For a country that has a gross domestic product that falls just behind the US state of Texas You should have realized meanwhile that GDP is not really a meaningful number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... population: 325 million. https://www.reuters.com/articl... population: 145 million
A meaningful number is how much goods and services are produced by worker/citizen. I live in Thailand, if I'm not working, and work in Germany. The GPD is very different... the quality of life and even some prices are higher in Thailand... don't even know how big the difference on GDP is...
In other words: if a country like Greece doubles its prices for everything (which they stupidly did after joining the Euro zone), they double their GDP... without doubeling anything.
The future of "synthetic" fuel if you want to call it that way is Algae. Not nuclear power. You can not produce competitive priced "gasoline" with electricity until the gasoline at your gas station has hit the $5.5 mark.
No idea what is so complicated in grasping that. It is in your own links.
You spreading your lies is not helping. I don't spread any lies, asshole! A lie means the person is knowingly telling something that is not true. If I say something that is wrong, it is not a lie, asshole!!
Hydrogen fuel cells have horrible specific power - it makes a weak motor, because they can't provide a lot of power at any given time. You need a huge fuel cell to power a tiny motor. I don't know why you continue to claim this. It is simply wrong, even when I misread and gave an inappropriate answer to your "first post".
In which country do you live that you fear a fine for an accident, or a fine for reporting or fear police contact? Let me guess, US? And you are black? I get it...
First of all I did not claim that. I did not see any mentioning of "specific" in your post. That is all.
And the definition you give here is wrong anyway. Specific power is related to fuel and its weight. Not the mass of the engine. Obviously you could argue that high power fuel based engines have a better weight to power ratio than a conventional fuel based engine. E.g. a rotary/Wankel engine versus a piston one.
And if you _do_ know what you are talking about, writing a book forces you to organize everything you know, to think it through, to connect the dots, for refactor your knowledge and identify patterns and practices, to reflect on the causes of the causes. Each time I have written a book, when I was done, I felt like I understood the subject much better than before I started the book. A book is significant - or at least, it can be. True, but I can not get my arse up to finally start writing. I'm refining several books in my mind since years... What books did you write, link one please.
but get over yourselves, you are not the engine driving things forward. You're a gear in the transmission; one of many. Nitpicking very much?
So what is the engine?
A company is like a ship. It is is the engine, the gears (if it has some), the transmission and the security and communication systems if you don't grasp that, you should not run a company.
That's a laugh, no government will be lowering fuel taxes. Assuming that's true then you've proven my point. Of course they do. Or why is Bio-Diesel cheaper than ordinary Diesel? Because the tax, already right now, is on "mineral oil". Not on Bio oil or synthetic oil. Mix in Ethanol or Bio Diesel into your fuel and the amount of tax on the bill is lower.
I obviously only watched your navy video... I don't waste my time with video watching. Reading is 10 times faster.
All that's left is working out the details to ramp it up to commercial scale production. That wont make it cheaper. Navies current cost for refueling a ship or plane is over $6 per gallon of fuel. The proposal to have a special ship manufacturing fuel or upgrade the carriers to produce it, would sink the cost to around $5 per gallon. The price for gasoline in the US is around $3,30 at the moment.
There is nothing to "scale" to get the production and distribution price from $5 down to $3,30. Keep in mind: the navy has no real middleman... they don't pay for gas stations and the staffing and the truck bringing gas to the stations. To make the process commercial working, you need to cut production costs to somewhere around $1,50 per gallon, so can keep meeting the $3 price tag. Obviously the US could reduce taxes, too. No idea how high the part of taxes in the gallon price is. (For your info: a gallon is 3.7 liters. So you pay a bit less than $1 for a liter, that is roughly 80 Euro cents. In Europe fuel costs about 150 Euro cents.)
Your question regarding airports capabilities is just as alway: narrow minded. I don't know any airport that is not connected to the grid. As the first nations going into electric flying are scandinavians: why do you care anyway?
Electric flying will work great in Europe with flight times often around/below one hour. Or in Thailand...
For solar power to dominate in the next 20 to 30 years it will take synthesized fuels to happen, because airlines can't just toss out their investment in aircraft on a whim. Of course that will happen... that never was a question. It most likely will be bio gas and/or oils made from algae. Of course you can eat the bullet and use temporarily surplus solar or wind power to produce synthetic fuel. It is still a win, even if you strictly speaking sell the fuel at a loss, because you have something to sell, the electricity otherwise would be wasted.
If you drink black coffee that is bitter, or even worse: sour, you are a masochist, not a sadist. I love black coffee... but it seems I can afford brands that are not bitter.
