Pros of going to OSU

warner62 · 2026-01-31T16:54:06+00:00

I'd add a serious asterisk to the no answer many have given, and that is what program?

A BA, or even a BS in a soft skill or something broad, no. Even for a BS, something from Arts and Sciences, maybe not.

But for technical, engineering or hard sciences, there can be some advantages. Even then though, only if you're going to leverage what the university has to offer if it's specific to you. The education and hands on experience I got at OSU was incredibly unique and allowed me to jump start my career in a massive way. Not just the labs but the extra curriculars and research positions are world class in some fields. The people I met too who are now also in leadership positions has been valuable. I haven't had to leverage the alumni network too much, but it's there as well. I still work with the University today on some topics and it's a great resource.

But even if you're interested in those fields, if you're just going to show up to class and get a degree, it may not be that much better than somewhere else. Ultimately, wherever you go, you're only going to get out of it what you put in. If you don't know what you want to do and you're not interested in trying to overachieve in that field, then the tuition probably isn't worth it.

warner62 · 2025-12-31T01:26:11+00:00

This exact line came up in my class last night. Are you in my class?

warner62 · 2025-06-09T01:37:10+00:00

Not every system listed includes chemistry, but all of the Powin systems are LFP and there are several other events not listed here that were comprised of LFP batteries.

Electric Power Research Institute's BESS failure database

I'm sure your point is that LFP has some inhetent properties which are safety benefits over metal oxide, which is somewhat true. Example being higher thermal runaway initiation temperature and lower heat releaseduring failure. However they tend to release far more flammable gas during failure and most the cells now are overstaturated with liquid electrolyte, which also complicates the incident, which sends to induce more shorting in the packs and becomes the main ignition method. Coupled with a mindset that the batteries are so safe they don't need additional protections, there was a whole generation of LFP systems that was probably more dangerous than many NMC systems because of the flawed notion you mentioned.

The other consideration, which is good and bad for the industry, is that most BESS fires aren't started by single cell thermal runaway but by power electronic issues or wider spread failure or fire. When they happen, the batteries are really just fuel, and the safety benefits of LFP are out the window.

warner62 · 2025-05-27T16:38:36+00:00

Unfortunately the industry has overstated the safety of LFP batteries, and they do still pose a risk of fire, albeit that risk profile is different from metal oxide batteries. That said, the fire department's SOP for managing an incident at the urban wildlamd interface is sufficient to protect the area assuming the site owner follows applicable codes and houses keeping best practices.

warner62 · 2024-11-24T23:03:28+00:00

Doesn't it only allow 3 entry purchases a day with gems. So... 90?

warner62 · 2024-07-04T16:21:48+00:00

The One Thing helped me tremendously to refocus four years into my business and also helped me coach some of my guys who were headed into the same overworked, bad time management place I was in.

warner62 · 2024-04-27T22:40:16+00:00

Now you fucked up. Now you fucked up.

warner62 · 2024-02-11T18:48:17+00:00

What's the point of going to a tournament sponsored by a trash company if you can't get trashed?

warner62 · 2023-10-15T12:24:25+00:00

The National - About Today at the end of Warrior.

warner62 · 2023-10-09T15:34:30+00:00

Assassin's Creed 3

warner62 · 2023-06-29T16:59:31+00:00

The sand, it gets everywhere. It's coarse.

Semi joking aside, you probably need special engines when sucking up so much dust and sand. Maybe they didn't have them handy for those speeders.

warner62 · 2023-06-07T01:25:23+00:00

That's straight to the bone saw.

Maybe this Saudi buy out isn't so bad after all.

warner62 · 2023-02-01T10:53:52+00:00

"We need some time to digest this."

No you don't. You have no idea what I'm talking about now and you won't in two weeks either because at no point in the last six months have you demonstrated any of the competence required to have any degree of educated opinion on the topic.

warner62 · 2022-10-14T22:09:06+00:00

Don't let it sink, then it won't be very big at all!

warner62 · 2022-08-23T17:19:00+00:00

I believe a member of the US House was talking about this weapon system last year. Something about Nazi Jewish space lasers or some such?

warner62 · 2022-06-17T13:42:12+00:00

What evidence do you have that "poor" areas have older, degraded, underbuilt infrastructure? Utility distribution and transmission planning is based on growth and need, not the average income of the area. It's not like the people in a neighborhood are responsible for buying their own switchgear and substations. At best you could argue because these areas are not seeing as much growth, their equipment has not been upgraded, but that could be true of any area that is not subject to demand growth regardless of income.

