Pre-paid pump systems work without any action from the attendant. So he may not have noticed anything wrong unless he looked carefully. Then he would have tried to disable the pump from his console, and found it didn't work. With that, it seems he did use either the big red button, or the pump's circuit breaker, to disable it.
These wall warts transfer considerable energy, and some of it is lost as heat. Pack two of them close together, and they'll overheat. That's liability, so they have to design them to make it impossible. Apple fixes it by making them taller instead, but he complains about that too. BTW, there's a fix for the apple one - pull off the mains plug and you'll find that behind it is a standard figure-8 socket, so you can plug it in with any standard figure-8 mains lead, and who doesn't have a cupboard full of them?
Same thing with side entry USB power packs. Putting out 50W (and higher) in that small package is no small feat, so they need to ensure there's clear space around them, and putting the output on the side guarentees that that side of the plug remains clear for airflow.
All good, technical reasons. Doesn't stop it being annoying, though!
And if countries were willing to do this - levy fines based on, say, the corporation's market value, then traders would shy away from companies that are likely to incur such fines, and corporations would be forced to act lawfully, to some degree.
A few hundred billion dollar fines would also do wonders for the national debt.
0.4% of the sunlight wouldn't have be enough to make the solar panels work. So a greater darkness than that doesn't really make any difference. It might as well be pitch black if the intensity is below 1%.
What is important, then, is how long this dust storm will last.
Opportunity and Spirit are not fitted with any mechanism to clear their solar panels. Originally, it was assumed that dust on the panels would be what would end the mission. But winds and whirlwinds were found on the planet, these occasionally blew dust from the panels, and the mission was extended.
The pressing problem is that there won't be enough energy to keep the heaters running, the electronics will cool down to -50C, and either the heaters won't turn back on when the sun returns, or, if they do, the electronics won't work when they defrost.
In different places, different amounts of the power are generated from renewable or nuclear sources, right up to 100%. And as the grid becomes cleaner, so will all electric cars.
And even if the electricity supply is mostly coal, a large coal-fired plant is much, much cleaner than any car's internal combustion engine.
Nissan has Bolts on their books for $31K, but if you walk into a dealer anywhere but California, you'll be given reasons why you shouldn't consider a Bolt, followed by reasons why you cannot. In California, you'll be able to get one only if Nissan hasn't yet reached some legislated environmental quotas.
If those state laws are done away with, expect the Bolt to disappear entirely.
VW might produce enough EVs to fulfill their obligations under repatriations for dieselgate, but expect them to try to convince legislators that the reason they haven't sold enough is that their customers don't want them.
Here's a hint - if you ever hear a car company or salesman talking about how this car will probably be OK for your daily commute, they aren't trying to sell you that car. Talking about your daily commute is to make you bored with the vehicle, so they can then make you excited about the car they want to sell.
It has a better hardness than pretty much anything else, so wont wear and soften like glass will. It has a refractive index greater that most other things, so sparkles with more color. It is also impervious to oils, so won't become dull like cheaper clear stones like cubic zirconia.
However, Mossanite is a good alternative. A higher refractive index than diamond, so you can see the difference because they sparkle more brilliantly than diamond. It is also harder than almost anything else, (except diamond) so won't wear like cheaper stones.
But there is no difference between a mined and a lab made diamond, apart from the horrific results of diamond mining. They are both the same cubic carbon crystal, so if you like the look of a real diamond, get one made in a lab.
EFTPOS install kits, up until a few years ago, included vouchers for EFTPOS. These could be run through the imprinter machine, and then banked manually. Each merchant would have a floor limit for these transactions - which could be zero for debit cards - and if a transaction is more than that, they have to call a phone number where a computer would authorize the transaction.
This computer system was probably down with the rest of the system...
One issue is that in this area of the world, pay TV is delivered by satellite. Everyone in a region receives the same encrypted broadcast, and it is decrypted by secret keys inside the decoder box. If you have the money, separating that decryption module and capturing the decrypted video stream is child's play. Even where it is delivered by cable, the same signal is delivered, encrypted, to many customers, so this sort of work could determine which suburb they are capturing in - which isn't much use, as they would only capture from one site for a few minutes at a time.
And then you have to be using a way to mark it that doesn't degrade service for your customers, isn't detectable by your target (or they'll just strip it), and isn't destroyed by re-encoding.
The current method for keeping the frequency stable is lots of plants with heavy turbines and generators spinning at high speed - 3000 or 3600 RPM. If load increases or decreases, it takes time for all this mass to speed up or slow down, and this keeps the frequency stable.
Molten salt plants use these same, heavy steam turbines, and so will act to keep the network stable like traditional plants.
