TheManInThePub

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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> The Sami famously use fly agaric in rituals (concentrating it in human or reindeer urine). Apparently, so do other Siberian peoples. It has been (only half) joked that the reason for this is fermenting alcohol, which requires warmth, i
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> We had a tyre blow out on a motorway in Scotland All UK motorways have location signs posted every 500m (coupled with distance marker posts at 100m intervals) that are specifically designed so drivers with breakdowns can report their p
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
Suggesting that the KLF are racist is pretty ridiculous! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
I'm disappointed to find somebody so woefully misinformed about GDPR on HN. GDPR only relates to personal data. The data discussed here clearly isn't personal by any stretch of the imagination. This is the same mentality that thin
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> Being able to access real people for support should be a mandatory requirement. Being able to appeal an automated decision to a real person is a mandatory requirement under the GDPR. https://ec.europa.eu/info/law&#
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
As my comment clearly said; add other renewables into the mix, but not wave/tidal. These technologies are a dead end and do not scale.
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> the allure of wave energy comes from the fact that the theoretical energy available is proportional to the density of the fluid. But the power generated by a turbine is proportional to the cube of the air/fluid velocity..... and t
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
An air driven Wells turbine? As with other wave/tidal schemes, they are not viable at scale. Consider the flagship 'LIMPET' project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islay_LIMPET
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
Schemes such as this have been proposed, see the Swansea Tidal Lagoon [0]. The bottom line is that they are crazy expensive for the power they deliver and just don't compete against other renewables. [0] https://en.wikipedia.
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> I say 1MWh extracted daily Consider a single offshore turbine in the Galloper wind farm is rated at 6 MW and this doesn't look so impressive. > a dumb metal object That's the thing. It isn't a dumb metal object. It re
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
Flow to where? Low tide only occurs twice a day.
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> If not, it sounds like a reasonable idea to try something new from time to time. Oh certainly! But funding is always finite. Unless some radical new wave/tidal technique comes to light (and it hasn't, yet!), then the project
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
I have a report from a first year undergraduate on my shelf that suggested this.... A simple calculation shows you need an enormous volume float to generate a useful amount of power. A tidal range of a few meters isn't that much potent
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> Scotland is aiming to be a world leader in tidal energy. Which I guess makes sense given we're practically surrounded by pretty rough seas . Rough seas damaging your tidal energy kit are the one thing you don't want. I have
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> Producing energy on a completely predicable schedule, while being less useful than at will, is much easier to deal with than producing energy on a modestly predictable but highly variable basis I agree in theory, but in practice tidal
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
That is why we have a diversity of wind farms! Wind turbines scale much more easily than wave/tidal, both the size of the turbines themselves (much larger than a wave/tidal system could ever be) and where they can be located aroun
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
I've worked in the UK offshore power industry. Wave and tidal energy schemes have failed to deliver useful and reliable energy after over 50 years of investigation and research funding. Putting moving parts in salt water off the UK coa
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> I want to give them to someone I'd care about and who would value them, but that is easier said than done. Any ideas? You could always sell them to a bricks and mortar stamp collecting shop. You won't get full market value (t
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> People will be happier with a reversal of the tendency of governments to get larger I disagree and suggest this is dependent on your political viewpoint. Whilst some (very frequently in the USA!) recite the mantra of 'small govern
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
>an interesting file locking mechanism Only 5 years ago, we had an 'editing stick'. Only the person physically in possession of the editing stick was allowed to make edit the configs to our (early 90's vintage) SCADA syste
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> People often talk about favorite TV ads. College kids will put pretty magazine ads on their dorm walls. We all sing radio jingles involuntarily. Can I assume you are writing this from an American perspective (where advertising is ever
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
Frankly, I couldn't agree with this more. I've seen intelligent and insightful HN posts down voted simply because they went against the status-quo. If this is allowed to go on, people will be afraid of making controversial (but
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by TheManInThePub 6y ago
> HN is social media. Strongly disagree. Social media is where one shares ones social life (it's in the name!). HN, like many other sites dating back to the days of USENET, is a subject discussion forum; in HN case, a technical &#x2
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by TheManInThePub 6y ago
What country to you live in? Because in the UK, taking an item that has very clearly been donated is regarded as theft and can be prosecuted as such (particularity for such a valuable item donated to a library). The fact that it was poorly