Kiwirob wrote:Repeated rapid fast charging is bad for batteries
And thousands of out-of-work people, congratulations they won’t be emitting anything, either. Should we regret the thousands of soldiers losing their job when a war ends, or is it not rather appropriate to celebrate a better future and put those hands to work in jobs that cause less harm? Nearly ev...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:you collapse the market
What does "less stealthy but good surviviability" even mean? It sure doesn't mean "successfully runs from missiles" or "can take a missile hit and keep flying". LO isn't an on/off thing. It primarily reduces the range at which an opponent can recognize and engage you. ...
Jump to postperfect example is NYC. Do you think the wealthy are using their jet from Oxford or HVN to TEB and HPN to avoid i95? No… there’s ZERO hanger or ramp space available at any of these metro airports, so the jets are being placed where there is space at satellite airports and positioned for the client....
Jump to postIt's Concorde all over again. Airlines order it and market it. But in the end, they will cancel when overland supersonic flight continues to be banned. No need to go all the way to Concorde. Remember the MRJ and E2-175, which got 100 orders each from Skywest. Silently cancelled when it became clear...
Jump to postkitplane01 wrote:Also the Adour is probably made entirely in the UK (minus things like the CPU if it even has one).
So far I can only think of (1) USA (2) UK (3) France (4) China (5) Russia and (6) maybe Ukraine if they can still build the Ivchenko-Progress AI-222. I assume Germany and Japan could, if they cared to spend the time and money. India is trying without current success. Germany is building jet engines...
Jump to postI'm not defensive. I'm offended by a graph which is rubbish. Take it up with the UK government: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/greenhouse-gas-reporting-conversion-factors-2019 This is where the data was collected, and they also provide a paper on their methodology and assumptions. The n...
Jump to postAnd it works like a charm. Fly domestic in Germany and for 200NM you get a routing looking like an intercontinental flight with airways and zigzag and all bells and whistles. Come to Austria and further east and it’s DCT to the next border point. I thought Germany had introduced FRA too, a few year...
Jump to postVelocirapture wrote:Same question for the 767s and 777s.
MohawkWeekend wrote:Gasoline is now $3.36 a gallon in Northeast Ohio. $0.56 of that is tax.
Which is the price of a Grande Iced Coffee at Starbucks.
Bad oil companies, bad.
But even if one had a convenient train option from say Seattle to LA, the majority of people will still take the plane or drive themselves. One thing such graphs cannot show is that - obviously - longer trips emit more than shorter ones. The total emissions of a flight AMS-LHR will be much lower th...
Jump to postZRH may run into fuel supply issues due to rail problems in Germany. Nothing immediate, though.
https://www.blick.ch/wirtschaft/nach-fl ... 23929.html [German]
Two victims were recorded in Spain, another one in Brazil. All were young men. The case in Brazil is confirmed to have suffered from serious comorbidities and a weakened immune system. For the two men in Spain, nothing has been published yet. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62350022 The number is ob...
Jump to postYou would have thought that as he was President, that he could have read all the documents regarding Roswell, Chemtrails, 9/11, JFK...... But I forgot he didn't read and needed a nice infographic that probably doesn't exist for these things [emoji2957] He probably asked someone to read them to him,...
Jump to postYes I believe it’s coincidence, the link article said they had taken inspiration from the eagale on the USAF Colonel insignia which bears a resemblance to it as well Which still leaves the question why an elementary school sought a logo based on military insignia. These are kids, not soldiers. In a...
Jump to postClimate research is more than statistics. Climate is literally defined as the average of weather over time and space, i. e. the statistical properties derived from a large number of measurements. Climate (change) research attempts to develop models of how external natural and human influences may a...
Jump to postAnd no F35A https://www.dsca.mil/press-media/major-arms-sales/poland-f-35-joint-strike-fighter-aircraft Poland already signed a firm order for 32 F-35A, delivery between 2024 and 2026, and 250 M1A2 plus support vehicles, delivery starting this year. With a fleet of 48 F-16, 48 FA-50 and 32 F-35 in ...
Jump to postFrom the article, Poland may also be interested in KF-21 fighters in the future.
