Unfortunately that has to be filed with Battle of Britain night fighter pilots having super night vision due to a high carrot diet - a cool sounding historical "factiod" that has caught on instead of being an actual fact. There was a paper about it within the last year that got a lot of press and it's probably even been used as a "weird news" filler in your local paper or morning news show. As other posters have pointed out there was also the low alcohol small beer but it turns out that water was drunk more than that or anything else in the Middle Ages.
But don't say it's because you didn't go to the right parties or you didn't hold the door open for a recruiter.
Hollywood is infamous for nepotism and corruption. People there also seem to put a vast amount of effort into name dropping and social connections, so that's why his story sounds very likely to me given that "culture". I've certainly seen situations in another industry where well connected but unqualified people have gotten a job that had hundreds of qualified applicants. Working with such people is depressing but gives some practice in training people if they are merely unskilled and actually do want to be able to do a decent job.
Even if he embellished it DailyWTF style it's still interesting and I do not think it deserved a personal attack.
You glossed over just about the only thing that is difficult in providing electricity supply. Base load is easy. Solar etc helps with the hard stuff.
Your strawman also doesn't seem to be connected properly to the grid either. Why are you pretending this?
there's a reason I only figured on a ~10% transmission loss
Because you wanted to artificially inflate the figures and pretend the electricity is not being consumed very close to where it is generated?
I'd prefer this site to be about technology for it's own sake instead of being stupid lies for the sake of politics. I'm sure you see it as being about defending the jobs of people like me that are paid by coal mining companies - if so fuck off - we don't need liars making us look bad.
As seen with a few murder cases recently where people were caught on camera it just means you can do something after the event. Electronic eyes are no replacement for boots on the ground. They are a suppliment.
Consider the fuel costs alone to keep such a system running. Then consider something else that isn't getting funding. Is this thing really going to provide much benefit for all the resources required to put into it?
I suggest using a better source of information. There's an internet out there which may help. If you want to rely on only yourself then consider all the industry around you and what normal working hours are.
There's all kinds of good information on this if you take off your solar powered blinders long enough to read some of it.
I believe such a comment after your misinformed comment about the peak happening after sunset is what is called an epic fail.
Solar is even used at Dome A in Antarctica FFS - easy to install because it's on vertical poles! You sound like some guy complaining about how the horse will never be replaced by the motor car.
Point is, solar is most efficient at times when the grid least needs the electricity from it
Not in this world sunshine. In this world we have a lot of wires running around the place so that other places can get that energy from photovoltaics at times of peak demand, which is in day time since few businesses operate at full capacity 24/7. Please read what you've written, consider it, correct your mistake and resubmit. If that's not acceptable and makes you look disloyal to The Party and endangers your chance at getting promoted to Commissar then perhaps you would have better luck posting to another site where belief is considered far more important than reality.
Yes but the engineers don't get to make the choice. At best this is being done to "save jobs" and remove threats to employment of people in mining and power companies - companies that probably have a vacant board position opening sometime soon that would suit a person with experience in public office. At worst there will be a more blatant and tangible bribe.
True, but then that means that by your definition there would be a lot of non-Christian merchants in temples. Sadly "God wants me to be rich because I'm special and thus entitled to step on the lazy slothful poor" sums up the message coming from a lot of places marked with a cross even if it's the exact opposite of what Jesus stood for. They call themselves Christian and get very angry when called otherwise, especially any Mormons who just happen to be greedy enough to fit that description.
That silly invented problem was probably dreamed up by some intern assisting in the a political office because it is certainly divorced from the reality of it making things easier on the transmission side for many reasons. I suggest considering the situation in technical terms instead regurgitating political dogma designed to fool people who do not go to the trouble of considering it in technical terms. If you are having trouble I suggest first thinking about how low voltage DC is changed into higher voltage AC any time since transistors could cope with enough current. It's not done with induction coils and valves so where are those spikes going to come from.
Either you have been conned or you are attempting to trick others. This site is definitely the wrong place for stating stupid lies about simple electrical concepts.
You forgot about peaks and how the infrastructure costs are determined by maximum expected load on a piece of infrastructure. It will all make a lot more sense when you consider that, especially when you consider the timing of the peaks as well. That's how solar capacity saves money on the transmission side. When it comes down to it most industry operates in daylight so that's when you need extra electricity, and most people live near where they work so rooftop solar doesn't have to go far to be consumed. Throw in the wonderful bonus that it's nice clean semiconductor rectified waveforms timed however people in transmission control rooms want it and suddenly the expense of load factor correction gets absorbed by all those nice people that paid to put photovolatics on their roofs.
Ah the "so you are telling us" trick for something you have provided yourself as a distraction? I'd hoped you were more interested in the topic than playing some silly attention seeking game. Disappointing.
There are tens of thousands of North Korean refugees in the "Korean autonomous region" in Northern China that borders North Korea. It's considered a bit of a social problem in that region.
Writing rubbish like you have just to get the last word is rather pathetic. I'd let it go but you'd take it as some sort of agreement if I did not reply.
Except it did not happen that way because the sheet metal pistols were not deployed. A more serious effort was put into training and equipping the resistance in France and other places. There's biographies of Nancy Wake and others that describe what really happened (eg. getting supplied items up to and including bazookas instead of toy guns). I really don't know if the liberator was a serious but misguided effort by an ignorant new player or wasteful war profiteering.
Propaganda? Are you joking or do you really know so little about that place yet still decide to give some sort of clueless lecture? There's been plenty of news reports with stories from refugees so you do not have to meet one of them yourself like I did, you can read about it in a newspaper or on the net.
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It's regulated in my country which makes it almost as much of a pain to get hold of as lab ethanol but more expensive.
