I always wonder when people bring up the Dutch dam system if they ever actually look how they work? In general it is safe to assume that people don't look up how stuff works.
Hence all the misconceptions about renewable power, its supposed dirtiness in production of wind turbines, panels etc. usage of rare earth elements (which are not rare) etc. p.p.
Funnily many things are super simple to grasp if one would just sit back 30 minutes, empty the mind of all prejudice and start thinking with a clear mind on a fresh slate.
But alas, I'm a requirements engineer, it is in my blood to assume I know nothing and listen to the others and build up a new mental model.
Wow, that is a lot of time to get your backup system up and running efficiently./sarcasm Yes, it is. so what is your point?
Here is where reality kicks in. Power plants do not produce energy, but power: electric utilities sell a guaranteed power output The "utility company", yes. But they are free to use what ever plant they want, or simply buy power elsewhere.
Did I mention: I'm tired about idiots who have no clue how production works?
Also note: Gas turbines do not like to spin up fast and cold. They do. They go from cold and zero to ~80% power in 30 seconds, and to 100% in less than 1 minute.
That is why I politely gave the hint to the parent: read it up.
Also your parent always wrong with his "back up myth" and "spinning reserves".
When you have enough renewables, then they are spread out as virtual power plants. E.g. a wind farm with 100 turbines is not 100 plants but one single virtual plant. When you have a few dozens of those virtual plants you perfectly know how much power each of them will produce in the foreseeable future (next 15, next 30, next 120, next 240 minutes). Hence for a dozen renewables you have perhaps one, or if for some reason it is more reasonable, two gas turbines ready. And actually: for that kind of "back up" you do not use gas turbines anyway. Gas turbines are used for balancing power and not ordinary "load following" as in supplementing renewables. Unless of course, in the US, because they built a lot of combined cycle plants.
Anyway, I'm a bit tired about people having no clue about grids and power production (as our parent) posting their nonsense on/.
Actually both will fall with the cube of the distance. That is correct, I copy pasted the wrong word, no idea why I wanted to copy cube, though, I guess I sometimes write qube....
The MAX 8 will be one of the safest planes in the sky after this design review is done and the software gets updated. A plane where the engines have to much power and push the nose so far up that the plane can stall: does not sound safe to me.
I live mostly in Thailand, and trust me, they are not scared to cross the road.
You already have trouble to explain to the dogs sleeping on the road that my tire is bigger than him... and then don't mind the buffaloes. There is one buffalo that is always dreaming somewhere on the field. When his herd goes home, he misses it often. No idea if he is def or something. As soon as he realizes he is alone he gallops over the field home, up the small slope to the road then with full speed over the road.
So far he did not hit anyone/anything... thumbs up.
Not just tropical places where the length of the day doesn't vary anyway The length of the day varies, just not as much as in the far north or far south.
You forgot to make the year a 100 day thing, and a day a 100 hours thing (or do you prefer 10?) and an hour a 100 minutes thing.
But then again you need to change the size of the circle from 360 degrees too... uh, i don't know how do we get it back into synch with a 100 day year... have to do the math later.
Anyway: navigation on this planet is based on a 360 degrees system (in case you don't know why... think a bit). We use the sun + a clock for reference (and if needed stars) to pinpoint our position (in space and time).
All the suggestions to have a single time zone are just nonsense. Brought up by idiots who are to stupid to realize that Bangkok is +6h of during winter time, and +5h off during summer time. Wow, and that is so simple. The fundamental problem: which time does my GF get out of bed, does not change at all if we had the same timezone. She will get out of bed +6h or +5h... always! Regardless if we have the same timezone or not.
At least in the Madrid area, the people who actually work for a living mainly get a 1h lunch break. In offices where it is "relevant"... where it is not "relevant" people don't take a 3h lunch break but a 3h siesta, that means: a real break and dozing/sleeping.
Not everyone works in an office anyway... try to bring your car to a mechanics around 13:00... good luck. The only business that is definitely open between 11:00 - 15:00 are restaurants and similar and big shopping malls like El Corte Ingles.
Instantly knowing what time someone is talking about when they propose one, with no ambiguity, ever and intuitively know how early or late that will be for you. Do you actually know people who have that problem?
I don't.
There are two kinds of people: a) people who have to talk regularly with people on the other side of the planet, and those have no problem with "time" - probably less than 1% of the planets population b) the other kind of people, does not talk regularly with people on the other side of the planet, hence they don't have that problem either
On the other hand, I'm a sailor... hobbyist obviously... and I can simply *guess* time on basically every spot in the plant by knowing the rough longitude.
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Perhaps you should stop talking about stuff you have no freaking idea about?
Your body treats cesium like potassium. It does not bioaccumulate.
Your human body, perhaps. No idea. But how is that relevant when your food does?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
emission equivalent of 50,000,000 cars
In sulfur, dust/soot, yes. CO2, nope!
I have,, I have three in my yard, plus the "trash" bin.
Glass containers 2 corners away. On top of that paper collections once a month roughly.
You dont understand. Google has used Java contrary to license terms. ...
No they have not
If you think otherwise give an example.
I always wonder when people bring up the Dutch dam system if they ever actually look how they work?
In general it is safe to assume that people don't look up how stuff works.
Hence all the misconceptions about renewable power, its supposed dirtiness in production of wind turbines, panels etc. usage of rare earth elements (which are not rare) etc. p.p.