The fuel cells I mentioned are installed stationary in houses. The weight is completely irrelevant.
where hydrogen again sucks because it requires a pressure vessel that weighs more than the fuel does. If you pressure it... there are other solutions to store it. Most "normal" fuel cells run on natural gas anyway.
And writing a book is not a qualification. Strange that I hear that so often lately (mostly in martial arts, though).
I have been an Agile/DevOps coach for a decade. Nice. Sad we never met. As I do this far longer than a decade, long before the terms even where coined: I am sure I know more about it than you do;-) I respectfully disagree...
Items in your sprint are classically tracked on cardboards half the size of US legal or European DIN A4 paper. The best scrum team I was in actually only used cardboards... the issue tracker was not used by developers.
My point however was: using a version control system correctly and efficiently is an important point for success. And that has nothing to do with being agile or not. Many teams don't use version control right (e.g. not including the issue number of the issue tracker in the commit, not having a commit hook that rejects such commits, etc.)
You tell me it will never work? No, I did not tell you that. I simply pointed out that the links you provide are for the navy, to cut down their costs and supply problems. You most certainly would be the first one complaining if a gallon of gasoline at the station costs what the navy would pay for artificial fuel.
Electric planes won't fly any time soon. They are already flying...
Synthetic fuels can happen very soon if we are truly concerned about a zero carbon future. In Europe, yes. On the rest of the world: no. Making a gallon of synthetic fuel is simply to expensive. In Europe that does not matter as 90% of the price of gasoline are taxes. The governments simply could lower the taxes for synthetic gasoline until it is cheaper than "natural" gasoline.
Honestly, most of the time, agile is an elaborate cover to hide the simple fact that there simply isn't any kind of process going on at all.
"Agile" is a meta process. Except for Extreme Programming most Agile "Methods" don't tell you what process to run, look e.g. at Kanban or Scrum.
If you don't have automatic tests, a version control system, and an issue tracker... you can be as agile as you want. You simply fail the same way you would fail with water fall or other processes.
And is exactly the reason why Scrum is dogmatic: you define your process and use Scrum as an overall framework. If you change the framework: it is not Scrum. That does not mean it does not work or is not agile... it simply should be not called Scrum then. And I would go so far: if you do Extrem Programming, do everything of it. If you drop one aspect, it is not XP.
If you don't know anything about agile and Scrum, I wonder why you rant about them?
The rest of the Agile community will come under a single umbrella very willingly. There is no one fits it all agile approach. So there is no such umbrella.
BTW: a Scrum Certificate is probably the most cheapest certificate in the industry, calling it a certification mill is just bollocks.
And no: there was no break even in fusion with magnetic confinement so far. And I'm pretty certain that electric field based designs had no break even either.
It may actually be shrinking, because the competent ones get lumped in with the vast incompetent masses and get treated as badly. Smart people will avoid IT just because of that. Actually most of my friends in software development (I guess that is what you mean with IT, as we mean something different with IT) are early retiring from work. The main reason basically is: companies don't value the people doing development and system maintenance. With not value I exactly mean that: they value the cook in the kitchen, they value the nice looking secretary, they value the key account manager, they even value the security guard etc. but they don't value the developer or IT guy. However, 90% of the managers simply have not grasped yet: their company is an IT company. It does not matter what the company actually is doing, power generation, airline, railway, car manufacturing, selling books, crafting medical devices, etc. There is basically no company, not even a law firm, that is at its heart not an IT company. But: instead of realizing that their IT is the engine driving them forward, they consider it the "necessary evil" that only costs them.
the lucrative industry around selling training in the latest IT buzzword That "industry" does not exist anymore since minimum 15 years, probably longer.
But when you think about Agile, Lean IT and Agile, aren't these all the same thing, essentially? Pizza is made from grain. Pasta is made from grain.
Both have basically originated in Italy, main ingredience are tomato and cheese. Both have the same goal: to be tasty and make you full, therefor: they are the same thing!
fuel cell specific power in watts. Depends on the fuel cell. In Germany there is a market for high power fuel cells in the range of up to10kW - 20kW to heat houses and feed excess power into the grid. However for normal use, they are in the 1kW range.
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A few dozen astronomic units ...
For a country that has a gross domestic product that falls just behind the US state of Texas
You should have realized meanwhile that GDP is not really a meaningful number.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... population: 325 million.
https://www.reuters.com/articl... population: 145 million
A meaningful number is how much goods and services are produced by worker/citizen. I live in Thailand, if I'm not working, and work in Germany. The GPD is very different ... the quality of life and even some prices are higher in Thailand ... don't even know how big the difference on GDP is ...
