Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?...

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 3:49:37 AM UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:

On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:39:08 -0400, micky <NONONO...@fmguy.com wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 19 Mar 2023 10:09:29 -0400, micky <NONONO...@fmguy.com> wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 19 Mar 2023 09:16:59 +0000, alan_m <ju...@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
On 19/03/2023 03:37, micky wrote:

<snip>

> >>>The 5G mobile phone (cell phone) masts causing Covid.

Civud-19 is caused by an RNA virus. You can send the genome of a virus over a mobile phone link, but building an actual virus that can infect you requires rather more bulky apparatus.

> >>> Here in the UK the government took the opportunity to insert a tracking device under the skin .

Not that anybody has seen one. The fertile imaginations of the anti-vaxxers has rather outstripped any facts that might support tem.

I should have read further.

Under the skin? Do you mean throught the needle? ROTFLOL.

Cataract surgery involves using a needle to emulsify and slurp out the
old lens, and then uses another needle to inject the new artificial
lens. It takes about 10 minutes.

The first part is right. The second part misses the point that the replacement lens is a a preformed precision optical lens, which is slid in through a slit, which has to be sewn up. There are needles involved it that but the new lens isn\'t injected through a needle.

john Larkin may have been through the procedure, but he doesn\'t seem to have been able to see what was going on.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 12:35:34 PM UTC+11, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:41:50 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

Times are changing. They even let wimmins be ingineers now.
In 1966 the male to female ratio was 19:1 at RPI and the school was ranked
with MIT and CalTech. In 2016 the ratio ws 2.1:1 and the ranking has
slipped considerably. Just saying...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rensselaer_Polytechnic_Institute

Most places have more female engineering students than they used to

The valedictorian of my class was a woman; after attending the graduation
ceremony she returned to her dorm room and attempted suicide. She was a ME
and I didn\'t know her well but from what her friends said her family had
been driving her from kindergarten onward. She didn\'t succeed.

What would have constituted \"success\" in your eyes?

Getting out from under a domineering family is frequently a pre-condition for success. Both my parents were chemists, and I was good enough at chemistry to emerge from university with a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry. My subsequent evolution into an electronic engineer struck me a successful move, and neither of my parents complained about it - they weren\'t domineering people.

I had at least one professor who was a total prick towards the coeds. They also had a strange status of being housed at Russell Sage, a women\'s
college. Pain in the ass, curfews, housemothers from hell.

Domineering parents like student accommodation that mimics their parenting style.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Rod Speed]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:58:41 +1100, The Natural Philosopher
<tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 21/03/2023 20:58, 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.

I think it is. We are now flooded ruled and shouted down by ArtStudents™

The economy and society will collapse under its own weight and there
wont be any competent engineers left to fix it.

Not gunna happen. There were enough engineers to fix the
2008 implosion of much of the world banking system fine.

 

[Ed Pawlowski]

On 3/21/2023 9:35 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:41:50 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

Times are changing. They even let wimmins be ingineers now.

In 1966 the male to female ratio was 19:1 at RPI and the school was ranked
with MIT and CalTech. In 2016 the ratio ws 2.1:1 and the ranking has
slipped considerably. Just saying...

The valedictorian of my class was a woman; after attending the graduation
ceremony she returned to her dorm room and attempted suicide. She was a ME
and I didn\'t know her well but from what her friends said her family had
been driving her from kindergarten onward. She didn\'t succeed.

I had at least one professor who was a total prick towards the coeds. They
also had a strange status of being housed at Russell Sage, a women\'s
college. Pain in the ass, curfews, housemothers from hell.

I used to deal with a lot of packaging engineers, most of them were
women. Rochester Institute was one of the first to offer it as a
degree. Competence varied.

Actually, that goes for the men with that degree too. I\'d not trust any
of them to design a machine or structure.

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:58:06 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
<hamilton@invalid.com> 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.

At least we understand that critters that don\'t breed go extinct.

So the question is whether engineering talent is heritable. Of course
it is.

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:41:50 -0400, Ed Pawlowski <esp@snet.xxx> wrote:

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.

And even people who can\'t spell.

 

[Jasen Betts]

On 2023-03-20, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:

micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> writes:
In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 19 Mar 2023 10:09:29 -0400, micky
NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 19 Mar 2023 09:16:59 +0000, alan_m
junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

On 19/03/2023 03:37, micky wrote:

There was, a few years ago, also a lot ofadverse publicity, but iirc it
was nonsense about radiation (even though the transmission is only for a
few seconds once a month, far less than loads of other things.)

