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  1. Re:Impressive on India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    India is just like your country.
    It is dark at night and bright at daytime.
    The power comes out of the outlet in the wall.
    What 'dark areas' are you thinking about?

  2. Re:Impressive on India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking: a fossile plant designed to follow the load curve of the day, that means gradually powering up around 7:00 in the morning, reaching a measureable power output around 9:00 in the morning, going up to about 85% of max around 12:00 and shifting back and forth between 87% and 93% between 13:00 and 17:00 and then slowly perform the reverse shift in output: has the exact same CF as a solar plant.
    50% of all power plants in germany are load follwing. Their CF - in summer at least - is the exact same as a solar plant.
    CFs are irrelevant.
    Relevant is what purpose you want to fulfill with your plant: base load, load following, balancing power, reserve power etc.
    Load following plants have CFs around 35% ... for the simple fact that no one needs their 'potential' power the rest of the day.

  3. Re:I don't mean to belittle this on India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    a state of the art coal plant is 35-40% efficient, how much heat is being produced to create 1Gw of electricity?
    I'm getting tired about the dumbness of the /. crowd.
    The amount of heat is always the same. Regardless if you convert/extract 1% or 100% into electricity.

    In relation to the insolation by he sun, all heat mankind produces and releases into the atmosphere is so low you can't even measure it.

    Aircondition ... aircondition? Except for the US, no one is using such absurd amounts of energy for AC.
    Solar power curves coincident wirh human needs because of: coffee machines, toasters, ordinary over day use of electic stuff, computers, washing machines ... everything. Sure, you could run the washing machine at night, on a smart grid even. But blaiming or praising AC and the load curve fitting with solar power is just plain stupid.

  4. Re:Wow. on India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, the first post gave an error message: no such storry to answer to, or something :)
    Ofc I perhaps should have read more carefully if it came through.

  5. Re:Feed the good gut bacteria on Microbiome Changes Drive the Dieting Yo-Yo Effect, Study Finds (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Most people suffering from 'wrong gut bacteria' have gut bacteria that split fibres into digestable carbs.
    So your advice to them: is wrong and makes it even worse

    High fat/high proteine diets can work, as the body only depostes the fat in big amounts if the level of cholisterine is high, and for that you need: sugar. Or easy to digest processed carbs.

  6. Re:My own theory on Microbiome Changes Drive the Dieting Yo-Yo Effect, Study Finds (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Even though I never wanted to believe it, eating less calories than you actually burn during the day plain does work.
    It is beyond me why people can not believe in simple logic, but need some 'believe'.
    However as you figured it is not simply less calories intake, it is necessary to change your diet, e.g. eating more salad.

  7. Re:Amazing... but how much energy will it gain tot on India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    The payback time is around half a year, worst case up to three years.
    And it NEVER was longer than 10 years, and that was over 40 years ago!!!

    You must be both:
    - stone old
    - and never reading new since your birth

    (how did you end up here on /. ? )

  8. Re:Electricity supply 101 on India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 2

    Unlike third world countries like the United States, India already has a (sub) continent wide grid.
    Thanx for your concerns ...

    Long range grids are not particular expensive. That is a /. myth. Every civilized nation has them, except the USA ... so get your head out of the sand.

  9. Re:Wow. on India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 2

    I wonder if you could find a way to make solar panels work at night for less than 2 mil per MW?
    I don't get why people on a tech site like /. are so dumb.

    This is a POWER PLANT, not a home roof solar installation.
    Half the POWER PLANTS connected to the grid are IDLE at night, because NO ONE needs the power.
    Why you expect a solar POWER PLANT to produce power when a huge deal of the conventional plants are idle, is beyond me.

  10. Re:Wow. on India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't get why people on a tech site like /. are so dumb.
    This is a POWER PLANT, not a house hold solar installation.

    I wonder if you could find a way to make solar panels work at night for less than 2 mil per MW?
    At night half of the POWER PLANTS at a grid are IDLE, because NO ONE needs the power. What ghe ruck is wrong with a solar plant not producung any power when no one needs it anyway?

  11. Who had thought? on Microbiome Changes Drive the Dieting Yo-Yo Effect, Study Finds (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Who had thougt that reverting to the old diet habits returns you to your old weigt gains?
    Wow ... what a mo brainer.

    If you have successfuly changed your diet and lost your weight, you obviously should stick more or less to that diet instead of reverting to eat the unhealthy crap you ate before.

  12. Re:could just be the beginning on MongoDB CEO Claims They're Luring Customers From Oracle (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1

    You are the one who started by "claiming" NoSQL would be non ACID ... so up to you if it is a terminology question.

