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Have been following the Milton hurricane over at Chiefio who is expecting the storm to pass right over his house. Fortunately he is some way inland so hopes to not be too badly affected
A C Osborn made a very interesting post
“The point about the wind speed is they are now comparing apples with oranges when comparing modern hurricanes with old time ones.
Everyone knows the higher you measure the higher the wind speed.
The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale is designed for 10m (ft) height, so using satellite top of column or aircraft drop devices always make them look worse on the SS scale.
But when measured at 10m they are always much lower, Ventusky and Nuschool report them at that standard.
If you look at Milton on Ventusky you can see all the variations of wind speed around the eye.
https://www.ventusky.com/22.063;-89.625
I replied
“That is an interesting site. The winds mostly look nothing extraordinary at the height they will impact on people and property.
Would be interesting to see the gradations i.e wind speed at ground level then in 5 metre increments to say the top of the highest skyscrapers in Florida or perhaps the top of some of the rides at Disney. Then compare those directly to the aircraft drop devices etc.”
This sounds a bit similar to Urban temperatures which, especially at night, can be radically different to those in rural areas due to UHI. Made worse by automatic weather stations which may take readings every 10 seconds then compare them to old records likely taken when the site was more rural and taken only t 2 distinct times, generally 6am and 6PM-not necessarily either the warmest or coldest times..
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Interesting point.
Wind speed measurements are clearly influenced by the height of the anemometer above the ground.
I did a quick search of the BOM site but have not yet discovered if there is a standard height for the measurement.
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Here is something:
https://www.cumuluswiki.org/a/Wind_measurement#:~:text=It%20is%20generally%20accepted%20that,the%20height%20of%20the%20obstruction!
I don’t know if BOM sites conform to that standard.
Airport sites probably do. At other sites , eg Mt William, in the Grampian range, that would likely not be possible.
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There is a Low Pressure system moving into the area from the north that is “going to sort of pick up Milton ahead of it and take it into Florida,” [Neal Dorst]
Another person (can’t find now) expressed the idea that this odd wind confluence may cause the wind velocity to lessen.
Regardless, I think I’d head for a vacation in Amarillo.
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If those worried read Chiefio’s site you would discover that he chose his house site carefully to minimise risks, and prepared his home for after effects (such as loss of electricity, food and fuel supply). Obviously he is completely unsuitable to be a politician in Australia (and very likely in the USA, the UK and much of the EU).
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I have Windy.com open too, wind speeds only 50mph, same as Ventusky.
So, 55mph means the new Category 6 does it?? Officially 200mph? Why anyone would believe a word that comes out of an ‘Official’ mouth is beyond me!
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Yes – significant disruption, for almost a week, for what, at 0720z is showing as 54 mph on Ventusky.
Too much to be out in a sailing boat, for most, I agree; too much for me without a good engine!
But looking more and more like propaganda.
Especially if the winds ease more!
Auto
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Is this simple enough for Ed Minibrain to understand why more windmills will never make electricity affordable?
https://x.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1843669387418415450
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https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/alternative_energy_revolution.jpg
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That’s interesting Tony. I’ve experienced winds of about 30 mph on our local lake, but couldn’t imagine what 180 mph would do.
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BP abandons goal to cut oil output, resets strategy
The company continues to target net zero emissions by 2050.
https://ogv.energy/news-item/exclusive-bp-abandons-goal-to-cut-oil-output-resets-strategy
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Tweet from Vivek Ramaswamy.
How many people go to America today because they seek freedom and liberty as used to be the case, as opposed to going there illegally to get the free stuff, which In return the Democrats expect back in the form of votes?
Similiar situation in Canada, UK, Australia, NZ.
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Good pickup.
Slavery is back: there’s no other way to describe it when the input of all those who work, save and build is being used by politicians to pay for the votes of those who use the system as a way of life.
That’s not sustainable and Vicdanistan shows the way.
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Spent 4 hours yesterday in one of Auckland’s public hospitals’ eye clinics going through the rigmarole of pre-op check-ups for my 2nd (and last!) cataract surgery. Amongst the 100-or-so people in the waiting room and the 30 staff, it was a case of spot the NZ-born pakeha white fella.
It was like a United Nations free-for-all climate-fest: Indians, Chinese, Koreans, Filipina, Vietnamese, Iranians, Iraqis, Egyptians, Russians (maybe Ukies?), a Cockney, a Geordie, and some very polite Tongan & Samoan trainee nurses… and me.
