Once someone opens a PDF in chrome on linux that memory usage increases a LOT and doesn't reduce when the tab is closed. The same goes with some other plugins. I've had a few people on 8GB go into swap until they close chrome but each time they may have had that instance of chrome running for a couple of months.
It was a different problem due to a shared reactor design that meant they all had the same fault that had to be corrected ASAP to avoid a major failure in the future. It's just an "all eggs in one basket" problem. The heat problem you mention only really matters in a small number of sites worldwide. Holding dams before river discharge solve it. Distributing the outlets over a wide area solves it. Adding in another cooling tower solves it.
As do scientific journals - I'm not making this stuff up just enlightening people who have worked in places outside of the electricity industry.
He hates when people use the well established industry measure of Capacity Factor
I hate it when people who do not know what it means use it as an excuse to attack something - how about looking it up before doing so? You may have to learn about the difference between peak load and base load to understand implications. By definition something turned on to only cover peaks has a low Capacity Factor just because of the way you use it. Base load units have a high Capacity Factor because they are always on - that simple. Misusing the term to push "one true energy" over others is the mark of fools or scoundrels.
yet in most place the grid is required to accept all wind generation and run back other sources
Utter bullshit. Please quote the law that enforces that where you are. You cant? It doesn't happen where you are but in "most places" elsewhere? Then list a couple of those "most places" and evidence of a rule being enforced instead of just playing the game of mythical things happening in the mythical Kingdom of Prester John.
These idiots suggesting that coal fired units are powered on and off several times a day to give way to wind have fooled you. Use your own head instead of drinking in their shit and then spraying it back all over this site.
Price caps have to be higher than the highest cost generation in the pool.
But not hundreds of times higher.
You don't appear to understand how power pools work
Indeed I do, but I have noticed some that do not work very well at all where the well documented Enron bullshit has been ignored and still happens from time to time. When there is "self-regulation" and/or governments get a major cut of profits most of those checks and balances you think of as being essential to a market just do not exist - it may as well be a monopoly or a tight-knit cartel. Yes I know how it is "supposed" to work - I had that shoved down my throat in hours of boring meetings in the late 1990s, but how much actually matches that ideal? The debacle in South Australia where some gas fired generators pretended to not be able to get gas until the price was bumped up to a ridiculous level is a recent example of such a system being gamed. Without sensible caps it's a fucking casino and does not resemble the ideal you have spent so much time working on.
Where it accounts for under 2% of the total generation but responsible for 80% of the price increase in the last decade?
Yes peak pricing models SUCK and governments should have stopped that Enron shit being inflicted on people just so some speculators could get rich. There should be sensible caps related to generation costs instead of a fucking casino where a scarcity event leads to someone getting an enormous jackpot win. It's not the generation method, it's the fake market game, since gas fired generators have hit that jackpot at times as well as windmill operators.
It's exactly the situation you'd get if every taxi was an Uber and half the ones needed are available once a day.
Windmills are there to cover peaks. Why take hours to fire up 550MW of coal when you can bring on spinning reserve within seconds in 2MW chunks? Does that help you understand the topic?
Yes hydro is about the most convenient power source available but other places are not blessed with such sites for it as Ontario.
Monocultures suck even with nuclear. A few years back the French had to take all their nuclear generating plants offline for a few weeks to fix a fault that they all had in common. Exactly the same thing could have happened with coal fired or gas fired plants of the similar age to each other, so it's not a problem with nuclear itself it's just to point out that there is no "one true energy", and all eggs in one basket only helps the seller not the consumer.
If you have a weapons program you can shift some of the infrastructure costs for nuclear power into the military budget (especially since there is some shared infrastructure). If you don't it's still an incredibly expensive way to boil water so you need another excuse to justify it - such as a government enforced restriction on coal. So if you are a fan of "Big Government" telling you what to do then cheer on the nukes, because currently you need a government with tight control like China or it's not happening. Maybe that will change. I hope so.
As for your sig - WTF? Constipation fucking city. Those "smarter" people are having a joke at your expense and I'm not sure why you want to advertise that you have been conned. Diet fads do at least show that human beings are incredible hard to kill.
Doesn't matter. The peaks are huge and we need to cover them.
Plus who ever said we need to get rid of base load completely? That's a very stupid argument and you should be ashamed of yourself for putting up such idiocy to deliberately mislead.
Ah yes - the "low capacity factor" string of words from someone who doesn't know the difference between peak load and base load. Not only that someone that doesn't understand that we need to cater for both. Maybe you should learn what that collection of words mean before parroting someone that was shouting it to you earlier?
Instead of the browser itself choking on a page (rarely happens), now the entire operating system chokes because the browser gobbles up all the available memory
That's a WIN for the average application developer. Why would you want to run anything else on your computer other than their masterpiece?