It is when this first system is not enough that batteries and gas turbines come online, to support the network while steam plants ramp up their fuel burn (or molten salts increase their steam generation, which should be faster than coal- or oil-fired plants can). Batteries can also absorb power while plants overproduce if the load unexpectedly drops.
Apparently they made similar devices to permit submariners to escape accidents. A friend of mine obtained one as army surplus, and had great fun using it to swim underwater. Until he took it too far (or maybe they also had some kind of oxygen candle in them which died first), and he passed out underwater. Thankfully there were others in the area to fish him out.
Best idea is that the pilot donned his oxygen, took the plane up to high altitude, and depressurized the plane. As the evidence of the later parts of the flight match it being under autopilot control, he probably took off his supply once he put the plane onto its final course.
When you hold your breath, the oxygen in the air and in your blood balance. Even after some time, there remains some oxygen in the air, and remaining oxygen in your blood stays there.
But if what you are breathing doesn't have any oxygen in it, the remaining oxygen in your blood diffuses out into the gas until the amount of oxygen in it matches the oxygen in what you are breathing. Your lungs now work to efficiently de-oxygenate your blood. That makes for rapid loss of consciousness.
Yeah, 80% in 15 minutes is only 4C - that's fast charging today, but doable. It needs very good thermal management of the cells, but nothing too extreme. The problem is delivering the power - to give you that 80% charge in 15 minutes, you need something like 35kW, plus losses. 100A at 350V, 35A at 1000V - it's a heavy whack of power to deliver over a plug and socket that a consumer can use.
The bit auto manufacturers are still hanging on the the internal combustion engine, still fighting the electric revolution. That's why the big auto companies are only selling tiny, low range buzboxes. Their moto is still, 'Electric cars aren't real cars. You need a real car.'
The car you want can be built now. But because only smaller companies, like Tesla, are building real electric cars, the prices are high. That will change, either when large auto gives in and writes off all their engine building factories as the scrap that they are, or when Tesla and other new auto companies take over the market.
When you drive a vehicle that means that you never again visit a gas station, you'll realize why fuel vehicles are as dead as the dinosaurs that power them. For that daily convenience, you'll happily rearrange your occasional long trip to include one or two 30-minute rest stops while it recharges.
.. where regenerative braking can put the energy back into the battery. They are also big, so have room for lots of cells. And most cities number their busses for the peak morning and evening rush, so there's plenty of opportunities to schedule each bus off the road for 2 hours to fully charge it.
But busses are only the start. All the problems with electric vehicles have been solved - we just need to ramp up battery production. All that remains to be seen is if the electric takover will be the major car manufacturers will writing off their investment in the internal combustion engine, or whether a raft of new automotive companies will take over.
So the rest of use aren't going to want gas much longer.
It's not just forcing re-branding - it is limitations on how they brand, how they can market AMD cards. Not being able to make it easy for their customers to compare offerings from the two companies, or being prevented from marketing high performance gaming AMD devices as high performance gaming devices. Things that make it harder for AMD to get market share, because of Nvidia illegally using their market dominance.
It seems that they are demanding that OEMs stop selling AMD devices under their Gaming brands, thereby trying to shut AMD out of the premium GPU market.
It may turn out that they are only requiring that manufacturers do not sell AMD and Nvidia GPUs under the same brand name - which is reasonable I suppose, but really they should just stay out of it. OEMs should be left to brand their products as they wish, and it would be great for comsumers if they put AMD and Nvidia powered cards with similar performance side by side on the shelf, packed similarly and with similar part numbers, apart from the acutal AMD and NVidia trademarks.
Items placed on an open server without a login are made available for public download. Whether you meant to offer them for public download isn't relevant - you did.
He went to the server and asked politely, "Can I take one of these?" The server said, "Sure, here it is", and then tossed it to him.
Yes - known as 'chevrons'. Just over a year ago, a bus crashed into a nearly identical barrier just down the road - killed 2 and injured 'over a dozen'. The primary NTSB report puts the primary blame on inadequate road markings.
While the report only came out at the end of March, they should have known about it before then. Hopefully they will react to the report and fix the lane markings - what we see there is shocking, and I'm not surprised people hit those dividers constantly. As more and more cars come fitted with lane-keeping, adequate lane markings are becoming more and more important.
The threads on eng-tips.com (https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=437029) are a good read. They seem to be focusing on the join at the bottom of the 11th member of the structure, at the far end where the collapse occurred, and the video seems to suggest that the 11th member broke free at the bottom. An interesting point about that junction is that both the load of the bridge and the tension of the rods were both working in the same direction, placing the same shear force on a join in the concrete.
But as we don't even know whether they were adding or releasing tension from those rods, speculation is all we can do.
The manufacturer of the power steering in a Tesla is written right on it. It's no mystery who made it. No, it's not in the article, but it is widely known. It is stated on other forums, like Electrek.
