Maakuth

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by Maakuth 2y ago
Germany defaulted on some of the payments and France responded to that by occupying Ruhr ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Ruhr ). That took out a substantial portion of Germany's production capacity
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by Maakuth 2y ago
Nuclear operators try to minimize losses of the shutdown by not replacing parts that are still workable until the shutdown. When you know of the impending shutdown, you can plan for the plant to be as EOL as possible. If you plan for long t
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by Maakuth 2y ago
That's very impressive amount of solar capacity, but the nameplate power is not super useful measure in solar, as the capacity factor for solar is somewhere between 10-15% in Germany, while for nuclear it's more like 90%. To get r
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by Maakuth 2y ago
I don't think the parent's criticism was limited to the last three closures, but the whole fleet that was shut down starting 2011.
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by Maakuth 2y ago
They call it HAN here in Finland too, but it's the same interface as the Netherlands one.
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by Maakuth 2y ago
This applies to Finland and Sweden too, perhaps others to follow.
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by Maakuth 2y ago
What is that tool?
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by Maakuth 2y ago
This is the perfect client for accessing Internet Archive content! Each IA item automatically has a torrent that has IA's web seeds. Try Big Buck Bunny: btfs https://archive.org/download/BigBuckBunny_124/BigBu
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by Maakuth 3y ago
This is an evolution of the same radio techonology that was used in those cordless phones.
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by Maakuth 3y ago
https://github.com/Gessle/leet_os here's a github mirror of the source code, if you don't feel like downloading the zip for perusal.
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by Maakuth 3y ago
That's just it - these are no more customizable than real buttons! They come with preprinted symbols for their function, so no cost advantage of customization.
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by Maakuth 3y ago
And how much cheaper can this stuff really be than real buttons?
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by Maakuth 3y ago
I believe the recommendation is to run btrfs on top of mdraid, which works fine. Meta is said to use btrfs, but apparently they don't care about the raid implementation, so there's nobody paying for that development. OpenZFS works
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by Maakuth 3y ago
Are spot electricity contracts available, so that you can do it like that? Makes sense then. And of course the installation cost of battery is way smaller than for a PV plant as no roof work is required.
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by Maakuth 3y ago
At least a rooftop PV installation breaks even* here in Finland with scarce sun and cheap power. Batteries are not there yet. If you don't need the battery as a UPS, I would wait still a few years before going for a home battery. *: Ea
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by Maakuth 3y ago
Very good points. I do think the grid battery capacity being added this year is going to be mostly li-ion.
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by Maakuth 3y ago
Pumped storage is a type of grid storage, but I don't think TFA includes it in battery storage. Pumped storage is a fine technology, but is there a lot of build potential left for it?
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by Maakuth 3y ago
I guess I earned the snark for not mentioning the batteries. Weirdly the news item doesn't tell what sort of energy storage capacity these battery installation have, only the peak power output of 14.3 GW for this year's addition.
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by Maakuth 3y ago
Of course those capacity factors hide one important bit, the dispatchability. While the capacity factor is the same in this list for wind and hydro, the wind and solar generation are naturally capped by nature. When demand exceeds the natur
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by Maakuth 3y ago
I believe this is one of the insights Steve Wozniak had that allowed them to make Apple // hardware a lot simpler and cheaper than the competition. They implemented this sort of stuff in the operating system. Commodore had these c
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by Maakuth 3y ago
There's TOTP support in Keepass2Android and KeepassXC (and surely other Keepass implementations too). These are open source and you can control how the password database is kept: cloud storage is supported as well as local file (that y
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by Maakuth 3y ago
This VW solution really is worst of both worlds, as these are capacitive surfaces with printed symbols. So you cannot really iterate on them post-release.
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by Maakuth 3y ago
No idea of what precise sort of hardware is there, but the fact is that these cables consist of a bunch of fibers. Dozens of them typically, quick search suggests up to 144, but I doubt that's a physical ceiling. So I suppose they make
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by Maakuth 3y ago
Given that there's still close to 80 years of the century left, this strikes me as a safe bet.
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by Maakuth 3y ago
Yes, I believe MOX is one option of what you can make from what's left from reprocessing. I think it's possible to make more conventional fuel there too, but then what are you going to do with the plutonium.
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by Maakuth 3y ago
Those are breeder reactors. In breeders, less fissile materials are transformed into more fissile ones. That's interesting technology and very nice on paper, but there are practical challenges. Reprocessing is another thing entirely. I
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by Maakuth 3y ago
More cross-border capacity would help with reliability as well as making the investments' profitability easier to estimate. This is something Europe at least is investing in.
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by Maakuth 3y ago
The gas boiler has a small tank where the radiator circuit's water is heated. Warm water accumulator is analogous to making this tank larger. The radiator connections would be moved to the big tank and the boiler would be made to warm
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by Maakuth 3y ago
I suppose a modern gas or oil burner doesn't need one. But this sort of solar based heater as well as ground-source heat pumps typically would need it. They are not very expensive however, as they are just heat-insulated tanks of water
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by Maakuth 3y ago
There are solutions in the market for this. The heat recovery system is filled with glycol solution, which means it doesn't freeze over even if left unpowered during sub-zero outside temperature. Then there's a temperature sensor

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