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kastein posted:You mean to tell me you need big rear end open fields and stuff to put wind turbines in?! My home town in upstate new york is lousy with them.
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Sep 24, 2015 20:24
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MrChips posted:I don't understand that sentiment one bit; I personally think wind turbines look cool as heck and are very relaxing to look at as they turn. Yeah I love seeing them off in the distance, even better to know they're busy doing something good. I've always wanted to go have a picnic in a field full of them, they're so ridiculously big I think it'd be a bit surreal.
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Sep 24, 2015 20:27
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kastein posted:You mean to tell me you need big rear end open fields and stuff to put wind turbines in?! No, in that its not going to offset the grid use as much as an actual fueled plant will I suggest you go read the Power Generation megathread in D&D for more info. Either way, wind and solar are great offsets, but they are not going to be replacing coal or gas anytime soon, which is why nuclear is our best bet. For example, based on a 1MW production value per turbine seen there, you have a whole 89 MW on a PERFECT day. A single nuclear reactor can do 1,000 MW every single day, day in, day out. You gotta think actual system demand. You are not even offsetting a SINGLE coal plant with both of those arrays. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Sep 24, 2015 |
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Sep 24, 2015 20:41
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Fart Pipe posted:My little brother is a nuke on the Eisenhower and they just replaced the reactors and had to take it out for a test ride. They were doing hard turns at 34 knots to make sure the hull where they had to cut the holes was sound. I had no idea a ship that big could go that fast, goddamn. Ha. That was my first ship.
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Sep 24, 2015 20:42
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Are Koni orange shocks complete trash compared to yellow? Trying to put together a budget set of decent shocks/springs for my civic and the amount of options and conflicting information is staggering.
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Sep 24, 2015 20:52
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CommieGIR posted:Its legit, but its footprint is hilariously huge. It'll never go full grid outside of the plains states. There's a cluster of them near oak ridge, tn sitting on top of a mountain and Hawaii has a bunch of them on the big island. They're big but the USA has a lot of otherwise useless space.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:05
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Great Beer posted:There's a cluster of them near oak ridge, tn sitting on top of a mountain and Hawaii has a bunch of them on the big island. They're big but the USA has a lot of otherwise useless space. Hawaii still has a bad addiction to Coal and Gas that Wind and Solar is going to have a hard time shaking. 85% of their sources of energy consist of just those two. They have a plan to get off it by 2030. And considering a massive part of their plan is to switch to Biomass, which is still largely just burning crap like coal, its not even close.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:07
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CommieGIR posted:Hawaii still has a bad addiction to Coal and Gas that Wind and Solar is going to have a hard time shaking. 85% of their sources of energy consist of just those two. They have a plan to get off it by 2030. Hawaii is the absolute last place I'd expect to use fossil fuels. Whatever happened to geothermal?
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Sep 24, 2015 21:13
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NitroSpazzz posted:They stopped trying to do backup power for our stuff a long time ago, just too much drat power. Some of the file system type stuff is dual feed power, they may use flywheels but I'm not sure. We don't give tours.  That and it's more important that we be able to easily trace and replace a connection than make it look pretty. It's all cable managed nicely, but all out in the open.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:13
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Our data center is just row after row of boring plain black cabinets.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:19
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Friar Zucchini posted:Hawaii is the absolute last place I'd expect to use fossil fuels. Whatever happened to geothermal? 2% of their production.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:19
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I just want to point out the ilkhan was literally tilting at windmills.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:19
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The Locator posted:Our data center is just row after row of boring plain black cabinets. Add more 0's, you poors.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:20
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MrChips posted:I don't understand that sentiment one bit; I personally think wind turbines look cool as heck and are very relaxing to look at as they turn. CommieGIR posted:No, in that its not going to offset the grid use as much as an actual fueled plant will FWIW I agree with you, I have zero problem with nuclear, fission or fusion. I just take issue with the statement that it's only possible in the plains :P
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Sep 24, 2015 21:21
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kastein posted:FWIW I agree with you, I have zero problem with nuclear, fission or fusion. I just take issue with the statement that it's only possible in the plains :P True, they are possible elsewhere, but the plains have the sort of constant wind source that they really need to take full advantage of them, that's all I really meant. That and if you ever pass one of them, you'll notice that, more often than not, half of them are not in use.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:22
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You're sorely mistaken, CommieGIR. Do you know how many blowhards the eastern seaboard has?
