On a grid with a large amount of renewable energy and decent long distance interconnects, most of the time it's just a question of moving energy around.
Decent long distance interconnects are not going to solve the day/night and seasonal cycles for solar. They might help for wind energy though.
Adhesive-backed hook-and-loop tape is an excellent attachment method in typical conditions where Russia operates these drones. In hotter environments I'd imagine they'd need to strap the cameras down because the PSA can run or separate, but this is not an issue in Russia or Ukraine for certain.
What kind of climate for you have in mind as problematic for duct tape? Russia spans latitudes down to 42N and has a continental climate. Record temperature is 45 C (113 F). Those drones might be stored in dark army trucks that are baking in the sun for hours.
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With faces generated by GANstyle it's fairly easy to recognize fakes, for the time being.
* Blurry or crazy background. Sometimes weird blobs. Never anything recognizable.
* Fabrics of clothing undefined.
* Mismatched earrings, mismatched left/right eyeglasses. Occasionally mismatched ears. Weird hairstyle around the ears. Sometimes mismatched eye colors.
The faces themselves are very convincing, though.
Does he at least get credit for the Douglas Adams quote?
Maybe the trials completed just a few weeks after booster was administered or participants were super cautious, staying home and wearing N95s everywhere?
In phase-123 trials they compare infection rates between the vaccinated group and a control group. The control group typically gets a non-covid vaccine that will also produce some side effects so that it is hard for the participant to guess to which group they belong.
In studies (not trials) there is indeed a risk of confounding variables, although they can control for that to some extent, for example by comparing in-household transmissions. I didn't read the Israel study though. But generally I'd expect people to become less, not more cautious after a vaccination, so the effect would work the other way.
The normalization against plant viruses is smart, but it doesn't make sense why you need that to correct for the dilution by non-toilet water. I'm sure the wastewater plants have a good idea of how much volume per day they process; you can just multiply the measured concentration by the daily volume. The plant virus they're testing for is specific to bell/chili peppers, so now you also have to normalize against seasonal variations in pepper consumption and virus concentration.
It is useful for a different reason though: viral RNA is broken down between toilet time and sampling time at the wastewater plant, likely dependent on temperature and dilution (RNA-degrading enzymes also get diluted). Both are affected by shower water, laundry water, rainfall, and weather. Since the plant virus is also an RNA virus, this normalization takes care of that.
In defense of MeWe.com, I don't see any reference to popularity among conservatives until well into the history of the site on Wikipedia. On the site itself I don't see much more politically slanted commentary than I do on thefacebook. I use MeWe regularly, and there are some really great groups: watercolor artists, guinea pig aficionados, motorcyclists, and some really good linux/tech groups.
I was a happy AT&T customer with my Blackberry Key2, until last August when they kicked my phone off their network. Even though it had all the right compatibility to keep going, and even though it had worked just fine up to that point. They insisted there was nothing they could do.
I'll wager there are more ignorant people in California than South Dakota.
I donated to Mint a few times. I might pay more if they show a financial statement about what the money is used for. It isn't clear whether the money goes to one person (Clement), a company with multiple employees, or a nonprofit organization; whether it funds Cinnamon, and so on.
The problem is, it's going to take a number of years before EV batteries actually need recycling. Even after 10 years, many are still good enough for EV use. And after that, they are often useful in other places like home power storage or grid batteries. And this isn't recycling the cells, this is reusing the cells - taking the cells out of an EV and putting them into use in another application directly. So it might be 20 to 30 years before enough volume of EV batteries are scrapped.
There are already several companies that want to scale up their recycling, but they just don't have enough used batteries to scale.
Heck, even when an EV is written off and scrapped, the battery is often snapped up as it's still valuable - even damaged people extract and use the cells for other purposes, or rebuilding EV batteries.
So yeah, here's part of the issue. Car shredders. Crushed cars don't just get dumped into big pits of molten steel, crushed cars get shredded with large high speed hammermills and the component materials - iron/steel, aluminum - get separated out by magnetic and eddy current separators. The rest is called Auto Shredder Residue and ends up landfilled. It's all the copper and the materials that used to be glass and plastic dashboards and o-rings in Macpherson struts and stuff like that.
If you haven't seen ASR, it's a relatively fine grain, probably mostly under 0.5", and with modern cars, it's mostly plastic.
If you drop a Tesla into a car shredder (the eventual fate of most cars), I think the batteries will end up as ASR. And then you're trying to separate cobalt battery components from the old stuffed toys left in the back seat.
How do we shred this better, and why are we not already doing this with municipal waste? Hammermills have windage losses and crazy internal wear. Low veolcity high torque machines need even worse maintenance. Robots to disassemble cars seems like a good idea, until you've actually worked in an automotive wrecking yard and seen that cars often no longer look like cars....
But I wouldn't put it past them to have known about the issue for a long time and sat on it in order to reveal it at the most "convenient" moment - i.e. to introduce a strong sense of urgency in the customer's mind to rethink their IT.
Nobody needs to make a conscious decision like that for a particular bug. Just squeeze the budget for maintaining this piece of software in favor of the cloud offerings. Sooner or later a bad bug like this will appear.
Someone making a conscious decision to leave a time-bomb bug in has some options:
- don't tell anyone. Then no personal gain and risk getting fired if it is discovered.
- agree to do this with people above you. Now they risk getting fired if it turns out to have too much fallout. And they could take you down with them.
It's much easier to throttle budgets so that stuff gets overlooked. Especially in a large organization where very few people have an overview and where people come and go.
South Africa noticed that their TaqPath PCR tests started showing massive amounts of S-gene target failure, i.e. only detected two out of three RNA segments. Long before impact on hospitalisation rates could be noticed.
Fortunately, S.A. has a decent capacity for both testing and sequencing.
Could also be interesting to attach it to some wildlife.
You need wildlife that regularly gets within Bluetooth range of an iPhone. Maybe an urban seagull or pigeon?
The GPS trackers with their own cellular transmitters have only a few days of battery life. Apple introduced a system where you get a year out of a coin cell by offloading both GPS and cellular radio to a worldwide network of iPhones. That's quite a difference.
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