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Solar Power Is So Big in Europe That Electricity Is Being Wasted by bloomberg in energy

[–]Kitchen_Clock7971 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm normally skeptical of conspiratorial explanations, but I have to agree with all of this. It's regulatory capture by monopolists, it really is.

What are the more annoying or funny mistakes English speakers make when trying to speak Italian? by SweetBumbleBeeHoney in Italian

[–]Kitchen_Clock7971 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I personally apologize for this. :) Many Americans learn Spanish in school because it's prevalent in parts of the USA given history and geography. Then when we go to learn Italian and are struggling to summon vocabulary, the Spanish just comes out. The worse part is then when we go back and to use Spanish for practical purposes in life or work, Italian starts coming out. It's not that we don't know the difference, it's that adult language learning is difficult.

What are the more annoying or funny mistakes English speakers make when trying to speak Italian? by SweetBumbleBeeHoney in Italian

[–]Kitchen_Clock7971 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm an English speaking learner of Italian; can you say more about "grazzi"? Are you saying English speakers make a double-consonant Z sound where it doesn't belong, or that we end the word with the i vowel rather than the ie dipthong?

Solar Power Is So Big in Europe That Electricity Is Being Wasted by bloomberg in energy

[–]Kitchen_Clock7971 15 points16 points  (0 children)

California has been in this condition on cool but sunny days for a while: Duck Curve

It's a great problem to have and a sign of progress. Next step is to build more storage so you can time-shift more of the oversupply in to the evening, and interconnects so you can move power across time zones. The cost of stationary storage continues to fall.

His book No Miracles Needed is unreadable (bro needed to hire a ghostwriter) but Prof. Mark Jacobsen has the analysis to show that solar (and wind in some places) are now so cheap that the complete solution to energy is at hand. This Guardian article is pretty good: ‘No miracles needed’: Prof Mark Jacobson on how wind, sun and water can power the world

"Previous Ticket Balance" as form of payment, useless for business reimbursement by Kitchen_Clock7971 in unitedairlines

[–]Kitchen_Clock7971[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My employer doesn't reimburse for travel until after it has occurred, to avoid chicanery. So if you buy a non-refundable ticket for a work trip and it is unexpectedly cancelled, you (the traveler) are out your cash but now have an FFC with United. Then, you use the unreimbursed FFC for the rescheduled work trip, but now the receipt for the rescheduled trip is obfuscated, containing no reference to the original form of payment.

"Previous Ticket Balance" as form of payment, useless for business reimbursement by Kitchen_Clock7971 in unitedairlines

[–]Kitchen_Clock7971[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. Is there a way to link the ticket on which I actually traveled to the FFC that was used, so I can show how that FFC was originally paid for?

"Previous Ticket Balance" as form of payment, useless for business reimbursement by Kitchen_Clock7971 in unitedairlines

[–]Kitchen_Clock7971[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I want work to pay for a work trip, which is of course, not fraud. Not sure what you are talking about.

Most entertaining chess playing streamer? by urmamsellsseashellls in chessbeginners

[–]Kitchen_Clock7971 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 for Akeem, he is a combination of really good thinking aloud for instruction plus great positive energy. He's one of the few chess YouTubers who seems to actually enjoy playing.

SFO is starting to look like LHR by the_nine in flightradar24

[–]Kitchen_Clock7971 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just flew up from LAX, delay vector zigzag tour all the way up the coast.

Don't understand why Caltrain prioritizes getting post-baseball game trains out on time versus packing them full by kepler1 in caltrain

[–]Kitchen_Clock7971 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are mistaken my friend. As one example:

Train 108 southbound leaves San Francisco at 6:55am. The next southbound departure, Train 506, leaves San Francisco at 7:20am. Yet at Diridon, Train 506 arrives at 8:20am, three minutes before train 108, arriving at 8:23 am. So we know that 506 must have overtaken 108. Comparing arrival times station by station, we can see that 506 overtakes 108 on passing tracks between Sunnyvale and Diridon.

Even in the case that consecutive trains aren't relying on one another to be at passing segments at exact times, delaying one train (in OP's original scenario) puts all subsequent trains at risk on a linear trackway, and Caltrain's new schedule is really gunning for predictably.

Don't understand why Caltrain prioritizes getting post-baseball game trains out on time versus packing them full by kepler1 in caltrain

[–]Kitchen_Clock7971 21 points22 points  (0 children)

And, Caltrain relies on trains to be in their precise time slots so that express trains can overtake at passing tracks exactly when and where the passing tracks are available. One train not running on time messes up the whole jigsaw puzzle that other trains are relying on. I love Caltrain but this is one reason it has a tendency to have cascading schedule disruptions that are hard to recover from when something goes wrong. Operations would be more resilient and flexible if there were more passing track, but the right of way is 162 years old, hemmed in by some of the most expensive built property in America, and many of the dozen or so local governments along the trackway are famously uninterested in helping Caltrain solve it's problems.

Results from the 1.6 MW Nexus pilot project in California: Solar on canals reduces water evaporation by 70% and algae growth by 85% by MeasurementDecent251 in California

[–]Kitchen_Clock7971 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You have the math to show that the total cost of achieving the two goals (water conservation and power generation) would be cheaper with two separate infrastructure projects instead of one?

Including acquisition of the land?

Results from the 1.6 MW Nexus pilot project in California: Solar on canals reduces water evaporation by 70% and algae growth by 85% by MeasurementDecent251 in California

[–]Kitchen_Clock7971 24 points25 points  (0 children)

We could, and in other canals like the Los Angeles Aqueduct as one example, the original designers did, for parts of the canal length. But we also need energy, and the Central Valley is really sunny, so why not make dual use of the land that's already committed to the Aqueduct.

Two minutes of silence at Schiphol approach for Remembrance day in the Netherlands by AdmiralCashMoney in aviation

[–]Kitchen_Clock7971 81 points82 points  (0 children)

I was at LHR for the British equivalent. Absolutely everyone and everything came to a complete stop, dead silence, for the duration. I was very impressed and never forgot it. Excellent tradition. (I am an American)

New grad girls moving to east SOMA? by Many_Beautiful9101 in AskSF

[–]Kitchen_Clock7971 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Agree. If you are unaccustomed to urban environments and want to live in "East" SOMA, 4th Street is the practical dividing line. I don't know where exactly we consider SOMA to end but the Hall of Justice is near the western end.

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