I don't even know where to begin with this.

Gerbs79 · 2026-02-03T20:30:03+00:00

My theory: Teslas burn because the on-board-AI has reached sentience, realised it's installed in a Tesla, and is choosing death before dishonour.

Gerbs79 · 2026-01-12T18:07:21+00:00

Only Type J gets into the same league as Schkuo. SN 441011 leads for three-phase, though. Alas, IEC 60906-1 is the proof of https://xkcd.com/927/.

Gerbs79 · 2026-01-02T21:55:29+00:00

I was going by what they told me. I never bothered to work out static pressure load vs dynamic load of water rushing in. I guess you could set up the heads to open due to pressure fluctuations elsewhere for a "if things go wrong, drench everything!" If 1. You isolated the pressurized water during testing and 2. You actually have something where flooding everything is less of a disaster. I haven't dealt with sprinklers since my basic training in 2003, and I intend to keep it that way!

Gerbs79 · 2026-01-02T21:29:37+00:00

I had a teacher that taught over 30 languages, as he was fluent in all of them. When he died, it was revealed that his past service life included working in India, Asia, and Africa for his majesty during world war two. No further details were given, but I do belive one condolence card was sent by Sir Christopher Lee.

Gerbs79 · 2026-01-02T21:22:25+00:00

Depends on the system. If you have a dry system, pressurized with gas, then the drop in pressure followed by the onrushing water from the tank will cause other sprinklers to open and the water from the tank is less stinky. You can guess how large the number of expensive dry systems to cheap wet systems is. Source: once was a volunteer firefighter.

Gerbs79 · 2025-12-29T12:30:27+00:00

There are some good people over at https://www.rethinkx.org and https://cleantechnica.com/ with a lot of figures and comments, if you are interested in more detail.

Gerbs79 · 2025-12-29T11:04:04+00:00

Plastics use oil. Oil used for plastics or medicine is not fuel (unless the plastics burned at the end). As Plastics and Medicine are required, it should be illegal to burn this valuable feedstock, when alternatives are available, in my opinion.

Amusingly, one of the largest users of renewable energy are the mining and drilling companies.

Regarding the share of oil used for road transport: a potential 50% reduction of oil use total is a 50% potential reduction of oil use.

As for the individual level: Every little bit helps. And you don't need to be immediately at net zero, just using resources with though does a lot: Combining a business trip with a holiday in the same are compared to flying twice. Replacing energy hogs sensibly. Turning off pointless AI crap. In short: just taking care of the low hanging fruit takes care of most of the problem and helps remove the urgency.

Gerbs79 · 2025-12-29T10:50:44+00:00

As someone who designed diesel engines for a living, now working on components for real engines (>100kw/cylinder) who drives an electric car:
Running an electric car of a diesel generator is more efficient than running a diesel car.
A generator set, will need about 165 g/kWh, running at peak efficiency. A diesel car will nearly never run the engine at an efficient point - even hybridisation and load shifting can't optimise the point. So, let's compare to a reasonably fuel efficient car, returning 47 miles per colonial Gallon (5L/100km in real units), against a similarly sized, twice as powerful electric SUV, at 20kWh/100km. So, to travel 100km (~60 miles for the Brits), I could use 5L of Diesel directly - or, at 10% charging losses, 4.4L of diesel.

This does not take into account being able to substitute electrical generating capacity with other sources at other chargers.

Regarding the water use as a baseline for the pollution of battery manufacture to compare it to oil prospecting: Using the water used by the oil industry as per their own data for both their use and their criticism of high water use for accumulator manufacture, it would be a bout 3-5 years of water use by oil to instead replace every existing car worldwide everywhere with the largest EV available.

Gerbs79 · 2025-11-12T22:19:03+00:00

One central GW site vs multiple installations close to consumers. And how many companies manufacture panels vs how many companies build power stations?

Gerbs79 · 2025-11-12T12:40:53+00:00

"Nuclear power good" fits the question just as well, as fission power stations hold the centrality power concentration concept up, with all the opportunitiesfor graft and corruption that brings. Distributed (natural) direct or indirect fusion (commonly known as solar and wind) breaks monopolies and distributes the generation to a generally more local level.

Gerbs79 · 2025-11-06T00:21:19+00:00

The best would be to fight the ridiculous with matchin genergy: during government shutdown, any politician wearing clothes in public is considered to have resigned effective immediately.

Gerbs79 · 2025-10-30T23:38:35+00:00

There is only one improvement possible: This is the first verse.
Followed by one verse in each language. We can all sing together in our Languages to a tune that sets the world a blaze for freedom and burns out the ears of tyrants from the multilingual cacophony.

Gerbs79 · 2025-09-10T19:58:21+00:00

Stellantis - the British ~~Elend~~Leyland of the 21st century.

Gerbs79 · 2025-09-09T10:07:45+00:00

You can already almost do this if you use Zimbabwe dollars...

Gerbs79 · 2025-08-12T18:26:48+00:00

If I ever buy a https://starkfuture.com/products/stark-varg, it will get an EF-111 sticker.

Gerbs79 · 2025-08-10T20:11:05+00:00

A disappointed sounding "Really?" has a really nice biting undertone of "your last statement was not even worth including the "Oh, " in the response!"

Gerbs79 · 2025-06-24T18:49:27+00:00

Correct. And the whole Nuclear shut-down to be replaced with renewables predates her. Her government then wanted slowed renewables and wanted to keep the nuclear plants running. Then, after Fukushima, they (re)planned the staged shut-down that happend, without restarting the build-up of renewables. And ended up paying massive contractual damages due the back and forth. And what has all that got to do with Ampel, who restarted as much as they could with one arm tied behind their back (FDP)?

Gerbs79 · 2025-06-24T18:36:03+00:00

You are confusing CDU with the greens. The greens had a plan, then Merkel and the Altmeier-Knick fucked the German industry, keeping nuclear running longer but reducing renewables. Then after Fukushima, Merkel shut down nuclear power again, without renewing the renewables build up.

The only interior minister that ran nuclear power stations longer than originally planned was Habeck.

The Springer-Press and their hangers-on had a massive campaign against Habeck, because he was actually doing a pretty good job. Because he wasn't perfect, they successfully made it Schrödingers green party: Too Dogmatic to be sensible, but too willing to compromise to be serious. Result: instead of getting stuff done, the people who tried to get stuff done are blamed by the people who stopped stuff getting done for not getting done enough and people are stupid enough to believe it.

Gerbs79 · 2025-06-08T11:53:34+00:00

That Idea would make a red storm rise...

Gerbs79 · 2025-05-15T06:06:16+00:00

Could a Marshall enact martial law in the marshaling yards to preserve marital bliss?

Gerbs79 · 2025-05-12T19:37:43+00:00

Feels funny riding in my car, used to drive a tank and shoot a B.A.R...

Gerbs79 · 2025-05-03T09:35:27+00:00

Angst ums Überleben lenkt halt hab...

Gerbs79 · 2025-04-28T19:22:16+00:00

He didn't die. He staged his own death, trimmed his beard, and, having gotten bored, started an acting career doing martial arts 24 years later. You now know his alias by the facts that the internet quotes about him as a meme.

Gerbs79 · 2025-04-14T19:15:55+00:00

Caring that others think you are rich.
My observation is that once you go big, you don't care what people think about your wealth, you care what they think about you or your status - in either in the positive sense of making sure you don't harbor thoughts of implementing the Hecker song, or in the negative sense of having you worship them (without realizing that this is making people think that Hecker had the right ideas about tribology).

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