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88h88 posted:This is cool as poo poo. The first thread I ever made here was a project thread for that car back in 2007/2008. Want to buy it? I'll do everything I need to ship it to the UK as long as you pay. An 18' long convertible with a 7.0L V8 wouldn't be a hassle to own there at all.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0utNemFsl8 Jumpstart your car with AA batteries! SFH1989 posted:An 18' long convertible with a 7.0L V8 wouldn't be a hassle to own there at all. My parents had a motorhome that was 19'. It could comfortably sleep 4 people. had a full washroom and a kitchenette
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I guess there's a 8" hole for the factory option Infinity sub in the rear deck lid, so I can put in a free-air sub. There's also room near the rear passenger speaker for an amp so I won't have to have shot taking up my tiny trunk.
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freelop posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0utNemFsl8 1:45 :duckhuntdog:
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BrokenKnucklez posted:An old neighbor guy was bitching about how those "GOD AWFUL UNION ASSHOLES CANT FIX THE POWER". Those guys were running around in pouring down rain and lightning trying to diagnose the issue. Granted, all the electrical was buried in my neighborhood, but they were giving it their best shot, always saying "Hey, we are going to try this circuit, we think we got it" But turns out the wire buried under ground was shot, and they were thinking it was a couple of breaks. The ghost of Reagan lives on  
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You guys seem to know your poo poo so here seems like a good a place to ask as anywhere. Me and the Wife (Got married on Saturday  ) are going to the US on our honeymoon for 16 days in August and I'm not sure what to do about roaming with our  phones. I'm with O2 and she is with EE, neither seem to have a decent US roaming policy - I certainly don't. Both of us have (presumably network locked) iPhone 6s we'd rather not jailbreak. Texting and phoning isn't an issue but we'll need mobile data for whatsapp, google maps etc. I'm thinking get a mifi router and just connecting both of our phones to it, or jail breaking my old iPhone 5 and using that as a router of that's possible? Or picking up a cheap android device and jailbreaking that to use as a router. Obviously we'd need a sim, would I have any issue picking up a pay as you go sim in the US with a few gigs of data that can be used for tethering? We are going to NY, Nevada and California, is there any issues with going to multiple states? NY isn't so much of an issue as I imagine wifi is plentiful, but we'll be driving Las Vegas, South Lake Tahoe, San Fran, LA etc so it'll be handy there.
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some texas redneck posted:I have a hell of a lot of respect for power company workers - you could never get me closer to anything past 277. This was 13.2kV poo poo. I'll just leave this right here  Edit: Not sure why Gen Amps says "AMPS". Should be kA. Double edit: And Field Voltage should be in kV  Station engineers and units...
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Jun 22, 2015 17:48
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Super Aggro Crag posted:I guess there's a 8" hole for the factory option Infinity sub in the rear deck lid, so I can put in a free-air sub. There's also room near the rear passenger speaker for an amp so I won't have to have shot taking up my tiny trunk. Don't wire anything in backwards
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Adiabatic posted:I'll just leave this right here Just wondering, if your in that area. Does the output of generators always stay constant a constant 24KV, or does it go up and down as the need goes up and down?
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Jun 22, 2015 18:06
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Constant 24kV right at the generator, then they step it up outside. The amperage varies wrt boiler load.
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Nodoze posted:Don't wire anything in backwards  You're not going to live that one down for a while.stump posted:Obviously we'd need a sim, would I have any issue picking up a pay as you go sim in the US with a few gigs of data that can be used for tethering? We are going to NY, Nevada and California, is there any issues with going to multiple states? NY isn't so much of an issue as I imagine wifi is plentiful, but we'll be driving Las Vegas, South Lake Tahoe, San Fran, LA etc so it'll be handy there. I need to see if I can get a hold of the power draw for some of our systems. Our site power guy sent out an email after acceptance about the peak power output of the system.