Unfortunately that has to be filed with Battle of Britain night fighter pilots having super night vision due to a high carrot diet - a cool sounding historical "factiod" that has caught on instead of being an actual fact. There was a paper about it within the last year that got a lot of press and it's probably even been used as a "weird news" filler in your local paper or morning news show.
As other posters have pointed out there was also the low alcohol small beer but it turns out that water was drunk more than that or anything else in the Middle Ages.
Good news, everyone! Ethanol suppository.
Those too, but the ones that scream it from the pulpit are contagious.
The "messenger" has no message based on reality and was trying little high school mass debate tricks so needed to be put down with a bullet.
Hollywood is infamous for nepotism and corruption. People there also seem to put a vast amount of effort into name dropping and social connections, so that's why his story sounds very likely to me given that "culture". I've certainly seen situations in another industry where well connected but unqualified people have gotten a job that had hundreds of qualified applicants. Working with such people is depressing but gives some practice in training people if they are merely unskilled and actually do want to be able to do a decent job.
Even if he embellished it DailyWTF style it's still interesting and I do not think it deserved a personal attack.
You glossed over just about the only thing that is difficult in providing electricity supply. Base load is easy. Solar etc helps with the hard stuff.
Your strawman also doesn't seem to be connected properly to the grid either. Why are you pretending this?
Because you wanted to artificially inflate the figures and pretend the electricity is not being consumed very close to where it is generated?
I'd prefer this site to be about technology for it's own sake instead of being stupid lies for the sake of politics. I'm sure you see it as being about defending the jobs of people like me that are paid by coal mining companies - if so fuck off - we don't need liars making us look bad.
As seen with a few murder cases recently where people were caught on camera it just means you can do something after the event. Electronic eyes are no replacement for boots on the ground. They are a suppliment.
Consider the fuel costs alone to keep such a system running. Then consider something else that isn't getting funding.
Is this thing really going to provide much benefit for all the resources required to put into it?
It's hard to believe you've written that in 2014. I suggest you stop recycling drivel that was probably proven wrong before you were born.
Even in the short term there's local transmission equipment that needs to be upgraded as peaks rise, or not if they do not rise so rapidly.
I believe such a comment after your misinformed comment about the peak happening after sunset is what is called an epic fail.
Solar is even used at Dome A in Antarctica FFS - easy to install because it's on vertical poles! You sound like some guy complaining about how the horse will never be replaced by the motor car.
Not in this world sunshine. In this world we have a lot of wires running around the place so that other places can get that energy from photovoltaics at times of peak demand, which is in day time since few businesses operate at full capacity 24/7.
Please read what you've written, consider it, correct your mistake and resubmit. If that's not acceptable and makes you look disloyal to The Party and endangers your chance at getting promoted to Commissar then perhaps you would have better luck posting to another site where belief is considered far more important than reality.
Yes but the engineers don't get to make the choice.
At best this is being done to "save jobs" and remove threats to employment of people in mining and power companies - companies that probably have a vacant board position opening sometime soon that would suit a person with experience in public office. At worst there will be a more blatant and tangible bribe.
True, but then that means that by your definition there would be a lot of non-Christian merchants in temples. Sadly "God wants me to be rich because I'm special and thus entitled to step on the lazy slothful poor" sums up the message coming from a lot of places marked with a cross even if it's the exact opposite of what Jesus stood for.
They call themselves Christian and get very angry when called otherwise, especially any Mormons who just happen to be greedy enough to fit that description.
Reduce the amount of bribery.
That silly invented problem was probably dreamed up by some intern assisting in the a political office because it is certainly divorced from the reality of it making things easier on the transmission side for many reasons. I suggest considering the situation in technical terms instead regurgitating political dogma designed to fool people who do not go to the trouble of considering it in technical terms.
If you are having trouble I suggest first thinking about how low voltage DC is changed into higher voltage AC any time since transistors could cope with enough current. It's not done with induction coils and valves so where are those spikes going to come from.
Either you have been conned or you are attempting to trick others. This site is definitely the wrong place for stating stupid lies about simple electrical concepts.
You forgot about peaks and how the infrastructure costs are determined by maximum expected load on a piece of infrastructure. It will all make a lot more sense when you consider that, especially when you consider the timing of the peaks as well. That's how solar capacity saves money on the transmission side.
When it comes down to it most industry operates in daylight so that's when you need extra electricity, and most people live near where they work so rooftop solar doesn't have to go far to be consumed. Throw in the wonderful bonus that it's nice clean semiconductor rectified waveforms timed however people in transmission control rooms want it and suddenly the expense of load factor correction gets absorbed by all those nice people that paid to put photovolatics on their roofs.
Ah the "so you are telling us" trick for something you have provided yourself as a distraction? I'd hoped you were more interested in the topic than playing some silly attention seeking game. Disappointing.
There are tens of thousands of North Korean refugees in the "Korean autonomous region" in Northern China that borders North Korea. It's considered a bit of a social problem in that region.
Writing rubbish like you have just to get the last word is rather pathetic. I'd let it go but you'd take it as some sort of agreement if I did not reply.
Except it did not happen that way because the sheet metal pistols were not deployed. A more serious effort was put into training and equipping the resistance in France and other places. There's biographies of Nancy Wake and others that describe what really happened (eg. getting supplied items up to and including bazookas instead of toy guns).
I really don't know if the liberator was a serious but misguided effort by an ignorant new player or wasteful war profiteering.
The Liberator pistol was rubbish and it would have been an insult to drop it all over France so that never happened. Real guns were supplied instead.
Propaganda? Are you joking or do you really know so little about that place yet still decide to give some sort of clueless lecture? There's been plenty of news reports with stories from refugees so you do not have to meet one of them yourself like I did, you can read about it in a newspaper or on the net.