A little I guess. When I had finally convinced my dad to try out a dual boot, and was trying to install it for him on his new Threadripper system, it failed. The platform support Threadripper wasn’t ready even though it had been out for at least a little while.

But I don’t remember the details it has been around 8 years. Nowadays I know to confirm these things first, so in a sense it was my own mistaken assumption. But still it fits the question because at the time I was disappointed.

The only issue is that this skeleton has no neck that could just kind of do that

Are you listening to yourself? Because a 4 cm² solar cell fits in a 170 g calculator, that means that 200-300 m² of solar cells will be fine for the 35 ton turbine blades at around π/2/s of angular momentum with the outer radius of 100m? Those concepts are barely related.

You have no idea if the fiber glass blades have the tensile force to spare to deal with 3 tons of extra weight from the panels alone, or what it will do to the bearings in the generator if you load them 10% or 15% more, or how much flat panels will fuck up your blade aerodynamics, or how expensive it will be to get custom curved panels to preserver the aerodynamics.

Just hand waving everything that stands against your idea away as solvable is magical thinking, not visionary brilliance.

Wind turbine blades have a lot of surface area that could be covered in solar panels, which solves the issue of solar panels energy output decreasing with heat because then they’d always have built in cooling.

That is a stupid idea. Blade weight is one of the biggest engineering issues for wind turbines.

Bandwidth per launch?

The important question is how much bandwidth to the base station does the satellite have, unless the dedicated coverage area per satellite shrinks, that would also help with congestion.

It doesn’t really answer your question, but this article calls the Muttsee the highest reservoir in Europe, at least that’s something.

https://www.waterpowermagazine.com/news/muttsee-dam-solar-plant-to-provide-balancing-energy-for-swissgrid/

Good shout.

Here is an older article on the start of construction from a publicly funded news organization:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/switzerland-builds-biggest-alpine-solar-plant/46883572

Here is the article from when it was done (September 2022!), but this one isn’t available in English I’m afraid:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/groesste-alpine-solaranlage-der-schweiz-hat-volle-leistung-erreicht/47868356

As a primary source, here’s the project page of one of the involved companies:

https://www.axpo.com/ch/en/energy/generation-and-distribution/solar-power/alpinsolar.html

Edit: Corrected the first link. Had too many tabs open and posted this one by accident: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/archive-alpine-environment/construction-starts-on-first-large-scale-solar-park-in-swiss-alps/87531886

If a V1 satellite only has 24 Gbit/s in total capacity on its links to the base station, and a V2 mini satellite only 96 Gbit/s, then it’s no wonder really.

I am assuming everything other than the two ext4 partitions will have to go.

Your /dev/sda5 the FAT32 mounted at /boot/efi has to stay too! That’s your EFI System Partition, it’s essential for the boot chain.

What you can do is delete the “Microsoft” directory that’s on there, but definitely keep the one named after your distribution!

That’s not it, I have both operating system partitions on my Samsung 970 Evo, and they both share a 100MB EFI System Partition, on that same disk.

I’ve had the same dual boot configuration since around 2018 and this never happens to me, yet I keep reading that it happens to others. I really wonder what I did differently.

This is kind of hilarious, the reason ended up being them putting the notices to close to each other temporally:

Several lawsuits followed, with the one that appears to have eventually collapsed the massive project hinging on an ironically small detail. The landmark mega project — roughly double New York’s Central Park’s size with city-sized power needs — collapsed in a domino effect after Virginia courts voided the county’s initial rezoning approval due to improper public notices. The newspaper notices publicizing the hearing at which the project was approved weren’t separated by at least 6 days, as mandated by state and local codes at that time, thereby invalidating the hearing and the resulting approval.

Dutch auctions are the ones where the high initial price decreases until someone buys the object.

OpenSUSE Tumblweed is just rolling redhat with cleaner standards like Fedora.

I’m confused I thought SUSE and RHEL were unrelated branches of the distro tree?

Best: Minecraft (bought at the Beta price), Counter Strike: Source, Counter Strike Global Offensive (I bought it before it became free), Rome Total War, Anno 1602, Age of Empires 2. I have hundreds of hours in all of these. Technically the last three were bought by my father originally, but I think I re-bought them all on digital platforms later.

Worst: Tom Clancy Division 2 (because it’s shit and full of adverts), Monster Hunter World (because it never worked for me properly), Dragon Age 2 (just didn’t like the style of top down gameplay).

I recently figured out that Windows installs can go way faster if you have a slightly better USB stick. I bought an Intenso High Speed Line 64 GB for 10.90€ and it cut down the time by half or even two thirds I would say.

Of course I try to avoid installing Windows in the first place, but I’m not just working on my own machines.

For an intro to real proven methods you can look up how the cooling for the ISS works. It’s quite interesting, but takes a lot of space, for relatively little power.

Does it actually make much of a difference whether it’s dumped into the ocean or into the atmosphere? I thought the ocean warming happens because the atmosphere is hotter.

What, were they too popular before? lol

My pleasure!

And I actually need to correct myself. When I woke up this night I suddenly remembered that I did the one thing that dBm is not great for in the example, and did it wrong.

If you want to add up the power of five lasers you cannot add up their individual dBm numbers! Because that is already an addition operation when you do it on the absolute value scale! So adding them in the log scale would be like multiplying their powers, which makes no physical sense.

So, again, the correct way:

5 lasers of 4 mW or 6 dBm each, added up, actually comes out to 20 mW and then convert 10 * log10(20mW/1mW) = 13 dBm.

Or alternatively we convert the factor of 5 into dB first, 10 * log10(5) = 7 dB, and the add that one to the 6 dBm to also arrive at 13 dBm.

Then the rest of the example goes on like this:

13 dBm - 12 dB + 15 dB = 16 dBm into the fiber

16 dBm - 30 dB = -14 dBm at the end of the fiber

-14 dBm + 20 dB - 12 dB = -6 dBm after the WSS

and now split it for the 5 receivers, by

• either subtracting the log of the factor 5 from above, -6 dBm - 7 dBm = -13 dBm per receiver, which is 10^(-13/10) = 0.05 mW.

• or converting -6 dBm to 10^(-6/10) = 0.25 mW and then divide that absolute power by 5 to also arrive at 0.05 mW per receiver.