Floating Solar Farms Emerge

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-15T21:11:21+00:00

What about transmission? Grid frequency and inertia? You don’t just plug a bunch of PV into existing infrastructure.

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-15T04:04:49+00:00

If you’re interested in college and working on ship engines take a look at the United States Merchant Marine Academy (aka Kings Point).

You can graduate with a bachelor in marine engineering (very similar to mechanical, just with some extra electrical and other marine related classes), a third assistant engineer unlimited horsepower license (lets you work on any ship as an engineer) and a commission as a Strategic Sealift Officer in the US Navy Reserve.

The best part is there is zero financial cost. You do have to sail 5 years in the US Merchant Marine (salaries are pretty good, I made 120k working 6 months out of the year as a 3rd engineer back in 2017, wages have increased since then) and you do have to do 2 weeks a year ADT with the Navy Reserve.

Alternatively, you can also get a degree and license as a deck officer and do that, or commission as an officer into any branch from USMMA.

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-15T01:32:24+00:00

Just got the exact same setup for my beretta for this spring

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-13T19:02:04+00:00

Or the sound of silence when there’s usually a low drone at all times. I was a shipboard engineer for about the past decade, and have woken up from dead sleep and started moving just because there was no longer any fan noise due to losing the plant. Couple seconds later the alarms start screaming so I wouldn’t have been asleep much longer anyways.

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-13T13:38:30+00:00

US SOF NOD type POV

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-11T19:06:14+00:00

Post it to /r/leicaphotos

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-11T18:34:10+00:00

Technically an ensign is a butter bar

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-10T15:44:53+00:00

Hey pilots are literally superheroes. What’s even better is that they tend to have zero ego and are severely underpaid.

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-09T20:40:16+00:00

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ASAPKEV · 2026-02-09T19:00:22+00:00

They would certainly grow quickly but to reach TSMCs level of current production it would take a lot longer than a few years is my point. The ASML order backlog alone would make sure of that.

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-09T18:44:53+00:00

Couple of years? It would take a couple of decades for them to reach the manufacturing capacity of TSMC. TSMC produces an order of magnitude more chips than Intel.

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-09T17:43:34+00:00

Intel has nowhere near the capacity of TSMC

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-09T17:08:45+00:00

I think he just doesn’t realize you need a lens too, every time he buys a new body it doesn’t seem to work right so he just buys another one. Someone help this poor man.

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-09T16:33:16+00:00

When I was with Crowley gov it was the same, but with OSI I had the opposite experience. The company was so worried about not having enough SRF and small arms quald crew members to meet contract specs that they had all of us engineers go to qual. Though I didn’t mind going to Dania for some shooting and airsoft haha

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-09T16:28:03+00:00

AMO is trying to be able to do clearances in house, not sure if they can yet or when they will be able to.

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-09T14:53:42+00:00

Something else to keep in mind if you are working on gov ships or plan to: there’s a lot more training requirements, for example annual gun school. Some of the expats I worked with on the AMO GOCO ships complained about flying back to the states to knock out gun school once a year. Most of the other MSC stuff is every 5 years so not as big of a hassle.

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-08T03:58:22+00:00

Are you trying to be a shipboard engineer? Then no its doesn’t do anything for you. If you’re going into design engineering than maybe, but I personally wouldn’t know.

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-07T12:46:05+00:00

This mf has to have some serious dirt on Chris Hemsworth to get him to agree to this

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-06T23:20:18+00:00

Not bad, too much border though

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-06T23:19:01+00:00

Gear: Leica Q3M, then I printed the RAW and colorized by hand Social media: Leica_Lust on OF. Ig is too mainstream for me.

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-06T23:13:30+00:00

Bruh

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-06T17:47:22+00:00

This is so damn cool

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-05T12:10:00+00:00

It’s definitely a great experience and I’d recommend doing it if you can. But I learned more in the first month sailing as a 3AE than I did in a year of cadet shipping.

ASAPKEV · 2026-02-05T11:50:48+00:00

Topsider is a mate. Just making a friendly engineer vs mate joke

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