Except piloting a plane requires actual skills. Plus actually flying the thing isn't even the hard part, it's not that much more difficult than driving a car from what I understand. The difficult parts are doing paperwork, setting up the plane, dealing with ATC and passengers, and most of all finding a way to fund all the training and building up the flying hours without going broke.
Before any commercial plane takes off all kinds of performance calculations are done and flight plans are filled to make sure it's actually safe. Load and balance plus fuel checks all have to be done. Pilots need to plan and brief on emergency procedures and so on, this is also done prior to landing.
Serious question: what kind of drug abuse does it take to shave off 10 IQ points? I've done my fair share and would prefer not to have that happen to me - if it hasn't already.
This really depends on the distribution. If some or all of the people in that bottom 20% are very, very stupid it could actually work out that 80% are above average, because the average is being pulled down by the people at the bottom.
This is why we have different averages like mean, median, mode, and RMS because they each give you different interpretations of the raw data. For example the mean electro motive force of the grid is around 0 volts because it spends as much time in the negative as the positive. We use RMS here because negative numbers become positive when squared.
Volts don't measure power. Also nobody specified the load was resistive. Most loads are not resistive. See light bulbs, diodes (inc. LEDs) and even electric motors as an example. If you are talking about resistive loads you need to specify that. For a resistive load doubling the potential difference (volts) causes the current to also double because I = V / R and power to quadruple P = VI. So run time would half since you are spending double the energy at four times the power (power is rate of energy consumption).
I am now disappointed in people who call themselves electricians.
Similarly, batteries, for an example, wired in parallel will give you more power for less capacity, while batteries wired in series gives you more capacity but less power.
You have no idea how batteries or electronics work. Adding in parallel increases capacity and maximum current and maximum power. Adding in series increases emf (volts) and maximum power and capacity. Adding extra batteries almost always increases capacity in some way. The actual duration is as much about load as capacity.
If your load is something like a resistor then adding batteries in parallel will increase duration since current draw and power output stay the same and capacity has doubled.
If your wire in series then current draw will double and power draw will quadruple because the potential difference (volts) has doubled. This follows I = V / R and P = VI. This also means the duration is halved because the power drain is 4x but the capacity is only 2x. Make sense?
I = Current
V= Potential difference (p.d) / electromotive force (e.m.f) measured in volts
R = load resistance
If something supplies power you call it's voltage electromotive force, if it uses power then it's called potential difference. Why is it this way? No idea
Please note I am not factoring in internal resistance and some other factors here because that makes things way more complicated.
Also you can measure battery capacity in two ways: amp hours and watt hours. Only one actually tells you the total energy stored, which is watt hours. To work out watt hours from amp hours you need to multiply it by the nominal imf (volts) of the battery.
Some renewables kill more people per unit of electricity than nuclear. So nuclear is actually safer. It's also a good source of base load power that things like solar can't compete with. Just admit you care about hating nuclear more than climate change
Fair enough, you have an opinion, that firefox is wrong in everything it does
That's not what they are saying though. A lot of this is configurable for a reason.
but you need to learn the defaults
I don't think that they do. They have see. They don't like the defaults and it's their right to change them. That's the whole point of configurable FOSS ffs.
What's a z+redditor? I also don't fully know what counts as niche. I think I am in a couple of these and there are still assholes, some of which are the most active users or even mods. Some groups are okay but these are the exceptions and not the rules.
Actually I think being a difficult bastard, stubborn, or an arsehole is actually needed in certain contexts. Sometimes people are stubborn just because they can, sometimes it's because they are defending themselves or someone else.
You can't use renewables for all power generation though. We don't have the energy storage for that. Also over the long term nuclear can be profitable - it just requires a lot of investment and planning
Probably because the whole industry keeps talking about them. Plus some are already in testing I believe, others are still being planned. We did it for nuclear submarines so it's definitely possible.
I still don't think that would work as a peaker plant, but it's better than nothing! If they really have improved it more than that it might work, but you are going to need at least one power source that can be meaningfully changed multiple times per day.
Except piloting a plane requires actual skills. Plus actually flying the thing isn't even the hard part, it's not that much more difficult than driving a car from what I understand. The difficult parts are doing paperwork, setting up the plane, dealing with ATC and passengers, and most of all finding a way to fund all the training and building up the flying hours without going broke.
Before any commercial plane takes off all kinds of performance calculations are done and flight plans are filled to make sure it's actually safe. Load and balance plus fuel checks all have to be done. Pilots need to plan and brief on emergency procedures and so on, this is also done prior to landing.