threwrfaway

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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
But they can have their own internal fault and have to shutdown.
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
Pretty much. Except the law of large numbers breaks down in correlated events. Like a black out. What really hurts is are all the rotating machines, especially the one-phase ones (fridge, AC, blower). Those have transients that last several
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
My rant was generally about what ought to be done to data centers. In fact, I don't live near Texas. My state is having me finance a power line that will increase demand for our electricity.
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
I guessed what the utilization factor for a house was, purposely going for a very high number to show that it wouldn't add too much to the house. Note, In proposing a one time fee, on the capacity to generate power, not the energy.
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
For those who dont know why this is important: The loads are slowing down the generators that are burning a well metered amount of fuel to stay at 60Hz. This is a delicate balance since the phase angle must also be spot on. If a generator a
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
More scarce resources used to feed the surveillance state's fancy chat bots
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
If you're large enough your connection to the grid is a negotiation with an engineering team. The utility will force you to put equipment to correct for power factor ( massive capacitor bank), resistive load, etc. The utility also cha
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
How about an across the board $1/W hook up fee for new customers? Thats about the price of installed capacity per watt. New house with 200 A panel an assumed 30% utilization rate? $3600. New data center with 80% utilization rates at 10
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
You didn't even know who you were replying to! You spewed BS about the Soyuz, which isn't part of the ISS. Well if minor Soyuz problems are in play, I raise you two Shuttle disintegrations and a Boeing craft since the last fatal S
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
Other than your sanctimonious tone, did you have a point? And your sanctimonious attitude is wrong. This isn't about morality. It's literally about economic devastation being caused by VC's using the violence of the state to
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
Well, let's use discernment. Let's also add NH3 plants since those are also electricity hogs. 1. There's no VC distorted market building hundreds of them. At most two Al or NH3 will ever be built again in this country. 2. We
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
My dad's first job as an ECE was getting power for an Al smelter. Im quite aware of Al smelters. I chose it as an example because they're crazy power hungry. The other classical examples of high electrical use are NH3 fertilizer
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
70% of desalinated water wont ever go to agriculture because its too expensive to use for corn. Only very high value crops need apply. But, so what? 30% sewage is still a strong dilluant... especially when mixed with more seawater Im sho
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
To clarify: I used that "AI" thing google has next go the search
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
When I used google to get the ieee-488 commands of an arbitrary wave generator from the 80s whose manual doesn't exist on the internet. This is a very long tail search, but by the end of the day I had enough to fully utilize a very so
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
Actually it's easy and ok. Just mix it with the treated sewage right before it returns. Simple mass action implies the salinity hasn't changed. But wait! There's water mass loss due to leaky pipes and outdoor pools! Mixing sa
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
Sarcasm aside, your comment actually works: you can use the freshwater from desalination! Just wait for the saltwater to come back around in the sewer.
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
100:1 is overkill and energetically very wasteful. It's a fairly straightforward chemical engineering problem.
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
...sea water. You take 10 units of sea water for every unit processed and you'll get a slight increase in salinity. A phase diagram tells you exactly how far you need to go. You know this makes more thermodynamic sense than carbon cap
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
You can dilute the brine in a facility before disposing.
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
It's exactly the point! Data Centers have a unique capability to damage property, society and the environment. A new aluminum smelter, dirty as they are, wont double your electric bill and will employ far more people than a datacenter
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
A capacitive switch is free.
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
1980s Soviet metallurgy isnt known for corrosion resistance. Now the whole skin is made of that metal. Don't forget the module we're talking about was built in the 80s originally intended for MIR 2. It's been in service sin
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
"This sense of national pride" Im Italo-American. The closest I ever got to Russia was my cousin going to Moscow to, and I quote: "learn new things, like how to snort vodka" It seems to me that you are projecting your di
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
I think you're confusing me with the OP, which in fairness I didn't read. Nothing in the Russian space program in the last few decades have been as dangerous as Boeings little fiasco. Yes, the modules have long term problems, but
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
Data centers growth is consuming resources far beyond other industrial users. Aluminum smelters use a lot of DC power, but smelters aren't popping up like VC fertilized mushrooms.
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
If you count the Soyuz leak, then the Boeing counts too! That was far more serious than anything you listed. Two astronauts stranded for nine months taking the ISIS supplies intended for others. This is after they safely docked, which was c
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
Unless your spacecraft is built by Boeing. We had two astronauts stranded in space for the better part of a year just last year!
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
The hubris of forgetfulness; to think that until Elon showed up the West couldn't even put a person in space anymore. The Soyuz, the MIR, the human space records, the Venera program, closed cycle rockets, all have no equivalent in the
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by threwrfaway 3mo ago
A top (arguably, the top) metallurgist who studied previous failed parts told me it's corrosion of the Russian alloy used. Corrosion is a hard problem in living quarters (ie moisture and salt) in space (sealed with no gravity)

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