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Comment Re: Why stop nuclear power? (Score 1) 188

You claim that wind and solar are hard at load following, why? I believe it's the reverse. Want to reduce power from wind? Just brake some turbines, done. Want to reduce power from solar? Just turn off some inverters or have them operate at reduced power, done. I believe the reasons for the current situation are political, not technical.

Comment Re:Like a leaf shutter (Score 1) 41

Leaf shutter placed in the right position in the lens acts mostly as a diaphragm, so that for the short time it opens and closes, it basically just reduces the amount of light falling on the film (and changes the DoF, which - as this happens together with the light reduction - will not be very noticeable on the photo). Whereas, if placed in the position of the roller blind shutter, the opening and closing of the shutter has the potential to introduce vignetting, as the shutter blocks the light from falling on certain parts of film. So I don't think it's just historical.

Comment Re:"Science educator" (Score 5, Insightful) 162

You are wrong.

First, she published a lot and is still publishing, so she is certainly doing.

Second, it's a good tradition in academia that the people doing research are also teaching. This makes them better at communicating, as they constantly need to explain complex ideas to people which weren't exposed to them earlier.

Comment Re:Brow.sh (Score 2) 29

Not really. If you read the fine project README, you would know that:

[Brow.sh] runs slower and requires more resources than Carbonyl. 50x more CPU power is needed for the same content in average, that's because Carbonyl does not downscale or copy the window framebuffer, it natively renders to the terminal resolution.

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