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[PhantomCruiser]

Secondary, not primary. Secondary circuit is about as radioactive as Howard Stern.

:rofl:

They just announced it, Unit 2 critical and in mode 2.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Concentrated solar power. Reflect sun to point, boil water, make steam, spin turbine, make electricity. Great idea! What could go wrong?

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1cd2...irrors-blamed-fire-worlds-largest-solar-plant

Word is that the entire plant has not been meeting anything close to its design generation even before this. Now 2 out of 3 units are offline.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Well, they are trying at least. :shifty: I wonder what the "buy back" of that plant is.

Still it's kind of a neat thing, one of our engineers here worked on the solar tracking mechanisms to keep those mirrors pointed at the towers. I think I might give him a friendly ration of crap given the failure.

 

[jedidia]

Well, maybe not let stormtroopers aim your lasers next time... :shifty:

 

[PhantomCruiser]

I started up one of unit 2's main feed pumps about an hour ago. We're sitting just under 5% power. Any more and we would stumble over some imaginary line and move in to mode 1 (which we are not yet ready to do).

Ops is pretty much up to their armpits in power ascension testing. Either we are getting ready to call it good, or the front will fall off.

 

[Urwumpe]

I started up one of unit 2's main feed pumps about an hour ago. We're sitting just under 5% power. Any more and we would stumble over some imaginary line and move in to mode 1 (which we are not yet ready to do).

Ops is pretty much up to their armpits in power ascension testing. Either we are getting ready to call it good, or the front will fall off.

Come on, it is not like you have to fear any Xenon poisoning... :lol:

 

[mojoey]

Man, I am in the wrong neighborhood.

Six Strela launchers plus a collumn of T-80s thrown in for flavor. About a minute or so after this my wingman ate two Strelas and became a new landmark on the Crimean coast line. Five minutes later I followed suit, because I would run out of flares at the wrong moment.

 

[tl8]

or the front will fall off.

Paper is out I assume, as are paper derivatives.

 

[mojoey]

What about string or Sello Tape?

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Well, they are trying at least. :shifty: I wonder what the "buy back" of that plant is.

Still it's kind of a neat thing, one of our engineers here worked on the solar tracking mechanisms to keep those mirrors pointed at the towers. I think I might give him a friendly ration of crap given the failure.

Buy back is pretty damned long right now, may never happen. The idea made sense back when photovoltaics were too pricey and low efficiency to use, but now a big fat field of PV would probably produce the same power without all the O&M issues. The environmentalists hate them because birds fly into the concentration zone around the tower looking for bugs and their smoking corpses pile up around the bottom of the tower.

I think some reflective metal panels on the tower would be a good idea. Right now it's an open structure. Kinda hard to fight a fire in a plant when it is still being illuminated with a couple of MW of solar irradiation. My wife suggested that they could hang some Jiffy Pops on the various levels so they get an indication of a problem.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

WBN U2 is in mode 1. It's been a long road, and there is still plenty of testing to do (and we're behind schedule, overbudget, ect). But at least the end is nigh.

 

[Spacethingy]

I hope it's out of the environment!

 

[jedidia]

Raspberry Pis are more resilient than expected. They underwent a change in environment temperature from -40 to 80 degree Celsius within two weeks, all the while doing operations on an external file system, without any apparent hickups. Let's see if they'll still be running after a week at 85... :stirpot:

 

[Fabri91]

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Either we are getting ready to call it good, or the front will fall off.

Well, worst case scenario you just tow it outside the environment.

 

[Scav]

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Man, I am in the wrong neighborhood.

Six Strela launchers plus a collumn of T-80s thrown in for flavor. About a minute or so after this my wingman ate two Strelas and became a new landmark on the Crimean coast line. Five minutes later I followed suit, because I would run out of flares at the wrong moment.

Is that their polite way of saying 'please go away'?

 

[n122vu]

Man, I am in the wrong neighborhood.

East St. Louis?

 

[MaverickSawyer]

East St. Louis?

North Highlands, near Sacramento, CA. Rough hood with lots of Russians...

 

[RisingFury]

Raspberry Pis are more resilient than expected. They underwent a change in environment temperature from -40 to 80 degree Celsius within two weeks, all the while doing operations on an external file system, without any apparent hickups. Let's see if they'll still be running after a week at 85... :stirpot:

In the Raspbian Linux distro the overclocking options on boot can be done by a software command running "sudo raspi-config" without voiding the warranty.[24] In those cases the Pi automatically shuts the overclocking down if the chip reaches 85 °C (185 °F), but it is possible to override automatic over-voltage and overclocking settings (voiding the warranty); an appropriately sized heatsink is needed to keep the chip from serious overheating.

Will probably run, but you should check if you'll be voiding the warranty. You could also look around to see if you can add a DIY heat sink to the processor, that's if the ambient temperature isn't 80°C and you have somewhere to dump the heat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#Performance_of_first_generation_models

 

[n122vu]

 

[jedidia]

Will probably run, but you should check if you'll be voiding the warranty.

Very considerate, but we're not actually looking to preserve it. We need to know what these things can take to save costs in the future. They were a research investment as soon as they entered that cabinet...