You just need to point out that most peoples Wi-fi will operate at the
dangerous 5GHz.

Pointing things out doesn\'t work here. :-(

The 5G mobile phone (cell phone) masts causing Covid. Here in the UK the
government took the opportunity to insert a tracking device under the
skin

I should have read further.

Under the skin? Do you mean throught the needle? ROTFLOL.

Pet identfication chips (passive integrated transponders)
are a bit less than 2mm in diameter,
a 12 gauge hypodermic needle has a slightly larger ID. The \"chips\" are about
11mm long (1/2\").

So about 10 times too big to go in the vaccine hypodermic needle.

--
Jasen.
🇺🇦 Слава Україні

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 3:57:53 PM UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:

On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:58:06 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
hami...@invalid.com> wrote:

On 2023-03-21, John Larkin <jla...@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.
At least we understand that critters that don\'t breed go extinct.

So the question is whether engineering talent is heritable. Of course it is.

There\'s no single engineering talent, but a whole mix of abilities.

Kids get half their genome from each parent. There\'s no guarantee that the skills that made the father a good engineer are the same as the skills that made the mother good at engineering, and the kid could miss out on both.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 3:59:26 PM UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:

On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:41:50 -0400, Ed Pawlowski <e...@snet.xxx> wrote:

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 <jla...@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.

And even people who can\'t spell.

I knew one dyslexic engineer. He was brilliant, but we couldn\'t persuade him to let us check out what he wrote - he though that if what he wrote sounded right when he sub-vocalised it, it was perfectly okay.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[boB]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 12:09:47 -0700 (PDT), Lasse Langwadt Christensen
<langwadt@fonz.dk> wrote:

mandag den 20. marts 2023 kl. 19.52.18 UTC+1 skrev The Natural Philosopher:
On 19/03/2023 22:05, boB wrote:
They certainly could. Some are basicall synchronous machines which is
why they spin at one speed, unless they are off and braked.

None are synchronous. Not any more and I cannot recall that any were.
You need a massive step up gearbox or a multipole generator to turn 60
revs a minute into 50 or 60 Hz.

They are all using inverters which is why the grid needs batteries for
frequency stabilisation. Inverters have no spinning mass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly-fed_electric_machine

Yes, those. Synchronous generators.

Wind can use both that method or variable speed with inverter and MPPT
(following a power vs speed curve) to take advantage of changing wind
speeds. It used to be, 20-ish years ago that the MPPT method was
patented (by GE ?)... I don\'t know what large wind companies do
these days but I only see small wind using MPPT for wind to charge
batteries for off grid.

boB

 

[Peeler]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:53:47 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

<FLUSH the abnormal trolling senile cretin\'s latest trollshit unread>

--
Sqwertz to Rodent Speed:
\"This is just a hunch, but I\'m betting you\'re kinda an argumentative
asshole.
MID: <ev1p6ml7ywd5$.dlg@sqwertz.com>

 

[Peeler]

On 22 Mar 2023 01:35:25 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

In 1966 the male to female ratio was 19:1 at RPI and the school was ranked
with MIT and CalTech. In 2016 the ratio ws 2.1:1 and the ranking has
slipped considerably. Just saying...

Good grief! Keep your senile shit out of these ngs finally, you abnormal
senile gossip!

--
Gossiping \"lowbrowwoman\" about herself:
\"Usenet is my blog... I don\'t give a damn if anyone ever reads my posts
but they are useful in marshaling [sic] my thoughts.\"
MID: <iteioiF60jmU1@mid.individual.net>

 

[alan_m]

On 22/03/2023 02:53, Rod Speed wrote:

Not gunna happen. There were enough engineers to fix the
2008 implosion of much of the world banking system fine.

I think from recent events you will find no-one fixed anything in the
banking system. In 2008 it was exposure to some Micky Mouse financial
products that started the runs and 2023 it\'s likely to be exposure to
the collapsing Micky Mouse cyrpto market.

--
mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

 

[alan_m]

On 22/03/2023 05:56, Jasen Betts wrote:

So about 10 times too big to go in the vaccine hypodermic needle.

