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by generatorguy 6y ago
Quebec has profited 28 billion dollars from Churchill falls between 1971 and 2016. They built the dam for 1 billion dollars, taking on all the risk. Quebec has great talent in electrical engineering and building hydro electric power plants.
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by generatorguy 6y ago
The CBC should be using British spelling!!
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by generatorguy 6y ago
Wow that is egregious. I've known professors whose pensions were 70% of the average of their best 4 years.
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by generatorguy 6y ago
I recently read that the CCP only accepts the top students whereas mostly i see the top students avoiding government bureaucracy in favor of private industry as it is more lucrative and there are not many prestigious positions in public ser
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by generatorguy 6y ago
Wind, solar, and run of river hydro are unscheduled so if load ramps up due to renewable generation ramping up there is no change in load to be accommodated by dispatchable scheduled units. If the load responding to increased renewable gene
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by generatorguy 6y ago
Toshiba has the 3.5" HGST tech [0] so you can buy a toshiba drive if you are afraid WD will ruin the HGST technology they bought. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST
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by generatorguy 6y ago
Can you quantify the difference in electricity costs? Start with difference in Watts, guess 0.15$/kWh and then find $/year saved? I bet the increase in quality and maybe the reliability or support costs for the old analog equipme
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by generatorguy 6y ago
also some of the ones with a really long lineage are impressively fast and memory efficient since they used to run on such old hardware. Actually dealing with some 80 character length alarm strings right now!
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by generatorguy 6y ago
Are there lower AGC environments ? The document concluded they need to test more but I imagine there is just one AGC per system operator. BC hydro, fortis, BPA, PGE? AGC just balances power flows so imports/exports over interconnection
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by generatorguy 6y ago
The footer indicated the issue occurred in the western region. I wonder if this AGC system is built On a scada or control system package offering from one of the major vendors or if it is more or a one off or even totally home brew. Some SC
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by generatorguy 6y ago
A lot of power utilities have their own fibre as they own lots of poles and transmission towers and have lots of skilled staff to design systems, string up cable and make terminations.
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by generatorguy 6y ago
The intent of my comment was that I am surprised to now be seeing that there may have been some substance to the comments on Reddit.
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by generatorguy 6y ago
If there is a known reservoir of pandemic causing virus it should be managed in such a way so as to avoid pandemics. Seems like not enough lessons were learned from SARS. How many pandemics are going to come from this reservoir before the w
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by generatorguy 6y ago
I saw posts on Reddit months ago pointing out the virology labs in wuhan studying this exact virus and wasn’t it a coincidence. I am actually quite surprised that US scientists that twice visited the lab sent strongly worded official commun
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by generatorguy 6y ago
exhaled air is exhausted to outdoors through filters, fresh air comes in. different tubes for different direction of air flow
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by generatorguy 6y ago
Are you familiar with the instrumentation on nuclear plants? I can’t imagine there are high tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of variables let alone sensors to be monitored. On the hydro plants I work on there are about 1000 variab
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by generatorguy 6y ago
Regret throwing out my Chumby now
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by generatorguy 7y ago
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by generatorguy 7y ago
great! good to have an alternative to qiqqa in case it disappears, although it looks like qiqqa has killed their cloud libraries and gone open source. I found qiqqa after google desktop was EOLed. I have been quick to recommend Qiqqa whene
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by generatorguy 7y ago
I've been using http://www.qiqqa.com/ for 8 years and it does a fantastic job of organizing my PDFs and managing citations. It can do cloud based shared libraries as well. for me the killer feature is that it makes all
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by generatorguy 7y ago
My circles are all on zoom due to superior audio and video quality in zoom than FaceTime for groups. 1 on 1 still FaceTime
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by generatorguy 7y ago
In Canada the constraint is going to be the number of doctors that we have, not the number of ventilators or the physical space to house patients.
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by generatorguy 7y ago
I understand exponential growth thanks. If China was able to take the measures they did on January 23 with only 500 cases in wuhan, nothing amiss in the rest of the world, based on their understanding of exponential growth of the disease
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by generatorguy 7y ago
No, they probably under reported the numbers. Do you think they locked down wuhan with only 600 confirmed cases or were they way further along the curve? The world was shocked when they started to build the new hospitals that the numbers di
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by generatorguy 7y ago
200 million surgical masks but only 600k n95 masks, per the npr article gp linked to. The machines to make the n95 masks take both the Germans and Chinese about 6 months to make.
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by generatorguy 7y ago
i work on hydro electric power stations and often see drawings showing the 50, 100, 500, 1000 year flood water levels at some structure such as the powerhouse or intake. The civil engineers design the plant to withstand the 500 year flood.
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by generatorguy 7y ago
and remove the comment about sneaking an easter egg in to drupal core. If I were looking to hire a web developer I wouldn't want a sneaky one.
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by generatorguy 7y ago
Won’t be strong enough to move a tank though if designed for a focus...
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by generatorguy 7y ago
The Article describes 100% what has happened with covid based on the sars experience and research since then. Whether the covid19 virus jumped from bats or civets hopefully the Chinese wet markets will stop carrying animals that have viruse
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by generatorguy 7y ago
I think you are bang on with capabilities vs capacity. We should have one factory for anything critical so that in case we can’t get as much as we need on the free market we can ramp up capacity by building more of the machine that makes th

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