Hello,
Funny story number one so far on this site this year.
Last year one of the CEO's asked my Dutch co worker ( who only manage English as a foreign language) to translate the complete staff handbook into Arabic using google translate. The CEO studied communicating science at university by the way.
Greetings, Eduard
Funny story number one so far on this site this year.
Last year one of the CEO's asked my Dutch co worker ( who only manage English as a foreign language) to translate the complete staff handbook into Arabic using google translate. The CEO studied communicating science at university by the way.
Greetings, Eduard
I used to live and work not far from TI Reynolds tubing making bicycle frames.
All their high quality alloy tubes were made from recycled steel.
Not audio but one of the stupidest things in mechanical designs for electronics was when I worked for a large avionics company they had one product that in the power supply had a 20W wire-wound resistor that they mounted on flying leads to the aluminum chassis with hot glue!
The leads were covered, so no smoke was let out but #1 hot glue does not stick to a 1/4" thick piece of aluminum and #2 a 20W resistor melts hot glue!
The leads were covered, so no smoke was let out but #1 hot glue does not stick to a 1/4" thick piece of aluminum and #2 a 20W resistor melts hot glue!
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Not audio, but digital electronics of the 70s.
Some stupids had decided the entire system was to use CMOS for low power consumption, then ran it at a highest clock speed for this technology.
These early CMOS had terrible loose timing specs, so there was little hope for reliable operation. They had no idea what that mean anyway.
No need to say that TTL LS ( low power Schotky ) was available at that time, well known, with tight specs. Regular TTL was actually ok for the job.
This terrible design mistake induced two years of extremely tough debugging work.
Some stupids had decided the entire system was to use CMOS for low power consumption, then ran it at a highest clock speed for this technology.
These early CMOS had terrible loose timing specs, so there was little hope for reliable operation. They had no idea what that mean anyway.
No need to say that TTL LS ( low power Schotky ) was available at that time, well known, with tight specs. Regular TTL was actually ok for the job.
This terrible design mistake induced two years of extremely tough debugging work.
All the activists that I know understand that very well. Why do you think they started Repair Cafes? About - Repair Cafe (EN)
Repair cafes are to repair stuff that can be repaired but much stuff is produced to be thrown away and thus irreparable. It would make much more sense to put emphasis on producing durable stuff (like all the techno-activists I know want 😀). If one repairs something once in while it comes to the eye that bearings can not be exchanged, special screws/bolts are used to make disassembly difficult etc. Some manufacturers make it impossible to exchange parts for third party parts as the device will not accept the part as an internal chip controls all hardware to be original (like Apple does). I think in the US people have "the right to repair" and are suing companies that make servicing of devices difficult. Like the case of John Deere:
Farmers Fight John Deere Over Who Gets to Fix an $800,000 Tractor - Bloomberg
Many activists are quite young, many of them buy the newest iPhone when it comes out and there is something contradictory in that 🙂
Farmers Fight John Deere Over Who Gets to Fix an $800,000 Tractor - Bloomberg
Many activists are quite young, many of them buy the newest iPhone when it comes out and there is something contradictory in that 🙂
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No, it isn't. Global warming is already a big problem and will become a huge problem long before the last drop of oil is gone.
I know, I ran into those problems every month as a volunteer at the local Repair Cafe until it was closed because of COVID-19.
One can call him/herself activist but the human paradox is that most will want to fly for holidays, want to have the newest phones, brand clothing produced in China, PS4 etc. They also seem to like wind turbines a lot (when they are installed in another ones backgarden that is) 😉 Most easy is to point at others but pointing at oneself is harder. It is about behavior and accepting that all we do has impact on the world. It all starts with the buying reflex I learned. Becoming activist is about pointing mainly at others, becoming minimalist is starting with oneself.
Becoming Minimalist
Becoming Minimalist
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You should be fond of Greta Thunberg then: a vegan climate activist who refuses to travel by plane and tries to avoid buying anything new.
I usually travel by train for holidays, or for anything else for that matter, don't care at all about new phones and have 0 children, but I do like valve circuits. Admittedly that's also slightly inconsistent.
What's wrong with wind turbines other than the rather large amounts of raw materials needed to construct them, bird strikes when placed at the wrong location and, during construction of the off-shore ones, exploding fish when the fish aren't scared off properly before pile driving?
I usually travel by train for holidays, or for anything else for that matter, don't care at all about new phones and have 0 children, but I do like valve circuits. Admittedly that's also slightly inconsistent.
What's wrong with wind turbines other than the rather large amounts of raw materials needed to construct them, bird strikes when placed at the wrong location and, during construction of the off-shore ones, exploding fish when the fish aren't scared off properly before pile driving?
