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It's fascinating and depressing how despite me being in a different country on the other side of the world to you, if I swap the $ for £, your comment is still accurate based on th…

I've been inside Dinorwig Pumped Hydro plant back when they were doing tours. They keep the turbines spinning with compressed air to avoid the delay of having to spin up that large…

Good idea! The AC in my Nissan Leaf uses about 3kw so I assume it'd be about the same in my Corsa. However the Corsa disables auto-start stop and keeps the engine idling whenever t…

more likely a reference to "lights-out" manufacturing where you have automated a factory to the extent you don't have to provide lighting or HVAC as there are no humans needed in t…

I have assumed the same about the gatwick airport shutdown caused by drones in the UK in 2018. Newspapers saying "No culprit ever found" says "results of military exercise are clas…

I didn't know Russia had tested being isolated from the wider internet! I wonder what problems they had during testing? I would have thought there would be many issues given our cu…

I assume all that diesel went straight into a generator for electricity? So in your opinion, could the drill rig have added a trailer full of fold out solar panels and battery stor…

If you're talking about seasonal storage I would have thought the natural fit would be power-to-gas or power-to-liquid syn-fuels? Absorb all those extra kWh from the sun in summer,…

I think you may be onto something here. Taking apart old machinery I have often observed that the hardened part of a shaft is worn and has a noticable groove detectable with a fing…

The device the OP puts Tasmoto on from athom.tech can also be ordered for the same price pre-flashed with ESPHome to work with Home Assistant. I have used them with 2500W single-so…

Your comment makes a lot more sense if I swap magazines => reservoirs, is that the word you meant?

The other user provided a source that has been used on wikipedia, whereas neither of your comments state any sources. Could you provide some?

Thanks, fixed.

Skimming the website, I assume this submersible is using electromagnetically attached drop-weights so that if anything goes wrong and power is lost, the weights drop off and the su…

I've often thought a smaller, faster form of transport like this would be lovely for summer day trips across to the Isle of Man. There's a currently a car ferry and scheduled fligh…

I've avoided smart-meter data so far as it shows zero watts no matter how much I export (I don't have an export contract, it's a DIY PV install and no point with current pricing) h…

Native English speaker here that doesn't know any French and that's a great word! The word reminds me of a horse trot which is a bit faster than walking, so feels like a good descr…

I do this with the Home Assistant app on my phone. When the battery level gets to 80% it triggers the smart plug the charger is connected to, to switch off. My phone is 3 years old…

Thanks, someone is doing a useful service translating Russian TV for the rest of us!

>Their main propaganda news channel has already said (incorrectly) that they are already fighting NATO and US troops in the breakaway areas. Thats interesting, I'm not doubting you…

Yes it does, in fact the UK is in the process of building many more HVDC interconnectors (see table in 3rd section of page) https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/energy-policy-and-regulation/po…

Your post adds no value to the discussion, this is NOT reddit.