=== Lcawte is now known as Lcawte|Away === zmoylan-1i is now known as zmoylan-pi [04:40] we're in there somewhere... http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-14.05,52.12,3000 === zmoylan-1i is now known as zmoylan-pi [08:23] morning boys and girls. [08:52] hey brobostigon [08:52] how are you [08:53] hi knightwise, not bad and you? [08:53] doing ok [08:53] about to go for some Xmass shopping with the misses [08:53] so I packed somme light reading material on my phone :p [08:55] :) [08:55] * brobostigon has a misses now as well, he is engaged. [08:57] Congratzzzz ! since when ? [08:59] last weekend. [08:59] thank you, :) [08:59] wicked ! set a date yet ? [09:00] no, not yet, :) [09:06] i'm off :) downloaded some books on the tablet so i have something to read in the meantime :) [09:08] :) === Matrixiumn is now known as Xack [15:11] ms edge javascript engine (chakra) is going to be opensourced: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/12/05/open-source-chakra-core/ [15:22] iktf: https://twitter.com/stephaniehobson/status/672299045155504128 [16:31] Hmmh, something wrong here, under an hour to upgrade a Win 8.1 machine to Win 10 including downloading 2.6Gb of upgrade, without any issues, completely working system and without making a mess of dual boot. I guess uEFI does have some benefits === scotty is now known as Guest8151 === Lcawte|Away is now known as Lcawte [17:18] views on chromebooks in schools anyone? [17:18] i.e. schools buying them instead of other things like macs [17:24] I guess it depends what the schools are doing; I guess the macs probably give more flexibility, as would a PC laptop; but there again the chromebooks will be cheap and probably easier to admin [17:25] apparently the macs aren't being used much [17:25] need to find out more [17:27] what age range? [17:34] primary/infant [17:34] junior school [17:44] I think at that age a chromebook should be fine, and you want something cheap and destructible so when they puke on it, it's not a big issue [18:53] heck, elastic-trickery prices seem to have dropped like a stone in the last year [19:11] in ireland wind power seems to be reaching new heights every few months [19:38] zmoylan-pi: UK we've got about 8.5GW peak, but that is peak; we do have the occasional week when it produces ~.1GW [19:38] http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ is the current UK grid status [19:44] fortunately, wind power is highly predictable, and some types of fossil fuel generators can go from idle to full production in about 30 minutes [19:44] so renewable as a baseline is actually feasible - but no renewable is suitable for making up shortfall [19:45] nuclear is a better baseline, since it's got a constant output rate all the time [19:45] and pumped storage hydroelectric as a way to store excess power produced during the day for use at night *could* do instead of fossil fuiels... if it weren't comedy expensive [19:46] directhex: I'm not convinced pumped is enough; the problem with wind/solar isn't overnight - it's a week of low wind [19:46] also that [19:46] but using gas as a baseline is dumb [19:46] gas is a fabulous compensator, but using it as a baseline is a massive waste [19:47] yep [19:47] directhex: If you can persuade people to build nukes then you're right [19:47] yeah, not happening [19:48] nobody wants to build modern safe reactors, because 1960s reactors aren't up to 2010's standards. so we... keep running old 1960s reactors into the ground. good job everyone [19:48] the pricing issue with nukes isn't even construction or maintenance, it's insurance. which costs basically £infinity [19:49] you can kind of see why [19:50] we could build safe reactors tomorrow, but fear of free love era relics means it won't happen [19:50] define 'safe'? Has anyone actually built a large scale inherently safe one yet? [19:51] plenty of modern designs are modular parallel small-scale ones [19:52] oh, hadn't realised those existed [19:52] i thiknk toshiba had a 100% sealed design one [19:53] just drop it in the ground & connect a (big) cable to the top [19:53] hmm, why aren't tehy getting in on the UK competition? [19:53] that seems to be mostly French/Chinese? [19:55] france is one of the most nuclear nations on earh, if anyone has the experience needed to actually deploy things successfully, it's them [19:56] yeh, that's true, and I think we are due to get one they're probably debugging on their own soil [19:56] like... 90% of their national demand is nuclear, 10% is hydro? something like that [19:56] ah well there's a link at the top of that page for the french grid [19:57] http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/france/ [19:57] I don't think nuclear has much of a future. Electricity from renewables overtook nuclear and coal within the last few years. Nuclear is expensive, particularly when you include the externalities [19:57] currently cooking at 92.36% nuke [19:57] nobody's had to deal with a catastrophic wind spillage yet :o [19:58] although lots of people have been killed by catastrophic hydro power failures [19:58] nuclear is *way* more dependable than renewable. no "is it sunny? is it windy?" issues, so less need to top up with fossil fuels than with a heavy renewable base [19:58] nuclear probably has no future, but not because it isn't good [19:59] it's political [19:59] directhex: Given the design life of nukes I do wonder when they start having financial difficulties due to the expected arrival of fusion [19:59] directhex: I mean if you design for a 50 year life, we *should* have working fusion by then [19:59] that's what they said 50 years ago [20:00] ever gone swimming in nuclear runoff? nice & warm! manatees love it! [20:00] bashrc: Yeh, although ITER is actually getting somewhere [20:02] if you mined all the lithium in Earth, how many amp-hours of batteries could you make? [20:03] bashrc: They've actually got buildings going up and the superconducting cables made [20:04] "As of January 2010, the USGS estimated world total lithium reserves at 9.9×109 kg (economically extractable now) and identified lithium resources at 2.55 × 1010 kg (potentially economic). Most of the identified resources are in Bolivia and Chile (9 × 109 kg and 7.5 × 109 kg, respectively). World lithium production is currently on the order of 2 × 107 kg per year." [20:04] yes i am also reading that page [20:04] so it's 100g per kWh [20:04] yeah. so about 1*10^11 kWhs [20:06] enough to run the whole planet for five hours [20:07] that's kind of scary [20:07] * penguin42 hates to think of the connector you'd use for that [20:07] CCS. [20:08] the apple variant would of course cost double :-) [21:23] A sanity check: can anyone get this page to show a comparison? Is there a button I'm not seeing? http://www.asus.com/uk/Notebooks/Zenbook-Series-Products/ [21:29] nm, I've found alternate means. Still puzzle though === Lcawte is now known as Lcawte|Away [22:18] Hi folks, I'm trying to figure out how to make my PC pretend to be a bluetooth headset, such that I could make phone calls via my phone, utilising my PCs mic and speakers. Does anyone know how to do this? [22:55] hmm sounds like it should be possible, I think, never done it