a couple more open source options with actual pastebin type interfaces, but which have not been updated in some time and have official instances which have been blacklisted on uBlock are:
hastebin https://github.com/kevr/hastebin
and DPaste https://github.com/DarrenOfficial/dpaste
The police should be able to use the service, but only with a warrant for the specific plate or time+location they are searching.
https://hedgedoc.org/ for self-hosted option.
https://cryptpad.fr/ for a private free cloud hosted option that doesnt require an email to sign up.
PrivateBin is an open source Client side encrypted alternative to PasteBin that has everything you want, with the caviat that just like Fediverse you have to pick an instance you trust to stick around, or self-host of course.
Nice, thanks!
Age verification is just a wedge to de-anonymise the internet and enable complete profiling and policing of all users. Truly one of the biggest political fights of our time, and it is getting slept on hard.
If I recall correctly, Yahoo was originally a hand curated site list sorted topically. Seems like something similar could be a “search” solution for the slow web, potentially wiki style with nomination of an entry for inclusion in a topic and a certain number of votes from validated users/editors to add it to the directory. Could even be done via Lemmy/Mbin as the front end on an instance where only local members votes are counted towards the total and you have to apply to join with some kind of vetting process.
Reminds me a bit of Citizendium
It me for sure.
Nice! That’s not bad at all. Any trouble with print consistency or maintenance?
Nice. Larger bed size definitely fits my needs better.
Yes, this definitely should be a part of the energy mix, we are about to experience an energy crisis in the US due to bad changes in policy. We need to deploy wind at all scales.
Their prototype unit is 400 watts, based on their deck their target is residential use.
While “a lot” would fit in a the footprint of a large turbine, 42,500 would not, which is how many would be needed to be equivalent to the large turbines the article is talking about, and I’d bet that many Harmony Turbines would cost more as well.
Scale efficiency for grid scale wind projects is the bottom line, and bot accessing steadier and stronger high altitude winds with taller turbines and using larger diameter blades gain efficiency beyond what any fleet of smaller turbines can match.
Not to say that larger scale vertical axis turbines are completely out of the picture, but they suffer from irregular bearing loading which wears out the drive train much faster among other issues. As of now large scale horizontal axis bladed turbines are far ahead in term of both cost and space efficiency. It would take something very groundbreaking to change that.
No need to die on this hill, it’s just different technologies for different applications, there is a place for both.
Check out this DOE page for more info on turbine scale: https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/wind-turbines-bigger-better
To not dismiss your perspective out of hand, in order to use smaller vertical-type mills and still tap higher altitude winds on masts would require support structures that can keep many more turbines aloft to supply the same electricity, and the electrical infrastructure to merge all the turbine electrical output and balance the loads to give a stable denoised power output to the grid.
The result is a much lower weight to power density in the smaller turbines, meaning much more expensive structural supports, and much more expensive power routing and station infrastructure. This makes such projects non-viable as they wouldnt be able to charge enough for the electricity to pay off the infrastructure over the lifetime of the turbines.
Smaller turbines like the one you posted DO have a great place in the power mix, for example for potential installation at the top of skyscrapers where the support infrastructure is already paid for by other uses (though the loads have to be accommodated by the building design, which still adds cost), or in low-altitude areas where steady winds exist and there is specific moderate electrical demand, such as in valley ports on islands or more remote coastal towns. In those cases larger mills would overproduce electricity demand, so smaller turbines at lower altitude are a good fit.
The forces on a blade of this size are truly staggering, when you think about how long a lever they are attached to only one side, its clear that the issue is not only strength at the seam of a proposed joint but also the impact any additional weight will have on the junction of the blade with the rotor. They are pushing the limits of what high pressure molded composites can handle at these scales, but still some companies have developed multi-piece turbine blades.
Generally the biggest downsides to multi-component blade technologies are that they cost substantially more, and they have lower operating lifespan, a bad double whammy for the profitability of a windmill.
Basically the cargo plain developers are banking on the cost per flight of each turbine blade being less than the cost of building, installing, maintaining, and replacing multi-part blades over the lifetime of the windmill, and as of now this economics pencils out. Who knows though, tech changes fast, what I wonder is whether portable blade foundries might not be possible to build the blades on-site for large windmill projects.
If you want to get into the nitty gritty I found this presentation very helpful: https://windmillstech.com/wind-turbine-design/
Doesn’t tap the higher altitude stronger winds.
Check out reAM250 powder bed fusion 3d printer
Looks like a step towards true industrial metal printing.
“Open source hardware is hardware whose design is made publicly available so that anyone can study, modify, distribute, make, and sell the design or hardware based on that design. The hardware’s source, the design from which it is made, is available in the preferred format for making modifications to it.” - https://oshwa.org/resources/open-source-hardware-definition/
I wouldn’t be so sure, the illusion of choice is sometimes more useful than a true apparent monopoly. There’s a good chance Nvidia will push Intel to further differentiate their GPUs and focus into more niche applications rather than kill them off entirely. Like what if Intel focused down enterprise mini-PC market while Nvidia continues to dominate the large profile PC GPU market? Seems like there is a growing niche between laptop and gaming PC, but it might be too formative for Nvidia to go after. It could also overlap with the cloud PC market where more compact GPUs could enable more units per cubic foot of server farm. Just a wild hypothetical, but you never know.