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Sep 24, 2015 21:24
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Phone posted:You're sorely mistaken, CommieGIR. Do you know how many blowhards the eastern seaboard has? Our wet fart reserve is fairly high right now.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:29
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Fart Pipe posted:My little brother is a nuke on the Eisenhower and they just replaced the reactors and had to take it out for a test ride. They were doing hard turns at 34 knots to make sure the hull where they had to cut the holes was sound. I had no idea a ship that big could go that fast, goddamn. Dude, you can't talk about it and not post the video
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Sep 24, 2015 21:34
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MrChips posted:I don't understand that sentiment one bit; I personally think wind turbines look cool as heck and are very relaxing to look at as they turn. Great Beer posted:There's a cluster of them near oak ridge, tn sitting on top of a mountain and Hawaii has a bunch of them on the big island. They're big but the USA has a lot of otherwise useless space.  keykey posted:Add more 0's, you poors.  Yay conference calls all day 
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Sep 24, 2015 21:39
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There's about 100 wind turbines right over the border in Ohio and the land and farm owners in Indiana are locked in a legal battle trying to get them torn down because among other things "it interferes with crop growth!" or some bullshit hick nonsense.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:41
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88h88 posted:Yeah I love seeing them off in the distance, even better to know they're busy doing something good. I also like seeing wind turbines. I think a countryside or coastal view which includes some turbines is as good as one that doesn't. They are indeed loving massive and almost a bit intimidating and scary due to their size when you get up close. There are loads that are on footpaths that you can walk around. You should go and do it! I have walked round these ones in the lake district. You can see how big they are from the massive shadows in google maps.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:42
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Indiana: The state where farmers were so pissed about daylight savings time that it's still observed in some counties and not in others, because they thought it would cost them an hour of daylight in the mornings. The state where the legislature legally defined Pi as 4 because they didn't like irrational numbers. The state where people think wind turbines affect crop growth. Truly the Florida of the midwest.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:46
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 No body here minded when they got big rear end checks from the builders.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:47
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I had to drive a range rover worth more than my house out of our building because work rules say non-employees can't drive indoors. I'm currently bricking it hoping that I worked out how the parking brake worked and overnight it won't roll down the slope and smashed into something.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:51
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In the Coachella valley we have a couple turbines... Of course, Palm Springs is considered ruined by the noted style winner Donald Trump
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Sep 24, 2015 21:59
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CommieGIR posted:A single nuclear reactor can do 1,000 MW every single day, day in, day out. You gotta think actual system demand. You are not even offsetting a SINGLE coal plant with both of those arrays.
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Sep 24, 2015 22:37
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PaintVagrant posted:Are Koni orange shocks complete trash compared to yellow? Trying to put together a budget set of decent shocks/springs for my civic and the amount of options and conflicting information is staggering. I think they are meant to be fairly similar to stock. Possibly a little more damping force across the range so you can put a bit more spring on them. I'd say those or yellows or bilstein HDs if available. How much are you trying to spend and what year is it?
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Sep 24, 2015 22:41
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jamal posted:I think they are meant to be fairly similar to stock. Possibly a little more damping force across the range so you can put a bit more spring on them. I'd say those or yellows or bilstein HDs if available. How much are you trying to spend and what year is it? 8th gen fa5 (07 si sedan). Budget is in the 600-800 ballpark I guess. Trying to get a little drop, maybe 1.5" just to fill the wheel arch gap a bit, and improve handling. Car has 135k on it and the stock suspension is pretty tired. I'm not against going coilover but budget options seem to vary wildly in quality.
