HumanPenguin

25ft narrowboat. If not in UK that is a 7ft wide boat/barge designed for our narrow canal system. My brother and I are both visually impaired so the longer ones are not really doable for us.

We spend the summers travelling the 2000 miles of canal network swapping over ever few weeks. I purchased the panals last year thinking they were as cheap as they were gonna get. But we are leaving the boat home to redo the interia over this and next summer. So they are filling my brother living room ATM. 1.7x1.qm each. So will cover most of the free roof of our little boat.

Honestly it's a total guess. But the density of new panals is why I think the price has dropped. All the cheap panals are around 20% efficent but we know 25 of higher has been possible for a good while.

My guess is the price of making those has dropped to the point many chinese etc factories are planning to reequip. And they are selling of the glass 20% stuff while folks are looking.

Once 25% is the price these were 2 years ago. Commercial use will likely move over entirely. Can't imagine the big factories wanting to be stuck on the larger panals then.

But it's just a guess.

Look up amature radio. Or ham as the nickname.

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Actually nope. Parliament makes the rules. And ofcom hires 3rd parties to resurch support or rejection those rules. Then advises parliament.

The only thing ofcom dose is decide if licences have broken rules. And often that is then taken to a court after.

Actually that is a large part of the govs claimed cost cutting plan.

Ministers and civil servant. Not MPs though.

Ofcom is the UK gov department in charge of radiowave licencing. Equivalent of US FCC

As a ham I have a licence with them. But so dose all your WiFi equipment and phones have to meet there rules. Licencing can apply to a person, org or a device design depending on the frequencies used.

Every nation that is a member of the ITU. International telecommunications union.(Almost all nations) Has to have an agency enforcing agreed to rules.

So credibility on that subject yes. Very much.

But on mental effect on groups of people. They have 0 expertise. And given the numbers used (38men able to self exclude based on subject of study). None on statistical analysis.

Id only trust them on radio wave propergation, electromagnetic effect and licencing laws.

Here my own experience talking to folks working there. Get past the telephone handlers and they are real experts.

Exactly the same comments made in the 60s. To keep the abortion ban then.

It's utter rubbish. Because this is happening. All changing the law dose is mean those become less unsafe when people feel able to contact help.

Arresting a woman who misdiagnosed her conception date. Means absolutely anyone having an abortion legal or not. Is now scared to seek help. Police being encouraged to investigate0 victims of miscarriage. Means any medical issues during pregnancy can now scare the shit out of vonerable women. Encouraging them to avoid help when at risk.

This is just using safety as a code word to excuse saying no. They in no way care about the safety of the patients only there own beliefs.

I’d love to see more innovation in mechanical storage.

Yep most of it is dams and moving water ATM. And while that is efficient. It takes way more space then the UK can spare.

There has been a lot of work using heat storage of late. As we develop more materials etc. I can see this becoming more common. Will always have more loss then gravity. But is much more practice to multi use the land. And build on smaller scale. It is popular in factory situations where heat is often the energy needed. Generate during the day from solar or wind store in huge heat absorbing blocks and release on the night shift.

But use of land is the main problem with all natural renewables. Except maybe tidal. But even that has negative effects on land use. Wind turbines need space beyond the structure. While much can still be farmed. Farming land is also where they are best situated. Due to lack of nearby structures. Solar is a huge land hog. And moving it into our cities. Should happen but to be effective takes a complete redesign,

But the fact that a single car park structure exists that doesn't have the roof covered. Show how little effort has been pushed. Open land car parks should do more. But effect on others light will be an issue. But if you own a building that just parks cars on the roof. It is insane that nothing has motivated you to build out solar over the last 40 years of climate change acceptance.

Yeah he has been reported to comment. "He watched people die in front of him"

So likely he is already starting to feel some PTSD. It is likely to get much worse as he gets over the shock. India is also far from a positive nation to have a mental health issue.

Few places are great. But Indias culture is very much know to deny the existence. And opinion the idea it would be his weakness rather then a normal issue.

So seeking treatment may never happen.

An article I noted but can't remember where.

Said seat 11a is next the the exit at the front of the wing. And pointed out this is the most structural reinforced section of the aircraft. Due to the forces on the wing.

So he was fucking lucky.

Oxford press is pointing out. That a private a level school in Oxford has announced it's closing. Due to this case failing.

They feel most sorry for the students. 100 of them. Paying 11k a year.

No public school would survive on 100 students. Why the hell should those parents get to avoid tax in giving their children privileges over schools with 1000s of students. Funded from the very tax they avoid.

If the parents think there child benefits. It's a benefit worth paying purchase taxes on. If they don't want to pay those taxes. They do not consider the exclusivity and small class sizes of such a tiny school worth the money.

PS Oxford city has a population of 192,100 last count. So why the hell would the 192000 people with out 11k to spend on educating their kids. Care they won't pay another £2200 to advantage their kiddies over the poor commoners.

Honestly if I had money and school age kids. I'd likely pay. But I sure as hell would not consider avoiding taxation to be more important then funding the shitty underfunded schools that make me feel the need.

Actually. I'd likely use the 13200 if I had it and kids that need it. To hire and pay the taxes of a private tutor instead. 100 pairs of parents would gain a lot more by getting together and doing that. While letting their kiddies meet real people and experience the real world. Then locking them away from commoners will do.

We may end up with less dead pig abuse in our politicians as well.

If you hit the science tab. You will see the register uses the image to top Thier headline.

No you did not. Cold fusion has never been predicted by anyone sane. There was a hoax at a uni in Oxford in the early 90s. That was very quickly discovered to be a chilish student hoax. It was fun to them. Because all science theory says it's impossible.

Come on dude fusion is the very reason stars are hot.

Not to mention cold fusion would be fairly useless for power generation. As the heat is exactly how electricity is created. You need steem.

Hot fusion has been achieved. For the first time as self sustaining in 2022. But at a scale that is not profitable. IE takes huge energy to get the initial heat while only generating 1% of that energy after the heating is supported by the fusion itself. Due to the size of the resulting star(contained fusion result).

This project has designed a full scale plant to hold a much larger star using the same STEP design. This mathematically is predicted to be able to feed it's own growth after creation. Untill it is then contained( by complex magnetic fields),in a 100mw steem generating plant. Once it is created the huge lasers needed to initiate the heat are turned off. And the size of the plant allows the process to grow.

Will it work. Likely but it is also. Just like early fission power plants likely to take time to perfect.