Yet the ‘government’ can’t figure out why our hospitals are chewing through $billions of long-suffering taxpayers’ moolah. At least I’m now on the mythical ‘waiting list’ for a tiny piece of optical plastic made in Texas – all thanks to hydrocarbons. Joy!
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Tweet.
The Left used to claim Elon Musk as one of their own.
Now he’s with Trump they are hostile to him. And they will no doubt punish him badly, as they punish all dissenters, if they get (dishonestly) “elected”.
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I wonder how this is going to effect Tesla sales. If you see someone driving a Tesla you know they are a lefty. And Tesla are the benchmark in EVs, has the brand recognition and everything. Would be a difficult call for the lefty to drop it, but we shall see.
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I am looking to buy a new laptop, specifically a “2 in 1” which means it has both a touch screen and the screen folds back 360 degrees so it acts like a tablet plus I want a backlit keyboard.
Some observations:
-Many new laptops do not have memory slots. The memory chips are soldered in and no future expansion is possible.
-The standard SSD size is 512GB, 1TB which I want is relatively uncommon.
-With Win 11 there are many complaints that it’s impossible to completely turn off or remove AI, even when you make the required registry changes. It often pops up in other Apps. That motivates me more and more to migrate to GNU/Linux.
Do you have any recommendations for a laptop that is both a 2 in 1 and has expandable memory and comes with a 1TB drive standard and a backlit keyboard?
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Good overview of “best” 2-in-1 laptops. Some have 1 Tb drive + 16 or 32 GB DDR5 ram. Links are to US sources, in USD, so I’m not sure how that comports with your goals. That said, the tech specs and reviews are still valid.
https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-2-in-1-convertible-and-hybrid-laptops
https://www.tomsguide.com/best-picks/best-2-in-1-laptops
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/best-2-in-1-laptops
https://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/laptops/best-2-in-1-laptops-top-5-hybrid-laptops-reviewed-1258451
I haven’t used Windows in 15 yrs. Mint Linux. Depends on your dependency upon MS products. Linux does what I need.
Best of luck in your quest.
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Thanks Lance.
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I’ve been pondering a move to Linux, but I’m not a computer nerd and reading comments and forums, I conclude Linux IS going to give you problems, so Ive always baulked at it.
When I look at videos “Linux is easy” I get lost within 1 minute when the detail arrives, so I assume its actually not that easy.
I would like to though. I am a fan of open source stuff. Im a musician and I use an open source software called Reaper and it kicks the pants off the very expensive flagship programs.
Was hoping Linux would be the same, but….?
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Linus actually is easy. go to a linux version of your liking, and download the .ISO of latest version to your hard drive, then burn the image to a DVD. The DVD is a “live” dvd, in that you can boot your computer from it and “test drive” Linux without actually installing it. It is a little slower than if it was installed, but you can play with it and get a feel for it. Latest Mint versions are here: https://www.linuxmint.com/download_all.php
The difference between the “editions” available is mostly the screen, icons, and such. The Xfce version is the one that uses the least system resources. A different OS would be CentOS or Red Hat linux that use the RHEL operating system.
It used to be “geeky and quirky”, but not so now. IF you need Windows for specific programs, then you can have both Linux and Windows, provided that you install Windows first on a hard drive, then Linux second on a separate hard drive. Linux will become the boot loader and will give you the choice of Win or Lin at startup. Windows won’t do that. Windows always wants the first and only. Linux doesn’t care how many OS reside on a computer.
The .ext4 file system is remarkably solid. You don’t need to defragment a drive, or worry about file corruption, and I’ve not had a Linux virus in over 15 yrs of use. It is possible to make a Linux virus, but I’ve never seen one. Because of how the Operating system is designed, there is a lot more security embedded in the OS that makes it very hard for unauthorized use.
There are some 50,000 free applications for almost anything imaginable.
If enough interest in the topic exists, perhaps Jo might allow a topic on it. Or you could ask Jo to forward me your email and I could answer questions or walk you through an installation .
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For me, another motivation for using Linux is to avoid AI. I don’t want my PC reporting “back to base” on what I’m doing and thinking or making inane suggestions on what to type next. I prefer to do my own thinking.
As far as I’m aware, there’s no AI built into Linux, at least if you choose the appropriate version, although Linux is used as a platform for AI learning.
