HumanPenguin
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- Comment on UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't 3 days ago:
Not yet. We have only been doing 2 years. And are now staying in Oxford over this summer and next while we redo the interia of the boat.
The flooring is the 1976 original so is starting to have issues with damp.
We also plan to build all the furniture so it can easily be moved to check the bilge etc.
Basically on the way back from Wales last summer we had to stop and get some of the hull over plated.
- Comment on UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't 3 days ago:
I don’t live in it. Although I also know many who do.
My brother and I use it to travel the network for leisure. We are both retired due to health and vision. So we each take it for a few weeks. Moving around the nation. Then get bk us or train to swap over. While the other spends time at home.
- Comment on The UK failed grooming gang victims by not seeing ‘children as children’ 3 days ago:
At the very least, CYA. It was well over a decade ago, but.
I vaguely remember comments about the force’s post investigation not wanting to be racist in suspecting gangs. Being little more than ignoring the fact the teen girls had no option to consent. While ignoring the threat or fear as the motive when they refused to testify. Just assuming the girls were involved in underage prostitution willingly. This attitude as I remember increased the fear in these victims as the police became a threat that just returned the girls, rather than a potential solution.
While actually ignoring teen girls and parents reporting approaches by some cultures as assumed racism from the harassment victims. Rather than dealing with very complex investigations, they lacked the labour to manage effectively. So basically using the excuse to remove reports from the accounting.
- Comment on Women-only tower block in Acton to open next summer 3 days ago:
Honestly as much as the current term idiots are insane.
I think that even they tend to be less worried about trans men sharing women’s spaces then the other way around.
Honestly in their mind they really are still women.
- Comment on Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say 1 week ago:
Some fun facts.
Much of the modern phone tech you use now. Is based on principals amature radio experimenters developed.
The hobby has been an active part of electromagnetic research since the 1920s. And while all the protocols etc are upgraded to fit with commercial use. The basic theories were discovered by hobbyists.
We have even funded a few Leo satellites over the years. Many were launched in the 90 to early 2000. As Russia was using disabled ICBMs to send them up while meeting disarmerment treaties. US spent a fortune Russia profited from Thier disarmament.
Look up amsat AO 51. I watched that launch (via video link) in 2004 but that and a small donation to it is my only sat input. I tend to play with HF or Shortwave radio more. Getting signals to travel world wide with 0 inferstructure and often low power is more my interest.
But amature radio covers such a wide field nowadays. Most with some technical interest can find something they like.
If you look up M0IXP it was not valid in 200r. I had a US licence under KG4ZGG then. And have had 2 other between.
Yes this is a vain attempt to sell my hobby. Ignore if not interested. But it’s good to find newbies if folks are. It can also be way cheaper now then it was when I started. Due to hams developing SDR and huge commercial use of that tech. But cheaper is not always cheap. Depending on what type of radio interests you.
- Comment on UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't 1 week ago:
25ft narrowboat. If not in UK that is a 7ft wide boat/barge designed for our narrow canal system. My brother and I are both visually impaired so the longer ones are not really doable for us.
We spend the summers travelling the 2000 miles of canal network swapping over ever few weeks. I purchased the panals last year thinking they were as cheap as they were gonna get. But we are leaving the boat home to redo the interia over this and next summer. So they are filling my brother living room ATM. 1.7x1.qm each. So will cover most of the free roof of our little boat.
Honestly it’s a total guess. But the density of new panals is why I think the price has dropped. All the cheap panals are around 20% efficent but we know 25 of higher has been possible for a good while.
My guess is the price of making those has dropped to the point many chinese etc factories are planning to reequip. And they are selling of the glass 20% stuff while folks are looking.
Once 25% is the price these were 2 years ago. Commercial use will likely move over entirely. Can’t imagine the big factories wanting to be stuck on the larger panals then.
But it’s just a guess.
- Comment on Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say 1 week ago:
Look up mature radio. Or ham as the nickname.
I am M0IXP
- Comment on Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say 1 week ago:
Actually nope. Parliament makes the rules. And ofcom hires 3rd parties to resurch support or rejection those rules. Then advises parliament.
The only thing ofcom dose is decide if licences have broken rules. And often that is then taken to a court after.
- Comment on Workers in UK need to embrace AI or risk being left behind, minister says 1 week ago:
Actually that is a large part of the govs claimed cost cutting plan.