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Ah, makes sense. I didn't know if things get ramped down or up as load is varied. I find power plants amazing, the concept of making electricity is simple, burn fuel, make steam, use steam to turn a turbine, make electricity... repeat step 1. But the electronics and engineering that goes into it is quite impressive. What fuels your power plant? What fuel has the highest energy output for steam boiling?
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stump posted:You guys seem to know your poo poo so here seems like a good a place to ask as anywhere. Me and the Wife (Got married on Saturday http://www.o2.co.uk/help/phones-and-devices/unlocking-your-iphone-and-using-it-on-another-network Looks like o2 lets you fill out a form and they'll unlock your phone, in which case you can just go to a Walmart here in the US and pick up a StraightTalk prepaid SIM and stick it in there. EE might have a similar process.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Ah, makes sense. I didn't know if things get ramped down or up as load is varied. I find power plants amazing, the concept of making electricity is simple, burn fuel, make steam, use steam to turn a turbine, make electricity... repeat step 1. But the electronics and engineering that goes into it is quite impressive. His job, IIRC, is to clean up the emissions of some coal burners.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Ah, makes sense. I didn't know if things get ramped down or up as load is varied. I find power plants amazing, the concept of making electricity is simple, burn fuel, make steam, use steam to turn a turbine, make electricity... repeat step 1. But the electronics and engineering that goes into it is quite impressive. I'm working on efficiency & emissions tuning for 13 coal-fired and 2 oil-fired boilers right now, as well as a new assignment doing controls monitoring for 37 power gens, which add Rankine cycle nat gas turbines, combined cycle nat gas turbines, and biomass / co-gen. I don't get to touch nuclear, hydro, or renewables, so I can't comment on them (aside from loving the idea of nuclear power everywhere). The most efficient of the stuff I work on, by far, are combined-cycle nat gas turbines. Basic idea is starting with a Rankine-cycle natural gas turbine. Think huge turbocharger with natural gas explosions propelling the hot side, with the shaft connected directly to a generator. It's somewhere in the ballpark of 30% efficient, with most of the energy blowing out the exhaust as waste-heat. Combined cycle uses that 2,000°F waste heat to boil water, then implementing the steam system onto another generator as you would with coal-fire or oil-fire boilers. Brings your efficiency up to 60-70%, whereas everything else I'm touching is 30% efficient.
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freelop posted:My parents had a motorhome that was 19'. It could comfortably sleep 4 people. had a full washroom and a kitchenette I'm sure that motorhome didn't have a six foot long hood. The upside is even with the big V8 there's still a ton of room to work under the hood. Despite the size the back seat doesn't have much leg room. The 429/C6/9in drive train was used in larger RV's. The thing is built like a truck.
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ssjonizuka posted:His job, IIRC, is to clean up the emissions of some coal burners. Happier and friendlier!
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SFH1989 posted:The first thread I ever made here was a project thread for that car back in 2007/2008. I just wish petrol wasn't anal-defilement per litre otherwise I'd probably be stupid and say yes. An 18' long vert is exactly what I need in my life right now... Tempted just to move to the US so I can feasibly own something as wonderfully ridiculous.
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Adiabatic posted:I'm working on efficiency & emissions tuning for 13 coal-fired and 2 oil-fired boilers right now, as well as a new assignment doing controls monitoring for 37 power gens, which add Rankine cycle nat gas turbines, combined cycle nat gas turbines, and biomass / co-gen. So what is coal's future? I know the US sits on one of the largest coal reserves in the world, it seems silly to burn oil, but that's just my own opinion.
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According to their website DX just failed to deliver something that doesn't need to be signed for and that will fit through a letter box. Trying to work out if they took it to the wrong house or if the driver just didn't bother. 
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BrokenKnucklez posted:So what is coal's future? I know the US sits on one of the largest coal reserves in the world, it seems silly to burn oil, but that's just my own opinion. I'm not an expert, but I recall hearing a blurb from NPR (oh god.. I'm old, aren't I?) in which our coal exports are growing (to china!) due to the "clean" nature of our coal vs. China (contains high amounts of Sulfur).
