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by hfkajshfaks 7y ago
The Navy does a lot of this. They funded a program to make biofuels from algae. But don't forget that the stated purpose of funded research is often a lie[0] and this is not necessarily viable outside the lab. [0] You get other benefit
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by hfkajshfaks 7y ago
Few though, and only the largest ones and they have incredibly complicated and long (and dangerous - imagine having to deal with refueling a cyrogenic liquid after every leg) fueling. Most rockets use hydrocarbons for this very reason.
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by hfkajshfaks 7y ago
Its so bad that only the largest space rockets use liquid H2. All the others use kerosene or the like. Either way, the Soviets tried gaseous fuels in the 80s - See Tu-155. They ran on liquid H2, CNG. If I recall, the weight increase didn&#x
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by hfkajshfaks 7y ago
The idea is that the sovereign can do nothing illegal because by definition it is the fount of legislation. Lawful, therefore, is whatever suits the sovereign. In the UK this is neatly seen by the Queen being immune, and not needing any doc
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by hfkajshfaks 7y ago
I'm not in this field (university friends are), but reactors require triple redundancy for their power supply, including the grid. A better question is, should we have nuclear power at all? I took classes in nuclear engineering, by fri
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by hfkajshfaks 7y ago
"If he's doing grid protection he's probably in distribution engineering and they would be pretty involved with a black start drill from as in they or the line crews with their boots on the ground as not all of that procedure
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by hfkajshfaks 7y ago
"In the event that there's a phase mismatch, I assume that gets physically transmitted back to the generating device?" In case of phase mismatch, you have a short circuit and the weakest element along the short gets fried.
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by hfkajshfaks 7y ago
"The user is probably a transmission level grid operator. " Close. My dad's a power engineer, specifically grid protection.
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by hfkajshfaks 7y ago
Lol. I'm a computational material scientist, so take everything w/ a grain of salt. My dad's a power (line protection) engineer, everything I know is from talking to him.
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by hfkajshfaks 7y ago
I don't understand why BsAs temperature would drop just because the e got knocked off, or why it ceases to be an analog function after the cut :S
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by hfkajshfaks 7y ago
It's winter in Argentina now, so they don't have AC loads. TVs are small by comparison (Although it's fascinating to see how load changes during large games: you can spot commercials, for example!)
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by hfkajshfaks 7y ago
It isn't really though. A cascading failure can knock out an entire grid. The Northeast blackout is an example. A line goes out. while (there some lines are still live): The current redistributes itself among neighboring lin
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by hfkajshfaks 7y ago
Kinda of. The courts are generated, and therefore subject to, the executive. It's easy to see how an executive could stack a court (a la Roosevelt). Or simply denying the courts the ability to enforce their rulings and doing whatever (
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by hfkajshfaks 7y ago
Constitutionally, they aren't. But congress passed laws waiving S.I. in some cases. Of course, laws can be repealed.
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by hfkajshfaks 7y ago
If it's a state university then, yes, they could claim Sovereign immunity.
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by hfkajshfaks 7y ago
It's sovereign immunity. Any state agency can do whatever it wants and claim immunity unless the Feds get involved. The Feds can do whatever they want full stop. The only constraint is that the state can allow itself to be sued, and th