Re: Truck or jail cell
Hello
Is this 1st April? Ha ha ha.
Let me out now.
Please let me out now.
I want my mummy.
Posts by Mips
514 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Apr 2010
Truck, sweet truck: Volvo's Chinese owner unveils methanol/electric truck with bathroom and kitchen
British naval food doesn't look half bad... so we're going to try it out for ourselves
Monday 30th August 2021 21:57 GMT
Re: Camouflage
I once had the task to design a replacement galley in a shore based establishment. As I was surveying the building I noticed that a large cockroach had fallen off a duct into a tub of custard on the servery counter. I noted this to the crewman manning the servery expecting him to do something about it. He did. He stirred it in.
Added protein I suppose.
Pi calculated to '62.8 trillion digits' with a pair of 32-core AMD Epyc chips, 1TB RAM, 510TB disk space
UK digital secretary Oliver Dowden starts national security probe into proposed Arm-Nvidia merger
'There was no one driving that vehicle': Texas cops suspect Autopilot involved after two men killed in Tesla crash
Gummy bears as a unit of measure? The Reg Standards Soviet will not stand for this sort of silliness
Europe promises all-out assault on batteries to counter China’s lithium-ion domination
Friday 26th February 2021 11:00 GMT
Re: Hmmmm
Now here’s a thing.
Each electric car needs 10kg of lithium, each truck or bus needs 50kg and the there are all the vans. Each wind turbine needs 10000kg for backup and solar power a similar amount.
For the UK to go all electric as planned we will need over 500,000 tonnes of lithium metal.
Now here’s the problem the provable world wide recoverable reserves of lithium are only 350,000 tonnes. So go figure. Will this work?
We need to make sodium batteries work.
Bill Gates on climate change: Planting trees is not the answer, emissions need to be zeroed out to avoid disaster
Loser Trump is no longer useful to Twitter, entire account deleted over fears he'll whip up more mayhem
Titanium carbide nanotech approach hints at hydrogen storage breakthrough
What does my neighbour's Tesla have in common with a stairlift?
Monday 14th December 2020 10:52 GMT
Re: Summon the lawyers!
Nail duly struck on head
Get it out there people this is a real problem.
However we should also be aware that the contravention of BS7671 resulting from the dangerous installation of said power cable would require the energy supply company to disconnect the supply to the house.
EV users should also be aware that should an accident caused by the cable result in death they might be charged with manslaughter.
I have not yet heard of any “charger rage” incidents. But give it time.
Twitter hackers busted 2FA to access accounts and then reset user passwords
Spare some change, guv? UK's CCTV regulator pitches for £100k budget increase
Railway cables overpowered errant drone's compass and flung it back to terra firma
Friday 22nd May 2020 09:26 GMT
Re: Order of magnitude error
But EM interference is not news.
Back in ‘85 We had a project to install a mainframe in a site which backed onto the Liverpool/Southport rail line: 1500V DC. The EM survey showed huge induced voltage spikes as a train went past. This site was abandoned.
Somewhat later we had to abandon a project near Blackpool airport. This was blasted by the airfield approach radar.
There is nothing new under the sun.
ALGOL 60 at 60: The greatest computer language you've never used and grandaddy of the programming family tree
Are you extracting the urine, ESA? Why, yes it is, from Moon dwellers to build homes out of lunar regolith. Possibly
After 20-year battle, Channel island Sark finally earns the right to exist on the internet with its own top-level domain
Post Office burned £100m in UK taxpayer cash on Horizon IT scandal legal fees, MPs told
H0LiCOW: Cosmoboffins still have no idea why universe seems to be expanding more rapidly than expected
Monday 13th January 2020 09:57 GMT
Re: Riddle me this:
I think time is the issue here. That the Hubble constant at the Big Bang may be different than now. If we were able to measure H0 now at the CMBR location it might well agree with the local H0. I do not see a way of testing this and we just have to accept the fact and make a rational explanation.
Watch out! Andromeda, the giant spiral galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way, has devoured several galaxies before
'Lightweight' UPS-style flywheels to power naval laser zappers
Eggheads want YOU to name Jupiter's five newly found moons ‒ and yeah, not so fast with Moony McMoonface
Northern UK smart meter rollout is too slow, snarls MPs' committee
How I got horizontal with a gimp and untangled his cables
Boffins build blazing battery bonfire
Has science gone too far? Now boffins dream of shining gigantic laser pointer into space to get aliens' attention
Good news: Largest, most ancient known galaxy supercluster is spotted. Bad news: It's collapsing on itself
New theory: The space alien origins of vital bio-blueprints for dinosaurs. And cats. And humans. And everything else
NASA's Kepler probe rouses from its slumber, up and running again
No lie-in this morning? Thank the Moon's gravitational pull
Thursday 9th August 2018 15:01 GMT
Yes and...
...not only will the days get longer but the moon will fly higher still until eventually it departs orbit! (Yes this will happen; look in Wikipedia). Just think of the fix we will be in then with no tides and very long and cold nights and long red hot days. How's your beach holiday now?
And another thing; some lunatics want to build tidal power plant. Mad! It will slow the earth's rotation even sooner.
