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On 20/03/2023 18:13, Scott Lurndal wrote:
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
On 18/03/2023 11:17, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 18-Mar-23 8:39 pm, Commander Kinsey wrote:
An electrician (who I don\'t believe) told me if there\'s too much power
on the grid, they use wind turbines as fans to absorb extra power. Is
this really true? Aren\'t there plenty of power stations they can just
turn down a bit? Take your foot off the gas so to speak?
I was also disturbed to hear from him it costs £700 to install smart
meters into each home. And in the UK that comes from green tax.
Shouldn\'t that tax be being spent on making more green energy,
building new wind farms?
Coal fired power stations cannot change their output rapidly,
Tell that to any operator of a steam locomotive.
There are massive differences between steam locomotives and
plants that generate electricity using steam.
No, there are really not
They arent starting from cold. They are running at maybe 80%. Responses? Of course they can.
All reliable generators except hydro take a bit of time to get steam up,
but there is energy in to boilers to cope with medium term peaks of a
few minutes.
A given generator needs to spin at a specific frequency, and the
margins on
that frequency are very small.
Where multiple generators are fed from a common steam prime mover, the
startup
time for any one generator is on the order of 10\'s of minutes - far too
long to respond to large changes in demand.
Grid management predicts loads and they have steam up and turbines
spinning before the large increase in demand, with increased output from
already producing station, pumped storage, gas turbine, diesel, etc. to
fill rapid increases until other producers can be brought online.
You missed steam out of that list.
On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:15:18 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Well all that happens if you feed birds is you get more birds, and then
they all die of something other than starvation.
That was the upstate NY dynamic. The paper would run photos of deer yarded
up in the deep snow and starving so someone would organize a hay airlift.
Next year, more deer yarded up and starving.
The same dynamic happens with human populations.
Those aren\'t birds. They are social security scroungersOn 20/03/2023 21:10, Sam Plusnet wrote:
On 20-Mar-23 19:04, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Total myth
Domestic cats may carry 2.4 million dead birds into the house as
gifts. Bit no vcat can catch a bird that is able to fly.,
\"No cat can catch a bird that is able to fly\"?!?
My neighbours cat ambushes birds coming to a bird feeder. As the birds
fly in to perch it pounces jumping three feet in the air and catches
them still in flight.
Pigeons feed on the ground under bird feeders and seem easy prey for
cats although once the area is covered in feathers they become very wary
about landing for a few days. This shows why the old country practice
of protecting crops worked - killing crows and leaving the corpses in
the field. Probably not too effective these days where kites and
buzzards are no longer exterminated and have been re-introduced to
areas. These birds will very quickly spot the dead crow and eat it.
On 21 Mar 2023 05:21:03 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 11:36:29 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
This is a sweet rom-com:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Parrots_of_Telegraph_Hill
I\'ve seen the film but missed the rom-com part I guess. Too focused on
the
birds to observe the humans.
I\'m kind of autistic and don\'t much care for people or music or art,
but I love romantic stories [1]. I guess the tiny mating part of my
brain survived being crowded out by electronics.
That makes sense evolutionarily. If engineers weren\'t romantic, they
would be selected out of the population and everybody would be
artists.
There must be a reason that some women, generally great women, like
enginers but I haven\'t figured out why.
[1] Favorite book A Damsel In Distress
tied with The Art Of Electronics
Favorite movie Pride and Prejudice 2005
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 02:26:52 +1100, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
On 21 Mar 2023 05:21:03 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 11:36:29 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
This is a sweet rom-com:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Parrots_of_Telegraph_Hill
I\'ve seen the film but missed the rom-com part I guess. Too focused on
the
birds to observe the humans.
I\'m kind of autistic and don\'t much care for people or music or art,
but I love romantic stories [1]. I guess the tiny mating part of my
brain survived being crowded out by electronics.
That makes sense evolutionarily. If engineers weren\'t romantic, they
would be selected out of the population and everybody would be
artists.
Depends on what you mean by romantic.
Most are into fucking.
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 03:53:51 +1100, \"Rod Speed\"
rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 02:26:52 +1100, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
On 21 Mar 2023 05:21:03 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 11:36:29 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
This is a sweet rom-com:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Parrots_of_Telegraph_Hill
I\'ve seen the film but missed the rom-com part I guess. Too focused on
the
birds to observe the humans.
I\'m kind of autistic and don\'t much care for people or music or art,
but I love romantic stories [1]. I guess the tiny mating part of my
brain survived being crowded out by electronics.
That makes sense evolutionarily. If engineers weren\'t romantic, they
would be selected out of the population and everybody would be
artists.
Depends on what you mean by romantic.
Most are into fucking.
For some people, that is a component of romance.
This shows why the old country practice of protecting crops worked -
killing crows and leaving the corpses in the field.
Here they dint shoot any deer for a few years. I saw over a hundred in a
herd. The next year they got professional hunter in to get them down to
the 10-20 herd sizes.
On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 18:26:40 +1100, alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
On 20/03/2023 21:10, Sam Plusnet wrote:
On 20-Mar-23 19:04, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Total myth
Domestic cats may carry 2.4 million dead birds into the house as
gifts. Bit no vcat can catch a bird that is able to fly.,
\"No cat can catch a bird that is able to fly\"?!?
My neighbours cat ambushes birds coming to a bird feeder. As the birds
fly in to perch it pounces jumping three feet in the air and catches
them still in flight.
Yeah seem a few video shorts of cats doing that.
But I doubt many birds die like that.
That makes sense evolutionarily. If engineers weren\'t romantic, they
would be selected out of the population and everybody would be
artists.
Sometimes dead coyotes are hung off a fence on that theory. Other things
too.
On 2023-03-21, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
That makes sense evolutionarily. If engineers weren\'t romantic, they
would be selected out of the population and everybody would be
artists.
Genetics isn\'t that simple.
I think it is. We are now flooded ruled and shouted down by ArtStudentsâ¢
On 2023-03-21, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
That makes sense evolutionarily. If engineers weren\'t romantic, they
would be selected out of the population and everybody would be
artists.
Genetics isn\'t that simple.
On 3/21/2023 1:58 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On 2023-03-21, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
That makes sense evolutionarily. If engineers weren\'t romantic, they
would be selected out of the population and everybody would be
artists.
Genetics isn\'t that simple.
Sure it is. Engineers have reliable jobs. That gives them a big plus.
On 3/21/2023 8:29 PM, Bob F wrote:
On 3/21/2023 1:58 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On 2023-03-21, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
That makes sense evolutionarily. If engineers weren\'t romantic, they
would be selected out of the population and everybody would be
artists.
Genetics isn\'t that simple.
Sure it is. Engineers have reliable jobs. That gives them a big plus.
Times are changing. They even let wimmins be ingineers now.