Tvkan

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[–] Tvkan@feddit.de 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are ways of dealing with this, but they’re far less ideal than simply having big spinning turbines with large mass and inertia - even if the voltage or frequency of the system changes, the turbine still spins.

Spending more than 40 billion pounds over one and a half decades to build two energy storage flywheels that also produces radioactive waste is probably the most absurd undertaking conceivable to man.

When one type of generation is suffering for whatever reason, the other types can pick up the slack.

But nuclear can't pick up the slack quickly enough, that's the problem.

[–] Tvkan@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It's much more expensive when considering lifetime costs, uranium will run out eventually, and because it can't react quickly to changing demand it meshes horribly with renewables. If we can build an excess of renewables and pair them with storage solutions, what do we need nuclear for?

[–] Tvkan@feddit.de 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

While tech bros will not shut up about how theoretical nuclear energy™ is the future, actual nuclear energy is so much worse than renewables it's almost comical.

[–] Tvkan@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

GoFundMe fürs Flugticket wann?

[–] Tvkan@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

Imagine how cheap it could've been if we started 50 years ago.

[–] Tvkan@feddit.de 23 points 7 months ago (5 children)

What are the dangers of protecting fish populations, the environment and parks?

[–] Tvkan@feddit.de 6 points 7 months ago

In later trials, drugs aren't compared against placebo, but a standard therapy regimen.

[–] Tvkan@feddit.de 17 points 7 months ago

If someone hires a former Facebook employee to work on their social network, is that patent infringement?

No. If that employee then implements features that FB has patented? Probably yes.

[–] Tvkan@feddit.de -2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Because the PRC has set this as a red line. The Taiwanese would do it in a heartbeat.

[–] Tvkan@feddit.de 16 points 8 months ago

Mickey Moses spent 40 days and 40 nights on a steam boat until they finally found land.

[–] Tvkan@feddit.de 31 points 8 months ago (11 children)

That's a good metaphor! I'm not sure about the rock though, throwing a rock into a complicated machine doesn't seem like the best idea. I'd consider replacing it with oil, where it needs to cover the gears at the top first before it can drip down.

 

I don't know whether I'm just missing an obvious solution here, but this driving me nuts.

There's a Wikipedia article I want to create a simple map for. I need a mostly greyscale (like Positron), ~1x1km section of the map on which I want draw some lines and labels in Inkscape. If I could remove all the labels including street names that'd be great, but it's not required.

Essentially, I want the export function of openstreetmap.org, but with less cluttered styles. www.printmaps.net would be exactly what I'm looling for, but their free tier watermarks the image and the license is too restrictive for Wikimedia Commons.

There's a ton of programs available on the wiki, but all of them seem to require at least some coding skills, which I don't have. I've already learned to use inkscape for some other illustrations, I'm not going down that rabbit hole again for Wikipedia.

Is there a simple, preferably web-based, tool that allows me to import or choose a style, use a GUI to select an area and then just save that as an image?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

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