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There is no AI embedded in Linux. The only things embedded in a Linux distribution are the bundled software ( Like LibreOffice, and MS Office clone), and the drivers for things like wifi, keyboards, usb, etc.
Linux Kernel upgrades are “backwards compatible” for software. So your old software will work, but some older drivers might get lost. So you drop back / regress to an earlier kernel and stop upgrading the kernel. Mostly, we’re talking about i386 vintage 16 bit drivers. Not a problem for my 12 yr old system. There are even archived kernels for 1980’s-90’s hardware. Current Linux distros will work with any hardware after 1998 or so.
The Update Manager is controlled by your choices. There are no mandatory or impressed upgrades. If you like what you have, don’t upgrade. If you upgrade and it breaks something, you can revert to the old one. There’s a program called Timeshift that keeps a synchronized image of your system, OS and userspace, so that you can reinstall the entire system in 15 mins if you have a catastrophic drive failure.
I have a mini-tower desktop with 6 core AMD FX. Old, yes. But I can transcode a 4GB video on it in 12 minutes using Handbrake or QWinff or make a DVD player readable video using DeVeDeNG or audio CD.
Read/Write image or transcode Region Free dvd. Just about anything is possible. People get freaked over the choices they have. Instead of “you get what MS gives you” , you get whatever you want.
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I can’t wait until I become a Linux user.
The only thing I need Windows for is Excel because my tax spreadsheet has some VBA calculations which won’t run on the Libre Office spreadsheet.
For my writing work I only need Libre Office Writer and a web browser that doesn’t spy on
me.
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Thanks Lance. Some good information there. Tempting. I have a modern cheap little websurfer Lenovo as a second computer that I dont use for any programs, just Explorer. I should do it.
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Phillip: Reaper will run on a Linux application called Wine. Wine is a type of emulator that can translate some Win programs to run on Linux, and free. Reaper is one that works. https://www.reaper.fm/download.php
There is another application called Crossover that is not free, but not expensive, Windows to Linux emulator.
https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover
It is kind of like a “Super Wine” emulator. It translates Windows software “calls” into things Linux understands.
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Reaper actually comes in a Linux version too.
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“With Win 11 there are many complaints that it’s impossible to completely turn off or remove AI”
Once the West all pass their censorship laws do we expect a Windows update that makes AI compulsory all the time and it will censor your internet for you on your computer?
I’ll be hanging onto to my update-blocked Win10 as long as I can!
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Even my existing Win 7 system asked if I wanted to enable AI features when Acrobat did an update.
You can remove or disable the vast majority of such fluff.
Maybe a dedicated post on the topic?
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I’m pondering exactly the same issues particularly as win 10 will not be updated from October 2025. Given the downsides of Windows 11 I have thought of spending the kids inheritance and going apple.!!
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MAC OS / Apple is a good alternative to Windows. But expensive for hardware and software. MAC is essentially a customized linux OS. Lots of people like it.
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No Jock. Never go Apple. It’s a fashion label. I find PC extremely reliable. Though I do use an iPhone.
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I got an LG Gram 17 WUXGA a week ago with w11 Pro, 16GB soldered in (gggrrr…), 1TB SSD. Boots in 5 seconds, shuts down in 1 second. 😁
Mostly cleared out the M$ crapola stuff.
Yes, soldered in RAM is annoying but common due to modern laptop form factors, but improvements in W11 have improved memory performance.
I wanted 32GB to (maybe) fix an issue with memory caching on old Windoze but I haven’t got setup enough yet to see if the problem still exists.
If you want 32GB it’s probably Dell or HP.
As for folding types, be wary.
Check hardware W11 compatability too as 22H2 is old news now with no updates and 24H2 has specific requirements.
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If you wish to go desktop, mid tower, a Ryzen 5, 6 core 3.7 ghz w/32 gb memory, ps, fans, video, heat sink, 4 tb drive, case, keyboard, mouse, etc, is about USD 780. See Newegg PC builder. I like the flexibility of a desktop. Laptops, not so much. Have one for emergencies, but they don’t have flexibility.