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ssjonizuka posted:I'm not an expert, but I recall hearing a blurb from NPR (oh god.. I'm old, aren't I?) in which our coal exports are growing (to china!) due to the "clean" nature of our coal vs. China (contains high amounts of Sulfur). I should have said the US coal future. Just from rail car loadings, coal is down.... very down. I know that gas is cheap right now so thats what plants are burning.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:So what is coal's future? I know the US sits on one of the largest coal reserves in the world, it seems silly to burn oil, but that's just my own opinion. The only reason we're burning oil is because the plants are still there, and even then we're not burning much. This is true for the company I work for, at least. The two oil burners are deemed low-use as mandated by the EPA. They legally cannot be active (starting up, online, or shutting down) more than 8% of a given 2-year period and are thus no longer baseline power. They only use them for peak demand and it's a last resort "we need power now gogogo" type of deal. I see coal actively being phased out every day. There's a ton of people, myself included, working on keeping them going in the face of stricter and stricter emissions and tuning regulations mandated by the EPA. I view this as a good thing, as it develops engineers and puts pressure on power companies to find different, friendlier methods of power generation without completely neutering them. We have the NOx and SO2 under control these days (if you look at any active coal burner, half of the massive 12 story buildings you see are emissions equipment), but the CO is the lynchpin. Somewhere around 11% of the exhaust gases coming out of a coal stack is pure CO. CO emissions from power plants are twice the total output of CO emissions from passenger and light duty vehicles. I don't see it sticking around for much longer. Power companies would love to move to nuclear, but it's a super expensive up-front cost and the public hates it for what amounts to sensationalist reasons. Right now a lot of stake is going into natural gas, which is much friendlier environmentally than coal and oil. Add the fact that combined cycle can produce double the output with the same BTU of fuel, and it's no wonder we're headed that way. The only downside I see is the negative effects of fracking. If we can get that under control, I think nat gas will stick around for a while.
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Adiabatic posted:The only downside I see is the negative effects of fracking. If we can get that under control, I think nat gas will stick around for a while. Fracking is very interesting process, which I think could be done better, but I am not sure if we have the technology to do so at this time. Adiabatic posted:We have the NOx and SO2 under control these days (if you look at any active coal burner, half of the massive 12 story buildings you see are emissions equipment), but the CO is the lynchpin. Somewhere around 11% of the exhaust gases coming out of a coal stack is pure CO. CO emissions from power plants are twice the total output of CO emissions from passenger and light duty vehicles. I don't see it sticking around for much longer. I take it there is no real cure for CO emissions at this time?
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I went to the hookah lounge the other day to study with some classmates, and while i'm sitting there taking the integral of the pdf of a gamma function some girl comes and sits at our table asking all kinds of dumb questions. I figured that she must know one of my two classmates, so i didn't even bother to look up to see what was going on because i was busy and it was the night before an exam. after a few minutes shes like "okay well good luck" and I look up to see her going back to her friends looking sad, and my classmates sitting there staring at me. They then told me that she had been staring at me for the last hour and was staring at me the entire time she sat at our little table trying to get my attention, and i totally didn't notice. I know I'm married, but that was a huge confidence boost for me. I've apparently grown another inch in the last few months and I've been working out and bulking up so I'm glad it's having some effect. I know my wife has been appreciating it too  thanks for reading~~
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I don't usually have a lot of AI stuff to contribute, so have some Mercedes I found: 
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88h88 posted:No poo poo, I was sat in the sunshine slurping away with the slush keeping me cool and the booze slowly warming me from the inside out. Go for a swim every now and again and all was good. I need to go back. Or buy a slush machine. I swear i was in a petrol station the other day and they were advertising an slush puppy maker cup thing for like a tenner. I'm in petrol stations practically every day, so will report back.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Fracking is very interesting process, which I think could be done better, but I am not sure if we have the technology to do so at this time. I sure hope we can find a better way to collect nat gas. It seems like everything we do to generate power has some sort of protest group associated with it, aside from renewables. I fully relate to the concern, but it's a slow process when your power is generated as centrally as it currently is. From what I personally understand, there's not enough availability at current efficiency levels to make a die-hard push towards it with actual money. If we were to move solely, today, to renewables I'd imagine we'd have brown-outs constantly. No renewable aside from natural hydro (non-pumped) can be a viable baseline at current tech/efficiency levels, from what I understand. I absolutely hope this changes with technology and I know it will eventually, but when you talk about something of this magnitude it's a slow process. Again, this is what I personally understand and it may be off-base as my information is collected from various power company engineers with their own personal opinions. BrokenKnucklez posted:I take it there is no real cure for CO emissions at this time? Not one for a coal-fired boiler that I've encountered thus far. The emissions equipment in place lowers CO, but not to a level that competes with viable alternative sources.
