Archive for July, 2018:

2018-07-18 Storage Batteries For Renewable Energy Systems

Reply left on comments for a YouTube Ted talk by Sadoway on molten magnesium – molten salt – molten antimony storage battery David Tiessen Long ago I calculated that the number of solar panels to populate such a large area would be in the billions. But saying it would have to be the size of

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2018-07-16 Throwing The Homeless On To The Streets

From FB group Orange Talk, Jul 27 Heidi Norris Dawson Before Reagan when there still were ‘mental hospitals’, the 6th floor of SATCH (now Western Global Medical Center on Tustin Ave), had keys on the elevator buttons. They didn’t ‘force’ mental patients into staying, a patient could leave by signing out. Most stayed. I’m not

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2018-07-13 Never Directly Connect RF Amp To Antenna!

From FB group Building Transistor Radios, Jul 30 Hey, if you live in Central Florida, you really do need an optocoupler! I got a Tennelec Memoryscan scanner on sale for a really cheap price back in the ’70s (the company quickly went out of business). I connected it to a VHF/UHF discone antenna on my

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2018-07-11 Communist Manifesto

From FB group Orange Talk, July 13 Rebecca Joy It’s still not spelled right. 😝 It’s not Columnist Manifesto. The Communist Manifesto was only a few dozen pages long and at the time was considered the most influential document of the 19th century. The evil Commies were a totally different thing. The Communist Manifesto was

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2018-07-09 Country Going To Hell In A Handbasket

From FB group Orange Talk Jul 11 Rebecca Joy You said “Bernie is a socialist” but there is no proof that he would change our government (he is a member of Congress!) to socialism. HC, I assume you mean Hillary, is an experienced bureaucrat who has worked within the bureaucracy, and is not guilty of

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2018-07-08 Doomed To Repeat History?

From FB group Orange Talk, Jul 11 Rebecca Joy Has it ever occurred to you that you might be wrong about Dems being socialists? When someone such as yourself tries to stereotype a group and categorize them into a pigeonhole, it becomes very unproductive to having an intelligent discussion about anything, especially politics. You fail

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2018-07-06 PN2222A Vs. 2N2222A etc.

From FB group Building Transistor Radios Stuart Bca The TO-18 and plastic versions use the same chip and therefore the specifications are the same, except for power dissipation and temperature derating. Both of those depend on the case, and the same holds true for the MMBT2222A in the surface mount package. The TO-18 metal case

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