Newegg PC Builder Component List: https://newegg.io/13ab4fb
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X – Ryzen 5 5000 Series Vermeer (Zen 3) 6-Core 3.7 GHz Socket AM4 65W None Integrated Graphics Desktop Processor – 100-100000065BOX ($171.99)
Motherboard: GIGABYTE B550M K AM4 AMD B550 Micro-ATX Motherboard with Dual M.2, SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.2 Gen 1, Realtek GbE LAN, PCIe 4.0 ($94.99)
Memory: Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model TLZGD432G3200HC16FDC01 ($50.99)
Video Cards: GIGABYTE GeForce GT 1030 Low Profile 2GB, GV-N1030D5-2GL ($103.99)
Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow 4000D Black Steel / Plastic / Tempered Glass ATX Mid Tower Computer Case ($79.99)
Power Supply: Thermaltake Smart Series 700W SLI / CrossFire Ready Continuous Power ATX12V V2.3 / EPS12V 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply Haswell Ready PS-SPD-0700NPCWUS-W ($54.99)
Storage: WD WD43PURZ 4TB WD Purple Surveillance Internal Hard Drive HDD – SATA 6 Gb/s, 256 MB Cache, 3.5″ – WD43URZ ($96.99)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Halo Black CPU Air Cooler, MF120 Halo² Fan, Dual Loop ARGB, Aluminum Top Cover, 4 Copper Heat Pipes, 154mm (H) for AMD Ryzen AM5/AM4, Intel LGA1700/1200 (RR-S4KK-20PA-R1) ($34.99)
Accessories: Logitech Design Collection Limited Edition 910-006118 Wireless Optical Mouse, Blue Aurora ($29.99)
Accessories: CORSAIR K55 RGB PRO-Dynamic RGB Backlighting – Six Macro Keys with Elgato Stream Deck Software Integration-IP42 Dust and Spill Resistant-Detachable Palm Rest-Dedicated Media and Volume Keys, Black ($59.99)
Total: $778.90
*Prices are subject to change and exclude shipping, handling, and taxes.
Generated by Newegg PC Builder 2024-10-09 02:58:35 AM
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Playing the race card.
Do you recall that Peter Dutton recently questioned an ABC (Australia) journalist about her not knowing or understanding that Hezbollah, beloved by the Left, was in Australia a proscribed, i.e. illegal terrorist organisation?
When I saw Dutton question her, I thought, “that’s just a typical clueless/Leftist ABC journalist”. In the video the journalist was not shown, you just heard her voice.
Well, that’s now being considered a “racist” attack because the journalist was not white (which no one would have known who saw the video).
It’s not an attack on a clueless journalist but “RACISM”. Apparently you can only question white journalists, those with other skin colours are exempt (unless you happen to be a conservative black journalist and then the Left will viciously attack you).
Falsely accusing someone of racism is one way the Left silence people.
This is from the union representing journalists:
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Australia, as we knew it, is stuffed.
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If accused of racism and none was apparent, the accuser should be taken to court for slander. Costs awarded against the offender and public name and shaming. Obviously the accuser would have to lose their home, marriage, occupation and public standing.
Then again….. How likely is it that a court would find an accuser guilty of slandering someone from the right?
Two tier? Who’d have thunk it.
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It’s what you get with mass multiculturalism. You can’t have one without the other. Sad but true. People will always accuse those who differ from them of prejudice. Make them large groups and toxic identity politics will be a major player. Add antiwhite rhetoric, and it is a toxic chaos.
The only thing saving Australia is that our largest immigrant group is still British and New Zealanders. I encourage any Brit to migrate to Australia, “we eat meat 3 times a day here and it will fix your vitamin D deficiency!”
And I like multiculturalism, I’d prefer it to homogeneity. But not mass multiculturalism. They are two completely different things. It’s like salt. A little bit is good for you, essential, but too much, is not.
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” I encourage any Brit (of 4 generations or more..) to migrate to Australia, ”
..and any South Africans of British or Dutch descent!!
No-one else has any skin in the game in keeping up the culture we have carried over from Britain for hundreds of years.
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The South Africans are coming.
‘At the end of June 2022, 206,730 South African-born people were living in Australia, 23.3 per cent more than the number (167,630) at 30 June 2012. This makes the South African-born population the seventh largest migrant community in Australia, equivalent to 2.7 per cent of Australia’s overseas-born population and 0.8 per cent of Australia’s total population.’ (Oz gov)
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I have a small bedside lamp.
I’m not sure whether it’s an LED but am prompted to ask if anyone knows the relative power usage of LEDs compared with the original style that had fine wire elements?
