You're talking past each other. But straight gas turbines have _shit_ efficiency. They are great load followers.
The 'good ones' are combined cycle, having 'heat recovery steam generators' on the turbine exhaust that are essentially boilers. Those also need to heat up to, until they do, the plant has shit efficiency like a normal gas turbine.
Most straight gas turbines are in cogen applications. Waste heat from the turbine heats building(s).
All our first generation wind mills shut down. Without huge tax incentives, they couldn't cover their maintenance costs. That was on Altamont pass, one of the most consistent wind locations in North America.
Many sat idle for 15 years or so, corporations that owned them were 'broke' so weren't torn down until the new windmills started going up.
Russia still has some really talented material scientists, just to start. Who built the lean burning turbopump? Get them all. All the guys that debugged the common pump, multi nozzle engines...it goes on. ULA is flying with Russian engines.
The people I'm thinking of are the kind you build teams around, not cogs in machines.
Russia is a mess, if they want out, they'll find a way. But many will be Russian patriots.
Russia is bleeding money from all orifices. She will come around. Don't 'corner' bears with thousands of nukes, just don't.
I suppose just accepting that everyone crazy will have ICBMs soon is one POV.
And in furtherance, it looks like even India and Pakistan are growing up a little...nukes do that. N Korea on the other hand, China has got to do something soon.
Who else is 'on deck'? Japan doesn't need help, if they want to they can. Most of western Europe is the same...slackers! S Korea? Malaysia? The Venezuelans are crazy enough, but they can't afford the bills. Brazil swears 'they're out', so does S. Africa. Burma? Thailand? Chile? Egypt? Libia? Saudi? Kuwait? Will Dubai install a solid gold ICBM complex? The thought of world-wide MAD is a little scary. Too many shaky cases. But if that house is truly out of the barn, we better get used to it.
Russia is a mess, there is no doubt, worse every day now. I'm saying we have an interest in stability in Russia.
Using them as a political boogie man seems unwise. Vladimir's Ukrainian adventure baffles me too, don't see how the current situation is a 'win' for Russia.
The situation is strange in many ways. Russia has a guantanamo style lease on a navy base in the baltics that's a significant % of...Latvia...IIRC...don't quote me, one of the baltic states, right on the Polish border. Leftover from the edges of the USSR.
SpaceX should run a serious, profession, staff raid on the Russians. Yesterday. Russians like money... Musk has the money and connections to fund the next Bell Labs. Too many of the schools are hot messes right now, China is keeping most of it's good grad students, turned the average university upside down. I digress.
We paid to keep Russia in the rocket business after the fall of the USSR.
And nothing, basically, has changed, we don't want the rusky _talent_ taking its knowledge to the third world.
We don't want a power vacuum or violent revolution in a nuclear power. Russian space is a great source of pride for them. Everybody needs a little pride, it's not like it's a sin.
Bad Lieutenant. The first one; Harvey Keitel. Most realistic cop movie ever made BTW. Get the unrated director's cut for unfiltered, pitiful, cop depravity.
Utah doesn't have higher 'community standards'. It's been proven in court.
A hero lawyer turned a Utah prosecutors argument against him, Fuckwit DA claimed Utah had higher 'community standards'. Hero lawyer used that argument to subpoena direct TV's porn rental records.
Guess what? The only parts of the USA that rival Utah's porn viewing is the deep bible belt. They (utah and the bible belt) also rent more of the more depraved porn than the rest of the nation.
I was rotten before video games. Before games existed (except pong and space war), me and my middle school friends plotted shooting down the goodyear blimp with model rockets. Yes, I'm that old.
A large number of recent coal plants are built right on the mine. Those will be the last to die. Transport cost on coal is a killer already, transmission lines are cheap in comparison, east of the Mississippi they don't generally have to go that far.
About the only thing you could use in a conversion is the line. Maybe a cooling tower/water plumbing, but most likely not for a combined cycle.
Russia has it's own issues. We can't help, we can only hurt. We're just going to have to accept that Russia will follow it's own course.
What can you say about Russian pride?
How old is Putin? What kind of succession planning has he done?
All the currencies are in for a rough ride. Baby boom gets good and settled into retirement and we're strapping nitrous to the printing presses at the mint.
The pipeline through Syria would further weaken Russia's position. But so will the natural gas liquefaction facilities in Qatar and the east coast of the USA. They are kind of screwed.
Russia is, more or less, a resource export economy during a resource glut. About the only thing that can help Russia is a big middle east war involving Saudi and Iran.
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You turn the trees into cardboard and paper, then bury them where they will decompose adiabatically, sequestering carbon.
Done.
You're talking past each other. But straight gas turbines have _shit_ efficiency. They are great load followers.
The 'good ones' are combined cycle, having 'heat recovery steam generators' on the turbine exhaust that are essentially boilers. Those also need to heat up to, until they do, the plant has shit efficiency like a normal gas turbine.
Most straight gas turbines are in cogen applications. Waste heat from the turbine heats building(s).
The ocean is a _buffered_ solution. Pull out your chem 101 texts and rework with that knowledge. You'll have one less thing scaring you to death.
All our first generation wind mills shut down. Without huge tax incentives, they couldn't cover their maintenance costs. That was on Altamont pass, one of the most consistent wind locations in North America.
