A general rule I used in industry was that on plant air @7-ish bar, it took at least 5 hp worth of compressor capacity do 1 hp worth of work at the end of the hose.... No biggie on a small scale.
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Her husband, my grandfather, lived in Regina but worked on a traveling threshing crew and mentioned seeing a windmill driving an old generator from a car to charge batteries at one stop.
Well meaning PMs read up on products and throw them at the problem and it's treated as a great success because there are no hard targets, just a general desire to reduce noise, and that happened.
One fun thing I encountered from local government is releasing files with potato quality resolution and not considering the page size.
I had a FOI request that returned mainly Arch D sized drawings but they were in a 94 DPI PDF rendered as letter sized. It was a fun conversation trying to explain to an annoyed city employee that putting those large drawings in a 94 DPI letter size page effectively made it 30-ish DPI.
A similar thing seems to apply to marriages: If the money and sex are good, any other BS in life is easier to tolerate.
In government work programs in British Columbia, we were taught to address every point or requirement in a job listing that we could. Is this tactic clearly distinguishable from clearly faked?
My unsolicited advice to people wanting to visit the city has always been to not go during UK long weekends and if they're only looking for drugs and sex, that both can be sourced closer to home.
The branch of the family that still farms has a neighbour that has their son use his drone to zip out over the fields and check on their irrigation system.
Just tie your line through a hole in a soup can and put it over the muzzle before firing a spud.
Regardless of the skill set needed to do the job, being able to tolerate repetition with no pause outside of break times and adhering to instructions whether they understood their necessity or not was what made for a good Assembler; it wears most people out. I would joke that to be a successful assembly line/cell worker you needed to view each new unit as a visit from an old friend and not own guns.
My experience (in BC) is that the amount of skill/cost of your assemblers can vary.
Where I have worked, low volume production of relatively complex products required more skilled/trainable people because they ended up putting the whole thing together and they were paid well; some sub assemblies could be handled by less technical/skilled Assemblers.
On higher volume lines, if we needed highly skilled workers then it was a sign that we should look at the process and break up or farm out the steps that needed them.
^Actual chip foundries are no sweat shops.
I know nothing about semiconductor production, but maybe they can be sweaty shops? A room can 21 degrees, but if you're in a bunny suit...
Assuming you need to do everything responsibly and above board, you may get paid for the scrap, but you need to pay to remove and dispose of pipe lagging, fuel and lubricant residue, separate and recycle various materials and W.H.Y.
I don't know about the US Navy but if they have to account for the proper disposal of everything in those ships, that's a gigantic task and selling them for a penny may well be an excellent deal.
A tangential thing:
Where I am, on the BC coast, I'm told the old way to dispose of old vessels (including commercial) was to scuttle them somewhere quiet.
There was a startup out here that was offering, for a fee, to responsibly dismantle boats and sort through everything and responsibly recycle or dispose of everything. What the owner would get is a paper trail, especially weigh-bills, showing their ship disappeared in a legal way. I believe it failed because of the cost.
Some advice I received from a general contractor applies to auctions: You never lose money on a contract you don't win.
I've seen FOMO and pissing matches run up bids when simply putting a value on each lot you're after and sticking to it seems best.
Leaving an auction empty handed only feels bad for a few minutes and is easier the next time.
Once upon a time, at least in person, the auction house took there share out of the sale price (the buyer's share) but everyone where I am has charged it as a fee to the buyer for at least 15 years, so consider that when setting your number.
Anecdotes:
I've been in a bidding war, hit my number and stopped, had the exasperated Auctioneer try to goad me, and lost.
I've witnessed unbridled enthusiasm make equipment sell for 80% of the cost to buy new.
Once a bidding frenzy at a fur auction meant the price of squirrel pelts doubled and my colleague made $16K snaring squirrels that year. BTW: At least in the 90's, the People's Liberation Army was the biggest buyer of squirrel fur; I was told they were used to fringe hoods on winter jackets. That may have been as case of get the pelts no matter what.