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My bedside light LED is 9 watts as opposed to 60 watts for the original filament bulb.
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My hazy recall is that the ac current has to be converted to dc for the leds. If so there would be extra juice used?
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The loss in conversion is very low. If you start with 230VAC, that would be 325V peak when rectified. You would use a bridge rectifier to do the conversion. So expect 1.4V lost in the diodes. 1.4/325 = 0.4% loss in the conversion of AC to DC. Very low.
To convert that 320+ Vdc to a sensible voltage and current rating, (as required by the LED string), you would lose in the order of 5 to 10% for an efficient circuit design.
Overall, the conversion losses are going to be 5 to 10%.
An incandescent light would often waste almost all the energy as heat, only 2% actually is emitted as light.
LEDs are clear winners.
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“LEDs are clear winners.”
So if you just want light, get LEDs, but you will have to run a heater in the winter to raise the temperature back to where it was…
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That’s a good argument against having LED traffic lights in most of the USA, but how many people rely on their bedside lamps for heating?
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That was my instant thought too! A nice little bit of local warmth in the winter.
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I can’t remember but I saw (on Youtube) that one city replaced all its older traffic light bulbs with LED ones “to save the planet”. Unfortunately come winter (and snow) the traffic lights weren’t visible through the snow.
They had to replace all those LED lights with the old ones which “wasted heat” but melted the snow.
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Thanks for that Ian, and to those below who added something. Only a small thing but after so many government impositions I’m glad this wasn’t one of them. I’ve had bad experiences with the heat pumps required for hot water units; cost a lot in time and money to fix.
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An LED will use much less power but probably uses much more resources and power in its manufacture than a filament bulb.
And filament bulbs have been banned in Australia ever since the then environment minister, Malcolm Turnbull banned them in 2007, presumably because he knew Australia would run out of electricity using “green” energy.
Another green disaster from the fake conservative Libs.
The bulbs you can get in Australia for household lighting which resemble traditional filament bulbs are in fact halogen bulbs.
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MT = More Trouble. A proven disaster at every turn.
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The ones with the yellow filament wires are LEDs. You can see the little rectangles.
Old filamenta were glowing tungsten wires in an argon gas bulb.
Later halogen bulbs also a hot tungsten filament enclosed in a small quartz capsule filled with a halogen gas, such as iodine or bromine water and a saving of only 20% to 30% with a shorter life span.
Semiconductor LEDs use about 1/4 of the energy of halogen light bulbs and 1/6th of incandescent wire and last 5 to 10 times longer. There is little heat generated.
LEDs are also more likely to be ‘warm’ colour, preserving red output for normal skin colour. The blue colours of the old halogens were terrible, labelled as ‘cool’ they had all the charm of a public loo light.
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As a consumer I found that about 1/3rd of halogens would self destruct immediately! The ones which survived would all die on the same day. That’s obsolescence engineering for you. Given the double or triple price increase, they were a ripoff for the small saving. LEDs seem to last forever, so far better in every way. And better for point sources like chandelier sparkle.
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Also Edison’s original carbon filiament light in Argon is still functioning. Which tells you something about planned obsolescence. You go out of business making things which last forever.
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The long life is due to not switching it on and off which would expose the filament to thermal shock.
As regards the heat given off by filament bulbs, the old joke about highly insulated houses was that if it is cold, turn on the light.
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I’m not sure about the ‘sparkle’ with LEDs. Our chandelier and sconces came with their original incandescent bulbs. As each of these gave up the ghost they had to be replaced by halogen (briefly) or LED bulbs. The latter are eyesores, especially those with obvious yellow bits. Worse though is the lack of sparkle; while we still had a mix of types it was obvious that the incandescents gave far superior light and sparkle and I miss them.
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“LEDs are also more likely to be ‘warm’ colour,”
Only the ‘warm’ ones, if you buy the cool ones or flick the switch to ‘cool’ they are a greyish blue and very ugly.
Worst would be the compact fluorescents the Govt tried to make compulsory just before the LED boom, they are the worst bulbs ever! Very little yellow light at all.