Many sat idle for 15 years or so, corporations that owned them were 'broke' so weren't torn down until the new windmills started going up.
Russia still has some really talented material scientists, just to start. Who built the lean burning turbopump? Get them all. All the guys that debugged the common pump, multi nozzle engines...it goes on. ULA is flying with Russian engines.
The people I'm thinking of are the kind you build teams around, not cogs in machines.
Russia is a mess, if they want out, they'll find a way. But many will be Russian patriots.
Russia is bleeding money from all orifices. She will come around. Don't 'corner' bears with thousands of nukes, just don't.
Watch everybody change their opinion...I'll type it in the body, less butthurt.
Phantom Edit? Is fixing, to the extent it could be, a terrible SW move a public service or an outrage?
Schhhh. Right now DAs are afraid to raise the argument. Don't cheese it.
I suppose just accepting that everyone crazy will have ICBMs soon is one POV.
And in furtherance, it looks like even India and Pakistan are growing up a little...nukes do that. N Korea on the other hand, China has got to do something soon.
Who else is 'on deck'? Japan doesn't need help, if they want to they can. Most of western Europe is the same...slackers! S Korea? Malaysia? The Venezuelans are crazy enough, but they can't afford the bills. Brazil swears 'they're out', so does S. Africa. Burma? Thailand? Chile? Egypt? Libia? Saudi? Kuwait? Will Dubai install a solid gold ICBM complex? The thought of world-wide MAD is a little scary. Too many shaky cases. But if that house is truly out of the barn, we better get used to it.
Russia is a mess, there is no doubt, worse every day now. I'm saying we have an interest in stability in Russia.
Using them as a political boogie man seems unwise. Vladimir's Ukrainian adventure baffles me too, don't see how the current situation is a 'win' for Russia.
The situation is strange in many ways. Russia has a guantanamo style lease on a navy base in the baltics that's a significant % of...Latvia...IIRC...don't quote me, one of the baltic states, right on the Polish border. Leftover from the edges of the USSR.
SpaceX should run a serious, profession, staff raid on the Russians. Yesterday. Russians like money... Musk has the money and connections to fund the next Bell Labs. Too many of the schools are hot messes right now, China is keeping most of it's good grad students, turned the average university upside down. I digress.
We paid to keep Russia in the rocket business after the fall of the USSR.
And nothing, basically, has changed, we don't want the rusky _talent_ taking its knowledge to the third world.
We don't want a power vacuum or violent revolution in a nuclear power. Russian space is a great source of pride for them. Everybody needs a little pride, it's not like it's a sin.
Bad Lieutenant. The first one; Harvey Keitel. Most realistic cop movie ever made BTW. Get the unrated director's cut for unfiltered, pitiful, cop depravity.
Utah doesn't have higher 'community standards'. It's been proven in court.
A hero lawyer turned a Utah prosecutors argument against him, Fuckwit DA claimed Utah had higher 'community standards'. Hero lawyer used that argument to subpoena direct TV's porn rental records.
Guess what? The only parts of the USA that rival Utah's porn viewing is the deep bible belt. They (utah and the bible belt) also rent more of the more depraved porn than the rest of the nation.
Dude, they are using the words, they just don't know what they mean yet.
Spy on them a little.
Russia's pride is currently breaking it's back, financially.
And the rest of the world has it's own fish to fry, with our demographic/retirement issues. Russia has that too.
We don't want Russia collapsing either, think about Russian weapon/rocket engineering talent selling itself to the highest bidder in the middle east.
I was rotten before video games. Before games existed (except pong and space war), me and my middle school friends plotted shooting down the goodyear blimp with model rockets. Yes, I'm that old.
Video games saved the blimp.
I don't see how arabs fighting arabs is our problem? More an opportunity. Keep em busy until the oil is irrelevant, than ignore.
So, short battery manufacturers?
A large number of recent coal plants are built right on the mine. Those will be the last to die. Transport cost on coal is a killer already, transmission lines are cheap in comparison, east of the Mississippi they don't generally have to go that far.
About the only thing you could use in a conversion is the line. Maybe a cooling tower/water plumbing, but most likely not for a combined cycle.
Russia has it's own issues. We can't help, we can only hurt. We're just going to have to accept that Russia will follow it's own course.
What can you say about Russian pride?
How old is Putin? What kind of succession planning has he done?
All the currencies are in for a rough ride. Baby boom gets good and settled into retirement and we're strapping nitrous to the printing presses at the mint.
Cardio built for 1 G could have an easy job in 1/6. But there is no actual data for low G and very little (a few mouse lifespans IIRC) for zero.
I don't doubt we had something to do with Stuxnet. But the Israelis took a victory lap over it. Credit where it's due.
Maintaining the stalemate between Sunni/Shia is a tough job, but somebody has to do it.
See also: Iran/Iraq war. That was a GOOD war.
Syria is between Russia and Europe?
The pipeline through Syria would further weaken Russia's position. But so will the natural gas liquefaction facilities in Qatar and the east coast of the USA. They are kind of screwed.
Russia is, more or less, a resource export economy during a resource glut. About the only thing that can help Russia is a big middle east war involving Saudi and Iran.
Like I said upthread: The chump list...
You can make a bong out of anything.
Low G retirement. Live to be 150, maybe. The moon might be better, but we really don't know what the ideal G load for old farts raised in 1 G is.