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pscot
(21,023 posts)in a distributed system.
kristopher
(29,798 posts)John Farrell
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/germanys-63000-megawatts-renewable-energy-locally-owned/
Courtesy of Craig Morris and the Germany Renewable Energy industry, evidence that Germanys renewable energy program remains people powered. Total megawatts represent wind and solar only.
German power giant RWE says it will mothball or shutdown some of its gas and coal-fired power stations because of an increase in renewable energy.
The company said a boom in solar energy meant many of its power stations were no longer profitable.
A total of 3,100 megawatts of generating capacity will be taken off line, representing about 6% of RWE's total capacity...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23692530
wtmusic
(39,166 posts)FBaggins
(26,693 posts)... to "blue screen of death" ?
Mopar151
(9,965 posts)He lives upwind of Hanford, INEL/EG&G, and Rocky Flats, has never met a "leaper" in his life. His products are WAY too skeezy to operate anything nuclear. The consequences of systems failure in any uranium reactor is orders of magnitude worse than other forms of commercial power generation - the only thing that makes it financially viable is that the taxpayers are holding the bag for all but a tiny fraction of the liabilities of a major nuclear accident, or the true long-term storage of the waste.
It's a damm good thing that terrorists and end-timers are essentially idiots - there is talent and knowledge enough in my family, and enough poorly secured nuclear material handy, to bring about nuclear Armageddon, with little military hardware and a budget less than the cost of a Blackhawk, and I'll say no more about this, lest a fool get ideas.
wtmusic
(39,166 posts)"Windows boxes on Ethernet LANs are now in control of the UK's nuclear-propelled and nuclear-armed warship fleet."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/windows_for_submarines_rollout/
Must be the others in your family who got the knowledge.
Mopar151
(9,965 posts)Noneof the mud you are throwing invalidates my earlier statement. Windows is a GUI, primarily, it is not a control program, The stuff that really matters is controlled at the ladder-logic level Using a very robust language suited to the task - like AutoLisp, or a compiler like C++. I'm not a computer guy, particularly, but I've massaged the hardware of some very sophisticated automated systems, and most of the names in nukes I've dropped came from my work orders, , or the resumes of my friends, acquaintances, and co-workers. The programmers, particularly, are wizards, and have taught me well about what works in control systems, and how to fuck 'em up, too. I'm very good at mechanical control systems. ( What do you think a race car IS? I build good ones.) Machine control was the primary task of computing devices until we hadda use an IC chip to flush the tiolet - Heard of a Jacquard loom?
My family rocks, never doubt it
I don't care enough about your family to doubt it.
Now run along and massage your hardware.
Mopar151
(9,965 posts)I worked on the automated production, inspection, and assembly equipment, for the new style of suture that works like a zip-tie.
You should pray - yes, pray - that my family is what I say it is. 2 BIL are nuclear power plant engineers, currently working.