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thedrbrian··on Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)
There is no way an a380 is maintaining level flight with only one engine.
thedrbrian··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
> And no, I could not just leave instead. My first company, Freshflow, is valuable enough that walking out of Germany would trigger a massive six-figure exit tax

Something is wrong here if you will be liable for at least a hundred grand of exit but balk over 25k to start a new company.

thedrbrian··on Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
>LCOE

Is bunk. You should be using LFSCOE instead.

https://davidturver.substack.com/p/lcoe-levelised-cost-of-en...

thedrbrian··on Several injured in Boeing 787 nose-gear collapse in Frankfurt
Anyone who has any mechanical inkling would see that the NLG rotates around the massive bushing and putting a pin in there won’t stop anything.
thedrbrian··on UK secures record supply of offshore wind projects
>All sorts of congratulatory posts about AR7...the £94 /MWh being roughly the level of today's wholesale power price is being used as some sort of positive signal

So here are some facts:

* The average wholesale power price in 2025 was £80 /MWh * The carbon price was £35 /t a year ago and £73 /t today * Carbon was c11-12% of the wholesale power price a year ago * It's c28% today * AR7 contracts are for 20 years vs 15 years in AR1-6 * AR7 is the highest price since the first auction * We started subsidising wind in 1990!!

How anyone can think this is good news is beyond me. It's obviously good news for the subsidy farmers who will enjoy 20 year contracts at inflated prices, unless Reform wins the next General Election and rips them up in which case it will be pretty bad news

It is terrible news for consumers, embedding high prices for decades to come

> https://x.com/KathrynPorter26/status/2011693634278625460

Get in. we've just locked in / subsidized the most expensive form of energy.

thedrbrian··on Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year
but if they go down by 1 cent per kwh then technically the price did go down.
thedrbrian··on Welcome to Gas Town
They’re the new bitcoin bros.
thedrbrian··on Volkswagen to close German plant, a first in their company history
Germans are missing that cheap Russian energy.
thedrbrian··on United 777-200 fleet faces an uncertain future after Dulles engine failure
Just put it in the hold. I can’t stand waiting for the cheapskate to find somewhere to put their 45kg “rucksack” in the over head bins just to save a tenner.
thedrbrian··on The time has finally come for geothermal energy
Its so easy that you can’t name me a single city of more than 10000 people that runs entirely off renewables.
thedrbrian··on Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani's policies as 'normal'
Can confirm have paid for the bus.
thedrbrian··on The value of bringing a telephoto lens
>One day, after "seeing" some good shots in my head and totally missing them due to phone camera limitations, I decided I had to fix it.

That was my problem. Went to an air show and used my iPhone 13 and got some good pictures. iPhone 16 comes out and it’s got a 5x zoom and the best camera ever. You’re gonna love it. And the pictures were better but still ok.

So I’ve gone all in and bought a proper Canon mirrorless and a selection of lenses including a 100mm to 400mm and it’s miles better.

I tell the camera what to focus on , I set everything and I control what it does no software second guessing me and taking a lovely picture of a tree and not the eurofighrer in the background.

I love that it’s got one job and it does it brilliantly.

thedrbrian··on Perrinn 424 – An open access electric hyper car designed for racing
And like the car completely hypothetical.
thedrbrian··on I just sold my Bored Ape (#3707) today for $37,000. I bought it for $425,000.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahshahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha

Breathes in

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So how is that blockchain going? Still at a minuscule fraction of visa for 10x the power?

thedrbrian··on Full Moon: Seestar S50 vs. Samsung S25
Could you explain the stacking process or put up a link explaining it?
thedrbrian··on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC
>£75 a month seems very reasonable for sports nerds, compared to the cost and availability in the past

good that you ignore the actual point of the comment that you replied to

>That won't actually allow you to watch all of the matches that are played, because for weird historical reasons there's a TV blackout on matches played on Saturday afternoon - even if you've paid for your subscriptions, you'll only be able to watch about half of all league matches on TV.

thedrbrian··on Ferrari were SO impressed by the Xiaomi SU7, they bought one
I know this may seem amazing to people who don’t like cars but all the manufacturers buy each others cars for study and comparison. Hell the chinese steal most of their styling from other cars.
thedrbrian··on Solar becomes top source of electricity in California
Need that anakin meme.

And it’s got the cheapest electricity right. …. The cheapest right?

thedrbrian··on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral
they detained him for his drug use

https://x.com/CBP/status/1937651325354795444

thedrbrian··on BYD begins testing solid-state EV batteries in the Seal
>is your closest gas station 2 miles away?

No but it only takes 3 minutes to dump 45 litres of fuel into my car and that lasts about 3 weeks of driving.

thedrbrian··on Into The Tunnel: The secret life of wind tunnels
If you want to know more about the European transonic wind tunnel , there’s a great podcast from OMEGA Tau

https://omegataupodcast.net/76-the-european-transonic-windtu...

thedrbrian··on If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling
I’ve got Virgin cable and can pull 6Gb a minute from fast.com. Your hypothetical 50Gb steam game would take a whole 9 minutes assuming steam can saturate my connection. So that’s like enough time to hit start download , make a brew and come back to the pc. Why bother.
thedrbrian··on Palm phytoliths in subarctic Canada imply ice-free winters 48M years ago
How many flights were people allowed on back then and how much carbon tax did they pay?
thedrbrian··on How Nissan and Honda's $60B merger talks collapsed
and it's not a tenth as good looking as the concept
thedrbrian··on Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]
That and airbus didn’t want to keep supporting Concorde. And they held the type certificate
thedrbrian··on Power grid in Central Europe uses unencrypted radio to add and shed loads
Here’s the talk that this article comes from.

https://youtu.be/DAf-T3bFJFs

thedrbrian··on Ford's electric Mach-E outsold the gas-powered Mustang in 2024
I wouldn't call their electric division a success if they're writing off nearly 2 billion dollarydoos in investments

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/21/for...

about $6,700 per EV sold in 2024.

thedrbrian··on Black boxes from Jeju Air 2216 stopped recording four minutes before crash
Manual process.
thedrbrian··on High electricity prices in California have nothing to do with renewables
>“Our work shows that the main grid in the world’s fifth-largest economy was able to provide more than 100% of the electricity that it used from only four clean renewable sources: solar, wind, hydroelectric, and geothermal, for anywhere from 5 minutes to over 10 hours per day for 98 out of 116 days during late winter, all of spring, and early summer, as well as for 132 days during the entire year of 2024, without its grid failing,

wow. great. so who is paying to maintain the backup?

thedrbrian··on Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The story of EgyptAir flight 804
>The F-16 inerts it’s fuel tank ullage space with Halon.

why can't they use nitrogen ?

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