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Most traditional generators (think CCGT, nuclear, hydro) run in synchronous mode. Which means the generators spins with rpm proportional/equal to the network frequency. For 50Hz th…

Interesting proposition. 1. Why would your process be more cost effective and/or efficient than the commercially available processes for alcohol production? Surely if the magic sau…

Previous discussion on HN about this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7166207

I was just wondering if we had technology available at that time for a self-sustaining mission that could last 350+ days, while supporting the crew of 3 (or 2?) and fitting the wei…

There's a clever way to destroy data on SSD: just overwrite your (encrypted) hard drive encryption key, then even though the data remains, the key is lost forever. I think most mod…

I tend to use Gnome Do[1] as my launcher. I haven't observed any noticeable battery drain (on Arch) despite the fact that it runs in background. There's a neat comparison of differ…

"The non-designer's design book : design and typographic principles for the visual novice" - very easy to follow.

It was obvious since the last referendum results were published that SNP will push for another referendum whenever they see that as politically benefical, this time riding on the a…

I understand that the article is mostly PR, but to demonstrate effectiveness of the filter, why not also present null hypothesis, where no A/C is activated in the car and/or a comm…

Great idea. Reminds me of a sci-fi movie (which one?).

I am using IFTTT to add rss feeds to Pocket, but this seems to be less complicated to use!

You know it's finished when you are dead. (A bit rough interpretation of Sartre?)