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Primus was a bit of an odd booking for metal festival, but once Les put on his pig mask played the Oompa Loompa song, I think most of the crowd were 100% on board. (From an earlier show) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbuJVwauYIU I wasn't too happy about Slipknot being the main headline act, but everything else was 100% awesomesauce, so I can live with that. Especially since I got to see Ghost live.
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88h88 posted:I just wish petrol wasn't anal-defilement per litre otherwise I'd probably be stupid and say yes. An 18' long vert is exactly what I need in my life right now... And to think a car that is "wonderfully ridiculous" now was just a normal car 40-50 years ago. Single digit mileage out of my daily driver land yacht? No big deal. Adiabatic posted:Power companies would love to move to nuclear, but it's a super expensive up-front cost and the public hates it for what amounts to sensationalist reasons. But nuclear power sounds scary won't you think of the children?  I'm not sure which energy propaganda is more annoying "Clean" Coal or American Ethanol.
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Hahahahaha figures I get laid off today. Start my new job tomorrow.
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Adiabatic posted:I sure hope we can find a better way to collect nat gas. From what I get (and this is just a layperson's viewpoint with basic uni levels of chem/physics and an interest in this poo poo, aka armchair quarterback), a huge obstacle is peak power usage. If we can get battery technology/storage technology to the point where we can store the vast quantities of excess power that we can generate at certain points, and use it when the load spikes, we could help with converting to more renewable resources. Hydroelectric (lots up here in Canuckistan) has this, in a way, given that reservoirs act as a storage facility for potential energy - so provided the reservoirs remain full, needs can be met just by raising and lowering what's going through the turbines. But its incredibly environmentally damaging (basically wipeout the landscape in an area the size of a lake), exceedingly expensive, and then running transmission lines is not cheap either. I'm 100% on the side of go nuclear, but the anti-nuke side is almost as fervent, and stupid, as the anti-vaxx movement. I really hope we (as society) can work to start reversing this and getting people to understand the benefits. Goddamn it Adiabatic, I think I would love to have some beers and shoot the poo poo with you hahah.
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Siochain posted:From what I get (and this is just a layperson's viewpoint with basic uni levels of chem/physics and an interest in this poo poo, aka armchair quarterback), a huge obstacle is peak power usage. If we can get battery technology/storage technology to the point where we can store the vast quantities of excess power that we can generate at certain points, and use it when the load spikes, we could help with converting to more renewable resources. Hydroelectric (lots up here in Canuckistan) has this, in a way, given that reservoirs act as a storage facility for potential energy - so provided the reservoirs remain full, needs can be met just by raising and lowering what's going through the turbines. But its incredibly environmentally damaging (basically wipeout the landscape in an area the size of a lake), exceedingly expensive, and then running transmission lines is not cheap either. I love love love the idea of reservoir hydro. Pump water up into the reservoir at 2am when no ones using the power in that nuclear plant you can't turn off, then run the pumps backwards to generate power at 6pm when you really need it. I get that it destroys things, but after you designate a portion of land to the two reservoirs there's zero pollution otherwise. It's a sustainable method of supplying peak power, and combined with a nuclear baseline it could satisfy 100% of our power gen needs with 0 emissions. The real problem with renewables is that by their very nature they aren't reliable. What happens to solar when night comes around, or wind turbines when there's no breeze? If we relied 100% on them, brownouts. Energy storage still has a long way to go to efficiently store vast amounts of power, cost-effectively, and for a long time. We WILL get there. It will take a while. In the meantime, the requirement for a baseline supply of constant 24/365 power is required to keep society rollin. Meanwhile, we've got nuclear sitting here waiting to solve our problems but helicopter mom doesn't want her kid playing next to Fukushima Daiichi. Never mind that per MWh, nuclear is safer than wind power. Never mind that under normal operating conditions, coal power plants put out more than 300 times the amount of radiation compared to nuclear, because of the tiny unregulated uranium deposits naturally occurring in anthracite.  Come on over bud. Got plenty of beer.
