The climate change movement: July 28, 1995 to August 14, 2020 RIP

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by aerohead

No financing, no full-coverage requirement.
' A lender nor a borrower be.' Jesus of Nazareth

Is it considered borrowing if one has the cash to cover the loan? When I finance, it's strategic to take advantage of interest rates lower than what I can earn, and to deduct the mortgage finance charges. Call my loan and I'll cover it with cash.

Part of the wisdom of not lending/borrowing is eliminating a big cause of slavery. Modern finance laws no longer include literal slavery, but instead distribute financial risk to many stakeholders. Instead of a 1 to 1 lending relationship, it's 1 to many.

In general I'd agree that borrowing from the future is generally a foolish exercise.

[freebeard]

No financing, no full-coverage requirement.

Jesus is my co-pilot? Yikes!

War in Europe no matter the cause will effect the US economy.

Today it appears that the push for war is faltering. That clown Zelensky blinked first.

West Taiwan is probably watching.

edit: Via Quizzical Looker: A Straight Lightning Bolt?! Observation of a Predicted Macro Dark Matter Signature

Can't find the picture outside the PDF, but it's worth a look. Dark matter = 'beyond our ken'

[freebeard]

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Satellite Outage Knocks Out Thousands of Enercon's Wind Turbines (marketscreener.com) Posted by BeauHD on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:45PM from the questionable-timing dept.

Germany's Enercon on Monday said a "massive disruption" of satellite connections in Europe was affecting the operations of 5,800 wind turbines in central Europe. MarketScreener reports:

(Cui bono?)

[redneck]

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[oil pan 4]

Okay, I have an associates in applied science for wind power generation and I can't understand why wind turbines would need satellite coms to operate. Probably some stupid German idea. I guess they'll take anything and make it more complicated for no reason.
I would want something that doesn't get knocked out by a solar storm and if it did the redundant backup would decouple from the coms and go under local control, monitoring frequency and voltage at the tie in substation.
I would be trying to use over the wire coms, where the signal goes over the transmission lines and I know Germany was using this technology at one point for Internet.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by redneck

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Always HARP! We can't seem to let that one die a natural death.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

Okay, I have an associates in applied science for wind power generation and I can't understand why wind turbines would need satellite coms to operate. Probably some stupid German idea. I guess they'll take anything and make it more complicated for no reason.
I would want something that doesn't get knocked out by a solar storm and if it did the redundant backup would decouple from the coms and go under local control, monitoring frequency and voltage at the tie in substation.
I would be trying to use over the wire coms, where the signal goes over the transmission lines and I know Germany was using this technology at one point for Internet.

A guess is that, during episodes when wind overwhelms the grid's ability to absorb all the power ( which has been reported at times ) they must curtail production as they've now 'over-wheeled'.
'Wireless' satellite communications would be a cost-effective way to communicate to each turbine, as no line-of-sight cell towers exist out at sea.
Grid-scale batteries may be swept into the void, storing the excess for other period.

[freebeard]

Always HARP! We can't seem to let that one die a natural death.

'High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program' has two a's.

Internet was created by greybeards; but is controlled by politicians, who are almost by definition, ignoramuses. I'd bet it's built on HTTP protocol.

UPC and NPC
Usage Parameter Control and Network Parameter Control are functions that may be performed in a computer network. UPC may be performed at the input to a network "to protect network resources from malicious as well as unintentional misbehaviour". NPC is the same and done for the same reasons as UPC, but at the interface between two networks.
More at Wikipedia

IIRC TCP, UCP and NPC are at the same level in the TCP/IP stack. Boing Boing had a post about communicating via UCP.

[oil pan 4]

Originally Posted by aerohead

A guess is that, during episodes when wind overwhelms the grid's ability to absorb all the power ( which has been reported at times ) they must curtail production as they've now 'over-wheeled'.
'Wireless' satellite communications would be a cost-effective way to communicate to each turbine, as no line-of-sight cell towers exist out at sea.
Grid-scale batteries may be swept into the void, storing the excess for other period.

There's no point to involve satellites when they have had over the mains Internet.

[redpoint5]

All I know is that wireless data mostly depends on line of sight. If that can't be accomplished via land to sea, then satellite is a reasonable alternative. That said, there seems to be no need for wireless comms considering the power generators must be connected to the grid physically, and that provides the means for physical comms.

Probably a dumb failure point in hindsight, and I'd bet a more costly method of comms in the long run.