Thus needing to look outside the mainstream for something to do the job the way you want it instead of the trendy way.
Yes I totally agree (I remember this being discussed when an attempt was made to build lynx for DSLinux on the Nintendo DS) but it's the text mode browser most people have heard of so that is why I used it as an example.
I'm not in the USA and those numbers you cited show the US has a problem in mining as well as I.T. The takeup in other places from zero (total ban underground a few years back) has been rapid so i'm sure the US figures will change. Meanwhile the decline of the numbers of women in I.T. has been global.
I certainly wouldn't be able to perceive a 2% decrease over 9 years
Add a zero and double it to get what I've seen - somewhat blatant.
Chrome, the current Firefox and a few others are designed with the assumption that memory usage is not a real issue while speed is - hence all that stuff in tabs being kept in memory. Yes it sucks if you want to use anything other than their application at the same time or have an older machine with less memory than the maxed out dev machines, but those developers do not care about such a situation. The answer is an older version or a project that has a goal of a low memory footprint.
Lynx, the text mode browser, beats the lot in speed. How is that for an illustration that features matter and Edge needs more than speed to measure up to the web browsers that have been developed for longer.
Trump is a very special case and he's only recently joined the Republicans anyway. It's almost always a lie unless he's backtracking to change a truly outrageous one into something else. It's the way he does things (and probably why he had to go as far as Russian banks for finance). A bizzare example was the five (yes that many) explanations for his wife using parts of one of Michelle Obama's speeches. Just admitting it, as was done in the end, would have been less ridiculous than four lies about it. All those lies over something trivial and in hindsight a real indication that there is not a massive difference in policy between the two sides anyway - the same speech works for R or D!
So, a British problem, then? Here in the US we study only one math, instead of multiple maths
That explains a lot at the undergraduate level:) I shouldn't make a joke about the depressing decline that's resulted in so few even attempting introductory calculus.
From where I'm standing it looks like we've taken massive steps backwards since 2000. I worked in an IT startup that wanted a few people with engineering backgrounds and there were quite a few women in the place. I've visited similar places since and see 100% males, 100% anglo-saxon and nerf balls getting thrown all over the place. It turned into a fucking "no girls allowed" grade school club full of people who just want to be friends and do not dare to challenge any shit ideas that anyone in the group comes up. Go Team! instead of making good choices. Monocultures suck and will fuck you up if you are trying to sell anything outside of your select little club.
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No problem, just pile up old gear and boxes high enough and you get your wall back.
Priority over gas turbines and other peak load sources is a very different thing to what you have been claiming.
So where is your proof of base load units being shut down when some wind comes on line? It isn't in any of those links you spammed me with.
In a situation where failing businesses are bought out and absorbed a variety of reasons for failure can propagate. A lot of I.T. is like that.
Once someone opens a PDF in chrome on linux that memory usage increases a LOT and doesn't reduce when the tab is closed. The same goes with some other plugins. I've had a few people on 8GB go into swap until they close chrome but each time they may have had that instance of chrome running for a couple of months.
It was a different problem due to a shared reactor design that meant they all had the same fault that had to be corrected ASAP to avoid a major failure in the future. It's just an "all eggs in one basket" problem.
The heat problem you mention only really matters in a small number of sites worldwide. Holding dams before river discharge solve it. Distributing the outlets over a wide area solves it. Adding in another cooling tower solves it.
As do scientific journals - I'm not making this stuff up just enlightening people who have worked in places outside of the electricity industry.
I hate it when people who do not know what it means use it as an excuse to attack something - how about looking it up before doing so? You may have to learn about the difference between peak load and base load to understand implications. By definition something turned on to only cover peaks has a low Capacity Factor just because of the way you use it. Base load units have a high Capacity Factor because they are always on - that simple. Misusing the term to push "one true energy" over others is the mark of fools or scoundrels.
Utter bullshit. Please quote the law that enforces that where you are. You cant? It doesn't happen where you are but in "most places" elsewhere? Then list a couple of those "most places" and evidence of a rule being enforced instead of just playing the game of mythical things happening in the mythical Kingdom of Prester John.
These idiots suggesting that coal fired units are powered on and off several times a day to give way to wind have fooled you. Use your own head instead of drinking in their shit and then spraying it back all over this site.
HVDC is already in use with very long runs in many places and not so far from that ideal. Wikipedia has a fine article.
Your grid is the size of a fucking continent.
But not hundreds of times higher.
Indeed I do, but I have noticed some that do not work very well at all where the well documented Enron bullshit has been ignored and still happens from time to time. When there is "self-regulation" and/or governments get a major cut of profits most of those checks and balances you think of as being essential to a market just do not exist - it may as well be a monopoly or a tight-knit cartel.
