Posts by Andre Carneiro 391 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jun 2007
I believe I read somewhere that it also means a million households being warmed or cooled during the day, instead of just a few big office buildings so it may well be that some of the carbon savings from not using transport are negated.
Seems plausible but I don’t know of any hard numbers to support or disprove that statement.
I was under the impression that the Galileo system had some sort of encrypted broadcast as well as the “peasant signal” exactly to prevent spoofing?
Not sure if that one was for military-only or for civilian use (for a fee), but I think the technology already exists and is deployed.
A standard immersion heater is already pretty much 100% efficient at heating water. There is nothing to be gained other than complexity in coming up with a magnetic induction water heater.
Also, induction hobs are not as efficient as gas. They’re significantly more efficient (a lot of the combustion heat of gas escapes up the sides of the pots) and have the added bonus of not producing combustion products which contribute to indoor pollution. :)
Some people do quite like knowing they’re doing a good job even if they have no recognition from the company.
Keeping management unhappy seems like a very poor long term career strategy, too.
You advice to strive to nothing higher than mediocrity explains a lot about many problems the world faces today.
Surely if the new frame couldn't dissipate the heat properly then the phone would feel LESS cold to the touch (even if its innards were being grilled)?
The way I see it the frame is dissipating all the heat properly, the problem is that too much of it is being generated in the first place (definitely not by the frame itself).
That's right in the grand scheme of the whole grid. The problem is that you're shifting 10GW of load from industrial sites with plentiful transmission capacity to thousands of residential sites with transformers and distribution system designed with 2kW-per-household calculations.
In my housing estate we have a substation and I am told that each phase has a 400A fuse.
At 32A single phase draw, it would only take about 13 cars charging to overload that fuse. For the 3 phases let's say the whole housing state of 100+ houses would only manage 40 cars charging simultaneously. Some of these 100+ houses will more than likely have more than one car.
I am glad that I managed to get my EVSEs and batteries installed early, as the DNO is going to start looking very closely at capacity calculations. Between charging cars, batteries and heating water with off-peak energy I am already hitting the 100A limit on my supply for 5 hours every night (in the winter. Summer is a different story)
There will definitely need to be some sort of upgrade done closer to "the edge" of the electrical network once home energy supply for mobility, heating and cooking becomes exclusively (or nearly exclusively) electric.
Because BT have a level of control of the call that the individual services don’t. They know if calls have been disconnected or not and can stop calls from being terminated if the caller hangs up, for instance.
Also, with a universal 999/112 number someone needs to direct the call to the correct emergency service.
Interesting. I did not experience “phantom braking” even once when I had my Golf R.
It’s crap on my Model 3 (which, by the way, I absolutely LOVE driving).
It appears the FSD development is far more advanced in the US than Europe (and the UK in particular), so making comparisons between both sides of the pond is tricky.
Forum posts seem to suggest, however, that phantom braking episodes seem more widespread around these parts.
Yeah, I'm sure you do...
Also, I found it interesting that Mr Gelsinger has a strategy that may or may not pay off in the long run and the shareholders are annoyed about that. That seems a tad suicidal to me. If they focus on the quick buck today, there will be no Intel tomorrow. So many companies are hindered by boards and investors wanting quick returns...
@idiot
I am sorry that you feel offended by my post. I was merely pointing out that I found it out of character that whilst most tech companies were indeed making a statement, Apple wasn't.
And yes I am aware that they eventually followed suit so my post is now moot, but thank you for the update anyway.
I agree.
My commute to work is about 100 miles per day. I am on a tariff that sees a ridiculously low electricity rate between 0030 and 0530 and a fairly high one for the rest of the day, so all my electricity use (EV and Powerwalls) is shifted to those 5 hours.
This is a good way to incentivise load shifting, IMHO.
As usual, "graphene will fix the problem". The problem, it seems, is that a decade on from first hearing about the sodding thing it is STILL not easily available for large scale manufacturing.
News seem to have gone quiet, does anyone know if there have been any significant advances on that front?
I'm just astounded that nobody at Apple actually thought this was A Bad Idea.
I'm even more astounded that Tim Cook actually decided to go for something so utterly, mind-bogglingly stupid.
Maybe I'm just naive.
Also, I'm about 95% sure they're just waiting for the media attention to die down and then quietly implement it anyway,
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