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@sethoflagos My mistake, although they do share some characteristics. The larger Syncons are very massive, nearly as massive as dedicated flywheels, but yes, flywheels will do a different task and can be run down; Syncons look intended to maintain their rotation rate with enough inertia to limit the rate of loss or gain in speed from grid variability. Presumably they will consume power to keep that rotation rate close to steady? Until confidence in synthetic inertia is established a hybrid of Syncons with batteries might be better than including flywheels.

You went from Germany to Europe. That’s a different argument, but once again you have not actually supported this claim. I don’t know what SA is; you don’t explain it, but as I showed, they are not importing more oil because of the nuclear shutdowns, which was your claim. All the rest here is moving the goalposts. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, so basically Germany stopped importing oil from them when that happened. Which is a spurious argument, a non-sequitur. But you haven’t shown that they did. You referred to a poll of today’s attitude (which didn’t show what you claim) and things don’t happen instantly. What’s relevant is the attitude when it was in progress. “According to a 2015 survey produced by the Emnid, a polling institute for the German outlet BILD am Sonntag, 81 percent of Germans believe that it is the right decision to phase-out nuclear power, and only 16 percent think that it is wrong. This becomes even clearer when looking at those 14 to 29 years old—93 percent of this group support the transition.” https://fee.org/articles/why-is-germany-phasing-out-nuclear-power/ If the attitude truly has changed, more than ten years later, Germany is free to decide to build new plants.

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Who was he? The name does ring some bells but nothing specific.

Today I learned that there is an entire international subculture of ignorant jerks bent on refuting Cantor.

That's Trump projecting right there, as he always does when he accuses someone of wrongdoing that he intends to do himself.

Would this prior position cramp his style or are we beyond that? Trump says Zelensky using war as reason to not hold election

I don't think that's inevitable, given that even many conservatives value our system of each state controlling its elections - it's enshrined in Article I of our Constitution. Also, I think foreign interference is not the only pretext, and is harder to sell to Congress than, say, civil unrest or voter fraud. And again, the reality controlling 50 different voting systems could prove far more daunting than what Turnip imagines. States rights is an issue that can draw strong bipartisan support. There's also the problem that the only proven instance of foreign interference was when Turnip won, in 2016. I'm guessing he might rather lean hard on civil unrest and "insurrection" to delay the midterms.

I didn't hear it as a teenager because there was no second opinion then 🙂.

Thank you, gentlemen. Orphan phones with no service I have are half a dozen+ Androids of several flavors all working good, have installed via router to some, "walkie talkie" ; electronics audio generation tools, and borescope applications, and tried 3 trail cameras applications that are complex to operate, some have face recognition, human recognition, car recognition... A.I. ... Like meant for geniuses, not for a dumb like me. From the little I understand, the images are determined to be in motion when something like pixel "checksum" changes over a preset amount of time when sampling images and then the image is saved. Definitively not interested in time-lapse or burst method. The solar fed external battery is exactly the implemented method. Leave that aside. If you really want the spare phones characteristics, are Cricket U680AC; Coolpad 3632A; ZTE U304AA; Tracfone Z716BL; Cricket EC1002 The script portion written above is just hebrew to me. I can use it only in high-holding-hand baby-steps guidance mode.

Yes, and it's a classic joke, which I first heard as a teenager, and not in a vaccine context. It went something like: Doctor: Your baby has jaundice. Mother: I want a second opinion. Doctor: Okay. Your baby is ugly!

Perhaps you're right. I just think that the humor of this joke is apolitical:

All valid statements, but there is an element of causation when a specific party begins to generate propaganda against science and vaccination. I agree that education levels play a role, but I am witnessing one party which is pitching these anti science messages to those most easily fooled. And these partisan messages have caused a great increase in opposition to vaxxing, renewable energy, EVs, climate change preparation, etc.

You know as well as I do that correlation does not imply causation. E.g. Far more religious people than atheists reject vaccinations. Far more religious people than atheists are on the Right. Or. Uneducated vs. educated. Etc.

Seems like now it has become more political, in that the Far Right MAGA faithful have embraced science denial, conspiracy theories and anti-vaxx. I think recent surveys show far more people on the Right are rejecting vaccinations.

Even though I live nearly half a world away from the insanity that is the Trump administration, I have been taking a very keen interest in what is happening in the US. It seems clear to me that Trump is now shoehorning everything into "foreign relations" because that is where he claims to have presidential power beyond the reach of anyone, including the Supreme Court. It seems inevitable that he will claim "foreign interference" as a pretext to taking control of the midterm elections. And this may even become true if he enlists some of his mates at the "Board of Peace" to create "foreign interference". What do you think? And what can be done about it?

Before 2022, Europe bought the oil from Russia, and China from Saudi Arabia. After 2022 this reversed - Europe is buying the oil from SA, China from Russia. If Gemany bought less oil from SA, SA would sell its oil to China, so the China would stop buying the oil from Putin and this would stop the Putin's war. Ukraine is fighting for freedom (maybe even for all humanity), and supporting the Putin's war is really a crime. And if the goverment of Germany conscieously ignores the will of Germans, this is evidently not the freedom.

Me too.

The 'joke' that tickled me really was the double entendre. Usually, when someone asks for 'a second opinion to a doctor, they mean they want another doctor's opinion.

Being an idiot is not political. There are plenty of anti-vaxxers on both sides. And were there before Covid, too.

Such an application takes a photo, puts it in the buffer, takes another photo after a certain amount of time, and compares it with the previous version. It is simply subtracting R, G, B, of each pixel between the two versions of the photos. Then it calculates some threshold, above which it will be physically saved. You can write this yourself. You have a timelapse and you have a thousand photos from the whole day. Make yourself a script (or have ChatGPT do it). If the threshold is set too low, it will detect natural changes in the time of day (sunset), which requires trial and error. Several frames in a row should also be tested to increase reliability.

MAGA has morphed into MAHA under RFKennedyJr and now the “vaccines are the enemy” mindset which became common during Covid more so on the right is even more amplified.

Not quite the same thing, Ken. Granted, much of the physical hardware is the same, but syncons are specifically designed for power factor correction, and therefore have excitation circuitry designed for the production of reactive power, either lead or lag, as an alternative to (typically) thyristor switched static VAR compensators (SVCs). What they don't do is generate torque to any large degree and are thus unable (in standard form) to replace active power generation shortfalls beyond a few cycles. The flywheel version provides the necessary large energy storage capacity to fulfill that role. It's interesting to consider whether these various functionalities could be combined in a single machine, though I suspect that idea would run into significant degrees of freedom issues.

If the mods think this is not a political issue, they can move it.

You asked a question and I answered it. Yes, I read what was written. My answer stands.