So long as they can write a panicky headline about it, it'll get published.
An interesting claim, what makes you think that? I'd have thought everyone who has designed long-haul fast aircraft has made the same calculation and they seem to have come up with an efficient high speed wing, and then added bodges to make it suitable for low speed.
That's nice dear. . I'm a mechanical engineer on $140000 with six weeks of paid vacation, working for a fortune 500. Guess you fucked up with your career choice. Sorry about that.
OK, so how do you handle corporate responsibility? Take the Firestone Explorer case as a well documented and typical example. Neither company comes out covered in glory or demonstrates superb engineering skills, at the same time if you aren't going to sue the corporations which guy are you going to sue/send to prison/kill?
I was told of a round table where it was proposed that industrial exemption for engineers should be removed so that ultimately an actual PE signs off for each safety critical system (the particular context was AV software, but it would apply generally). I think that would be terrific, ethically. I also think it would put all domestic automakers out of business soon after. If I have to sign off for SUVs rolling over and will be held liable, my name ain't going on that document until EVERY aspect of that event had been tested. Not cost effectively, absolutely.
Also the insurance industry would laugh its socks off, as all these new PEs would have to be insured.
What would you do about imports? other countries don't bother with the archaic PE model, by and large.
Finally, the necessary influx of grandfathered PEs (remember a PE can't practice out of their known competence, and has to have direct personal supervision of the work) would completely dominate the state PE system and destroy the old boys club.
"They save a fortune on expensive office space, and get a "massive" 13% improvement in productivity.
how much of that do they pass on to the workers? do they pay for the office space and equipment the worker provides?
and, no, the employees saving on travel time and expenses doesn't count as extra pay"
That's a pretty miserable attitude. In my book saving 2 hours a day commuting, and getting rid of one car (in theory) are both huge positives. Other significant positives are being able to do quick jobs around the house while waiting for a download etc, and eating nice food instead of canteen food. There are downsides, I pay seven bucks a gig as I'm on wireless internet (my house is truly off grid), and there are a few people at the office I like talking to, and VOIP isn't quite the same. OTOH, no interruptions. I work (and am paid for) 5 hour days, my productivity is indistinguishable from when i spent 8 hours a day at the office. Cue the hilarious jokes...
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Thank you, those are very useful numbers.
I'm glad its working, but 7 MW of power is just a drop of water in a puddle The coal station was pumping out 500 MW when it went down, so the battery made up less than 2% of the shortfall. Yes it did help, yes it did aid synchronisation, but only a little.. The article is sensationalist bullshit. Who are these 'stunned industry insiders'?
Exactly. I have made a reasonable stack of money in futures, but must admit that trading in a market that halts twice in a day seems like a recipe for tears,
I think it is a funny idea, but it is interesting.
whiny whiny whiny whiny snowflake whine first world problem whiny whiny snowflake.
I think that covers it.
Weatherill (the South Australian Premier who is trying to enjoy his last few days in the sun, before he gets voted out of power) has also bought 276 MW of diesel fuelled generators "the state Labor government will purchase nine new GE TM2500 aero derivative turbines through APR Energy, providing up to 276 MW of generation to the grid when required." . These of course will be very useful for providing baseload power when the wind doesn't blow.
"How about campaigning for affordable healthy food?"
How about just buying affordable healthy food? Buy a chicken, roast it. Buy some frozen peas. Buy a cabbage. Boil them. Buy sweet potato and pumpkin. roast them(no fat).
Which part of that is beyond the culinary abilities of a 10 year old? Which part is expensive?
What about chimpanzees? cats? dogs?
clueless AC, behaving cluelessly, abetted by clueless mods.
The ignorance of the politically correct echo chamber is revealed yet again.
"That's a daily electric bill of about $950 (so say $960 or $40 per hour) for the station.
That's about 6 houses during the summer in my area (or 20 houses during the winter)."
Houses in your neighborhood have electricity bills of $160 per day? Live near Al Gore do you?
Whenever someone starts getting sanctimonious about safety I ask them if they fit the best possible tyres to their car for the next journey. If not then they are prepared to sacrifice safety for cost or convenience.
4.5 GW is about 1.5% of the generating capacity of the EU. So you could switch the whole thing off and nobody would notice. Not a big threat really.
