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Android Apocalypse posted:Aren't those how those giant solar farms out in the SoCal/Nevada deserts work? I've always wondered about these things. How does the boiling vessel work? How do they focus each panel, like some kid trying to shine a wristwatch reflection in their teacher's eyes? Are they mechanically actuated to move throughout the day? What happens if one is misaligned, will it fry some poor pilot's corneas?
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Mister Speaker posted:I've always wondered about these things. How does the boiling vessel work? How do they focus each panel, like some kid trying to shine a wristwatch reflection in their teacher's eyes? Are they mechanically actuated to move throughout the day? What happens if one is misaligned, will it fry some poor pilot's corneas? The tops of the towers themselves are difficult to look at from miles away, but the mirrors always look like a lake or mirage from the ground. Each panel is on a platform that rotates to bounce the sun at the top of the tower, just like The birds do occasionally roast themselves out of the sky trying to roost there apparently. Wasabi the J has a new favorite as of 06:32 on Jul 6, 2021 |
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They're mechanically actuated yes to keep focusing the beam on the 'node' in the center. Each mirror is curved so it focuses the light reflecting off it into a smaller area, and that target area is also being hit with light from the other 999 mirrors. The molten salt is used to store energy. There's a big insulated tank full of molten salt that is being pumped through the focal node, heating the tank hotter and hotter. When you need electricity you pump some water through a heat-exchanger pipe in the salt tank, flashing it to steam which drives a turbine. This way you can keep generating electricity at night, as long as you have heat left in your salt tank.
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Azhais posted:Aren't those molten salt The molten salt is tubed through water that boils to run the turbine. The hot salt can be stored to boil water when there's no sun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_tower Efb, etc.
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The Lone Badger posted:They're mechanically actuated yes to keep focusing the beam on the 'node' in the center. Each mirror is curved so it focuses the light reflecting off it into a smaller area, and that target area is also being hit with light from the other 999 mirrors. That owns
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Jul 6, 2021 06:37
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It's basially an inverted storage heater yeah.
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The Lone Badger posted:This way you can keep generating electricity at night Dispatchable solar power??!???!?? Oh my god wait until the Australian government hears about this!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytkd5Gp2OGk
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Jul 6, 2021 06:45
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By popular demand posted:Don't give Australia ideas, it never ends well. Molten salt for your chips
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By popular demand posted:Don't give Australia ideas, it never ends well. Don't worry. It's green energy; our government's not interested. Snowglobe of Doom posted:Dispatchable solar power??!???!?? Oh my god wait until the Australian government hears about this!!! I've watched this 3 times in the past 6 minutes, and it sounds so exactly like a Clarke and Dawe sketch that my mind is refusing to believe it's not. Lady Disdain has a new favorite as of 00:19 on Jul 7, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/MachinePix/status/1412885887852101638?s=20
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Different, longer video. Still cool. http://imgur.com/gallery/NGxyxgx
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Jul 8, 2021 01:22
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As a kid, that's what I thought a cyberpunk future would look like. It looks kickin fuckin rad.
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This is the bottlepunk future we all wished for
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPDDjuqvmdw&t=61s bonus Wilhelm scream
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Amazing. Butt also, why does the sign in the background say "cricket poo" ?
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Jul 10, 2021 12:06
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See if cricket was like this the other 3 days of the games, I would watch it!
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Jul 10, 2021 12:11
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It's like baseball. You're supposed to be drunk all of those days
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Lady Disdain posted:Amazing. It says "cricket pod" which is like one of those nespresso pods but you get grasshopper juice instead of coffee.
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Jul 10, 2021 20:27
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Cricket pods, for the discerning reptile.
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I guess it was a smart business decision to start peddling toilet paper when you can make the entire forest poo poo itself in fear.
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My favourite part is at about 2:30 where another bear runs in and goes "Hey guys what's going on over h~  "
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"Using a decoy seal to capture shark attack" https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qwcpaxKLGW1s1vn29.mp4
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Jul 19, 2021 21:38
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Jul 19, 2021 21:41
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Idiots. That shark is still hungry and now it’s probably pissed and annoyed.
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Jul 19, 2021 22:14
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Those boat sized motherfuckers have been around for loving eons and that's pretty loving wild to think about.
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Yup, nothing is quite as terrifying as a predator evolution is completely done with. See also crocodiles and big cats. Or angry texans I guess.
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ekuNNN posted:"Using a decoy seal to capture shark attack" Suuuuck my diiiiick
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By popular demand posted:Yup, nothing is quite as terrifying as a predator evolution is completely done with. *Nature dusts its hands* Fuckin' nailed it in one go
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There were a few odd starts and evolutionary dead ends with sharks along the way, the helicoprion (whorl toothed shark) is probably the best example of evolution having a crack at sharks and not quite getting it right We pretty much only have their teeth left in the fossil record because shark bones are cartilaginous and don't fossilize well so we've pretty much had to guess what they look like, they've been confusing palaeontologists for a while 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There were a few odd starts and evolutionary dead ends with sharks along the way, the helicoprion (whorl toothed shark) is probably the best example of evolution having a crack at sharks and not quite getting it right Given the lack of source material to work with, the 'proven' track record of biologists and paleontologists, and the understanding of how modern sharks all have pretty much this exact same poo poo neatly wrapped into their jaw, I'm gonna go ahead and say this one's probably not right.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There were a few odd starts and evolutionary dead ends with sharks along the way, the helicoprion (whorl toothed shark) is probably the best example of evolution having a crack at sharks and not quite getting it right What a dumbass shark, absolute clown
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There were a few odd starts and evolutionary dead ends with sharks along the way, the helicoprion (whorl toothed shark) is probably the best example of evolution having a crack at sharks and not quite getting it right Thanks for reminding me that squid fossils are near-impossible to find. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL-K7yuhSxA
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If I found a fossilized wheel made of teeth I would not automatically assume there was originally a shark attached to the end of it.
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