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Comment: Re:midnight (Score 1) 398

by Gordonjcp (#40123215) Attached to: Germany Sets New Solar Power Record

Midnight isn't the problem; power consumption is quite low then, and only drops more as the clock continues, only to start climbing well after dawn.

I bet winter is a problem, although maybe not quite so far south as Germany. Power demand is pretty heavy from sunset to sunrise with a big spike in the morning that doesn't tail off until well after 9am, long before the sun is up.

Comment: Re:USA should have some experience from Asia (Score 1) 91

by Gordonjcp (#40122801) Attached to: Sound Increases the Efficiency of Boiling

I don't really like the "New York style" pizzas so much. I prefer the authentic Glasgow style pizza (per capita there are more people of Italian descent living in Glasgow than there is in New York, but there's not much in it) which has a really thick and fluffy pizza base almost like a bloody great big ciabatta.

Comment: Re:USA should have some experience from Asia (Score 2, Funny) 91

by Gordonjcp (#40118329) Attached to: Sound Increases the Efficiency of Boiling

Grandparent poster appears to be American. They don't have anything that people from the rest of the world would even recognise as food. Americans can only detect two tastes - high fructose corn syrup, and hot sauce.

American bacon is bad enough even before they slice it to molecular thickness and fry it in cheap crappy oil until it's quite thoroughly burnt.

Comment: Idiotic Bumbling Morons (Score 1) 168

by Gordonjcp (#40089609) Attached to: Worried About Information Leaks, IBM Bans Siri

This would be the same IBM that banned *all* cameras from its Greenock site - not even allowed to be left in your car while you're at work. The ban also included forward-looking CCTV and reversing cameras in lorries, like the dozens of lorries that came to site every day.

Then they bought all the managers smartphones, with cameras.

Comment: Re:It's not all true (Score 1) 385

Assuming that they radiate equally in all directions.

No, assuming a non-zero divergence, which is everything because even the most highly collimated laser beam experiences diffraction. Whether your radiation is best described as a sphere or a cone, you're subject to the inverse-square law.

Nevertheless good post, and indeed wireless power is possible -- but I think it will remain limited to either low power applications which are more a feature of the modern world than Tesla's, or very specific applications where high-power laser power transmission is feasible. Tesla's dream of every home powered wirelessly is probably not going to come to pass.

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