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Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Endjinneer posted:

No it's still the dream unless you're an industrial consumer of electricity in which case your pricing is based more-or-less on consumption of available capacity, rather than number of kWh.
Distributed energy storage and buy/sell at individual user level could be such a huge win for energy efficiency but we're still a way off it because of the changes needed to move the juice around and manage side effects.
What happens, for example, if every Tesla in the UK starts with the same default setting for when it buys power and they all switch in at once? We've learnt this lesson once already- economy7 caused grid problems because it meant all the really high load appliances switched on at precisely the same time.

To continue this point, the switching behaviours required to balance the grid at micro and macro level rely entirely on smart meters being in place. There�s no way around it. You want to balance your Solar, Ground Source Heat Pumps, Electric Vehicles and still have everyone getting power? Needs to be balanced.

Want to sell your battery contents (either fixed or EV) through an aggregator working as a virtual peaking station? Needs a smart meter.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2020 08:55

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 01:08

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Ash Crimson posted:

Huffpost reporting it as: "Transgender Children Can Be Prescribed Puberty Blockers, High Court Says In Landmark Ruling"

Effectively restates Gillick?

# ¿ Dec 1, 2020 12:18

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

If you�ve run through a lot of the easier trouble shooting steps, ring your DNO on 105 (it�s free and automatic) and see if there are any known faults in your local area that may have caused your supply voltage to drop. If they think it�s likely or they want to check, they�ll send out an engineer.

Cuts out one of the potential causes at least.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2020 10:00

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

kingturnip posted:

Yeah, I can see them letting the calendars be filled at random, with someone giving them the once-over to make sure it's not 25 Maltesers.
I skimmed the article but couldn't see whether this is intentional from Mars (free publicity), or just a function of them producing a shitload of advent calendars, where each one is filled randomly.
Their responses to the tweets makes me think it's intentional, but I've already spent more time thinking about this than any sane person should do.

From a consistency perspective, having the hopper for specific days be full of the same shape and weight of chocolate in the line as you load them would lead to less potential issues. That they�ve pointed the first hopper on the line to 1,2,3,4 would be deliberate then.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2020 10:03

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Bobstar posted:

Definitely check for actual causes. I often get emails from customers complaining about "nuisance tripping" of an RCBO that we "need to fix". 9 times of of 10 it's an actual fault in the field wiring that's very much Not Our Problem. But no, it's obviously a "nuisance" trip, because it was fine before and now it isn't!

They never even check on the helpful error display whether it was overcurrent or RCD.

Also we�ve just had the first bout of properly cold weather and if anything loves changing temperatures it�s low voltage networks.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2020 10:48

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

kecske posted:

everything below 1000V is low voltage

According to some engineers I know, anything less than 132 might as well be low voltage anyway.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2020 14:45

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

crispix posted:

Football is what English people have in the absence of recreational sectarian violence imo

only the Scots managed to combine the two - they are a very inventive people, the Scots

You used to get the same KAH vs FTP arguments in online gaming but it�s all secure cloud stuff now.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2020 01:53

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Split Edinburgh in two. Everything in sight of the giant gold dog poo poo is English, the rest Scottish.

All of the south coast islands to create their own independent republic.

# ¿ Dec 9, 2020 02:40

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Tobermory, and after every election the harbour houses are painted proportionally

# ¿ Dec 9, 2020 02:43

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

goddamnedtwisto posted:

I choose to read this as a compliment.

25 minutes, a raspberry pi and questionable morals and you can set a completely automated and self-secured usenet container stack with plex running. All the old guys get lazy and look to make life easier and it benefits everybody.

# ¿ Dec 9, 2020 12:43

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Who knew that the digestive systems of long haul truckers were so toxic that they could incubate a mutant COVID strain so powerful it was transmitted through bottled piss

# ¿ Dec 19, 2020 14:21

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Limit of two household bubbles, not three. Enough to look like he�s doing something and piss off people, not enough to actually limit the spread of the virus

# ¿ Dec 19, 2020 14:24

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

I think the confluence of;

Williamson threatening to sue schools closing early
The mutant strain being known about since September
The idea that this particular mutation has worse effect on kids than previous strains
The last minute Christmas cancellation
Tesco rationing again

Might actually break through to the 60+ lobby who are ok with their kids being destitute because of Brexit, and steadily propping up that 40% CON polling, but who would like to see their grandkids live to a double digit age

But we live on bullshit island where hope dies eternal so I�m guessing they�ll be over 50pts and Boris will be a decisive champion by Wednesday.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2020 00:47

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Jedit posted:

Pretty much. HS2 isn't necessarily a bad thing, but neglecting the rail infrastructure of the entire country so that businessmen can get from London to Birmingham 40 minutes faster is.

But that�s not what HS2 will allow, it will create a huge amount of capacity for intra-city travel that�s currently bottenecked?

# ¿ Dec 23, 2020 11:29

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 01:08

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

I�m worried the Kermit will spread and you�ll have to get a SUXMIT and a HAMMIT to move between counties.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2020 23:25

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