Knowledgeable users on forums state categorically that Tesla won't even be paying for it - it's a fault with a BOSCH part, and BOSCH will be footing the bill for the repair.
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Pre-paid pump systems work without any action from the attendant. So he may not have noticed anything wrong unless he looked carefully. Then he would have tried to disable the pump from his console, and found it didn't work. With that, it seems he did use either the big red button, or the pump's circuit breaker, to disable it.
These wall warts transfer considerable energy, and some of it is lost as heat. Pack two of them close together, and they'll overheat. That's liability, so they have to design them to make it impossible. Apple fixes it by making them taller instead, but he complains about that too. BTW, there's a fix for the apple one - pull off the mains plug and you'll find that behind it is a standard figure-8 socket, so you can plug it in with any standard figure-8 mains lead, and who doesn't have a cupboard full of them?
Same thing with side entry USB power packs. Putting out 50W (and higher) in that small package is no small feat, so they need to ensure there's clear space around them, and putting the output on the side guarentees that that side of the plug remains clear for airflow.
All good, technical reasons. Doesn't stop it being annoying, though!
And if countries were willing to do this - levy fines based on, say, the corporation's market value, then traders would shy away from companies that are likely to incur such fines, and corporations would be forced to act lawfully, to some degree.
A few hundred billion dollar fines would also do wonders for the national debt.
0.4% of the sunlight wouldn't have be enough to make the solar panels work. So a greater darkness than that doesn't really make any difference. It might as well be pitch black if the intensity is below 1%.
What is important, then, is how long this dust storm will last.
Opportunity and Spirit are not fitted with any mechanism to clear their solar panels. Originally, it was assumed that dust on the panels would be what would end the mission. But winds and whirlwinds were found on the planet, these occasionally blew dust from the panels, and the mission was extended.
The pressing problem is that there won't be enough energy to keep the heaters running, the electronics will cool down to -50C, and either the heaters won't turn back on when the sun returns, or, if they do, the electronics won't work when they defrost.
In different places, different amounts of the power are generated from renewable or nuclear sources, right up to 100%. And as the grid becomes cleaner, so will all electric cars.
And even if the electricity supply is mostly coal, a large coal-fired plant is much, much cleaner than any car's internal combustion engine.
Nissan has Bolts on their books for $31K, but if you walk into a dealer anywhere but California, you'll be given reasons why you shouldn't consider a Bolt, followed by reasons why you cannot. In California, you'll be able to get one only if Nissan hasn't yet reached some legislated environmental quotas.
If those state laws are done away with, expect the Bolt to disappear entirely.
VW might produce enough EVs to fulfill their obligations under repatriations for dieselgate, but expect them to try to convince legislators that the reason they haven't sold enough is that their customers don't want them.
Here's a hint - if you ever hear a car company or salesman talking about how this car will probably be OK for your daily commute, they aren't trying to sell you that car. Talking about your daily commute is to make you bored with the vehicle, so they can then make you excited about the car they want to sell.
It has a better hardness than pretty much anything else, so wont wear and soften like glass will. It has a refractive index greater that most other things, so sparkles with more color. It is also impervious to oils, so won't become dull like cheaper clear stones like cubic zirconia.
However, Mossanite is a good alternative. A higher refractive index than diamond, so you can see the difference because they sparkle more brilliantly than diamond. It is also harder than almost anything else, (except diamond) so won't wear like cheaper stones.
But there is no difference between a mined and a lab made diamond, apart from the horrific results of diamond mining. They are both the same cubic carbon crystal, so if you like the look of a real diamond, get one made in a lab.
EFTPOS install kits, up until a few years ago, included vouchers for EFTPOS. These could be run through the imprinter machine, and then banked manually. Each merchant would have a floor limit for these transactions - which could be zero for debit cards - and if a transaction is more than that, they have to call a phone number where a computer would authorize the transaction. This computer system was probably down with the rest of the system...
And then you have to be using a way to mark it that doesn't degrade service for your customers, isn't detectable by your target (or they'll just strip it), and isn't destroyed by re-encoding.
The current method for keeping the frequency stable is lots of plants with heavy turbines and generators spinning at high speed - 3000 or 3600 RPM. If load increases or decreases, it takes time for all this mass to speed up or slow down, and this keeps the frequency stable.
Molten salt plants use these same, heavy steam turbines, and so will act to keep the network stable like traditional plants.
It is when this first system is not enough that batteries and gas turbines come online, to support the network while steam plants ramp up their fuel burn (or molten salts increase their steam generation, which should be faster than coal- or oil-fired plants can). Batteries can also absorb power while plants overproduce if the load unexpectedly drops.
