... but everyone can see how bad you're at spelling

There is no way to supply a high-power appliance (such as an AirCon) directly out of a PV array. None.

The panel is always operated at a point (MPPT) where it produces the most power, but that power is highly fluctuating whenever there's a slight obstruction in the incident sunlight (clouds, stray leafs, even passing birds).

You need a DC/DC power converter feeding a battery array. Then the DC appliance can be powered from that battery pack. Overall, an expensive solution mostly due to the need of local energy storage.

don't forget the eery depiction of flying an airliner into a sky-scraper (afair it was the Empire State, though). Just a few months (?) before nine-eleven...

I did it together with my (then) 9yo, after he became interested in crystals (he got as a present some sort of "crystal science" kit).

The contraption operated for 2 days, after which I messed it up trying to add some water to the solution. At that time the crystal was about 15mm long (and not really a monocrystal, as I was hoping).

The gear box is still around somewhere, gathering dust. Maybe I'll try again when the little one reaches a similar age. In the meanwhile, I learned how to do time lapse photography :-)

I once built an extreme gear reduction (3600rpm to 0.1rpd - d stands for "day") using ordinary plastic gears. The target use was to demonstrate pulling a salt mono-crystal from a saturated salt solution. No high torque, just a veeeery slow motion needed.

The thing about food quality is that it's related not only to consistency but also to taste. In the name of efficiency, high yield and uniformity, all these industrial settings are squeezing out the taste from whatever they're producing.

Heck, the hydrophonically-grown butter lettuce I'm buying from Costco tastes like sh*t compared to something grown in real garden soil.

So no, this is not quality, unless we're talking about specialty plants, such as maryjane.

Your balance sheet is very incomplete. Before the Marshall plan, there was another one, strictly aimed at Germany to destroy it for good. Its application *after* WW2 ended (i.e. during Peace Time) was spiteful and criminal. Only after the grim results of its application were becoming visible,did the Americans implement the Marshall plan (an umbrella of Europe reconstruction aid and just marginally aimed at Germany).

Oh, and I think that you're confusing millions and billions...

I'm utterly impressed with the expertise level the random slashdot user possesses.

Being able to dismiss anyone's study as being written by idiots without even reading the study (as typical on /.), that's really amazing!

Except for some officers, virtually none of the Confederate soldiers who lost their live in battle were slave owners. The struggle was really about the right to secede, even though the political class who created the CSA had certain motives involving slavery.

It's no the fault of the flag that the asshole who committed the heinous crime in Charleston wrapped himself in it. Would you feel different about the star-spangled banner if he used it instead of the confederate flag?

It's interesting that your excellent and informative post lingers with a score of 1, while the ignorant drivel you replied to sits at a fat score 5 (Informative).

It just shows how little the present-day public knows about their own history and, arguably, the most important event that happened in US since the Revolutionary War.

wow! google translate did really improve in recent times... it's so good now that it preserves through the translation the way you sound like an asshole

It is possible though that the engine uses two sets of tweak parameters, a "default" one during take-off and the "optimized" one when altitude hits 400ft. Everything went downhill (bad pun) when the empty LUT was switched in (at 400ft) and only then the 3 engines lost their thrust.

I hate squirrels!

much more likely. At least it rhymes...

Invest in a real eraser then. Staedtler's Mars Plastic is really, really nice and sturdy (e.g. it will survive bored kids poking their pencils in).