Ministers and civil servant. Not MPs though.
- Comment on Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say 1 week ago:
Ofcom is the gov department incharge of radiowave licencing.
As a ham I have a licence with them. But so dose all your WiFi equipment and phones have to meet there rules. Licencing can apply to a person, org or a device design depending on the frequencies used.
So credibility on that subject yes. Very much.
But on mental effect on groups of people. They have 0 expertise. And given the numbers used. None on statistical analysis. Id only trust them on radio wave propergation and licencing laws.
- Comment on UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't 1 week ago:
I’d love to see more innovation in mechanical storage.
Yep most of it is dams and moving water ATM. And while that is efficient. It takes way more space then the UK can spare.
There has been a lot of work using heat storage of late. As we develop more materials etc. I can see this becoming more common. Will always have more loss then gravity. But is much more practice to multi use the land. And build on smaller scale. It is popular in factory situations where heat is often the energy needed. Generate during the day from solar or wind store in huge heat absorbing blocks and release on the night shift.
But use of land is the main problem with all natural renewables. Except maybe tidal. But even that has negative effects on land use. Wind turbines need space beyond the structure. While much can still be farmed. Farming land is also where they are best situated. Due to lack of nearby structures. Solar is a huge land hog. And moving it into our cities. Should happen but to be effective takes a complete redesign,
But the fact that a single car park structure exists that doesn’t have the roof covered. Show how little effort has been pushed. Open land car parks should do more. But effect on others light will be an issue. But if you own a building that just parks cars on the roof. It is insane that nothing has motivated you to build out solar over the last 40 years of climate change acceptance.
- Comment on British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say 1 week ago:
Yeah he has been reported to comment. “He watched people die in front of him”
So likely he is already starting to feel some PTSD. It is likely to get much worse as he gets over the shock. India is also far from a positive nation to have a mental health issue.
Few places are great. But Indias culture is very much know to deny the existence. And opinion the idea it would be his weakness rather then a normal issue.
So seeking treatment may never happen.
- Comment on British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say 1 week ago:
An article I noted but can’t remember where.
Said seat 11a is next the the exit at the front of the wing. And pointed out this is the most structural reinforced section of the aircraft. Due to the forces on the wing.
So he was fucking lucky.
- Comment on UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't 1 week ago:
If you hit the science tab. You will see the register uses the image to top Thier headline.
- Comment on UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't 1 week ago:
No you did not. Cold fusion has never been predicted by anyone sane. There was a hoax at a uni in Oxford in the early 90s. That was very quickly discovered to be avchilish student hoax.
Cold fusion is considered to be impossible. Come on dude fusion is the very reason stars are hot.
Hot fusion has been achieved. For the first time as self sustaining in 2022. But at a scale that is not profitable. IE takes huge energy to get the initial heat while only generating 1% of that energy after the heating is supported by the fusion itself. Due to the size of the resulting star(contained fusion result).
This project has designed a full scale plant to hold a much larger star using the same STEP design. This mathematically is predicted to be able to feed it’s own growth after creation. Untill it is then contained( by complex magnetic fields),in a 100mw steem generating plant. Once it is created the huge lasers needed to initiate the heat are turned off. And the size of the plant allows the process to grow.
Will it work. Likely but it is also. Just like early fission power plants likely to take time to perfect.
- Comment on UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't 1 week ago:
STEP is a fusion method not the organisation.
And the money was spent on designing a full scale reactor that uses that method. The register seems to think paying loads of researchers and professers to design the first ever of a new design is free. When in reality it takes huge amounts of computing power and in this case new AI systems to develop the algorithms to magnetically control.
A man made fucking star at 150million c.
Yes such design is expensive. Even when it has been done on a much much smaller scale. How much inflation adjusted do you think the first fission full scale power station cost to design.
The register is being dumb. Not to mention the 2.5b has been approved because the designers achieved exactly what the promised for 220m under budget.
- Comment on Actor Laurence Fox is set to appear at Croydon Crown Court at 2.30 p.m. after pleading not guilty to encouraging people to damage Ulez cameras. 1 week ago:
If we arrest folks for that. There would be no politicians…
Actually never mind.
- Comment on UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't 1 week ago:
No idea was not me but auto added.
