Unthreaded
Times Leader is a bit wacky
"Clean Break
Hysteria about Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement is misplaced. Technology and markets, not bureaucrats, are the key to cleaner energy"
Claims : Good cos individual states will enact own measures
: will happen faster cos solar/wind costs are falling quick ROFL
stewgreen
Re BA : You design a Data centre power system to be FailSafe..
..Once done you TEST it is failsafe.
Overall the system should have had the rendundancy such that if one site is nuked then the system still works.
So it should not be possible to screw the lot just by "turning on too fast" (whatever that is)
Telegraph "All information about flights, baggage and passengers was lost "
..Hows that possible ? everything is back up from a few minutes ago ?
"The fix consisted of physically replacing servers that had been damaged"
Could be possible , but that still doesn't mean you've lost your backups
El Reg probably has a better report
stewgreen
1:10pm ..wonder if ExeterClimate is Bettsy ?
Climate change - does the 1.5 degree target make sense?
Wednesday 7 June 2017, University of Exeter, 19.30 - 21.00 (doors open at 19.00t)
Reasonable speakers : non spotted
Also stars :
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Myles Allen, Catherine Mitchell, Professor of Energy Policy, University of Exeter
..That means the videofeed needs the same film certificate as a horror movie.
stewgreen
Jun 2, 2017 at 12:19 PM | Robert Christopher
Britain 'Stop holding Italians to ransom!' Italian MP rages
No they've learnt to copy what they think is Trump's working style
Instead of accepting the status quo, you massively misrepresent it so, that your desired position seems reasonable.
Likewise LibMob rather than accepting that MSM is staffed entirely by LibMobbers
shout "MSM is incredibily biased towards our enemies "
..thus hoping that people will assume BBC/MSM are at least just in the middle.
Disingenuous ...and "cognitive dissonance" are the words of this era.
stewgreen
Collapse of our energy system with a reliance on renewables isn't even that unlikely. I wonder if they've ever done a costing of such an event?
Jun 2, 2017 at 2:20 PM | TinyCO2
Of course they have done costings. But as it was an event that could not possibly happen, they asked Green Energy Experts for advice, and they just agreed that their original conclusion was correct.
Outsourcing and sub-contracting have the advantage of always having someone else to blame. So British Airways decided to blame someone else, and it turns out that British Airways do not make good decisions.
How many householders assume that they can hire a standby generator to get themselves through a temporary power failure, without realising that hire shops do not have unlimited stocks, to cover temporary power failures to cover a single housing estate? That is why STOR was funded, to provide DIESEL Generated electricity to the offices deemed to be of Naional Security and Interest, NOT to homes and businesses.
golf charlie
Sorry @EM you made a mistake, you got around in a twist and then told me my first answer was right.
Humans make mistakes, it's no big deal here, unlike when we are playing with taxpayers money/freedoms.
I said "whilst the oil barrel 6 bn Joules is 1.67MWh"
You said "6 billion Joules is 1.6 thousnd kWhr not 1.6 million kWhr."
Well I never said "1.6 million kWhr" ... I said 1.67MWh" which is almost the same as 1.6 thousand kWhr
You said "I used a load actor of 0.5."
Well that's ridiculous It's dark half the time ..and not full brightness most of the rest
Why would anyone assume a load factor 5 times greater than is normal in UK conditions ?
Then you conclude
"With correct arithmetic your estimate is 10 panels per barrel."
which is exactly what I said in the first place
2 panels generate 340KWh in 1 year
So 1 panel generate 170KWh in 1 year...so 10 panels generate1,700KWh or 1.7MWh
ie the same as that one barrel of oil : 1.67MWh
stewgreen
@GC Jun 2, 2017 at 11:22 AM
Yes I spotted that on the BBC news
Basically "The UK which is no longer in the EU didn't make a statement with the EU nations at a PR stunt
.. Instead our leader phoned Trump directly"
..And somehow that is supposed to be wrong and newsworthy !
..They wouldn't report other topics in the same manner.
stewgreen
gc Doh! I should have guessed that. :-D
I do think that BA's problems are a good warning for those relying on batteries and generators to keep the country running. It's not enough to buy kit and forget about the problem. The stuff needs maintaining, testing, renewing and trained staff, even if it's up to the job in the first place. Severe failures are often the confluence of things people assumed wouldn't happen. Fukishima, Piper Alpha, with hindsight they were always possible. Collapse of our energy system with a reliance on renewables isn't even that unlikely. I wonder if they've ever done a costing of such an event?
TinyCO2
@RR It's high level physics
In the GREEN DIMENSION : Different laws of mathematics & physics apply.
stewgreen
Jun 2, 2017 at 3:22 PM by stewgreen
"... they've learnt to copy what they think is Trump's working style"
Here's another, from the Musical Marxist:
"As Mason admits, “They did it with Hillary Clinton” – this is straight out of the Trump playbook…"
Guido: Paul Mason: “Is Theresa May Unwell?”