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Comment Re:Ridiiiculous. (Score 2) 307

More information from the author of the study...

Turnaround efficiencies are mis-reported for CAES. If you think about pure electricity-in-electricity-out storage, then it is certainly possible to beat 70% even at small scale and at large scale you are likely to get 80% (if you do all the right things with management of heat).

CAES does always involve managing heat but nobody with any sense would store pressurised air hot. Yes air does tend to rise in temperature when you compress it but all of the serious proposals for CAES systems remove the heat from the air before storing the air. For good performance, you store the heat (separately) and use it later on during the air expansion. Apart from the fact that temperatures would weaken or destroy the air containment, they would also mean that you stored a lot less air (by mass) in the same containment. The pressurised air containment is the most expensive part of most CAES systems so you want to work this as hard as you can.

Comment Re: Sounds fair (Score 2) 247

And then the world's wealth would very quickly all flow to countries like China that would still have sane economic and labor policies. Then the countries that implemented basic income schemes would have no money to pay out the basic income - either that or their currency would become worthless.

Comment Re:Numbers (Score 1) 575

He issued an instruction for that passenger to leave - the passenger disobeyed that order, so was at fault.

Ah, the being "arrested for resisting arrest" gambit. Surely, you have to see how this is circular logic.

Comment Re:The commentary has a major flaw (Score 1) 188

Yes, I am conservatively some 50x more productive than my junior peers. A big part of that comes from knowing what to ask the customer up front, knowing what won't work, and knowing when to just build the damned birdhouse the customer requested rather than a 400 unit Gehry-inspired avian housing complex "just in case" the customer wants to upgrade in the future.

I'm not challenging you, but could a lot of that 50x be a result of accumulated domain knowledge or product specific knowledge?

Would you be 50x more productive than junior peers if you moved to new company in a different industry?

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