Funnily many things are super simple to grasp if one would just sit back 30 minutes, empty the mind of all prejudice and start thinking with a clear mind on a fresh slate.
But alas, I'm a requirements engineer, it is in my blood to assume I know nothing and listen to the others and build up a new mental model.
Obviously they keep them warmed up.
My point was about performance.
No idea what a control floor is :P
Wow, that is a lot of time to get your backup system up and running efficiently. /sarcasm
Yes, it is. so what is your point?
Here is where reality kicks in. Power plants do not produce energy, but power: electric utilities sell a guaranteed power output
The "utility company", yes. But they are free to use what ever plant they want, or simply buy power elsewhere.
Did I mention: I'm tired about idiots who have no clue how production works?
Trains are dying out because of cars.
In Europe we build more and more (high speed) railway tracks.
No one stops Oracle to take Android (or would they need to pay a license fee?) and sell their own Android device.
However if they put their Oracle database on it, I would ski :P
Also note: Gas turbines do not like to spin up fast and cold.
They do. They go from cold and zero to ~80% power in 30 seconds, and to 100% in less than 1 minute.
That is why I politely gave the hint to the parent: read it up.
Also your parent always wrong with his "back up myth" and "spinning reserves".
When you have enough renewables, then they are spread out as virtual power plants. E.g. a wind farm with 100 turbines is not 100 plants but one single virtual plant.
When you have a few dozens of those virtual plants you perfectly know how much power each of them will produce in the foreseeable future (next 15, next 30, next 120, next 240 minutes). Hence for a dozen renewables you have perhaps one, or if for some reason it is more reasonable, two gas turbines ready.
And actually: for that kind of "back up" you do not use gas turbines anyway. Gas turbines are used for balancing power and not ordinary "load following" as in supplementing renewables. Unless of course, in the US, because they built a lot of combined cycle plants.
Anyway, I'm a bit tired about people having no clue about grids and power production (as our parent) posting their nonsense on /.
Hehe, you deserve either an insightful or funny :P
Actually both will fall with the cube of the distance. ....
That is correct, I copy pasted the wrong word, no idea why I wanted to copy cube, though, I guess I sometimes write qube
The MAX 8 will be one of the safest planes in the sky after this design review is done and the software gets updated.
A plane where the engines have to much power and push the nose so far up that the plane can stall: does not sound safe to me.
I live mostly in Thailand, and trust me, they are not scared to cross the road.
You already have trouble to explain to the dogs sleeping on the road that my tire is bigger than him ... and then don't mind the buffaloes. There is one buffalo that is always dreaming somewhere on the field. When his herd goes home, he misses it often. No idea if he is def or something. As soon as he realizes he is alone he gallops over the field home, up the small slope to the road then with full speed over the road.
So far he did not hit anyone/anything ... thumbs up.
Every country with coasts will suffer. :P
But it is nice you showed us your US centric few of the problem
I would assume the coasts of Australia, India, China etc. are similar long.
Perhaps you want to research how fast a gas turbine is spinning up.
Hint: no one keeps gas turbines as spinning reserves.
To plant another flag of course!
Both fall with the square of distance, a no brainer. There is nothing to "IIRC" ... as in recall. Just use a piece of paper and draw it up ...
Yes it does. All laws are issued by the democratic elected parliament, idiot.
This is /.
Stuff for nerds
Stuff that matters
Lords (I guess you wanted to say gods): don't matter at all
If you want to post religious tuff, I'm sure your lord will help you with your google foo to find some mentally disabled religious forums.
Not just tropical places where the length of the day doesn't vary anyway
The length of the day varies, just not as much as in the far north or far south.
You forgot to make the year a 100 day thing, and a day a 100 hours thing (or do you prefer 10?) and an hour a 100 minutes thing.
But then again you need to change the size of the circle from 360 degrees too ... uh, i don't know how do we get it back into synch with a 100 day year ... have to do the math later.
Anyway: navigation on this planet is based on a 360 degrees system (in case you don't know why ... think a bit). We use the sun + a clock for reference (and if needed stars) to pinpoint our position (in space and time).
All the suggestions to have a single time zone are just nonsense. Brought up by idiots who are to stupid to realize that Bangkok is +6h of during winter time, and +5h off during summer time. Wow, and that is so simple. The fundamental problem: which time does my GF get out of bed, does not change at all if we had the same timezone. She will get out of bed +6h or +5h ... always! Regardless if we have the same timezone or not.
At least in the Madrid area, the people who actually work for a living mainly get a 1h lunch break. ... where it is not "relevant" people don't take a 3h lunch break but a 3h siesta, that means: a real break and dozing/sleeping.
In offices where it is "relevant"
Not everyone works in an office anyway ... try to bring your car to a mechanics around 13:00 ... good luck. The only business that is definitely open between 11:00 - 15:00 are restaurants and similar and big shopping malls like El Corte Ingles.
For every outside restaurant it is a _huge_ difference.
Instantly knowing what time someone is talking about when they propose one, with no ambiguity, ever and intuitively know how early or late that will be for you.
Do you actually know people who have that problem?
I don't.
There are two kinds of people:
a) people who have to talk regularly with people on the other side of the planet, and those have no problem with "time" - probably less than 1% of the planets population
b) the other kind of people, does not talk regularly with people on the other side of the planet, hence they don't have that problem either
On the other hand, I'm a sailor ... hobbyist obviously ... and I can simply *guess* time on basically every spot in the plant by knowing the rough longitude.