UK rocket-botherers rattle SABRE, snaffle big bucks
Fermi famously asked: 'Where is everybody?' Probably dead, says renewed Drake equation
More power to UK, say 'leccy vehicle makers. Seriously, they need it
Another day, another meeting, another £191bn down the pan
Full shift to electric vans would melt Royal Mail's London hub, MPs told
Saturday 3rd March 2018 17:27 GMT
Re: So, not just a question of...
Well here is the answer and we are all going to need a bit more than 50p.
Whilst there is the option to go hybrid, if these are plug is it will only provide a marginal reduction to the increased electrical demand. And hybrid vehicles are not fuel efficient as has been proven they use about as much petrol as the equivalent straight direct drive. At this moment sales of petrol cars are increasing and diesel is declining with the possibility that manufacturers will be fined for increasing CO2 emission.
The Post Office are saying they have a problem and fortunately this news has entered into the political arena because this is where the problem originates. They say ignorance is bliss and there is none more blissful than a politician, The decision to go electric is ill founded. Here are the consequences.
The power supply to most dwellings is based on average consumption, whilst you might be able to call on 14kW in your house on average the supply might only be able to provide as little as 750W and as much as 3kW depending where you are and when the property was built, commonly it is 2kW. Vehicle demands are about 3kW for a range of 100 miles and 7kW for 200 miles. This means that your house will now be taking as much as 9kW from the supply, more than 4 times what it was designed to provide. It is ok if a small number of electric vehicles are connected, the system has some flexibility, but if penetration is more than 10% problems will arise as the system will be overloaded and voltage drop will exceed statutory limits. Beyond this point, to make electric vehicles work the network will have to be replaced. To provide power to all electric vehicles using the existing approach would require 4 times the number of substations and all distribution mains will need to be replaced. The resulting disruption would be huge.
The cost would also be huge.
KPMG have reported on recent research into how we can deal with the reducing availability of gas. They estimate the cost of replacing the electrical network at between £150bn to £250bn. Yes, 250 BEEEELION POUNDS! As it happens this is the figure I came up with AND we have to add in the cost of three nuclear power stations at about £35bn each.
Conservationist will say we can use photovoltaic and wind sources, but we need more power not just energy and these will not cut it. Anyone who does not understand the difference between power and energy should not comment. Sadly this group includes most journalist, politicians and ecowarriors. Yes we have to go nuclear; convention power generation will be inadequate after all we are running out of gas.
It is amazing that the government has committed so much expenditure with a short statement and with no opposition. The cost will be more than Falklands, Afghanistan, Iraq, HS1 & 2, Crossrail and all the windfarms put together, How can this be allowed to happen?
You might think that the bright sparks in the executive have an answer, but clearly there is not one single technical mind present. They think it is all about batteries and drivelines. It is not.
If we don't do anything I can see that we might have civil disruption, "charger point rage" incidents, generators in the back of the garage, or the Clarkson view: a generator on the back seat. At the very least planning law should include that all new developments have the capacity to charge vehicles.
There is a solution; we have not looked at alternatives. We need to invest in exhaust scrubbers; this should prolong the life of diesel. We need to invest in fuel cells. OK hydrogen is difficult to produce and store, but we could also use ammonia.
It is a difficult question but there is no doubt that the policy came as a knee jerk reaction. It is not adequate, not fit for purpose and like the poll tax will cause no end of problems.
Time to start protesting.
Oxford Uni boffins get things rolling at new electric motor factory
Don't panic... but our fragile world is drifting away from the Sun
Up, up and a-weigh! Boeing flies cargo drone with 225kg payload
UK waves £45m cheque, charges scientists with battery tech boffinry
Monday 31st July 2017 08:43 GMT
The BIG issue
It would be great to have better batteries but this is not the solution they still require charging.
It is not just the generation capacity it is the distribution network which is inadequate. Recent estimates show we need six additional nuclear power stations at a cost of £120bn. The distribution network has to be replaced or supplemented every street in the country will have to be dug up with huge disruption at a cost of £200bn. That is £16k for every electric vehicle. Then there is the question of rollout. Will this be another broadband debacle?
Would we not be better off going hydrogen and spending this money to make this work?
H0LiCOW! Hubble's constant update paves way for 'new physics'
Monday 30th January 2017 13:32 GMT
Paradox
I have never been clear to whether this has been explained or not and if the following has been factored into the calculations.
When we observe distant object we are also looking at the universe at an older state; further object are older than nearer ones. Is it not the case that OLDER object are faster than nearer ones. It is age that gives the velocity not distance. This thought is prompted by Big Bang theory and that from a single point there are some objects more distant than others i.e. they are going faster.
However if the Hubble constant is measured to be the same in all directions and this says that we are at the centre of the Big Bang. I think this has been disproved.
Dutch students serve up world's first 'drone café'
Google emits Android N developer preview early to smoke out bugs
European Space Agency lights up new Australian antenna
'Turn to nuclear power to save planetary ecology from renewable BLIGHT'
Friday 23rd January 2015 16:40 GMT
Re: Dunno about warming
Doesn't matter whether you do or not it is a question about where do we go next. Fosil fuel is just about dead and renewables will not do it especially when electricity will replace most present fosil consumption. Nuclear is the only way. And big time as well. This means we will have to get into Thorium or we are dead.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
