SomeoneSomewhere

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[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 12 points 1 day ago

Coefficient of performance (i.e. energy efficiency) at decent delta-T is always the most important factor and rarely mentioned.

Modern cooling equipment generally has the largest environmental impact from energy consumption, not manufacturing or refrigerant leakage.

Especially with ultra-low-GWP propane or butane refrigerant, though that's not usually used in large-scale systems.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago

That is the source I was trying to remember.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's a survey. The same 3% of people that will answer that the moon is made of cheese.

There's also probably a handful that are doing better personally out of sheer chance, or misread the question.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 105 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

The non-Hydrogen, non-Helium atoms are a larger proportion of total mass, but that's just because they're really fat.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 13 points 2 weeks ago

Come to the southern hemisphere. We have cookies and pavlova.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 35 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh lordy.

U-series number plate; this is probably a pretty old photo of a pretty old bus.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I need to figure out GSIs. Finding non-flagship phones with decent custom rom communities is getting harder.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 71 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

It's not just AI, but new android phones drive me spare.

You can't disable that. You can't uninstall that. You can't make a backup of the whole phone. You can't make a backup of one app and restore it to a different phone, unless you go through Google. We're going to install these apps you don't want, and there's no way to cancel it.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 4 points 4 weeks ago

Industrial music in an industrial facility can be a real pain. Is that something going thud every cycle? No, it's someone's speaker.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 month ago

Off-shore wind has no moving parts in the ocean.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 month ago

But that doesn't mean anything about whether or not it's windy at the same time.

If the waves are too severe to allow servicing of the wind turbines, how do you think you're going to service wave generators? (yes, the answer is to wait until the sea and wind conditions are better)

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 month ago

The converters in the video have a nominal capacity of 450 Kilowatt. For an experimental plant at this development stage, this is huge. It took wind power plants over three decades of high-tech development to become larger.

Because they needed to wait until semiconductor technology could support high-power frequency converters. Note how large wind turbines arrived at virtually the same time as VVVF drives on trains, and ships, and everything else. Unlike hydro, wind turbines can't efficiently generate at constant speed in widely varying conditions.

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After initial tests created a series of large holes in the wall of the lab, the higher-power Scanning Tunneling Tennis Ball Microscope project was quickly shut down.

https://explainxkcd.com/3080/

 

"It's a real accomplishment to mess up a ravioli recipe badly enough that the resulting incident touches all four quadrants of the NFPA hazard diamond."

explainxkcd.com/2998/

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