That might be, but the current role of the orthodox church in Russia goes very clearly the same way as it used to be during the monarchy. I won't be surprised at all if Putin becomes "appointed by god" in a few years.
Actually no, that's not the only point. To achieve a decent efficiency using normal wires the voltage has to be much higher (100 kV instead of 10 kV), that means larger and more expensive transformers. Since 10 kV is the standard voltage of the medium voltage network, the high voltage transformers between the two points aren't needed anymore - that means free space for something else in a densely populated town like Essen. Also the insulation of high voltage wires is very thick and usually several of them are used for this kind of installation, meaning that the cable itself needs much less space, even with all the thermoinsulation that a cryogenically cooled cable needs. Thinner cables are easier and cheaper to lay underground, especially in a city where digging is problematic. Even discounting all of this, according to RWE the closed loop cable insulation is working so well that the cooling losses are very small.
How expensive do you think is laying conventional lines in a German city? Hint: a lot of money because cables are generally laid underground and Germany is very densely settled. Matter of fact, the current price is ~10 millions for 1 km. See why that superconducting cable suddenly makes sense?
You are talking out of your arse. RWE in Essen has a high temperature semiconductor cable connecting two substations. It is a part of the power grid in that city, not something in the lab and has been working well for a couple of years by now. Just becase you don't know about it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
German power grid is fine, thank you very much. It is one of most advanced in the world, a (small, for now) part of it even uses high temperature superconductors. Neither natural gas nor coal are expanding, matter of fact one of fairly recently built natural gas power plants was closed only a few years after it went online (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irsching_Power_Station) and there is only one new coal power station planned to be built, in Stade, I think so it can reuse parts of the former infrastructure of a shut down nuclear power plant. Also there are two new blocks planned as extensions for existing coal power plants (Niederaussem, Datteln) but that is it, and even these were meant as a more efficient replacement for older coal power stations that will be shut down en masse this and next year. How can you call it "hastely expanding" with a straight face? The 2020 target is a problem because German cars became a lot larger and heavier in the past 15 years, not because of coal power plants. By the way, 100500 is a very Russian meme. I do get it, but I think "OVER 9000" is probably more understandable in the rest of the world.
Not really. EU is a confederation with some federal structures but still a long way from becoming an actual federation, USA is clearly a federation and has been one longer than EU has existed.
The Czech republic is a really bad example here, because, from my personal experience (visited the country often in the past, had a Czech girlfriend) the Czech generally aren't that good with foreign languages. My (not so good) Czech was often more helpful than my (quite good) English or (native) German.
We didn't promise you jack shit. Nothing was written.
You are either dumb or ignorant, probably both. There used to be a treaty that very specifically - down to a precise amount of tanks, helicopters, artillery and so on - limited the size of conventional forces in Europe. The NATO expansion quickly broke that treaty and several of the new NATO countries refused to sign it, making the treaty moot because the excess could just be parked in these countries, right at the Russian border. Russia fruitlessly complained about it, then gave up and suspended the treaty in 2007.
2D maps and bullshit Russian lies about being "encircled" make no sense when the battlefield is 3D, in outer space, information, cyber etc.
Once again, dumb, ignorant, or both. Russia has been invaded by Western forces several times. It is not surprising that they feel being encircled, especially given the size of their border. Cyberwar only kills people in mediocre science fiction, in real life bullets and bombs do.
It's actually a corrupt, hollow shell of a country with an economy smaller than Italy's.
And Italy is one of the largest economies in the world (also very corrupt, although not quite that much). What exactly is your point?
That logic could be adopted to basically everything. For example: Who the fuck are you to decide that I am not allowed to kill people like you? Fuck you, I guess.
Pray tell me, why do you think that your"should" has more merit than the "should" of the person you are arguing with? I mean, you are a self-confessed drunkard and alcohol abuse lowers cognitive abilities quite a bit.
I have seen more than enough car drivers doing exactly the same things. Except they are steering a much heavier and faster vehicle - they are a much larger danger to others.
Depends. The January was the coldest since 2010, on the other hand the February was on average the warmest ever. Matter of fact, on the 23rd of February several towns achieved a new record of over 21 degrees Celsius. That would be summer weather in, say, Helsinki.
Actually he is right, there are fewer and fewer birds in Germany. If you can read German, then look no further than here: http://www.spiegel.de/wissensc...
This article is based on the official data of the German government, so if you think that they are nothing credible or lunatics, then there is no point in arguing with you anyway.
And as for anecdotes, every winter I do see fewer birds at my feeder. Many used to come - great tits, blue tits, robins, thrushes, even wood pigeons. The last few winters, only a couple of great tits showed up.
You only prove his point - the last winter was as warm as autumns used to be 20 years ago. The fields around Frankfurt am Main were already green in mid February. My backcountry ski have been sitting in the cellar for several years - there is no snow and the temperature seldom falls below zero anyway.
This is what I have right now. Don't really see it as a problem. Even though using public transportation takes a lot of time, I don't have to endure the daily rush hour wars and don't have to look for a parking spot. I spend that time reading books. I used to cycle to work and back for a few years and it was actually faster than public transport but due to an unrelated injury I can't anymore, which is too bad, because I really miss it (at least the parts where I didn't have to share the road with cars).
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That might be, but the current role of the orthodox church in Russia goes very clearly the same way as it used to be during the monarchy. I won't be surprised at all if Putin becomes "appointed by god" in a few years.
