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Hugin , 3 days ago to Technology in World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage

Actually no. Batteries and thier inverter adapt in the about one second to half a second range. The massive inertia of a turbine adapts in the millisecond range.

To maintain 60 hz you need to be in the very low milliseconds range. Remember at 60 hz you do a full sin wave cycle in 16ms.

Turbines act as a tremendous power smoother in the grid.

Hugin , 3 days ago to Technology in World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage

Partially. Inverters providing virtual inertia is good but has the problem of still being active and reactive. It helps and is cheaper and more efficient than flywheels.

Flywheels and turbines however provide a very sticky frequency. They help out a lot with stability and give inverters time to respond.

Think balancing a stick on your hand vs anchoring it in clay.

If we take enough turbines off line we are still probably going to need some mechanical power stabilization no matter how inefficient.

But yeah I think we are going to see a blend using as much electrical and as little mechanical as possible.

Hugin , 3 days ago to Technology in World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage

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Hugin , 4 days ago to Technology in World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage

It's not just base load, turbines also provide grid stability. All the quick fluctuations as people turn things on and off are hard to load balance with solar, wind, or battery.
A big spinning turbine has a lot of inertia. That helps keep thr grid at a constant frequency. As solar gets bigger and bigger we might need big solar powdered flywheel generators just to stabilize the grid.

Hugin , 4 days ago to Privacy in Police allege ‘evil twin’ in-flight Wi-Fi used to steal info • The Register

If you are trying to steel credentials from people with power and money passengers in first class are a good target.

Where else are you going to find a cluster of people like that that are using the wifi and are going to be there for hours. It's about as optimal as I can think of.

Even better if you are targeting a spefic company. Just pick flights out of the headquarters for that company.

If you want to attack say Microsoft pick a flight from Seattle to DC. Pretty good odds of a Microsoft high up being on the flight and wanting to use the wifi for work.

Hugin , 24 days ago to Technology in Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85

It's an interesting question as far as dead naming as well. Normally it's just a dick move or an accident because of old habits. But in the case of people who did important work that might be published under an old name it can be useful to get them the credit.

I'm a computer engineer so I looked up her work to see if I was familiar with it. I was wondering if I would need to lookup her dead name to find her important work. In her case her big book (which I recognized immediately and have on my shelf) was published after her transition so it wasn't necessary.

If it had been written pre transition it would have been a shame to not know she was the author.

Hugin , 24 days ago to Technology in Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85

I know there is variance among the community. Of my three trans friends 2 prefere being referred to by their post transition gender in the past tense and once preferes they/them.

A coworker who came out requested he/him until after they took time off for treatment and then she/her afterwards.

When asked if he wanted his name updated on an award plaque while away he said no. So when she returned we had only updated her door name plate and info in the company directory.

Hugin , 29 days ago to Technology in How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air?

Algae doesn't capture it for long. Trees do it for longer but not long enough to be more then a speed bump. Unless we start dumping algae and trees into giant pits and sealing them up three is no long term carbon capture.

Hugin , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in toxic help forum

Krita is great.

Hugin , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Reminder...

It sucks but yeah. I'll be holding my nose this election even though Biden has no chance in my state.

Hugin , 1 month ago to Technology in We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

Prisencolinensinainciusol an Italian song that is complete gibberish but made to sound like an English language song. That's what AI is right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RObuKTeHoxo

Hugin , 2 months ago to Technology in Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road

He understands there is enough competition in the market that as payouts and accidents go down premiums will have to. There is enough competition they can't just keep rates high they would be undercut and lose customers.

For BH it's doubly bad as the large cash reserves GEICO has to maintain are used to borrow against at very low rates. If those reserves drop he has less to borrow against for investing.

Hugin , 2 months ago to Technology in Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road

Berkshire Hathaway owns Geico the car insurance company. In one of his annual letters Buffett said that autonomous cars are going to be great for humanity and bad for insurance companies.

“If [self-driving cars] prove successful and reduce accidents dramatically, it will be very good for society and very bad for auto insurers.”

Actuaries are by definition bad at assessing new risk. But as data get collected they quickly adjust to it. There are a lot of cars so if driverless cars become even a few percent of cars on the road they will quickly be able to build good actuarial tables.

Hugin , 2 months ago to Technology in Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance”

We have set up the world to be very usable and traversable by humans. A robot in that form would be able to go and do most things. Think of all the changes to places that needed to be made as part of the ADA. And those were for humans with relatively small changes such as wheels instead of legs.

Hugin , 3 months ago to Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System in Jellyfin for LG webOS!

Great. It's going to be so nice to not have to remember to renew developer mode.