What total denial is that? For at least 10 years (I recently found a post from back then) my position ha been that all things being equal more CO2= more temperature, and that the increase in atmospheric CO2 strongly correlates with the burning of fossil fuels in the last 200 years, if you work out the masses involved, about 60% of what we put up there hangs around. So where's the denial AC?
64 million tons eh? That sounds like a big scary number. Oooh scary. That should get the panic merchants panicking. Of course since the atmosphere contains 2.996×10^12 tonnes already, one might imagine that an additional 0.002% is really not going to make much odds.
More like "Don't worry it's India, who gives a shit?" Well apart from the Indians shitting all over the place, obviously.
The summary says two emissions scenarios were looked at " one in it continues emitting at current levels". The article says RCP 8.5 was used. RCP 8.5 is quite incredible. Nigeria has a current population of 200 million. Under RCP 8.5 it is envisaged that this will grow to 1.5 billion by the end of the century, turning a rural country into one with the same population density as the Vatican Cty.
Also of course, TFA relies on the same sort of computer models that have currently been overpredicting temperature rises consistently since 1990.
Yup, that seems to be a reasonable interpretation. Incidentally very few interns actually do more useful work than they absorb in training them. They are fun to work with and the 3 month long interview is an excellent way of figuring out if they are worth employing. Given the expense of the high fuck up rate of employing fresh graduates I suspect it actually works out cheaper to have an intern program, simply because you end up employing known quantities.
I think that is a very sensible observation.
That's an interesting point but (and as someone told Tyrion everything said before 'but' is irrelevant) I think the intention is to reduce the number of engineering students as well as improving them. I agree it will tend to weed out poorer students, which is unfair, but then, what's the point of training them in some half ass degree mill so that they are still unable to find an engineering job (if that's what they want).
In my experience Indian engineers who have made it through India's best universities are still pretty hopeless by and large, although the best engineering manager I ever ran into was an Indian woman.
Ah climate change, the metaphysical mechanism that can be blamed for every possible outcome. Droughts, Floods, higher temperatures, lower temperatures More hurricanes. fewer hurricanes. So long as they can write a panicky headline about it, it'll get published.
An interesting claim, what makes you think that? I'd have thought everyone who has designed long-haul fast aircraft has made the same calculation and they seem to have come up with an efficient high speed wing, and then added bodges to make it suitable for low speed.
That's nice dear. . I'm a mechanical engineer on $140000 with six weeks of paid vacation, working for a fortune 500. Guess you fucked up with your career choice. Sorry about that.
OK, so how do you handle corporate responsibility? Take the Firestone Explorer case as a well documented and typical example. Neither company comes out covered in glory or demonstrates superb engineering skills, at the same time if you aren't going to sue the corporations which guy are you going to sue/send to prison/kill?
I was told of a round table where it was proposed that industrial exemption for engineers should be removed so that ultimately an actual PE signs off for each safety critical system (the particular context was AV software, but it would apply generally). I think that would be terrific, ethically. I also think it would put all domestic automakers out of business soon after. If I have to sign off for SUVs rolling over and will be held liable, my name ain't going on that document until EVERY aspect of that event had been tested. Not cost effectively, absolutely.
Also the insurance industry would laugh its socks off, as all these new PEs would have to be insured.
What would you do about imports? other countries don't bother with the archaic PE model, by and large.
Finally, the necessary influx of grandfathered PEs (remember a PE can't practice out of their known competence, and has to have direct personal supervision of the work) would completely dominate the state PE system and destroy the old boys club.
"They save a fortune on expensive office space, and get a "massive" 13% improvement in productivity.
how much of that do they pass on to the workers? do they pay for the office space and equipment the worker provides?
and, no, the employees saving on travel time and expenses doesn't count as extra pay"
That's a pretty miserable attitude. In my book saving 2 hours a day commuting, and getting rid of one car (in theory) are both huge positives. Other significant positives are being able to do quick jobs around the house while waiting for a download etc, and eating nice food instead of canteen food. There are downsides, I pay seven bucks a gig as I'm on wireless internet (my house is truly off grid), and there are a few people at the office I like talking to, and VOIP isn't quite the same. OTOH, no interruptions. I work (and am paid for) 5 hour days, my productivity is indistinguishable from when i spent 8 hours a day at the office. Cue the hilarious jokes...