Nicest are the old tungstens as far as human biology goes, less blue and more red, like afternoon sunlight.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Emission-spectra-of-different-light-sources-a-incandescent-tungsten-light-bulb-b_fig1_312320039
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The LED produces 7 to 10 times more light for the same power. The most significant benefit is that they will last a human lifetime in many household applications.
https://shellysavonlea.net/comparison-chart-led-lights-vs-incandescent-light-bulbs-cfls/
I have noticed that the MCG lighting has been upgraded to LEDs because they are able to flash them like Adelaide and Perth. This is some of the story:
https://mcc.org.au/LEDUpgrade
So about half the power demand for better lighting and much lower cost in replacement..
The local tennis club has halved its electricity cost by going to LED lights compared with previous plasma lamps. Night tennis would have been impossible with tungsten vacuum lamps because the power supply would not cope. It was on the limit with the previous plasma lamps but now has spare capacity.
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https://jermwarfare.com/podcast/nisa-khan-on-why-led-lighting-is-harmful-to-all-life a better understanding of Gauss’ laws is required, as the three-dimensional nature of natural light versus the two-dimensional nature of artificial light, such as LEDs, has important implications for human health.
Ask yourself, math or not, better light detection or not, colour-temperature or not: do LED headlights bother you more than halogen headlights?
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An LED will use much less power but probably uses much more resources and power in its manufacture than a filament bulb.
And filament bulbs have been banned in Australia ever since the then environment minister, Malcolm Turnbull banned them in 2007, presumably because he knew Australia would run out of electricity using “green” energy.
Another green disaster from the fake conservative Libs.
The bulbs you can get in Australia for household lighting which resemble traditional filament bulbs are in fact halogen bulbs.
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FWIW
“First After-Action Report coming out of North Carolina”
“Vox Day has published a lengthy after-action report from someone in North Carolina. If you have any interest in preparing for disasters great or small, you should click over there and read the whole thing. I’m going to publish just one short excerpt, because I think it makes an important point.”
More at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/10/first-after-action-report-coming-out-of.html
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And
“How not to help hurricane victims”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/10/how-not-to-help-hurricane-victims.html
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Rubberneckers of all sorts –
“DISTURBING: Helicopter With Pilots Wearing ‘Military Headgear’ Sabotages Hurricane Helene Recovery Supplies at NC Distribution Site – Cajun Navy Confirms (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/disturbing-helicopter-pilots-wearing-military-headgear-sabotages-hurricane/
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Delta Energy require an AEMC rule change. AEMO will have to accept and hold cash from Delta Energy because no AEMO nominated banks will provide financing based on ESG grounds.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tscmacdonald_a-fascinating-aemc-rules-change-proposal-activity-7249216565240332288-Hlq-/
Australian banks have gone fully woke. What a thoroughly bent world we are living in. The religious fervour runs deep in this country.
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Banks have never had a problem funding wars. Often both sides. Fortunes are made in war, money spent on things which are designed to be blown up and blow up other valuable things, like people.
But utterly fake Climate Change, aboriginal issues or racism and banks back off on moral grounds. It’s a very profitable morality.
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FWIW – more “Safe and effective”
“Covid Vaccine Science Catching Up With ‘Conspiracy Theorists’”
“There have already been many legal actions, including victories (as with myself), initiated on behalf of the (somehow still alive) unvaccinated who were persecuted over a pharmaceutical product that they clearly did not need, and the vaccinated who have died and otherwise been injured as a result of vaccination. I anticipate that many more lawsuits are on the horizon, involving – amongst others – the vaccine manufacturers; the Government officials that approved, encouraged and even mandated the vaccines; and the many doctors and scientists who effectively betrayed their professions and public trust in encouraging the use of these flawed products based on very limited and even manipulated scientific evidence.
Of course, while the science is starting to catch up, and the lawsuits are continuing apace, we’re still being told by our governments and mainstream media to roll up our sleeves, even those who are as young as six months.”
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/07/covid-vaccine-science-catching-up-with-conspiracy-theorists/
Via SDA
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Build more AI datacenters, we aren’t going to ‘hit climate goals anyway’
Google’s former chief Eric Schmidt thinks we shouldn’t let AI’s ballooning power consumption worry us, because putting AI to work on climate change issues will be our best shot at solving them.
Schmidt was speaking at a recent AI summit in Washington DC, and his comments echo those of Microsoft founder Bill Gates who expressed very similar sentiments at an event in London earlier this year.
“All of that will be swamped by the enormous needs of this new technology,” he said, adding that “we may make mistakes with respect to how it’s used, but I can assure you that we’re not going to get there through conservation.”
