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skewbone
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About skewbone
Principal engineer for power conversion and energy storage control systems. Designing power systems for AI datacenters.
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Comment #48135012
Those questions don't allow for the possibility of installing louder exhausts for non-psychoanalyzable reasons... There are also degrees of loudness. I put a slightly louder exhaus…
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Comment #47526481
And Jer Sypult who made Climb (track 10) who is not in Sonic Mayhem!
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Comment #46628325
Thanks, that's a great suggestion. Looks like I can also use QEMU to also trace MMIO. I appreciate the advice!
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Comment #46612579
This would be fantastic. I'm trying to write an audio driver for my HT|Omega eClaro PCIe soundcard for Linux by leveraging kernel modules for cards with a similar BOM. It is mostly…
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Comment #45709095
The PE6000 and the LM6000 are two shaft machines, where there is a low speed shaft on which sits the low pressure compressor and low pressure turbine (the hot and cold ends), and a…
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Comment #45709060
The PE6000 is closer to a GE LM6000 rather than an LM2500. https://www.gevernova.com/gas-power/products/gas-turbines/lm... The LM6000 and its variants have been in operation since …
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Comment #45310336
People tend to use the inertia H constant (MW*s/MVA) when it comes to describing the amount of inertia that grid forming inverters and batteries can provide. Sometimes the units ar…
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Comment #44950714
Would you mind sharing any pictures or video about the mower? I converted my push reel to electric without a kit, and have been considering putting separate high torque, low speed …
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Comment #38898363
GE Hitachi Nuclear is hiring people for across the nuclear island, steam island, and other plant components for their SMR design. It is a pretty exciting time for that division, so…
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Comment #38393283
Gas plants can change load in seconds by increasing or decreasing fuel flow. You can consider the generators as operating at the local grid frequency, and power being the product o…
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Comment #37712326
There's no mention of the actual electrical architecture. In the rendering, I only see modules and no DC/DC converters or inverters separate from the modules. Some of the competiti…
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Comment #36781799
I design control systems for grid scale battery systems that can operate as standalone power plants, or as hybrid power plants with solar, wind, or gas turbines. Batteries essentia…
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Comment #36350353
Does this impact Google apps (or whatever their grandfathered personal email hosting/google drive is called now)? I hope it's just the registration component, but I think I should …
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Comment #33185947
Turns out it was STS120, launching the Harmony module on Oct. 23, 2007. I was working at a facility where we tested gas turbines and spent a good amount of time studying combustion…
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Comment #33184173
Rocket launches feel the same way. I got to see STS121 launch from the VIP area at Kennedy Space Center a couple of years back, and it felt like a continuous pressure wave pounding…
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Comment #33055530
There are two different types of state machines that behave differently. Moore machines have actions (or outputs) determined by the state while Mealy machines have actions determin…
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Comment #32751555
I agree with this. You also don't know the exact mix of sources generating the particular amount of power consumed by your data centers instantaneously. Since each generation sourc…
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Comment #31812060
There is an industry that packages high quality Sony image sensors in packages with C or Cs mount lense compatibility and native UVC support on Linux/MacOS/Windows. Primary uses se…
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Comment #31404289
Does anyone know if there is a limit on the number of users with this free option?
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Comment #31039746
I agree with you on the gas peakers comment. Peaking power plants are typically used to provide the extra electricity needed when the supply of renewables start to fall off in the …
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Comment #30215233
It doesn't address the criticism from many legacy Google Apps users using custom domain email and drive / calendar for our families. It would be great if they would at least provid…
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Comment #29970016
Graphviz ships with a tool called dotty that can be used for visual graph editing. It's a bit cumbersome but does work. https://www.graphviz.org/pdf/dottyguide.pdf Edit: I don't kn…
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Comment #29341263
I got one of these before going to university. Abit BP6, dual Malaysian C300a overclocked to 450 MHz on the slotkets, an ATI Rage 128, an SB Live, all sitting in an Inwin Q500 case…
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Comment #20562021
There are other players in the modular utility scale energy storage space. GE and Fluence are two examples. https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/hybrid/battery-energy-sto... https://…