Yes I know how it is "supposed" to work - I had that shoved down my throat in hours of boring meetings in the late 1990s, but how much actually matches that ideal?
The debacle in South Australia where some gas fired generators pretended to not be able to get gas until the price was bumped up to a ridiculous level is a recent example of such a system being gamed. Without sensible caps it's a fucking casino and does not resemble the ideal you have spent so much time working on.
Yes peak pricing models SUCK and governments should have stopped that Enron shit being inflicted on people just so some speculators could get rich. There should be sensible caps related to generation costs instead of a fucking casino where a scarcity event leads to someone getting an enormous jackpot win.
It's not the generation method, it's the fake market game, since gas fired generators have hit that jackpot at times as well as windmill operators.
It's exactly the situation you'd get if every taxi was an Uber and half the ones needed are available once a day.
Windmills are there to cover peaks. Why take hours to fire up 550MW of coal when you can bring on spinning reserve within seconds in 2MW chunks?
Does that help you understand the topic?
Yes hydro is about the most convenient power source available but other places are not blessed with such sites for it as Ontario.
Monocultures suck even with nuclear.
A few years back the French had to take all their nuclear generating plants offline for a few weeks to fix a fault that they all had in common. Exactly the same thing could have happened with coal fired or gas fired plants of the similar age to each other, so it's not a problem with nuclear itself it's just to point out that there is no "one true energy", and all eggs in one basket only helps the seller not the consumer.
If you have a weapons program you can shift some of the infrastructure costs for nuclear power into the military budget (especially since there is some shared infrastructure). If you don't it's still an incredibly expensive way to boil water so you need another excuse to justify it - such as a government enforced restriction on coal.
So if you are a fan of "Big Government" telling you what to do then cheer on the nukes, because currently you need a government with tight control like China or it's not happening. Maybe that will change. I hope so.
As for your sig - WTF? Constipation fucking city. Those "smarter" people are having a joke at your expense and I'm not sure why you want to advertise that you have been conned. Diet fads do at least show that human beings are incredible hard to kill.
Has been done.
Fly ash is almost all silica.
Doesn't matter.
The peaks are huge and we need to cover them.
Plus who ever said we need to get rid of base load completely? That's a very stupid argument and you should be ashamed of yourself for putting up such idiocy to deliberately mislead.
Ah yes - the "low capacity factor" string of words from someone who doesn't know the difference between peak load and base load. Not only that someone that doesn't understand that we need to cater for both.
Maybe you should learn what that collection of words mean before parroting someone that was shouting it to you earlier?
That's a WIN for the average application developer. Why would you want to run anything else on your computer other than their masterpiece?
Thus needing to look outside the mainstream for something to do the job the way you want it instead of the trendy way.
Yes I totally agree (I remember this being discussed when an attempt was made to build lynx for DSLinux on the Nintendo DS) but it's the text mode browser most people have heard of so that is why I used it as an example.
Add a zero and double it to get what I've seen - somewhat blatant.
Chrome, the current Firefox and a few others are designed with the assumption that memory usage is not a real issue while speed is - hence all that stuff in tabs being kept in memory. Yes it sucks if you want to use anything other than their application at the same time or have an older machine with less memory than the maxed out dev machines, but those developers do not care about such a situation.
The answer is an older version or a project that has a goal of a low memory footprint.
Lynx, the text mode browser, beats the lot in speed.
How is that for an illustration that features matter and Edge needs more than speed to measure up to the web browsers that have been developed for longer.
Trump is a very special case and he's only recently joined the Republicans anyway. It's almost always a lie unless he's backtracking to change a truly outrageous one into something else. It's the way he does things (and probably why he had to go as far as Russian banks for finance).
A bizzare example was the five (yes that many) explanations for his wife using parts of one of Michelle Obama's speeches. Just admitting it, as was done in the end, would have been less ridiculous than four lies about it. All those lies over something trivial and in hindsight a real indication that there is not a massive difference in policy between the two sides anyway - the same speech works for R or D!
The "I.T. Crowd" did this brilliantly - a lie to justify using the disabled toilet escalated hilariously.
That explains a lot at the undergraduate level :)
I shouldn't make a joke about the depressing decline that's resulted in so few even attempting introductory calculus.
From where I'm standing it looks like we've taken massive steps backwards since 2000. I worked in an IT startup that wanted a few people with engineering backgrounds and there were quite a few women in the place. I've visited similar places since and see 100% males, 100% anglo-saxon and nerf balls getting thrown all over the place. It turned into a fucking "no girls allowed" grade school club full of people who just want to be friends and do not dare to challenge any shit ideas that anyone in the group comes up. Go Team! instead of making good choices.
Monocultures suck and will fuck you up if you are trying to sell anything outside of your select little club.