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Sep 24, 2015 22:55
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If you ever find yourself in Judith Gap Montana, they have a wind turbine blade that didn't pass QC so it's now sitting in the middle of town for you to awe in its hugeness. Good milkshakes too.
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Sep 24, 2015 22:58
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PaintVagrant posted:8th gen fa5 (07 si sedan). Budget is in the 600-800 ballpark I guess. Trying to get a little drop, maybe 1.5" just to fill the wheel arch gap a bit, and improve handling. Car has 135k on it and the stock suspension is pretty tired. I'm not against going coilover but budget options seem to vary wildly in quality. Koni FSDs are supposed to provide great bang for the buck if they are available for your application. I think LloydDobler has them on one of his menagerie of Volvos.
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Sep 24, 2015 23:43
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StormDrain posted:If you ever find yourself in Judith Gap Montana, they have a wind turbine blade that didn't pass QC so it's now sitting in the middle of town for you to awe in its hugeness. That's cool. Though if one isn't otherwise involved in either wind power or ranching, there is zero reason to ever find oneself in Judith Gap. It's not even really between two otherwise interesting places. Besides, if you're going for tiny Montana towns, you can get excellent milkshakes or, my favorite, a cherry phosphate in Philipsburg.
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Sep 25, 2015 00:03
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All the bad posting in this thread has killed the forums. Good job guys! 
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El Jebus posted:In the Coachella valley we have a couple turbines... Honestly, those are one of my favorite things about the otherwise-boring-as-gently caress drive between Phoenix and LA. bandman posted:Koni FSDs are supposed to provide great bang for the buck if they are available for your application. I think LloydDobler has them on one of his menagerie of Volvos. I had them on my Mazdaspeed3, liked them a lot.
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Sep 25, 2015 00:44
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Nice! I didnt know there was a video of it. I got the info from my old man after he talked to my brother on the phone. So cool that hes part of that, shoveling coal or doing huge math problems or whatever it is he does to be a part of that.
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Sep 25, 2015 00:49
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Geoj posted:Anymore its as much for technical accomplishment as anything else, distributed computing has largely eclipsed individual supercomputing (and FWIW most new "supercomputers" are largely just a distributed computing setup with everything in the same datacenter.) I'm sure there's some things that need a shitload of raw processing power and can't be split up into smaller pieces of data to be processed by someone's home PC's spare CPU cycles or offloaded onto multiple purpose-built machines, but the need for a single god-tier supercomputer isn't nearly what it was 15-20 years ago. This is impressive in how assured yet absolutely wrong you are.
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Sep 25, 2015 00:56
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IOwnCalculus posted:Honestly, those are one of my favorite things about the otherwise-boring-as-gently caress drive between Phoenix and LA. Bunch of them just before you head up the hill (to Jacumba) on the way to San Diego now too. You can see those fuckers all the way from El Centro.
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Sep 25, 2015 01:31
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Is it just me, or are the forums running like a bag of smashed assholes?
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Sep 25, 2015 04:42
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Is it just me, or are the forums running like a bag of smashed assholes? They are... apparently Reddit etc. are mass-archiving threads while the paywall is down because SA is full of pedos or something? Somehow tied into the Gamergate bullshit/some crap I don't keep track of? It's weird but it's essentially DDOSing the decrepit SA servers.
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jamal posted:I think they are meant to be fairly similar to stock. Possibly a little more damping force across the range so you can put a bit more spring on them. I'd say those or yellows or bilstein HDs if available. How much are you trying to spend and what year is it? Bilstein HDs are honestly the best bang for your buck. I went from concussions being a legitimate concerns in TSD rallies at 30mph to running over washboard gravel roads through corners at 50mph no issue.
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