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  1. Re:Wait in line on Hyperloop One Reveals Its Plans For Connecting Europe (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny that you call me dumb.
    It is obviously easy to pull your leg, rofl.

    If you were actually a well educated mechanical engineer instead of dumb ass you knew how simple a hyperloop actually is.

    But as you find continiously some (non existing) engineering problem, I hope you are not involved in engineering stuff that I actually use.

    Hint: the air pressure at cruise altitude of a plane is similar to the pressure inside of a hyperloop ... now think again ...

  2. Re:Okay.... on What the Hell Is Happening To Cryptocurrency Valuations? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he works for an online shop that accepts BitCoins?
    Nevertheless: the point is about your idea that the blockchain would know what was puchased with the BitCoin, which it clearly does not.

  3. Re:In other news, the US is very large on US Ranks 28th In the World In Average Wireless Broadband Speeds (dslreports.com) · · Score: 2

    I think it is furlongs per fortnight ... or something.

  4. Actually it is not the voltage but the frequency (which are coupled ofc.).

  5. Re:Misleading Headlines Again... on It's Been So Windy in Europe That Electricity Prices Have Turned Negative (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    You are an idiot.
    Why don't you just google?

  6. Re:We Need to Add Capacitance to the Grid on It's Been So Windy in Europe That Electricity Prices Have Turned Negative (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't know, because the cats, foxes and sharks ate their corpses.
    But it was certainly less than those who die to air pollution and other man made poisons.
    Thanx for your concerns, though.

  7. Re:Storage on It's Been So Windy in Europe That Electricity Prices Have Turned Negative (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Traditional base load" does not match supply with demand.
    It constantly produces around 95% of its max capacity. Hence the name: base load.
    That is the minimum amount of power your grid will always consume. So you build plants that can be run close to 100% 24/7 all years long. Hence the name: base load.
    But now we have so much renewables, that they produce more power than the base load plants.
    You are mixing up 'base laod' with either 'load following', 'balancing power' or 'reserve power' or with all three of them.

  8. Everybody who is interested in stuff like this and has the hardware (smartmeters?) knows that the price is negative: http://eex.com/
    Companies interested are:
    o other power companies, that buy it and distribute it over europe
    o companies like aluminium mills
    o or cooled storage houses
    etc.

    Ofc. unless you have a smartmeter normal households can not participate

  9. Re:Misleading Headlines Again... on It's Been So Windy in Europe That Electricity Prices Have Turned Negative (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    If this were actually the case, the utility would pay you to use electricity.
    That is actually what the "utilities" are doing.
    http://www.eex.com/

  10. Re:We Need to Add Capacitance to the Grid on It's Been So Windy in Europe That Electricity Prices Have Turned Negative (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It would not affect the price at the slightest.
    It only would change 'buys' the power for a negative price :)

  11. Re:Misleading Headlines Again... on It's Been So Windy in Europe That Electricity Prices Have Turned Negative (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Negative prices for 'users' that have either contracts coupled to the european energy exchange (EEX) or whomcan nuy directly at the EEX.
    In other words: ordinary households still pay the house hold contract price.

  12. Re:Venezuela? on What the Hell Is Happening To Cryptocurrency Valuations? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It does not matter how much a currency is traded for versus e.g. USD.
    As long as you are mainly trading inside of your own country the outside value is close to irrelevant.

  13. Re:Okay.... on What the Hell Is Happening To Cryptocurrency Valuations? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The block chain does not know for what product you have spent a bitcoin.

  14. Re:You know what this really is? on Apple To Phase Out 32-Bit Mac Apps Starting In January 2018 (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, but it is a nice gimmick!
    I search for it, good idea!

  15. Re:Wait in line on Hyperloop One Reveals Its Plans For Connecting Europe (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are a simple mechanical engineer, so every bridge you drive over or any bridge for trains you see, with all their momentum (har har har) must be a miracle for you.
    I guess you are scared by planes, too?

    The questions in your previous comments did not make sense, when I read them the first time. Why do you think I would read them again?

  16. No offense but the problem are not farmers per se but the American way of running things: bigger farer wider. Ever looked how a European farm looks in France, Germany or Spain?
    Relatively small fields, surrounded by bushes and trees. Small woods even. After harvest usually some crop that can start growing and survive the winter is planted.
    Ofc we don't have such 'dust bowl' areas, nevertheless in the year 2017 a professional farmer should not be dumber than average educated guy.

  17. Re:Is it really practical on Hyperloop One Reveals Its Plans For Connecting Europe (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately not available in my country.

  18. Re:Wait in line on Hyperloop One Reveals Its Plans For Connecting Europe (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously we are not from the same domain as you either have no clue about physics or have a very badly trained but feeling.

  19. Re:Obligatory Responses on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    Wind power is great until you realize that for every megawatt of capacity installed it takes over 500 tons of steel and 1000 tons of concrete.
    From where do you have such retarded numbers?

  20. Re:Obligatory Responses on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    >98% of haulage is done electrically. Many countries ban train cargo haulage by any non-electric means, and some countries have 100% electrification and ban the use of diesel locos.
    And at least for passenger trains, in Germany 100% of electric power used for trains is generated via renewables.
    Blindseer is just an idiot ...

  21. Re:Obligatory Responses on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    You obviously have no idea about the european railroad networks.
    Just because you live in a third world country, it does not mean the rest of the world looks the same.
    Except for pulling a failed electric locomotive with a diesel one, all your rant is wrong and pointless.

  22. Re:Obligatory Responses on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    but electricity does not work for things like powering trains,
    How do you come to that retarded idea? All high speed trains on the planet are electric. And countries running them alos run most of their rail cargo by electricity. Google for TGV, ICE (the german train) or Shinkansen, the Japanese one.

  23. Re:just ban truck games. on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    Who loses? EVERYONE.
    So EVERYONE has an incentive to avoid the expensive goods, so you finally get the message to switch your trains to non taxed ones.
    That is actually how it works in reality and not as you describe in short sighted scenario.

  24. Re:The Bible on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? · · Score: 1

    Probably a bad translation. I mean, the Vedas. The Bible is actually all gibberish.

  25. Re:Except that... on Hyperloop One Reveals Its Plans For Connecting Europe (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously.
    As I pointed out: every nation has to pass a similar law to implement the EU laws.