Apparently they made similar devices to permit submariners to escape accidents. A friend of mine obtained one as army surplus, and had great fun using it to swim underwater. Until he took it too far (or maybe they also had some kind of oxygen candle in them which died first), and he passed out underwater. Thankfully there were others in the area to fish him out.
Best idea is that the pilot donned his oxygen, took the plane up to high altitude, and depressurized the plane. As the evidence of the later parts of the flight match it being under autopilot control, he probably took off his supply once he put the plane onto its final course.
When you hold your breath, the oxygen in the air and in your blood balance. Even after some time, there remains some oxygen in the air, and remaining oxygen in your blood stays there.
But if what you are breathing doesn't have any oxygen in it, the remaining oxygen in your blood diffuses out into the gas until the amount of oxygen in it matches the oxygen in what you are breathing. Your lungs now work to efficiently de-oxygenate your blood. That makes for rapid loss of consciousness.
Yeah, 80% in 15 minutes is only 4C - that's fast charging today, but doable. It needs very good thermal management of the cells, but nothing too extreme. The problem is delivering the power - to give you that 80% charge in 15 minutes, you need something like 35kW, plus losses. 100A at 350V, 35A at 1000V - it's a heavy whack of power to deliver over a plug and socket that a consumer can use.
The bit auto manufacturers are still hanging on the the internal combustion engine, still fighting the electric revolution. That's why the big auto companies are only selling tiny, low range buzboxes. Their moto is still, 'Electric cars aren't real cars. You need a real car.'
The car you want can be built now. But because only smaller companies, like Tesla, are building real electric cars, the prices are high. That will change, either when large auto gives in and writes off all their engine building factories as the scrap that they are, or when Tesla and other new auto companies take over the market.
When you drive a vehicle that means that you never again visit a gas station, you'll realize why fuel vehicles are as dead as the dinosaurs that power them. For that daily convenience, you'll happily rearrange your occasional long trip to include one or two 30-minute rest stops while it recharges.
.. where regenerative braking can put the energy back into the battery. They are also big, so have room for lots of cells. And most cities number their busses for the peak morning and evening rush, so there's plenty of opportunities to schedule each bus off the road for 2 hours to fully charge it.
But busses are only the start. All the problems with electric vehicles have been solved - we just need to ramp up battery production. All that remains to be seen is if the electric takover will be the major car manufacturers will writing off their investment in the internal combustion engine, or whether a raft of new automotive companies will take over.
So the rest of use aren't going to want gas much longer.
It's not just forcing re-branding - it is limitations on how they brand, how they can market AMD cards. Not being able to make it easy for their customers to compare offerings from the two companies, or being prevented from marketing high performance gaming AMD devices as high performance gaming devices. Things that make it harder for AMD to get market share, because of Nvidia illegally using their market dominance.
It seems that they are demanding that OEMs stop selling AMD devices under their Gaming brands, thereby trying to shut AMD out of the premium GPU market.
It may turn out that they are only requiring that manufacturers do not sell AMD and Nvidia GPUs under the same brand name - which is reasonable I suppose, but really they should just stay out of it. OEMs should be left to brand their products as they wish, and it would be great for comsumers if they put AMD and Nvidia powered cards with similar performance side by side on the shelf, packed similarly and with similar part numbers, apart from the acutal AMD and NVidia trademarks.
Items placed on an open server without a login are made available for public download. Whether you meant to offer them for public download isn't relevant - you did.
He went to the server and asked politely, "Can I take one of these?" The server said, "Sure, here it is", and then tossed it to him.
Yes - known as 'chevrons'. Just over a year ago, a bus crashed into a nearly identical barrier just down the road - killed 2 and injured 'over a dozen'. The primary NTSB report puts the primary blame on inadequate road markings.
While the report only came out at the end of March, they should have known about it before then. Hopefully they will react to the report and fix the lane markings - what we see there is shocking, and I'm not surprised people hit those dividers constantly. As more and more cars come fitted with lane-keeping, adequate lane markings are becoming more and more important.
The threads on eng-tips.com (https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=437029) are a good read. They seem to be focusing on the join at the bottom of the 11th member of the structure, at the far end where the collapse occurred, and the video seems to suggest that the 11th member broke free at the bottom. An interesting point about that junction is that both the load of the bridge and the tension of the rods were both working in the same direction, placing the same shear force on a join in the concrete.
But as we don't even know whether they were adding or releasing tension from those rods, speculation is all we can do.
The manufacturer of the power steering in a Tesla is written right on it. It's no mystery who made it. No, it's not in the article, but it is widely known. It is stated on other forums, like Electrek. Knowledgeable users on forums state categorically that Tesla won't even be paying for it - it's a fault with a BOSCH part, and BOSCH will be footing the bill for the repair.
You may have heard of them - they are known as BOSCH. They make the electrics and much of the mechanics of just about every car on the road.