In other words: if a country like Greece doubles its prices for everything (which they stupidly did after joining the Euro zone), they double their GDP ... without doubeling anything.
Germany.
For what funk sake reason would an accident cause a ticket?
The future of "synthetic" fuel if you want to call it that way is Algae.
Not nuclear power. You can not produce competitive priced "gasoline" with electricity until the gasoline at your gas station has hit the $5.5 mark.
No idea what is so complicated in grasping that. It is in your own links.
You spreading your lies is not helping.
I don't spread any lies, asshole! A lie means the person is knowingly telling something that is not true. If I say something that is wrong, it is not a lie, asshole!!
Then use a different fuel cell ... so simple.
Hydrogen fuel cells have horrible specific power - it makes a weak motor, because they can't provide a lot of power at any given time. You need a huge fuel cell to power a tiny motor.
I don't know why you continue to claim this. It is simply wrong, even when I misread and gave an inappropriate answer to your "first post".
Here is an example: https://www.hydrogenics.com/hy...
In which country do you live that you fear a fine for an accident, or a fine for reporting or fear police contact? ...
Let me guess, US? And you are black? I get it
An eBike is a bike that you can use like an ordinary bike when the main battery is empty.
So: how does your front and rear light work now?
First of all I did not claim that.
I did not see any mentioning of "specific" in your post. That is all.
And the definition you give here is wrong anyway. Specific power is related to fuel and its weight. Not the mass of the engine. Obviously you could argue that high power fuel based engines have a better weight to power ratio than a conventional fuel based engine. E.g. a rotary/Wankel engine versus a piston one.
But: what has that to do with fuel cells?
And if you _do_ know what you are talking about, writing a book forces you to organize everything you know, to think it through, to connect the dots, for refactor your knowledge and identify patterns and practices, to reflect on the causes of the causes. Each time I have written a book, when I was done, I felt like I understood the subject much better than before I started the book. A book is significant - or at least, it can be. ...
True, but I can not get my arse up to finally start writing. I'm refining several books in my mind since years
What books did you write, link one please.
but get over yourselves, you are not the engine driving things forward. You're a gear in the transmission; one of many.
Nitpicking very much?
So what is the engine?
A company is like a ship. It is is the engine, the gears (if it has some), the transmission and the security and communication systems if you don't grasp that, you should not run a company.
That's a laugh, no government will be lowering fuel taxes. Assuming that's true then you've proven my point.
Of course they do. Or why is Bio-Diesel cheaper than ordinary Diesel? Because the tax, already right now, is on "mineral oil". Not on Bio oil or synthetic oil. Mix in Ethanol or Bio Diesel into your fuel and the amount of tax on the bill is lower.
I obviously only watched your navy video ... I don't waste my time with video watching. Reading is 10 times faster.
All that's left is working out the details to ramp it up to commercial scale production.
That wont make it cheaper.
Navies current cost for refueling a ship or plane is over $6 per gallon of fuel.
The proposal to have a special ship manufacturing fuel or upgrade the carriers to produce it, would sink the cost to around $5 per gallon.
The price for gasoline in the US is around $3,30 at the moment.
There is nothing to "scale" to get the production and distribution price from $5 down to $3,30. Keep in mind: the navy has no real middleman ... they don't pay for gas stations and the staffing and the truck bringing gas to the stations. To make the process commercial working, you need to cut production costs to somewhere around $1,50 per gallon, so can keep meeting the $3 price tag. Obviously the US could reduce taxes, too. No idea how high the part of taxes in the gallon price is. (For your info: a gallon is 3.7 liters. So you pay a bit less than $1 for a liter, that is roughly 80 Euro cents. In Europe fuel costs about 150 Euro cents.)
Your question regarding airports capabilities is just as alway: narrow minded. I don't know any airport that is not connected to the grid. As the first nations going into electric flying are scandinavians: why do you care anyway?
Electric flying will work great in Europe with flight times often around/below one hour. Or in Thailand ...
For solar power to dominate in the next 20 to 30 years it will take synthesized fuels to happen, because airlines can't just toss out their investment in aircraft on a whim. ... that never was a question. It most likely will be bio gas and/or oils made from algae. Of course you can eat the bullet and use temporarily surplus solar or wind power to produce synthetic fuel. It is still a win, even if you strictly speaking sell the fuel at a loss, because you have something to sell, the electricity otherwise would be wasted.
