ralphhughes

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by ralphhughes 8d ago
Can confirm. I was working in Azerbaijan with people from Iran at the time and had it infect my pendrive and work PC. No anti-virus picked it up at the time.
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by ralphhughes 10mo ago
It's fascinating and depressing how despite me being in a different country on the other side of the world to you, if I swap the $ for £, your comment is still accurate based on the current situation in the UK.
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by ralphhughes 1y ago
I've been inside Dinorwig Pumped Hydro plant back when they were doing tours. They keep the turbines spinning with compressed air to avoid the delay of having to spin up that large metal mass of turbine when they open the water valves.
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by ralphhughes 1y ago
Good idea! The AC in my Nissan Leaf uses about 3kw so I assume it'd be about the same in my Corsa. However the Corsa disables auto-start stop and keeps the engine idling whenever the AC is on, negating any fuel savings!
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by ralphhughes 1y ago
more likely a reference to "lights-out" manufacturing where you have automated a factory to the extent you don't have to provide lighting or HVAC as there are no humans needed in the production area. The robots don't nee
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by ralphhughes 2y ago
I have assumed the same about the gatwick airport shutdown caused by drones in the UK in 2018. Newspapers saying "No culprit ever found" says "results of military exercise are classified" to me...
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by ralphhughes 2y ago
I didn't know Russia had tested being isolated from the wider internet! I wonder what problems they had during testing? I would have thought there would be many issues given our current globally connected world. I don't think I ev
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by ralphhughes 2y ago
I assume all that diesel went straight into a generator for electricity? So in your opinion, could the drill rig have added a trailer full of fold out solar panels and battery storage and still functioned? (I know nothing about drilling for
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by ralphhughes 2y ago
If you're talking about seasonal storage I would have thought the natural fit would be power-to-gas or power-to-liquid syn-fuels? Absorb all those extra kWh from the sun in summer, store it for 4-8 months and then burn it during the co
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by ralphhughes 2y ago
I think you may be onto something here. Taking apart old machinery I have often observed that the hardened part of a shaft is worn and has a noticable groove detectable with a fingernail. However the part that rubbed on it is often much, mu
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Is the move to electric cars running out of power?(bbc.co.uk)
25 points by ralphhughes 2y ago|49 comments
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by ralphhughes 2y ago
The device the OP puts Tasmoto on from athom.tech can also be ordered for the same price pre-flashed with ESPHome to work with Home Assistant. I have used them with 2500W single-socket loads and been happy with them for a year or so. For wh
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by ralphhughes 3y ago
Your comment makes a lot more sense if I swap magazines => reservoirs, is that the word you meant?
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by ralphhughes 3y ago
The other user provided a source that has been used on wikipedia, whereas neither of your comments state any sources. Could you provide some?
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by ralphhughes 3y ago
Thanks, fixed.
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by ralphhughes 3y ago
Skimming the website, I assume this submersible is using electromagnetically attached drop-weights so that if anything goes wrong and power is lost, the weights drop off and the submersible floats up to the surface again? And 96 hours of l
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by ralphhughes 3y ago
I've often thought a smaller, faster form of transport like this would be lovely for summer day trips across to the Isle of Man. There's a currently a car ferry and scheduled flights from Liverpool airport but the faff involved in
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Building an EDM Machine(youtube.com)
2 points by ralphhughes 4y ago|0 comments
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by ralphhughes 4y ago
I've avoided smart-meter data so far as it shows zero watts no matter how much I export (I don't have an export contract, it's a DIY PV install and no point with current pricing) hence why I'm looking at ones with a sepe
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by ralphhughes 4y ago
Native English speaker here that doesn't know any French and that's a great word! The word reminds me of a horse trot which is a bit faster than walking, so feels like a good description. Scooter isn't the only word to have m
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by ralphhughes 4y ago
I do this with the Home Assistant app on my phone. When the battery level gets to 80% it triggers the smart plug the charger is connected to, to switch off. My phone is 3 years old now and according to AccuBattery still has a battery healt
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by ralphhughes 4y ago
Thanks, someone is doing a useful service translating Russian TV for the rest of us!
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by ralphhughes 4y ago
>Their main propaganda news channel has already said (incorrectly) that they are already fighting NATO and US troops in the breakaway areas. Thats interesting, I'm not doubting you but I would like to see the original source if poss
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by ralphhughes 4y ago
Yes it does, in fact the UK is in the process of building many more HVDC interconnectors (see table in 3rd section of page) https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/energy-policy-and-regulation/policy...
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by ralphhughes 4y ago
Your post adds no value to the discussion, this is NOT reddit.
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by ralphhughes 5y ago
That is a genuinely nice user interface. I can see what virtually everything is from a distance in the picture. I especially like the larger fuel gauge; I drove a car once that had a handful of little LCD rectangles like a coarse bar graph.
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by ralphhughes 5y ago
I wish there was a bit more detail on how they're actually doing this. Is it basically a giant blowtorch? Must use a heck of a lot of energy to cut holes in the larger diameter sizes!
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by ralphhughes 5y ago
You say 'this could still be done right now', but in many cases it is being done already. For example the company I work for [0] spent many years databasing where oil reservoirs were globally. Now we sell the same information for
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by ralphhughes 5y ago
The motors that connect to the Build HAT are servo motors with integral absolute encoders. Encoder resolution is one degree. Power is 7V DC ish.
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by ralphhughes 5y ago
This is actually being tried, starting this month, in my area ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56293250 ) Monthly council tax will double for properties that do not have occupants. This is due to my area having over

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