Schmidt further stated that he believes that “we’re not going to hit the climate goals anyway because we’re not organized to do it,” and that he would rather bet on AI solving the problems than constraining the development of the tech and still having the problems anyway.
Just last month, financial services biz Morgan Stanley estimated that the datacenter industry is set to emit 2.5 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide between now and the end of the decade, three times more than if generative AI had not been developed.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/eric_schmidt_speech/
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FWIW – re that “miss/dis-information –
“FEMA Says “Disinformation” is a Problem – What Disinformation? The Disinformation About the Information…
October 8, 2024 | Sundance | 298 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/10/08/fema-says-disinformation-is-a-problem-what-disinformation-the-disinformation-about-the-information/
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Physics fun
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sl120pWx2J1z23obp.mp4
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FWIW
More on “Let’s burn money Ed: Flywheels could power the UK for half a second at a million dollars a megawatt hour”
“The Cost Of Miliband’s Flywheels”
In the explanation –
“Now from the outset here I knew that flywheels can store a very little amount of energy and so I’m going to explain in this video just how stupid this man is and the idea is to avoid blackouts in Britain. Well I’m sorry to say this isn’t going to help at all with blackouts.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/07/the-cost-of-milibands-flywheels/
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And note the two last paragraphs
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John Kerry Jumps Aboard Billionaire-Backed Green Energy Firm To Guide ‘Energy Transition’
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/john-kerry-jumps-aboard-billionaire-backed-green-energy-firm-to-guide-energy-transition/
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Grifters go where the graft is.
Subsidies are the bait.
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Frontier Energy halts $300m 120MW solar plus battery storage project in WA, due to inability to obtain government subsidies.
https://www.pv-tech.org/frontier-halts-120mw-waroona-solar-plus-storage-site-in-western-australia/
Missed out on AEMO’s Reserve Capacity Credits (RCCs), which would have provided $27m annually. Battery was supposed to be 360MWh.
As expected, these renewables projecvts don’t stack up f\as a viable business case without continuing govt subsidies.
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FWIW
“Roger Pielke on Weather Attribution”
It reads as if there is a significant “un” missing in
“His take away message is that weather attribution from the outset was deliberately intended for political and media purposes. It was introduced because the IPCC was (un)-able to find any real evidence that weather was actually getting more extreme.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/08/roger-pielke-on-weather-attribution/
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And
“Ryan Maue on Hurricane Hype”
“Checking on the corporate media this morning.
Seems “Category 6″ is the narrative for Hurricane Milton.”
https://x.com/RyanMaue/status/1843639491564638453
“Who is demanding that a Category 6 be added to the hurricane scale?
Take a wild guess.”
https://x.com/RyanMaue/status/1843642729651417387
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This from the BBC, today, Wednesday [here]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq64q0gqz37o
“Nuclear plant ‘will decimate fish stocks’” – referring to Hinckley Point C, under construction.
A claim from “Dave Seal, a wildlife campaigner” – in fairness the BBC does add that engineers “accept some fish will get through the grills. In fact, they have estimated about 44 tonnes of fish will be ingested every year. Is that a lot? For comparison, fishing vessels at Newlyn, in Cornwall, landed 1,700 tonnes in the month of July alone. So in a year, the nuclear plant will “eat” about a day’s catch.” [My bold]
A much more balanced article from the BBC that I expected, in truth.
But I wait, still, for them to do the same for the piling etc. needed to bring wind turbine industrial wind generators to our seas [and harm whales].
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It gets worse …
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/09/anger-uk-plan-net-zero-import-biomass-fuel-north-korea
“Anger at UK’s ‘bonkers’ plan to reach net zero by importing fuel from North Korea”
I know it’s the Grauniad, but even they open their article thus –
“A plan by the British government to burn biomass imported from countries including North Korea and Afghanistan has been described as “bonkers”, with critics saying it undermines the credibility of the UK’s climate strategy.”
I’m not sure the UK ever had a credible climate strategy anyway, but for the rag of the Greens to come out with that suggests that importing wood chip from N. Korea may indeed be ‘bonkers’.
Let’s face it, hauling wood chip across the Atlantic, even by ship, is not very green.
Never mind any political opprobrium from dealing with Fat Boy Kim and his ‘delightful’ [(TM) Putin, V.] [= despotic] regime …
Taken together – shows that Mr Miliband’s flywheels are not the limits of lunacy!
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