Of course that will happen
If you drink black coffee that is bitter, or even worse: sour, you are a masochist, not a sadist. ... but it seems I can afford brands that are not bitter.
I love black coffee
The fuel cells I mentioned are installed stationary in houses. The weight is completely irrelevant.
where hydrogen again sucks because it requires a pressure vessel that weighs more than the fuel does. ... there are other solutions to store it. Most "normal" fuel cells run on natural gas anyway.
If you pressure it
I did not make a personal attack on you.
And writing a book is not a qualification. Strange that I hear that so often lately (mostly in martial arts, though).
I have been an Agile/DevOps coach for a decade. Nice. Sad we never met. ;-) ...
As I do this far longer than a decade, long before the terms even where coined: I am sure I know more about it than you do
I respectfully disagree
Items in your sprint are classically tracked on cardboards half the size of US legal or European DIN A4 paper. ... the issue tracker was not used by developers.
The best scrum team I was in actually only used cardboards
My point however was: using a version control system correctly and efficiently is an important point for success. And that has nothing to do with being agile or not. Many teams don't use version control right (e.g. not including the issue number of the issue tracker in the commit, not having a commit hook that rejects such commits, etc.)
You tell me it will never work?
No, I did not tell you that. I simply pointed out that the links you provide are for the navy, to cut down their costs and supply problems. You most certainly would be the first one complaining if a gallon of gasoline at the station costs what the navy would pay for artificial fuel.
Electric planes won't fly any time soon. ...
They are already flying
Synthetic fuels can happen very soon if we are truly concerned about a zero carbon future.
In Europe, yes. On the rest of the world: no. Making a gallon of synthetic fuel is simply to expensive. In Europe that does not matter as 90% of the price of gasoline are taxes. The governments simply could lower the taxes for synthetic gasoline until it is cheaper than "natural" gasoline.
Honestly, most of the time, agile is an elaborate cover to hide the simple fact that there simply isn't any kind of process going on at all.
"Agile" is a meta process. Except for Extreme Programming most Agile "Methods" don't tell you what process to run, look e.g. at Kanban or Scrum.
If you don't have automatic tests, a version control system, and an issue tracker ... you can be as agile as you want. You simply fail the same way you would fail with water fall or other processes.
And is exactly the reason why Scrum is dogmatic: you define your process and use Scrum as an overall framework. If you change the framework: it is not Scrum. That does not mean it does not work or is not agile ... it simply should be not called Scrum then. And I would go so far: if you do Extrem Programming, do everything of it. If you drop one aspect, it is not XP.
If you don't know anything about agile and Scrum, I wonder why you rant about them?
The rest of the Agile community will come under a single umbrella very willingly.
There is no one fits it all agile approach. So there is no such umbrella.
BTW: a Scrum Certificate is probably the most cheapest certificate in the industry, calling it a certification mill is just bollocks.
DevOps is not a method. It is a job description.
No idea why americans don't get that.
I only read science press.
And no: there was no break even in fusion with magnetic confinement so far. And I'm pretty certain that electric field based designs had no break even either.
But feel free to show us a citation.
It may actually be shrinking, because the competent ones get lumped in with the vast incompetent masses and get treated as badly. Smart people will avoid IT just because of that.
Actually most of my friends in software development (I guess that is what you mean with IT, as we mean something different with IT) are early retiring from work. The main reason basically is: companies don't value the people doing development and system maintenance. With not value I exactly mean that: they value the cook in the kitchen, they value the nice looking secretary, they value the key account manager, they even value the security guard etc. but they don't value the developer or IT guy. However, 90% of the managers simply have not grasped yet: their company is an IT company. It does not matter what the company actually is doing, power generation, airline, railway, car manufacturing, selling books, crafting medical devices, etc. There is basically no company, not even a law firm, that is at its heart not an IT company. But: instead of realizing that their IT is the engine driving them forward, they consider it the "necessary evil" that only costs them.
Of course there are exceptions, like Zalando.
the lucrative industry around selling training in the latest IT buzzword
That "industry" does not exist anymore since minimum 15 years, probably longer.
But when you think about Agile, Lean IT and Agile, aren't these all the same thing, essentially?
Pizza is made from grain.
Pasta is made from grain.
Both have basically originated in Italy, main ingredience are tomato and cheese. Both have the same goal: to be tasty and make you full, therefor: they are the same thing!
fuel cell specific power in watts.
Depends on the fuel cell. In Germany there is a market for high power fuel cells in the range of up to10kW - 20kW to heat houses and feed excess power into the grid. However for normal use, they are in the 1kW range.