EEGuy

11 ms·

31.
by EEGuy 13y ago
I'm so glad the concept of "dial tone", video or otherwise, never crossed the demand for and rollout of content-neutral, flat-rate-billed, backbone-peering-supported Internet Service. Having worked in voice telecom billing
32.
by EEGuy 13y ago
>[eigenvector]... utilities will need far more advanced software and metering infrastructure ...and as I take it from other discussion, re-design, -engineering and replacement of some distribution station equipment and software to allow
33.
by EEGuy 13y ago
I wouldn't like that, indeed. I'd want my participation real-time controllable, real-time voluntary, and real-time limited. That said, my uncertainty about vehicle use isn't as bad upon return to home, at which time I'd
34.
by EEGuy 13y ago
This "Vehicle to Grid" idea has been around for a while. The article cites some progress (a trial program in SoCal). It's noted that using one's car to contribute to grid stability may void current battery warranties, a
35.
Electric cars may hold solution for power storage(latimes.com)
36 points by EEGuy 13y ago|35 comments
36.
by EEGuy 13y ago
Not a networking guy here, and this is nowhere near all you're asking for, but here's a classic GUI-controlled router setup which allowed me to totally block my son's internet access when needed. Sounds like your TV needs th
37.
New algorithms can tell if you ride the bus, and how bad you drive(gigaom.com)
2 points by EEGuy 13y ago|0 comments
38.
by EEGuy 13y ago
I am a net-metering solar PV owner who's not averse to a reasonable, independently audited "connection charge". But I would be adverse to having to pay via a "connection charge" for what looks to me like a failed up
39.
by EEGuy 13y ago
The IBP (tiered rating) isn't a birthright of utilities, geez. It's a conservation measure! Whether I shave off my higher-tiered consumption by changing my thermostat, changing my lighting or by putting in solar, that lost high-p
40.
by EEGuy 13y ago
Hmmm.... and all that waste heat from the Peltier junctions go into /heating/ the room -- making it a little warmer for everyone else.
41.
by EEGuy 13y ago
mapt, this. Maybe I should do the math, but I can't imagine magnetic levitation (not propulsion) running off on-board batteries.
42.
The Augmented Reality America’s Cup(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by EEGuy 13y ago|0 comments
43.
by EEGuy 13y ago
This, svantana. My dentist's ultrasonic dental plaque removing tool produces audible squeals reminiscent of analog tuning of an AM radio. That's one possible example of probable nonlinearities (in my gums an teeth) producing dete
44.
by EEGuy 13y ago
Saw this just today. Interesting how the company is spreading the risk of this hardware project by: * Outsourcing-and-(partly?)-open-sourcing the manufacturing (and probably all of the customer service) to anyone who'll sign up via th
45.
by EEGuy 13y ago
There isn't much useful "work" one can do with a microwatt at "human" scale in a day. Except, as this paper shows, build a networkable wireless system camping on those microwatts. Not meaning to be critical, rather
46.
by EEGuy 13y ago
Agreed, StandardFuture. This is impressive, but TV channels and signals are owned by TV broadcasters. So: * Not only the FCC, but the NAB [National Association of Broadcasters] will be on this pronto. * So, consider either: ___o Allowing
47.
by EEGuy 13y ago
In terms of energy delivery: ( 85 KWhr / 90 sec) * ( 3600 sec / hr ) = 3400 KW = 3.4 MW 3.4 megawatts, not bad.
48.
by EEGuy 13y ago
I'm intrigued by Dr. Post's statement regarding electrostatic rather than electromagnetic force. When I think of the "motor-generator" component of a flywheel-based energy storage device, coils and magnetic poles and all that electromagnet
49.
by EEGuy 13y ago
>Why is it 7-bit and not 8-bit? To all the other history cited, there was also an early digital telephony multiplexing ("T1") practice of the day called "robbed bit signalling"[1] [2]. You got 7 bits clean, 8 bits - not so much. ------
50.
by EEGuy 13y ago
Rooftoop solar is good for a mere 8 Watts / sqft [1] [2] when the sun's shining, and it's not a constant 8 Watts output over the day even if the weather is clear all day. So repurposing a Sears building's rooftop area for solar power would
51.
by EEGuy 13y ago
Thank you kken for your clarifications. I don't know the physics modelling switching devices or arcs, but I do recall reading long ago that once an arc starts, its resistance drops dramatically, continuing to drop as more current flows thro
52.
by EEGuy 13y ago
Until recent news such as this, I didn't know it was the "conceptually simple" but practically difficult ability to switch (interrupt) a GW or so of DC energy flow preventing the implementation of better than point-to-point HVDC (i.e. multi
53.
Germany Takes the Lead in HVDC(spectrum.ieee.org)
57 points by EEGuy 13y ago|22 comments
54.
by EEGuy 13y ago
LA's MTA has a bike locker rental program, find out here [1]. It's worked for me; stash a beater bike at the "work end" of the train commute and ride the "last mile". If the "work end" is in Burbank, here's the info on their bike locker r
55.
by EEGuy 13y ago
* The 1897 Pasadena-to-LA Cycleway looks appealing to this native Angelino [perhaps in part because it's empty in all the photos?], but had it been completed and survived, I would it to be heavily subcribed now. * Some related thoughts: ___
56.
by EEGuy 13y ago
180,000 cyclists and peds did get out of their cars to walk or bike on the most recent "CicLAvia" event [1] [2]. ------ [1] https://billrosendahl.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/ciclavia-to-t... [2] http://www.ciclavia.org/about/
57.
by EEGuy 13y ago
Agreed mturmon; an open-air LA-freeway-adjacent bike path poses many technical, aesthetic, scale-of-access, cost and possible health issues. I do not think a freeway-adjacent bikeway would be popular with cyclists if open-air. LA has a fre
58.
by EEGuy 13y ago
Some quick research on generator excitation: * Each of Hoover Dam's generators appear to me, based on this photo [1], to have three stages of excitation, vertically stacked on the rotor shaft. * A year 2010 upgrade to digital controls at
59.
by EEGuy 13y ago
Something not qualified numerically about LED or CFL lamps, but a moderate consideration for me is analog FM radio interference ("RFI"). In one of the smallest rooms of my house, there are two of the Philips LED bulbs of the "yellow when of
60.
by EEGuy 13y ago
Chandeliers with prismatic glass are another problem area for LED lighting. My home has two such fixtures, previously populated with nine 40-Watt incandescent lamps each. That's a lot of power dissipation (360 Watts), particularly since on

More ›