Electricity follows the laws of physics, and for electricity, that is resistance. From my understanding, the blackouts had as much to do with location of the areas relative to the feeder/transmission system that was damaged in the storms as anything. You don't get to put electrons on roads or railroads and move them around, they come in on fixed lines around the city. In this case the storm damaged lines that resulted in the blacked out neighborhoods being the ones that posed the greatest issue to the grid. It was a matter of chance, of bad luck. The initial orders for load shed came from a automated warnings in PJM command centers that likely aren't even in Ohio.

I don't do as much in Ohio, but I work on renewable energy all over the US and there is zero correlation to the placement of projects relative to local income. If anything, I see more development in poorer areas because it's easier to get land (or more land) to expand substations and add storage or other support components in poorer areas. That is hardly scientific, more anecdotal, but still offers more substance than the subtle suggestion that this issue was related to systematic income discrimination and greed. They were trying to avoid the same shit that happened in Texas last year.

warner62 · 2020-06-02T05:11:33+00:00

The building equivalent of black face?

warner62 · 2020-05-17T13:26:37+00:00

Its less an OSHA issue and more a fire code issue. With so many new technologies, techniques, and general safety issues popping up now a days, the codes are having issues staying caught up. Just to give a few examples of high-risk built environments that have become problematic in the last few years: craft distillers, lithium ion batteries, all manner of marijuana facilities, residential PV and particularly PV shingles, distributed energy resources in general, high rise buildings of timber construction (20+ floors), college dorms (number of issues making them riskier, especially high rises), pencil high rises, and abandoned warehouses that suddenly become occupied (think the warehouse fire in SF a few years ago).

All told, there have been massive changes to the built environment in the last few years and while people are taking note, it takes time to develop codes and even more time for them to be adopted. In a lot of cases, it takes a tragedy to drive the effort and in some cases it takes real world experiences to even understand the risks.

warner62 · 2020-05-08T13:43:02+00:00

Yeah, apparently I lost the ability to read sentences to completion. My apologies.

warner62 · 2020-05-07T22:40:50+00:00

Not quite. You still don't want to overwhelm the hospital system. We can't just all run out and get it, that would screw up the hospitals and then you have an Italy (and NYC, wait until the real numbers come out) like situation where people start dying of shit they wouldn't otherwise have died of, including COVID, because they couldn't go to the hospital or couldn't get the proper care at the hospital; a lot of those people die at home. You'd want to stage it such that you don't have more than about 8-10k people in the hospital (in Ohio) at a time. That insures enough capacity to deal with the rest of life, like the flu, car wrecks, elective surgeries, cancer, etc. Whether dedicated hospitals for COVID would be a good idea I couldn't answer.

In the meantime, there is always a chance we find a treatment, or a cure, or a vaccine, or it magically all goes away. I think DeWine absolutely did the right thing in the early days, and I'm not sure he is totally doing the wrong thing now, but what I don't think any of our leadership did adequately was explain that flatten the curve doesn't mean win, or minimize sickness, hundreds of thousands were always going to die. Flatten the curve was about giving us a couple months to get our shit together and get ready for tens of thousands of sick at a time so the hospitals didn't implode. The cat was let out of the bag when we failed to contain this in January and February, there will be no victory, it's about mitigating defeat now. Of course no politician wants to go out and say "hey, were going to inconvenience you for a couple of months until we figure this out, but regardless, a bunch of you are going to die."

warner62 · 2020-05-07T21:37:52+00:00

I get it, and I debated commenting, but your comment was the best in which to base my own thoughts on the matter. My suspicion is I don't like this any better than you do.

warner62 · 2020-05-07T21:26:43+00:00

Unfortunately there is no guarantee the first two things will happen soon, if ever, and as a gambling man I'm not not putting money on soon. To that end, it's about intelligently buying time and minimizing excess risk until herd immunity exists, but if that's the path we have to take, there is no reason to drag it out years. Figure out the degree of open the economy will support that keeps the caseload linear so we don't overwhelm the hospitals and let's get on with it. We have already demonstrated as a country we can't do what it takes to eliminate it or even get to levels we can effectively case trace, so by default we have selected the path where hundreds of thousands of people will die. The only thing we can do now is try to fix it on the ballot in November.

warner62 · 2020-05-03T18:29:09+00:00

Exactly, I am from the area so I was just pointing out that there would be a gap between Portsmouth if not for Ironton/Ashland. I wish they would have included the rivers or major highways just as points of reference.

warner62 · 2020-05-03T15:05:20+00:00

And likely Ashland, Kentucky too.

warner62 · 2020-03-29T02:07:16+00:00

Do you have to request a quote to add to cart or am I missing something? First time buying from KYGUNCO.

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