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  1. idleprocess

    How's The Weather There ?

    Meanwhile in north Texas - there is some debate as to whether we're in fool's spring, spring of deception, or mud season. .
  2. idleprocess

    Cheapest way to have emergency lighting? Im talking fuel vs battery ?

    I've never had a sense of smell that's by any means acute - I'd say it's well below average - and even to me the stench of the sugar glider is just too much. The critters themselves emit a musk of sorts I could detect (I gather thus can be controlled via diet). But their effluvia - which...
  3. idleprocess

    Cheapest way to have emergency lighting? Im talking fuel vs battery ?

    They've got their upsides (independent, self-cleaning, don't bark at squirrels) and downsides (aloof, cr_p in a box, attack shoes at random). Really terrible pets? Sugar gliders - aggressive, they absolutely reek, always trying to die / get killed.
  4. idleprocess

    Anyone else SICK & TIRED of hearing about "AI"??

    Anyone familiar with the librarian in Snow Crash? That's what the present wave of AI reminds me of. My impression of ChatGPT is that after but a few months of limited release it's becoming apparent that what we're being shown of it is ... less than the hype would have us believe. The language...
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    Cheapest way to have emergency lighting? Im talking fuel vs battery ?

    I'm not sure the human mind is capable of processing the speed with which a cat would likely narrate the experience nor their extreme ADHD.
  6. idleprocess

    Cheapest way to have emergency lighting? Im talking fuel vs battery ?

    You ID'ed it in those four words. Just laugh at the absurdity.
  7. idleprocess

    Cheapest way to have emergency lighting? Im talking fuel vs battery ?

    Works just like this clever hack:
  8. idleprocess

    Cheapest way to have emergency lighting? Im talking fuel vs battery ?

    If you already own said lantern and consumables just sitting around, sure. Otherwise ... gas lanterns are watts per lumen as opposed to the more familiar inverse for electric light sources. Some very hasty math using the Coleman Dual Fuel: 2.5 pints of gas = 0.3125 gallon * 33,000Wh/gallon =...
  9. idleprocess

    Balloon Wars 2023!!!

    Can't track down the link, but I recall that the Chinese government acknowledged the first balloon before it was popped in a phoned-in attempt to imply that the ICAO treaty was applicable to the balloon as a (primarily) meteorological instrument. A bit late to scapegoat a low-level official and...
  10. idleprocess

    Energy : Production, Storage, Efficiency, Solutions

    I recall that the incentives are tax credits, thus if your taxable income is below the incentive you could indeed receive less than the full amount.
  11. idleprocess

    Energy : Production, Storage, Efficiency, Solutions

    Business and operations model of utilities will have to change if whatever the number is met or exceeded. This is reasonable since shaving peaks is the most expensive part of grid operations and something batteries are good at. The supply dispatch model will need some tweaking however if it's...
  12. idleprocess

    Balloon Wars 2023!!!

    Get the impression the balloons that got popped after the South Carolina downing long exceeded the mission endurance of their payloads and had been written off.
  13. idleprocess

    Balloon Wars 2023!!!

    Yes. It's not a very busy place these days. Confirmation - up or down - would violate the implicit check valve rule that's in place.
  14. idleprocess

    Balloon Wars 2023!!!

    I have very nearly procured that yard sign in both recent Presidential elections.
  15. idleprocess

    Balloon Wars 2023!!!

    Same. There are benefits to observing at ~10% the elevation of LEO spy satellites but the odds your adversary will carry on business as usual so you can scoop up some sweet ne plus ultra res photos and SIGINT when they can see the thing coming are small. Eh, suspect one of the reasons the...
  16. idleprocess

    Balloon Wars 2023!!!

    When you're comparing metal aircraft to one another this is true - metal is a fantastic radar reflector however through a combination of geometry and maintaining a defined bearing relative to both known and likely transmitters the return can be reduced to a value near or below below detection...
  17. idleprocess

    Balloon Wars 2023!!!

    There's an ICAO treaty covering - among other things - weather balloons. TL;DR section is Appendix 4 section 2: All the free balloons I've seen that are deployed en masse for high-altitude meteorology without obtaining consent are 2 - perhaps 3 - meters in diameter and surely too lightly...
  18. idleprocess

    Balloon Wars 2023!!!

    At this point I expect subsequent "Chinese spy balloons" to be honeypots with minimal sensor packages since provoking a response is their main value now.
  19. idleprocess

    Chinese Balloon Inspiration?

    A possibility. But some novel microwave transmitters could burn out the entirety of the observation package.
  20. idleprocess

    Chinese Balloon Inspiration?

    Why use a balloon? Optics: 12 miles in the stratosphere is a simpler problem to solve than the >99 miles of low earth orbit. Less haze/thermal gradients to peer through and you can gather markedly more light with the same size objective. SIGINT: Similar to optics, closer proximity simplifies...

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