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Comment Re: Renewable+storage = reliable (Score 1) 132

Using temperature sensors is a pretty odd way to measure your grid, don't you think so?

No, and it requires ignorance not only of power distribution systems but also basic electrical theory to think that it is strange. The wire has resistance and it heats as you pass current through it. The real and not theoretical current carrying capacity is limited by temperature, so obviously the way you determine whether you are reaching the capacity is to measure the temperature of the wire.

We simply measure the actual power flow at every transformer.

"simply" is how you do everything.

How do you figure if one is stealing power if you don't even know how much power you feed into certain part of the grid?

We know how much power is flowing at each point. That does not tell you how much current the wires can actually carry, which decreases as they age and also varies with ambient conditions. Before they hung the sensors on the wires, they had to guess at the actual capacity using formulas. Now that they have sensors on the wires, they know what the actual capacities are, and can send more power over the high tension lines.

If you would like me to use smaller words, I can probably arrange that, but I'd prefer you ask an LLM for that instead. It's a waste of my time, much like this entire comment.

"civilized world" ... get fucked, poser.

Comment At that price, yes, an experiment (Score 1) 33

Some people will certainly buy it at that price. I'm not even saying it's overpriced for what it is today. I'm saying you can't make it highly successful at that price.

If they can cover their costs they get into a product and get a bunch of experience and IP for the future in which it actually is viable to make it cheap enough to be successful, so it might be worth doing. But it's hard enough to sell the kind of game consoles everyone is comfortable with at that price "in this economy" etc etc.

Comment Re: Cost (Score 1) 83

Here in the USA I have seen both types of behavior from unions. That is, I have seen people legitimately protected, and I have seen fuck-offs who literally could not do their job protected from being treated appropriately. I was literally contracted to do parts of his job, doing things I had never done before, read the docs, got them done. He was supposed to retire and I probably would have got his job, but he bought another motorcycle (had two already) and had to keep pretending to work in order to pay for it.

Unions can be good, but unions can also be shit

Comment Re: Renewable+storage = reliable (Score 1) 132

PGE didn't have any clue how much most of their lines could carry until recently when they hung temperature sensors on them. You can bet there are still a lot of parts of the line which are unmonitored because PGE is a gigantic shitfest. I thought you knew stuff about power distribution, or you thought so anyway, why didn't you know this?

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