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Comment Re:CA - State of the self insured (Score 2) 236

I lost my home last Tuesday night in the fires. We went up to see what was left the next morning. I was driving through a literal war zone. Homes on fire on both sides of the road. The strange part is that they burned at different times indicating to me that embers or burning debris was being tossed in the wind and when it landed, poof... by this I mean some houses down the hill were burned out while others closer to the direction the fire came from were just starting. Either way there was maybe a house per block not burned down. In a fe2 cases little pockets of 3 or so houses were ok, but I'm pretty sure they caught later in the day. Nothing could have stopped them from burning. Nothing. When we fled my house there were flames 50 feet high about a block away. We were only still there because we were trying to at least save a cars worth of stuff, which we didn't. 20 minutes or so from when I saw the flames come over the ridge until they were too close to stay. We (were) on one of the streets hit first. My backyard was the mountains.

Comment Re:Supposed to be solved. (Score 2, Interesting) 109

The birds land fine. It's when they begin to take off and spread their wings for max lift that causes the fault between 2 conductors. The bird never has to touch the wires. At voltages of 16k to 500k volts they only need to be feet from the wires. A lot 8n the article goes against things I have been privilege to over the last 25 years and when these poor birds do get electrocuted, they don't get shocked and fall dead or dying, they get either blown to bits or completely vaporized.Just in my experience.

Comment Nothing new here, it's called demand line rating a (Score 0) 71

We call it demand line rating and currently optical sensors look at line sag and combined with wind speed, temperature, and humidity, allow us to increase or decrease the ampacity limits "on demand". This leads to the ability to better utilize existing infrastructure while trying to install more to meet future applications like EV.

Comment PG&E (Score 0) 82

Well, it comes down to this. to over simplify, OHM's Law: E/I*R and in non inductive loading circuits P/I*E. It comes down to the relation of how fast the power utility can respond to then decide to island the area or try to sych it in. There is initatives to run a remote grid, with current connections to the general grid with decisions as to how to handle the remote capabilities should there be a seperation, as well as total seperation and black start ability already in place. Rest assured, I know hard to swallow, bu those of us in the Power System Industry hve been working on this scenario for several years.

Comment WTF people- are you this stupid? (Score -1, Offtopic) 56

Does anyone realize what has slowly happened over the last 10 years? Your info is no longer safe anywhere. Everything you have online is not if, but when that data will be compromised. WTF people, WAKE THE FK UP say no to Facebook, Twitter, google, etc.. there are safe alternatives.

Comment The Big Box Stores(Best Buy etc...) dictate innova (Score 3, Interesting) 145

In case you didnâ(TM)t realize, manufacturers are told what to make by the likes of Best Buy and Amazon. Itâ(TM)s based on what they want to sell. If you want to sell your product to anything other than a mom and pop shop at single digit quantities, you listen to what Best Buy tells you to make.

Comment Another useless study (Score 2, Insightful) 209

Pretty easy to see that if Amazon wasnâ(TM)t delivering, every one of those packages would still be delivered to a brick and mortar. Then every one of those deliveries would instead have a car driving to the store picking up the goods. The small trucks out for delivery cut the amount of emissions if anything. Of course there are a lot of impulse buys that might not happen but overall it doesn't add up. Think of it like the local post. If everyone had to drive to get their daily mail vs a single truck serving hundreds.

Comment And it made my OC CPU freq stop responding (Score 0) 216

And it broke the CPU frequency monitor on my 7820hk laptop. Nice job. Boot more into mint cinnamon anyway but when I want to play a game and OC is the one time I need to see the core frequencies and temps. I’ve tried a couple other O?c programs and it does show the max clock but not the programs I like but as usual with Microsoft, it’s not about what I want anyway as long as its for the good of the OS.

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