The strip is 4 miles long… when Musk company can bore longer, wider tunnels avoiding other infrastructure e.g. London tube lines, sewers etc then they might have something to shout about
I believe he is deliberately targeting low process burden, low soil resistance targets. He isn't aggressively chasing contracts for complex, deep, large tunnels working around existing infra, or rail, he's chasing places which want disruptive change in transport.
Nobody has explained to me what the boring company has actually done innovating TBM, the machines themselveds distinct from a cash injection and some energy from Musk as lead investor. TBM are flow process. It's a pipeline of inputs and outputs. It's scheduling.
The LV tunnel isn't a complete success either. It's not operating completely as promised yet is it?
Here in BC Canada we don't get paid anything for feed-in, but we do get credit on our bill - so 1 kWh in during the day means I can use 1kWh at night without paying anything.
We have 6.8kW on the roof, and it looks like over 12 months it will cover our needs.
It means I'll never have a bill, and if I get too much credit (negative bill), I'll just get a used electric car. I'm not unhappy with that situation.
It’s not entirely different here, the feed-in is applied as a credit to your account. I suppose they’d have to pay out if pushed, I’m yet to know anyone who has received actual money though. I guess I’m about to find out, if my retailer ever fixes the issue with their billing system that’s preventing any of my solar data showing correctly / at all.
FWIW, I’m an Aussie who went back during covid for the first meaningful stretch in 20 years. Explored the who country.
I saw with my own eyes what you’re talking about and you are spot on. It’s depressing and sad to see how Australia can’t organize a free one in a brothel, is stuck in the past and has no real interest or plan on how to improve anything at all.
Their problem is life is pretty good, so they’re not interested in a bit of work to make it incredible. Like you said, a modest sovereign wealth fund could easily let every Aussie work 4 or even 3 days a week. Or more solar, or making use of all the uranium or one of dozens of things
"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people’s ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise."
It's what they call the resource curse, something that has plagued Norway too, but at least in Norway's case, they have opted to do it in a way that sustains it for the future. Compared to the Swedish and Danish, the Norwegians are also considered lazy for the same reason - life is good, so why bother with ambition?
I was surprised to read they don't expect atmospheric burnup and are targeting a splash down in the Indian Ocean. I really hope someone didn't mess up some mundane detail in their calculations.
I suspect they actually do expect them to burn-up on re-entry... but by telling the FAA they may splashdown, it absolves them of any problems if for whatever reason they fail to fully do so. And then the public communication has to match what they told the FAA.
They would normally have to do a debris analysis. I would expect them to burn up, because we'll have a real problem if Starlink satellites start surviving reentry. But it's possible that since this is a very low injection point and speeds will be lower that some parts might survive. If they do, it makes Starship survival look less impressive though...
Survive as in "remain undamaged and functional"? Impossible. Survive as in "something solid makes it to the surface" is quite easy. Most satellites have debris land on Earth upon de-orbiting.
Yes they do. Whether something burns up is primarily based on melting point. Steel and titanium components typically survive while aluminum does not. The overall size and average density of the satellite do not matter - they break up into small pieces long before they experience significant heating.
I accidentally tested the battery today, I forgot to plug it in :)
So, just shy of 2 hours the level was at 5%, I usually run at Frequency 2200, the range is 1200 -- 2601. The lower the frequency, the longer the battery life. You can set on NetBSD freq. using:
For resolution via the laptop screen is 1366x768, that is the highest on the Laptop monitor. As you can see it is a bit odd for some reason. On my external monitor I can go to 1920x1080 at about 60Hz. I think there were various models of the T430 and some had higher resolutions.
Note: The battery is original and is the larger Thinkpad battery. You can find new batteries on the WEB. I always use the T430 plugged in.
Ouch. That is unworkable for me, and would be very hard to deal with.
> For resolution via the laptop screen is 1366x768
Oh wow, that is a very low resolution, and wouldn't be good enough for editing photos and video.
> I always use the T430 plugged in.
I'm always shocked to see this. What is the point of a laptop you just use plugged in? Lower quality (and res) screen, bad thermals, lack of cheap expansion, and you're just tied to a desk anyway. It seems a basic desktop would run rings around it.
For years social media sites have been able to hide behind the Chapter 120 defence, because they didn’t generate the content, so they’re not liable for it.
I wonder if their AI boys will open them up to lawsuits. If their not recommends a product or location that turns out to be dangerous, or medical advice that is harmful etc.
I have no idea what the "Chapter 120 defense" is, but online liability concerns were always mostly about libel. That's what led to the CDA Section 230.
