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by gehsty 6y ago
I was meaning that annexation of Crimea might have made countries want to be less reliant on Russia as a partner, outside of US-Russia relations. I agree it is up to European countries to do what they want.
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by gehsty 6y ago
UK is currently building new nuclear. Can’t think of anywhere else. For me people seem to have an either or opinion - we should build renewables or nuclear or whatever (I don’t think this is your stance though). Reality is that we should be
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by gehsty 6y ago
I think the annexation of Crimea certainly increased tension between Europe and Russia. I’m not sure how it effected energy policy however.
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by gehsty 6y ago
The politics around nuclear is a real hurdle (rightly or wrongly) so it makes sense to look at other solutions. Lots of energy in Europe is supplied from countries you may not want to be reliant on (Russian gas for example).
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by gehsty 6y ago
Can we get one the other way round?
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by gehsty 6y ago
All kids tv is made on drugs. In the night garden is even more trippy than teletubbies.
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by gehsty 6y ago
I think that’s the point? They want to show that M1 decimates comparable Intel chips even at lower price points. This release is entirely within Apples control, why would they risk damaging their brand releasing a chip with lower performanc
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by gehsty 6y ago
I guess what we are looking at is how good is someone relative to their peers, was Fangio a better driver compared to his peers than Lewis is now, likely, was he a better driver, we’ll never know as the two never competed.
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by gehsty 6y ago
Can’t really comment on anything above the waterline but below typically they become more attractive to marine life, basically things grow on them... if this is good or bad depends on who you talk to (eg should barren places remain barren,
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by gehsty 6y ago
The size is unbelievable to be honest. The 12MW system when constructed will be taller than the Eiffel Tower I believe, and that is the section above water, there will be 20-50m in water then considerable length piled into the ground.
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by gehsty 6y ago
Your info on capacity is a bit sketchy, the capacity of turbines being installed now is 8-10MW, with 15MW turbines on the roadmap. 3.6MW turbines were being installed 7-10yrs ago (exception being Rampion on south coast of UK being installed
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by gehsty 6y ago
Hywind is a demonstration site, I understand it was not optimised not for foundation design, it’s main purpose was to get an understanding of the dynamics of the turbine blades as the structure pitches and rolls, so I wouldn’t focus on the
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by gehsty 6y ago
Doesn’t iPhone have a warning when the phone over heats? And this phone has its cpu temperature monitoring disabled? I guess this is quite a specific example, but it seems you can trust Apple to not let your phone get so hot it melts, and y
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by gehsty 6y ago
It really isn’t my area of expertise... all I see is that the investment firms that backed early offshore wind farms are now backing these Power to X technologies, as well as ‘energy islands’ which connect multiple offshore wind farms to mu
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by gehsty 6y ago
I work in renewables, the latest big buzz word is Power-to-X, meaning using renewable to generate hydrogen based fuels for things like jet engines and ships. I think it is 10-20 years away from becoming commercialised. Danish companies seem
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by gehsty 6y ago
Clearly it doesn't suck to be them, if the only inconvenience they have had is to support their colleagues during times they have needed it then they are not doing too badly. Also (unfortunately) people who do not have kids, particular
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by gehsty 6y ago
Another way of thinking about it is that we are all likely to have children at some point, so is a phase that a lot of people go through in their careers, you may not feel like they are working as hard as you (and maybe they aren’t) but if
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by gehsty 6y ago
This is the maximum output - literally the turbine capacity multiplied by turbine quantity.
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by gehsty 6y ago
It’s almost like the amount of money a company has doesn’t correlate with its ability to make a great product :)
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by gehsty 7y ago
If by computer programming or media creation (videos etc) then I would say what you want is a specialist computing device - most people do not use their computers to do this, nor need them to be able to. With an iPad you can write all the e
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by gehsty 7y ago
I don't think you can really say that the iPad has failed as a general computing device, and that it is propped up by the situations below. What do you think generates $20B in sales? That's a lot of tills flight aids. I think the
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by gehsty 7y ago
Hi, I work in offshore wind, subsea cabling, and I’m very interested in the cable tether that connects the kite to the base station and how you over come the issues with fatigue in the metallic elements of the cable, seems like this would b
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by gehsty 7y ago
The gear arrangement in the diagram showing how it will all work cannot turn (triple gear engagement)! Probably an unintentional but more accurate representations than what they had in mind.
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by gehsty 7y ago
I work in subsea power cables, AC transmission is not efficient, HVDC transmission is efficient for long distances. India has HVDC links 1500km long. I don’t understand the ‘lossy’ description, any energy transfer loses energy, when dealing
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by gehsty 7y ago
AC Power transmission is not efficient over long distances without rectification. HVDC Power transmission already has links >1500km onshore. Offshore links are more expensive to build but I don’t think there are massive difference in los
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by gehsty 7y ago
I think we'll some form of power link going from UK -> US during our lifetime, maybe via Iceland/Greenland so we can utilise the excess geothermal energy from Iceland.
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by gehsty 7y ago
Landing cable in an area where the largest waves in the world are routinely seen is very 'challenging'.
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by gehsty 7y ago
Growing up eating what he wants, not going hungry or worrying about food or his parents health, I’m guessing he’ll be fine! Lots of people go through a long fussy eating stage, and tbh carrots and chicken aren’t that bad :)
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by gehsty 8y ago
Publication of tax returns does nothing to reduce inequality. A state which supports people does a lot to reduce inequality.
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by gehsty 8y ago
Any reason storage + renewables + well connected ‘super grids’ between countries cannot work out? Why do we have to have nuclear?

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