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As I unfortunately cannot afford to buy everything that comes along, Tom’s Hardware is my go-to place for info. This link talks specifically about the Vega 8. It sets up a big warning bell that a cheap mobo could ruin all expectations. There are more discussions here.
You/he may also be interested in their review of the best Graphics cards for 2020 link
Interestingly the Energy Industry is now starting to realise the huge costs of decommissioning Wind Farms. The first farm near Blythe was decommissioned in 2019 and based on that the Government estimates that the industry needs to set aside about £3Bn for future decommissioning. link
Although decisions on the degree of restoration required for on-shore sites is fairly straightforward, offshore is a different matter. The FoE (aptly named) used distorted science to claim that redundant offshore oil installations were a hazard to the environment. In practice it has been found that old oil-rig marine reefs are extremely good for marine life. I guess therefore that offshore windfarm decommissioning will be a balance between leaving reefs as spawning sites and demolishing reefs that are trawling/navigation hazards or visual blots.
Speaking as someone who gathered a lot of scars from fiddling with partitions: make certain that you have a good backup copy of all the files you need to keep.
Good in this context means tested. Although I hate Acronis cloud and the way it hogs i/o, the one very useful aspect of the program is that you can test the backup vm container and try restoring a couple of file backups to a temporary location. I tend to select a couple of images or pdfs from a couple of directories and see if they are good before actually deleting any partitions. I never bother with testing the Windows files.
I must admit I join the chorus of those who hate the flying white sea rats.
They were not same problem when I was a small child, as 17-18 year old youths used to abseil down the nearby cliffs and take gulls eggs to supplement our war-time rations. I will however admit that their taste was not great, but at least it was protein!
A cull would be a good thing.
[My edit did not work!] I tried to add a comment that any cable hidden under carpet is suspect. For reasons I do not fully understand. foot traffic on the carpet will over time cause internal breakage/bad connections within the cable. Coax is not as bad as Ethernet cable, but it can still happen. (power cables should NEVER be routed under carpet for the same reason.)
Do not forget to check the connections on the aerial lead(s). Although your bodge is likely the weak point I have experienced a situation where the aerial lead into the TV was pulled (a grandchild tripped over it) and one of the connectors came partially apart.
I personally do not mind if my points are just zeroed to give a fresh start.
Actually Richard coal fire effluent did have one very small positive impact. The large amount of sulfur that was emitted pretty much eradicated rose black-spot fungus. When the Clean Air Act came in, black spot came back with a bang.
It also probably resulted in some global cooling through cloud formation.
However the downsides on health and acid rain were intolerable downsides and it had to change.
One other (probably the same problem) was that posts with links AND a new topic disappeared completely (I do not think they even made it to moderation). I’ll try to test it with a broken topic about BeOS (in vogue when Apple was looking like going bust). If you see it, then everything works.
There are nicer designs than windmills, but cost and location become prime concerns. Just search on alternatives to wind turbines. link
I recollect seeing one design that was like a low-rise horizontal conch shell. It looked really nice but only worked if the prevailing wind was fairy constant – maybe a shore-line installation. However, as Richard said earlier – winds are stronger at higher altitudes so you give up quite a lot for aesthetics.
What I find of most interest are the facilities that have been installed in order to facilitate maintenance, because these suckers WILL need regular maintenance. In many cases for older land-based installations this often involves very cursory facilities to get at the turbine/gear box with no provision for hard standing or even a ‘green’ road for heavy equipment. Off-shore obviously has other very different issues, but I guess an on-call floating crane and perhaps off-shore servicing rig might be needed.
Reliability HAS improved, but for the oldest installations about 20-30% were regularly out of commission requiring maintenance. I believe that figure is now a more acceptable 3-5% unscheduled downtime.
Thanks Lee. Sorry about the red haze in my previous post, it had just reached the point of being a really major irritation, not helped by fending off three young grandchildren.
If you are going to set up moderation as a requirement for new posters etc., I suggest that you somehow flag them to the poster as mine just seemed to disappear except for a fleeting note saying under moderation. Blink and it disappeared, as a result I was just left in limbo not knowing what was the problem for many of my posts.
Just as a test BBC Link.
Problem cured.
Lee, I’m getting very fed up with every post I make being moderated, and going into a wild blue yonder. If you want me to move to a different forum please say so!
Glad you made it out the other side Graham. Look on it as a positive, life-saving/changing experience!
After I had a very mild heart attack a GP friend of mine told me that one of the frequent unexpected side effects of heart attacks in males is clinical depression. Instead to try and look at the experience in a positive manner, as getting on anti-depression medication was a sure-fire way to hell. (his words). Laughter is the best cure!
Although the range on the new Kia/Renault (same battery tech) cars are a good 200+miles, my wife is still concerned about driving on holiday and not being able to recharge because the specified charging point has been vandalised. Apparently there is no commonality in the chargers/connectors and you have to use the ‘club’ you have joined. At ++£’s/connector this could be a worry for a leccy car.
I seem to being heavily moderated, with a number of new items showing as awaiting moderation. Not that I mind being moderated, but the items in question were quite benign and still have not appeared.
+1 to Richard’s comments about blood pressure medication. It is a very individual thing but many/most have quite malign side-effects. I suffered for a number of years trying out different medications to try and find one that I could tolerate. Having gone through the different families of blockers and raised yellow flags on them, I was finally put on an alpha blocker that seems to work without nearly killing me. Read the leaflets on side effects, and look on line, and do not be shy about complaining to your GP about side effects.
As this article says – perhaps the answer is nuanced. A yes but …
From my reading the German use of Coal Mines results in relatively small, but still very useful pumped storage capacity. I’m not sure whether it would be practical for our abandoned mines.
The article calls it ‘huge’ storage, but I think that epithet only applies to it relative to batteries.
January 9, 2020 at 3:03 pm in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #39517If you watch the Twitter video you will see that the ‘attempt’ to make a turn did not last very long and was followed by a small explosion then loss of control. The Ukrainians have stated that they will be investigating a number of possible causes.
There is a lot of Iran/USA distrust so I would read nothing into their refusal to give Boeing the Black Box.
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