The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek How about taking a third option: insulate the bloody power lines so there won't be any sparks!
Depending on how high voltage they are, it may take a shitload of insulation which would cost a lot more and weigh the cords down, which is why they just put them up really high instead.
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@HardwareGeek I don't get why you don't just paste the image. Compare:
vs
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@hungrier Your second image is broken.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Indeed.
There was a
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in my post.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There was a
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in my post.I can see no such thing.
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@PleegWat Its image is broken
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek How about taking a third option: insulate the bloody power lines so there won't be any sparks!
I've never seen insulated power lines. (Okay, to be fair, even if I had I wouldn't have noticed)
You just put them up somewhere high in the air. Having trees or whatever grow through them is .
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Since you brought it up again, I just shrugged when I first saw this, but now I'm curious and would appreciate if anyone cared to explain the joke here.
This was posted the day before (last Wed) PG&E planned on turning off power to several 100 thousand people. (They later revised that number down into the 10s of thousands.)
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
is having powerlines that can start fires when it's windy.
Well, when you don't do maintenance so you can pay big bonuses...
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There was a
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in my post.I can see no such thing.
Pretty sure
was
is the operative word there...
Besides, who has the time to view-raw
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I've never seen insulated power lines.
Got a fair bit of them in Bumfuckistan, for low voltage lines. Though the main goal was probably to deter metal thieves rather than do anything about arcing.
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Who's scoffing now!?!
I'm coughing now.
Might I suggest a lozenge?
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I'm told this will look funny on its own on Monday, but for now here's a description:
https://i.imgur.com/mY0HnLV.png
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek How about taking a third option: insulate the bloody power lines so there won't be any sparks!
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek How about taking a third option: insulate the bloody power lines so there won't be any sparks!
I thought that's what all the air was for!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek How about taking a third option: insulate the bloody power lines so there won't be any sparks!
I thought that's what all the air was for!
Yes, but not the trees...
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek How about taking a third option: insulate the bloody power lines so there won't be any sparks!
I thought that's what all the air was for!
Yes, but not the trees...
I heard they were planting some million of them, shirley a few can be destroyed to ensure proper room?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Got a fair bit of them in Bumfuckistan, for low voltage lines. Though the main goal was probably to deter metal thieves rather than do anything about arcing.
Around here we just let them electrocute themselves. It occasionally works.
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@Zecc Hey now! We're a civilized country, EU and everything. Those thieves have got rights.
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@dkf At this point it might be cheaper to invest into AC-DC-converters and simply bury the DC cables.
After all, high voltage cables are for long-distance transmission anyway.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf At this point it might be cheaper to invest into AC-DC-converters and simply bury the DC cables.
After all, high voltage cables are for long-distance transmission anyway.
Isn't that the plan for Bavaria anyway (because NIMBY)? These converters are pretty big and expensive at that scale, though.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf At this point it might be cheaper to invest into AC-DC-converters and simply bury the DC cables.
After all, high voltage cables are for long-distance transmission anyway.
Isn't that the plan for Bavaria anyway (because NIMBY)? These converters are pretty big and expensive at that scale, though.
Not only NIMBY - at some distance DC transmission is more efficient. And yes, they are expensive - but considering that you now regularly not only have to run those lines again and again due to fires but those same lines actually causing the fires, it might become a comparative bargain.
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Branding
failwin in Italy (and probably Spain and Portugal):Seeing it written so huge got quite a chuckle out of me.
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Challenge failed
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We do surreal here, right?
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
We do surreal here, right?
I think someone started a Surreal Thread a few days ago, actually.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
This latest update was a terrible idea. I find it a lot quirkier.
FFS. It keeps jumping down as I scroll, I keep having to scroll up. I suspect it's when it loads more posts.
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@Zecc We need our old :jellypotato: emoji.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"No, you can't trim vegetation around your power lines to prevent sparks from starting fires, because wildlife habitat and esthetics."
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Looks like trimming vegetation does not really have much to do with it after all…
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf At this point it might be cheaper to invest into AC-DC-converters and simply bury the DC cables.
I don't think it has to be DC to be buried. The insulation depends on voltage, not whether it is alternating, so with enough insulation or space around it, either should be possible to bury.
DC is indeed more efficient for the same voltage, because AC loses some power to EM emission, but that is an unrelated concern.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
We do surreal here, right?
You haven't seen many goats, did you?
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You haven't seen many goats, did you?
Goats are basically:
: Fuck you, and the gravity you rode in on.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
AC loses some power to EM emission, but that is an unrelated concern.
I have some doubts about that ( of course). Soil tends to be a better conductor than air. The changing magnetic field generated by the AC line would thus more easily induce a current, which would result in higher losses.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You haven't seen many goats, did you?
Heck, I've even slept with one.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek How about taking a third option: insulate the bloody power lines so there won't be any sparks!
Other, already mentioned physics based objections aside, then you run into:
:california: What?! And now you want to pass the cost of all that to consumers?
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf At this point it might be cheaper to invest into AC-DC-converters and simply bury the DC cables.
I don't think it has to be DC to be buried. The insulation depends on voltage, not whether it is alternating, so with enough insulation or space around it, either should be possible to bury.
DC is indeed more efficient for the same voltage, because AC loses some power to EM emission, but that is an unrelated concern.
No, burying high-voltage AC cables creates inductivities which reduce the transmission efficiency rather strongly. It's actually one of the main reasons why we don't bury them.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
slept with one.
*writes in noyepad named Musk* goat fucker for life...
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You haven't seen many goats, did you?
Heck, I've even slept with one.
That's what your wife says.