That is a sad girl a little too obsessed for that age IMO. Today I learned of this (in Dutch but I hope that will be forgiven):
Warning, long read. It seems the solar fields that literally pop up everywhere are also just a business model absorbing tax money and revenue going to investment companies. Somewhat on topic as the situation is worrisome technically as energy is generated at around the time that there is least demand causing severe instability issues in the grid 🙂
https://www.ad.nl/economie/buitenla...nsubsidies-en-winst-van-zonneparken~a3f41bf9/
BTW I was in wind energy a while (technically) and I can not see the positive effects in the long term. 3 blades of each 15000 kg epoxy and glass discarded after maximum 10 years to be either buried or worse, burned (far away but the air does not stay there). Production is not safe health wise either. When we think the cycle starts when they arrive in a harbor shiny new then we simply think wrong.
Warning, long read. It seems the solar fields that literally pop up everywhere are also just a business model absorbing tax money and revenue going to investment companies. Somewhat on topic as the situation is worrisome technically as energy is generated at around the time that there is least demand causing severe instability issues in the grid 🙂
https://www.ad.nl/economie/buitenla...nsubsidies-en-winst-van-zonneparken~a3f41bf9/
BTW I was in wind energy a while (technically) and I can not see the positive effects in the long term. 3 blades of each 15000 kg epoxy and glass discarded after maximum 10 years to be either buried or worse, burned (far away but the air does not stay there). Production is not safe health wise either. When we think the cycle starts when they arrive in a harbor shiny new then we simply think wrong.
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The whole picture from A to Z as I have seen. I never met anyone in the branch that was confident in doing something good for the world, on the contrary. Same for solar panels produced in far away countries with a lot of electrical energy, a lot of water and very hazardous materials. I have seen enough and became skeptical. IMHO there is only one real solution, that is simply NOT using the energy instead of finding clever ways to continue life as we know it but at the same time still pollute.
All products and processes should be designed for a circular cycle so from day 0 we should think of the last day and how to reuse what is left. This is a main issue with Li-ion and such batteries, that design parameter was not there.
All products and processes should be designed for a circular cycle so from day 0 we should think of the last day and how to reuse what is left. This is a main issue with Li-ion and such batteries, that design parameter was not there.
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I see you edited post 152, thanks for answering my question from post 151 after all. I hope that in a couple of years airborne wind energy can much reduce the issue.
By the way, the energy used for making solar panels is regained in about four years in the Dutch climate while they last for at least twenty years. Besides, they are often made from rejected wafers of the semiconductor industry. It definitely is a pity that all local manufacturers are competed out of business by the Chinese.
By the way, the energy used for making solar panels is regained in about four years in the Dutch climate while they last for at least twenty years. Besides, they are often made from rejected wafers of the semiconductor industry. It definitely is a pity that all local manufacturers are competed out of business by the Chinese.
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It won't. They are produced with mainly fossil energy. We loose fossil energy faster as a result and when it is gone we will have a hard time producing new turbines. Going electric is not a perpetuum mobile 😀
The more people on the planet the more we will have these issues.
Edited post #155 after comment of MarcelvdG in post #156
The more people on the planet the more we will have these issues.
Edited post #155 after comment of MarcelvdG in post #156
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Hello,
So we should go for maximum two kids in each family policy.
No more pregnancies after 35 years because bigger possibility for complications.
Maximum two divorces for a lifetime.
Before getting married people should get a test to find out if they can face the task.
A maximum of one cat or dog for every household living within city limits.
Everyone should know some basic things about their next door neighbours.
Whenever there is a kid in the house that doesnt yet attend primary school both parents are not allowed to work fulltime.
Parents with kids in primary school will get the illustrated hardcover edition of Alice in wonderland. If parents cannot read it aloud at least one of them will get free education to learn this.
Parents with kids younger than 18 are not allowed to smoke at home. They are allowed to grow medical weed to make extra money if money is to tight to mention.
Every house should have a stereo set to enjoy music. The government will provide a list of 2000 ( audio) books and every household can make their own selection, let us say 200 pieces. When proof is delivered the books are '' consumed '' a new choice can be made.
Greetings, Eduard
So we should go for maximum two kids in each family policy.
No more pregnancies after 35 years because bigger possibility for complications.
Maximum two divorces for a lifetime.
Before getting married people should get a test to find out if they can face the task.
A maximum of one cat or dog for every household living within city limits.
Everyone should know some basic things about their next door neighbours.
Whenever there is a kid in the house that doesnt yet attend primary school both parents are not allowed to work fulltime.
Parents with kids in primary school will get the illustrated hardcover edition of Alice in wonderland. If parents cannot read it aloud at least one of them will get free education to learn this.
Parents with kids younger than 18 are not allowed to smoke at home. They are allowed to grow medical weed to make extra money if money is to tight to mention.
Every house should have a stereo set to enjoy music. The government will provide a list of 2000 ( audio) books and every household can make their own selection, let us say 200 pieces. When proof is delivered the books are '' consumed '' a new choice can be made.
Greetings, Eduard
