Posts by midgepad 245 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Oct 2020
And one found it, and mentioned it.
Whether any found it and stayed quiet, banked it, we don't know. If so, they've been frustrated, also.
Theres a paradox about finding such a fault, attack, crime etc.
Once found and announced, it has been found. It can't be found for the first time again, snd yet we are told that being found only by one person shows a system isn't working.
to tell people the door is not for casual opening, usually.
If there is no lock, it is hard to reprimand someone for opening the door.
If there is a lock (or other alleged security mechanism) then it is clear to anyone without the key that they need a reason. As indeed he had.
There's where his manager was the inverse of adequate
I see above nobody will buy EVs because they are expensive, and i see above that 2nd hand EVs are going to have lost much or all or too much of their value.
Should you talk about that amongst yourselves?
Meanwhile in the last year I have seen one new petrol station in 6000 miles, can think of three that have closed within 50 miles of here, and see charge places popping up like a rash.
You'll be able to make a living selling petroleum, for a while.
After rather a lot of posts telling us the battery doesn't hold enough energy and is heavy, so low energy density, we have one telling us that if it held more in smaller volume it would be dangerous.
C4/P4/TNT no, but something approaching the density and total energy of 20 - 40 litres of Diesel/Kerosene/RP1 would match or surpass the capacity of standard uk cars (which are mostly not topped up nightly)
20 litres because more than half of a petrol tank is turned into heat - a wastage if you are driving it, and a hazard if containment fails. 40 litres because it takes longer to fill up.
I think there are areas of the uk or even England where this hasn't happened yet, but the routes round here have multiple charging places along them.
There is no dependence on charging at the destination, although it is nice if that downtime can bd used.
Stopping for a pee has morphed jnto a charge discharge cycle ;)
Start undoing the work of the latter with a cup of tea from cafe or flask, and you can be on your way.
Chargers are popping up like a rash.
What I don't see are attended charging points. I'm old enough to remember when people worked the fuel pump for you. Given a surplus of cars over sockets at a destination that might catch on, and indeed anywhere that parks cars for you might return them charged.
Currently Scotland can't export all its spare windowed to England, Norway and NI.
The connectors sre not big enough. This may change, OTOH there's more wind and tide/current there.
So setting up a "gasometer" or two next to an existing combined cycle gas turbine /steam plant and putting low pressure H2 into it when otherwise wind turbine operators would be paid to not make power seems at least plausibly sensible.
I tend to think of a power station as being 1GW, but that perhaps raises steam in a couple of boilers, and/or uses it to spin a couple of turbine-generator sets, and each can be switched off on occasion.
I suspect your 1.2GW wind power station is made up of several turbines.
I've not seen one larger than 16MW mentioned, but perhaps they are larger. Even so, they'll be 1 to 4 dozen to the GW, and arranged in groups, and the groups into groups and so on.
Which begins to look a lot like a small grid.
The solar panels on my roof are rated at 300W peak, let's say we can have big ones at 500W. That means 2000000 panels per GW.
Now we could wire all 2000000 in series and put out 60MV DC directly, but I think among the very many reasons not yo the old Christmas tree lights problem, one panel failing means the whole string does, is almost the least.
They'll be in rows of several dozen to a hundred, and wired to a sensible compromise. They may not even all be in the same field!
So again, modules, redundancy, and concentration, but not magically a single machine.
"You write some software for a lark, and publish it just once as OSS under some license or other that "solves this weakness" in GPL. You then decide not to continue public work on it. You then get sued, because some member of the public had picked it up and wanted the new version's source code that you'd given to only your mates."
You've never had any restraint on that. It is a fork, which is common.
Anyone else who wants the same adaptations you have made is free to write new code themselves to bring the GPL code you published to an effect similar to you produced.
Or to pay someone else to do that.
Including you.
And you are free to sell your program, under whatever licence suits you.
You've made a Balmer argument.
Or rather book, called Termination Shock" is quite fun, and does point up a couple of problem, amusingly:
1. If we stop it, it rebounds
2. Someone will find it politically convenient to be injured, and take action to stop it.
Also, being American, it includes The Biggest Gun in the World.
I enjoyed it.
Lots of Teslas round here.
I bought an ID.3 - also made from scratch EV platform. When I first decided that'd be my next car there was a tears wait for delivery.
By the time I changed cars Icould buy one out of the dealer, they had a couple.
Now they've reduced production. You get oscillations.
Nice car.
IE almost anywhere around Earth orbit. I don't think the receiver is limited to accepting a beam fron one SPSS.
however, better to use the power outside the Earth's atmosphere, for tasks we should ban in the atmosphere to reduce heat dissipation into that atmosphere.
which was useful.
I avoided having a fax machine*, until someone gave us one so they could fax stuff to us.
But no supply of paper.
I'd have left it at that.
* I did set up WfWG3.1 to accept fax on a modem, and mix it with email.
And around then we started passing some very old and boring or new and repetitive paper through a scanner, so if you didn't mind the stairs you could turn a piece of paper into a picture of it and transmit it.
When a major government contractor took over getting gp records from old practices to new practices, they stacked up to the extent we were posting the contents. The covers might turn up 6 months later.
The old inefficient public service got urgent ones across the country in a few days, across town Esther quicker. Non-urgent, not quite so fast.
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