- Comment on UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't 1 week ago:
Spent £280 for 800w for my small boat 9 year ago. Thinking it was cheap so grab quick. Now half that for the same panels.
- Comment on UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't 1 week ago:
Cold fusion is a different and entirely mythical idea.
And step was the first successful positive output from a fusion (hot they run a 1 to 1.5million c).
The register is missing important understanding. Early 1950 small scale fission reactors also had negative true input to output. They only produced a true positive result at full scale. But the maths proved that scale.
The maths of the NIF STEP reactore are the same.
There is a reason SMR fission reactors are only now starting to be built. Profitable ones were impossible until the 90.
- Comment on UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't 1 week ago:
Solar is still worth it. More so at current prices.
Fusion or fission is the cleanest safest way to match demand when wind or sun do not. At least in a nation we’re we lack the space to build gravity fed storage.
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- Comment on Candies from US company could damage DNA and increase cancer risk, UK agency warns 1 week ago:
Yep but they are enforcing the standards they have. So it’s more not wanting to then failing.
We are failing to enforce. The US has now requirement to meet UK standards. We have the requirement to ban companies that don’t.
- Comment on Candies from US company could damage DNA and increase cancer risk, UK agency warns 1 week ago:
Worth noting that UK costoms allowed the import of sweets made with illegal in the UK ingredients for years.
As bad as US food standards are. This is a huge failure of UK standards enforcement. Not a US one.
- Comment on Sizewell C power station to be built as part of UK’s £14bn nuclear investment 1 week ago:
Sorry no. France has proven the case for nuclear as a business many times over.
And for all the benefits of renewable. It has one huge disadvantage. We cannot control availability. So either storage (takes more space then the UK has. Or harmful materials for battery’s. Or some form of power plant that can be turned on or of with demand.
Nuclear is by far the cleanest that meets that goal. Until STEP is proven at large scale. (We are now building a full size fusion plant so post 2040 that looks likely).
It really is the best option.
- Comment on Labour’s Centrism Is a Dead End 1 week ago:
No need to be more right then they promised.
But democracy requires them not to go more left either.
This whole win the election by lying to the public sounds very Tory.
- Comment on BYD launches cheapest UK model in bid to overtake Tesla as biggest electric carmaker 1 week ago:
Regulations warentee expectations Nd certifications are a huge part of the cost of importing new cars.
Shipping is likely 1/2 as much as manufacturing when you consider the size and risk of loss. Then taxes and tarrifs. Trump may be insane but at this price range the UK has always had some tarrifs outside the EU.
Price comparisons between nations are pretty complex with all this included.
- Comment on British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say 1 week ago:
As opposed to surviving with only a slight limp and blood from wounds that stopped bleeding almost immediately
Honestly yes. But if you are correct you will know pretty soon.
And that is why it is so unlikely. Anyone who has any flying experience will know. If you miss an international flight it is very much recorded. This has been the case since lockerbee so? And more stringent since 911.
Crash investigators will know within hours exactly who did or did not board the flight. And will announce it in a few days once they have made reasonable attempts to contact the families. So if he is faking. The newspapers will know soon.
Adding that to he had family on the flight. And is not seriously injured. Most of the blood on his cloths can come from rubbing scratches. So yes fast healing to the point you cannot tell. Very possible within an hour or 2.
There are unconfirmed rummers saying he opened jumped from the loading door just before the aircraft hit.
Not only is this very possible. But given the closed doors are structural on such aircraft. And would have remained open during the crash. Will show up notably in the investigation. So again will likely be confirmed in days.
Delays will come because while this is an India investigation. The UK and maybe other nations will be keen to help with the investigation. So some negotiating and sharing of expertise will happen.
- Comment on Poundland sold for £1 1 week ago:
To be clear. US form took on 30m in debt. Plus a promise to borrow 30m more if certain goals are achieved.
So it’s technically 30 to 60m and £1
- Comment on £2.5 billion for prototype fusion energy plant 1 week ago:
Having looked it up and answered my own questions.
Yeah they are actually building a portable star.
And while it is very much an experiment. It is based on a smaller successful fusion plant from 2022.
So honestly using your guess. 7.5b 2045 and failing. Is still pretty fucking amazing amount the UK learns about a new future technology. And well worth the risk for the expertise we would gain.
If it actually works the UK will be helping the world make more. And the odds are pretty high compar d to the UKs first fission plants.