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SFH1989 posted:I'm not sure which energy propaganda is more annoying "Clean" Coal or American Ethanol. I hate them both. The coal industry in southern Illinois died in the '80s-'90s; while this killed the economy for a lot of the area when I was growing up (and basically forced one of my grandfathers into retirement), the area had just started to really recover before flex-fuel and ethanol became the "new thing." Rising corn prices then forced that same grandfather (my father's father) to stop growing corn, since he couldn't afford seeds anymore. Now he occasionally grows soybeans, which at least gives him the income to support himself and my grandmother. My other grandfather retipped drill bits for the truck-mounted oil drilling rigs; back when my mother was graduating highschool, my grandfather was able to buy her a brand new car (in 1979) and pay for her college education. By the time I graduated highschool my grandmother had started a daycare just to help with bills. gently caress it all, go nuclear. Though I think Pops Bling managed to get on pretty high up in the mechanical department for a nat gas powerplant after leaving Aisin. My family just can't stay away from overly politicized careers.
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Holy gently caress that reboot of Battlebots is turning out to be rad. They seem to have loosened up the rules a bit, there's dudes running gas powered horizontal spinners and even multibots sporting flamethrowers. Fuckin' a.
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Adiabatic posted:I love love love the idea of reservoir hydro. Pump water up into the reservoir at 2am when no ones using the power in that nuclear plant you can't turn off, then run the pumps backwards to generate power at 6pm when you really need it. I get that it destroys things, but after you designate a portion of land to the two reservoirs there's zero pollution otherwise. It's a sustainable method of supplying peak power, and combined with a nuclear baseline it could satisfy 100% of our power gen needs with 0 emissions. Hey what about solar roads  It's great when I explain this to people and they still think nuclear is just too icky. The stuff I learned in multiple engineering classes I took including one dedicated to power and the environment are trumped by feelings. It really is like dealing with anti-vaxxers. Whole countries swearing off nuclear after Fukushima is the most short sighted loving thing. My favorite nuclear fact is that the US Capitol Building could not legally be a nuclear power plant because it is far too radioactive due to the limestone used to build it. Professor Bling posted:gently caress it all, go nuclear.
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Germany is a great example of this. "Screw nuclear it's too harmful" *builds 100s of coal plants* Edit: Also, Germany shutting down all of their reactors was a direct result of Fukushima Daiichi. That old lovely plant that melted down and caused a biblical death toll of 0. It's expected that long-term cancer deaths directly resulting from slightly increased radiation attributable to the disaster may reach as high as 160. Yes, that's right. A full 2% of the annual, directly quantifiable death toll in just the United States alone of 7,500 persons caused by fine-particulate matter in coal exhaust. Honestly it's like worrying about being involved in a school shooting while eating your Big Mac. Adiabatic fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Jun 22, 2015 |
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Only I could get laid off 3 days after I bought a new car. It's like those assholes knew.
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I say use stupid people as biomass for power generation. God knows that's a renewable resource. Soylent green energy.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Only I could get laid off 3 days after I bought a new car. It's like those assholes knew. Don't be negative, look at the positive... at least now someone can get a good deal on a repo'd Genesis coupe!
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