  13. Re:If confirmed, does this make it realistic? on Final NASA Eagleworks Paper Confirms Promising EM Drive Results (hacked.com) · · Score: 1

    They do because given a working EM drive, you can go over unity.
    The term "unity" has no meaning in physics.
    So your sentence makes no any sense at all.

    A working EM drive just works like any other drive: you spent energy and gain speed. Nothing to do at all with a perpetium mobile.

  14. Re:Not Enough on Canada Plans To Phase Out Coal-Powered Electricity By 2030 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There is zero evidence that Germany plans to abandon burning lignite any time this century, never mind 2040 or 2060.
    Yeah ... in your dreams. No idea why you post nonsense like the rest of your post.

    and start replacing their first-generation wind turbines and solar installations which are reaching end-of-life
    E.g. what is that supposed to mean? Wind turbines are replaced regularly and solar plants don't have an end of life.

    If you want accurate numbers I would suggest to improve your google foo, or check this: https://www.fraunhofer.de/ you can switch to english and check e.g. germans energy production ...

  15. Cute that you have no clue about history ...
    Why not going and read a book about it?

    Before a World War 2 it was just Rusdia, after WW2 it soon became Union of Soviet Socialist Republics... by force.
    Yes, we all know that. So what is your point?

  16. Re:MPH again ? And the winner is .... on China's NextEV NIO EP9 Claims To Be 'World's Fastest' Electric Supercar (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    Most of the readership on Slashdot is in the US
    This is extremely unlikely :D

  17. Re:WTF?!?!? on China To Build a Solar Plant In Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Quit being an idiot and a morin about radiation.
    And read a damn book about it ... hope you never have children so you can mot give them such idiotic advices.

  18. Re:Not Enough on Canada Plans To Phase Out Coal-Powered Electricity By 2030 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You are an idiot.
    Germay originally planned to be CO2 till 2030, that goal is now postponed till 240 or 2060.

  19. Re: Great, just what we need... on Canada Plans To Phase Out Coal-Powered Electricity By 2030 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the biggest nonsense you ever wrote.
    Spring starts how many days earlier in Canada and Russia? One day? Two days?
    What about winter? Yes winter is significantly later in terms of temperature. But not regarding daylight.
    And the extended 'warmths' is irrelevant: harvest time is when harvest time is.
    In other words: the climate change has no effect right now on food production. Perhaos in 20 years when we can plant differnet crops that fitt the new climate and has a better yield.
    But I doubt it. Limiting factor in the far north is sunlight, not temperature.

  20. Re:Already know the answer to this one on Commercial-Mining Drones Keep Getting Attacked By Eagles (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Actually when I saw "mining drones" I first thought the same, lol.

  21. disguising the drones as another eagle - oRLY? on Commercial-Mining Drones Keep Getting Attacked By Eagles (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    How retarded are people in our times?

    Like every animal of prey Eagles are very territorial. Of course they attack any other eagle, or bird of prey in their territory. Camouflaging a drone as an Eagle is like painting a big cross hair on it.

    On top of that: the drones are pretty big. It is no surprise that a eagle is concerned about it and attacks drones, too.

  22. Re:NoSQL is stuff for morons on MongoDB CEO Claims They're Luring Customers From Oracle (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1

    If I had points, but I spent them modding that retard down.
    So you meant a moron who was several posts up ... and you needed such a complicated answer to point that out.

    Perhaps you have a comprehension problem how /. works.

    I most likely don't read it in the "treading" way you read it, get a clue. But thanks for your attempted insults ;D

  23. Re:could just be the beginning on MongoDB CEO Claims They're Luring Customers From Oracle (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would they?
    What has the question if a DB is relational and uses SQL or is non/Relational aka non/SQL aka NoSQL to do with any of the four letters in ACID?

  24. Re:Any idea how it works? on Final NASA Eagleworks Paper Confirms Promising EM Drive Results (hacked.com) · · Score: 1

    And you ar confusing lots of formulars and pick one half equation form one and put it into another one when there is in fact no relation at all.

    it gains k.e. faster then the power put in
    No it does not. Facepalm.

  25. Re:If confirmed, does this make it realistic? on Final NASA Eagleworks Paper Confirms Promising EM Drive Results (hacked.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it does not imply anything like that. My carr has hundret times or thousand times more thrust per kW and no one is claiming it is a perpetium mobile or anything else.
    Bottom line: there is no real relation between a force and the kW energy needed to create it ...