Actually no, that's not the only point. To achieve a decent efficiency using normal wires the voltage has to be much higher (100 kV instead of 10 kV), that means larger and more expensive transformers. Since 10 kV is the standard voltage of the medium voltage network, the high voltage transformers between the two points aren't needed anymore - that means free space for something else in a densely populated town like Essen. Also the insulation of high voltage wires is very thick and usually several of them are used for this kind of installation, meaning that the cable itself needs much less space, even with all the thermoinsulation that a cryogenically cooled cable needs. Thinner cables are easier and cheaper to lay underground, especially in a city where digging is problematic.
Even discounting all of this, according to RWE the closed loop cable insulation is working so well that the cooling losses are very small.
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If someone is a known anti-nuclear figurehead doesn't mean they don't know what they are talking about.
I guess you have never heard of elective monarchy.
How expensive do you think is laying conventional lines in a German city? Hint: a lot of money because cables are generally laid underground and Germany is very densely settled. Matter of fact, the current price is ~10 millions for 1 km. See why that superconducting cable suddenly makes sense?
You are talking out of your arse. RWE in Essen has a high temperature semiconductor cable connecting two substations. It is a part of the power grid in that city, not something in the lab and has been working well for a couple of years by now. Just becase you don't know about it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
http://www.rwe.com/web/cms/en/...
I am not sure you can call that praying.
German power grid is fine, thank you very much. It is one of most advanced in the world, a (small, for now) part of it even uses high temperature superconductors. Neither natural gas nor coal are expanding, matter of fact one of fairly recently built natural gas power plants was closed only a few years after it went online (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irsching_Power_Station) and there is only one new coal power station planned to be built, in Stade, I think so it can reuse parts of the former infrastructure of a shut down nuclear power plant. Also there are two new blocks planned as extensions for existing coal power plants (Niederaussem, Datteln) but that is it, and even these were meant as a more efficient replacement for older coal power stations that will be shut down en masse this and next year. How can you call it "hastely expanding" with a straight face? The 2020 target is a problem because German cars became a lot larger and heavier in the past 15 years, not because of coal power plants.
By the way, 100500 is a very Russian meme. I do get it, but I think "OVER 9000" is probably more understandable in the rest of the world.
Not really. EU is a confederation with some federal structures but still a long way from becoming an actual federation, USA is clearly a federation and has been one longer than EU has existed.
Except that the modern web really is so slow thanks to all the embedded crap, that the lag can be measured in seconds, not microseconds.
Why do they call it a civil war then?
The Czech republic is a really bad example here, because, from my personal experience (visited the country often in the past, had a Czech girlfriend) the Czech generally aren't that good with foreign languages. My (not so good) Czech was often more helpful than my (quite good) English or (native) German.
You are either dumb or ignorant, probably both. There used to be a treaty that very specifically - down to a precise amount of tanks, helicopters, artillery and so on - limited the size of conventional forces in Europe. The NATO expansion quickly broke that treaty and several of the new NATO countries refused to sign it, making the treaty moot because the excess could just be parked in these countries, right at the Russian border. Russia fruitlessly complained about it, then gave up and suspended the treaty in 2007.
Once again, dumb, ignorant, or both. Russia has been invaded by Western forces several times. It is not surprising that they feel being encircled, especially given the size of their border. Cyberwar only kills people in mediocre science fiction, in real life bullets and bombs do.
And Italy is one of the largest economies in the world (also very corrupt, although not quite that much). What exactly is your point?
That logic could be adopted to basically everything. For example:
Who the fuck are you to decide that I am not allowed to kill people like you?
Fuck you, I guess.
Pray tell me, why do you think that your"should" has more merit than the "should" of the person you are arguing with?
I mean, you are a self-confessed drunkard and alcohol abuse lowers cognitive abilities quite a bit.
I have seen more than enough car drivers doing exactly the same things. Except they are steering a much heavier and faster vehicle - they are a much larger danger to others.
I watch both, thank you very much. Yay for great tits.
Depends. The January was the coldest since 2010, on the other hand the February was on average the warmest ever. Matter of fact, on the 23rd of February several towns achieved a new record of over 21 degrees Celsius. That would be summer weather in, say, Helsinki.
Actually he is right, there are fewer and fewer birds in Germany.
If you can read German, then look no further than here:
http://www.spiegel.de/wissensc...
This article is based on the official data of the German government, so if you think that they are nothing credible or lunatics, then there is no point in arguing with you anyway.
And as for anecdotes, every winter I do see fewer birds at my feeder. Many used to come - great tits, blue tits, robins, thrushes, even wood pigeons. The last few winters, only a couple of great tits showed up.
You only prove his point - the last winter was as warm as autumns used to be 20 years ago. The fields around Frankfurt am Main were already green in mid February. My backcountry ski have been sitting in the cellar for several years - there is no snow and the temperature seldom falls below zero anyway.
This is what I have right now. Don't really see it as a problem. Even though using public transportation takes a lot of time, I don't have to endure the daily rush hour wars and don't have to look for a parking spot. I spend that time reading books. I used to cycle to work and back for a few years and it was actually faster than public transport but due to an unrelated injury I can't anymore, which is too bad, because I really miss it (at least the parts where I didn't have to share the road with cars).
You do realise that the speed limit is the upper limit, not the lower limit?
How can any revenue disappear someone's nuts?
What part of "Georgian Orthodox" do you fail to understand? You don't know what that is?