Those pet chips were designed decades ago when mobile phones were the
size and weight of a couple of house bricks and were limited in
functionality. Electronics and nano technology has moved on considerably
since then

--
mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

 

[Cindy Hamilton]

On 2023-03-22, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:

On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:58:06 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
hamilton@invalid.com> 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.

At least we understand that critters that don\'t breed go extinct.

So the question is whether engineering talent is heritable. Of course
it is.

Assuming there are genetic components in engineering talent (and I\'m
not saying there isn\'t), it\'s possible that epigenetic factors determine
whether those genes will be expressed.

--
Cindy Hamilton

 

[Jeff Gaines]

On 22/03/2023 in message <0f2l1ihuimv54sn403jdrpl1eksg0k0rre@4ax.com> John
Larkin wrote:

>At least we understand that critters that don\'t breed go extinct.

Nothing \"goes\" extinct, critters that don\'t breed \"become\" extinct.

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
(Ken Olson, president Digital Equipment, 1977)

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 7:24:54 PM UTC+11, alan_m wrote:

On 22/03/2023 05:56, Jasen Betts wrote:


So about 10 times too big to go in the vaccine hypodermic needle.

Those pet chips were designed decades ago when mobile phones were the
size and weight of a couple of house bricks and were limited in
functionality. Electronics and nano technology has moved on considerably
since then

Sadly, the laws of physics haven\'t changed. A passive identity chip has pick up enough electric power to activate the electronics, and re-radiate some of it as a detectable signal. You can\'t scale that down.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 22/03/2023 03:09, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 3/21/2023 9:35 PM, rbowman wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:41:50 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

Times are changing.  They even let wimmins be ingineers now.

In 1966 the male to female ratio was 19:1 at RPI and the school was
ranked
with MIT and CalTech. In 2016 the ratio ws 2.1:1 and the ranking has
slipped considerably. Just saying...

The valedictorian of my class was a woman; after attending the graduation
ceremony she returned to her dorm room and attempted suicide. She was
a ME
and I didn\'t know her well but from what her friends said her family had
been driving her from kindergarten onward. She didn\'t succeed.

I had at least one professor who was a total prick towards the coeds.
They
also had a strange status of being housed at Russell Sage, a women\'s
college. Pain in the ass, curfews, housemothers from hell.


I used to deal with a lot of packaging engineers, most of them were
women.  Rochester Institute was one of the first to offer it as a
degree.  Competence varied.

Actually, that goes for the men with that degree too.  I\'d not trust any
of them to design a machine or structure.

Come across some really good female software engineers. Spanner Hannahs
- not so much.

Many of the best are not British.

--
Gun Control: The law that ensures that only criminals have guns.

 

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 22/03/2023 04:57, John Larkin wrote:

On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:58:06 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
hamilton@invalid.com> 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.

At least we understand that critters that don\'t breed go extinct.

So the question is whether engineering talent is heritable. Of course
it is.

It is less genetics than familiarity. I came across a study done in
Apartheid S Africa where they evaluated competence in basic industrial
practice. Overwhelming the people who did best irrespective of race were
those whose parents understood and could handle machines.
It is terrifying how STEM inept I have seen intelligent bright children
become whose parents were ArtStudents. They expect to fail.


--
Gun Control: The law that ensures that only criminals have guns.

 

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 22/03/2023 08:18, alan_m wrote:

On 22/03/2023 02:53, Rod Speed wrote:


Not gunna happen. There were enough engineers to fix the
2008 implosion of much of the world banking system fine.

I think from recent events you will find no-one fixed anything in the
banking system.  In 2008 it was exposure to some Micky Mouse financial
products that started the runs and 2023 it\'s likely to be exposure to
the collapsing Micky Mouse cyrpto market.

No. Crypto market is am irrelevance. Overwhelmingly the problem is
unbalanced asset allocation - at least in the California bank, with too
much money in Treasury bonds that the gummint rendered worthless by
raising interest rates. Plus too much investment in green energy startups.

Not sure what the underlying issues at Credit Suisse were, but they were
there a decade ago.

The facts are that there is an international money and power cartel,
that has enforced these interest rate rises, to control inflation, but
they are actually despite being enormously powerful, a bunch of paranoid
clueless cunts who don\'t understand the power they have acquired, and
are more worried about losing it than helping ordinary people.

And they own the politicians lock stock and barrel. Truss was booted out
and their faceless zombies fishi rishi and Germy Cunt installed to do
their bidding.

And they have fucked it up. Again.


--
The New Left are the people they warned you about.