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by fghorow 5y ago
Geophysicist here. "Sillicates." (Emphasis on the "ates".) Oxygen is an integral part of most rock-forming minerals. 'Nuff said.
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by fghorow 5y ago
The stability (or lack thereof, actually) of distributions is a fundamental problem for any statistical model of complex systems. The author stated that more succinctly than I personally have heard anywhere else. Even if the rest of the pie
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by fghorow 5y ago
Which does kind of beg the question, why did a fast attack sub hit an uncharted seamount? (If that is indeed what happened. Maybe it was "user error" in which case it sucks to be the sub's captain and sonar operator.)
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by fghorow 5y ago
FALCON is a different beast than the shipboard gravimeters. Shipboard gravimeters are -- in effect -- extremely well damped/shock absorbed/sprung/mechanically isolated standard spring-stretching gravimeters. Essentially the s
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by fghorow 5y ago
I know of one gravity gradiometer technology developed by the US Navy for submarines that was de-classified and commercially deployed in airborne gravity (gradiometer) surveys. That happened in the '90s, and (as of about 2010 or so) th
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by fghorow 5y ago
It's mostly that the inbound energy doesn't even reach the reflector. An optical analog (yes, yes, EM true) would be trying to image something well behind a mirror. "Upward continuation": both gravity and (after certain
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by fghorow 5y ago
That radar is actually measuring the sea height. Sea height (on average) more-or-less defines the geoid (the height of an equipotential surface) over the oceans. That ignores sea height disturbances due to winds, currents, tides, etc. The
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by fghorow 5y ago
Civilian geophysicist (but not an oceanographic one) here. This is my best understanding: As others have posted, above surface based propagating EM techniques won't work because seawater is conductive. Acoustic waves are probably the b
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by fghorow 5y ago
Apple Music. Owned the IP to the Beatles music, IIRC.
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by fghorow 5y ago
The original of this book is a wonderful resource. I am very happy to see a community bringing it up-to-date because MacKay had the foresight to license the work using CC.
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by fghorow 5y ago
I'm a bereaved father, who lost his only child 5 years ago. If it's the loss if of their child, bring up the child by name. Yes, it will trigger some emotions in the bereaved, but it also lets them know that someone else remembers
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by fghorow 5y ago
Yeah, matey! Oz too! :D
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by fghorow 5y ago
This edifice of cosmological logic, rooted in dark matter, somehow reminds me of epicycles. Perhaps Earl of Ockham has a pertinent observation... (Or, maybe I just woke up grumpy this morning.)
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by fghorow 5y ago
SAP. Enough said.
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by fghorow 5y ago
Debugability.
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by fghorow 5y ago
There are two classes of systems that go by the name "geothermal". The article is opining about the deep "High Temp" thermal systems that are found in places like the Geysers field in California, in Iceland, and in New Z
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by fghorow 5y ago
The company's "technology description" video makes clear that storage of both "waste" heat and cool is an explicit part of their system.
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by fghorow 5y ago
Some poor staffer pulled an all-nighter to write this 5 months and 29 days ago, and the rest of the time has been spent wordsmithing and going through clearances.
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by fghorow 5y ago
I've just skimmed the pdf, and didn't catch that. Where exactly in the text did you find that info?
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by fghorow 5y ago
"This page intentionally left blank." (Yeah, I'm a dinosaur who remembers dead tree IBM manuals. Sue me.)
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by fghorow 6y ago
OK. I need to look into this. Thanks for the heads-up!
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by fghorow 6y ago
Interesting. Can UTM run Windows also? I have a few critical domain-specific commercial apps that are Windows only, and need that in a VM...
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by fghorow 6y ago
"...lays fallow most of the time." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-02/tesla-battery-expande...
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by fghorow 6y ago
Your take is more sensible than the one I had. The community solar sells S units to somebody else, credits me with the monetary proceeds of the sale (and possibly a share of the associated Renewable Energy Credit proceeds), and charges me 9
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by fghorow 6y ago
AFAICT, things are already "financialized" so that things like community solar appear to be "cheaper" to a customer. (Nothing wrong with that, BTW.) I just got my first utility bill with a community solar monetary credit
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by fghorow 6y ago
Cornell University has a similar cooling system using cold water from Cayuga Lake. https://fcs.cornell.edu/departments/energy-sustainability/ut...
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by fghorow 6y ago
As a working scientist, I read the OP with great interest (no pun intended). In essence from my perspective, the axiomatic approach is like "theory" and the operational approach is like "experiment" or "observation&
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by fghorow 6y ago
PSA for MacOS denizens: Are you annoyed enough at iTunes popping up every time the in-line button on your headset is clicked to actually want to do something about it? Me too. (Finally.) In the "works for me"™ category, from a ter
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by fghorow 6y ago
Verizon just texted you, Ajit. You're too hot for them, and now need to look for honest work.
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