Jump to postNot sure if stealth is a real option here. A 767-sized aircraft is still a huge chunk of metal (or CFRP) that's difficult to hide. Add the surface maintenance requirements and the need to hide the fan blades and you're looking at a very costly project in a field that very much cares about cost. I do...
Jump to postI don't think the problem is in the West. Top 10 Countries with the Highest Birth Rate (per 1000 people, CIA World Factbook 2021 estimate) Niger - 47.28. Angola - 42.22. Mali - 41.60 (tie) Uganda - 41.60 (tie) Benin - 41.55. Chad - 41.05. Congo (Dem Rep of) - 40.53. South Sudan - 38.26. Each of the...
Jump to postIn todays day and age, a strike by ANY airline group in the USA would be blocked by POTUS. Would cripple the USA if an airline the size of AA shut down completely. I guess ground staff just needs to accept being poor. The dichotomy between (near) minimum wage and being essential workers the economy...
Jump to postNot sure where to put this but it doesn't really warrant its own thread. Germany and UK suspend Eurofighter operations due to potential ejector seat issues Citing problems in one of the components of the seat ejection system [the pyrotechnic cartridges], the Luftwaffe decided to preemptively suspend...
Jump to postA101 wrote:And to be honest I don't see why they need to use a MRTT in the VIP role and not have a dedicated aircraft
For example, our weather agency used to issue weather warnings, now they're calling them "climate change warnings". People who now die of a heat stroke or frostbite are now being counted as "climate change deaths". Again, climate research is statistics. It averages weather over ...
Jump to postI'm not denying any of that but it won't happen overnight as some demand it be done. Action needs to start somewhere. Not everything needs to happen at once but the faster it happens, the less damage is done. Climate research has shown possible paths that could limit global warming to certain level...
Jump to postI thought wind farms' strategy in dealing with violent wind was to decouple blades from the turbine and let the blade rotate freely? Since there's going to be a hell lot of force needed to counteract 150mph wind trying blowing on your blade if you want to lock them in place The blades have variable...
Jump to postbajs11 wrote:smaller insignificant countries
I would have expected a box shaped intake to choke the air entering the engine to be subsonic. You can have round supersonic intakes. Famous examples would be the MiG-21 and SR-71. They just need a shock cone, which seems to be visible on the renders. The only people talking about over land flight ...
Jump to postThe frequency and scale are abnormal but aren't some degree of forest fire part of normal forest lifecycle? Depends on the region. Forest fires have always existed but nowadays they're appearing frequently in places that didn't use to have any. Though, many fires are ignited by humans. Some on purp...
Jump to postApply this analogy liberally to the issue at hand. Well, you have to differentiate between diagnostics, first aid and longer term treatment so that the issue doesn't get worse. In you example, the man should be administered first aid to stop the bleeding, but once the immediate danger has passed he...
Jump to postIt's definitely not as unbalanced as the people believe. "Asia is by far the largest emitter, accounting for 53% of global emissions. As it is home to 60% of the world’s population this means that per capita emissions in Asia are slightly lower than the world average, however." https://ou...
Jump to postc933103 wrote:Very conveniently we now have means to generate electricity without fossil fuels
flyinggoat wrote:So if Delta is only running 182 seats, do they still need the extra exits behind the wing, or will those be plugged?
Recently Japanese government explicitly tell its citizens do not try to save power by keeping the AC off even when necessary as it have led to ten of thousand per day being sent to hospital due to heat stroke, even when Japanese government have issued power supply shortage cautionary watch. Imagine...
Jump to postHuman activity may be speeding up the process, but the earth has been hotter without any human activity. Yes, remember all the 40°+ summers in 19th century UK, which made it a great place to grow cotton and sugarcane? The regular forest fires of northern Germany, written about in ancient lore? The ...
Jump to postAs far as building and securing the turbine to the ocean floor, the gulf coast off of Texas is very flat and very shallow for a long ways, up to 100 miles in some parts. It shouldn't be too hard to construct an off shore wind farm in such conditions even given the Jones Act and other constraints. Y...
Jump to postI remember DocLightning posting on being surprised at how little a couple Tesla PowerWall batteries could actually power. And a key thing is you have to plan to run on batteries for day and days at least if solar production is low due to weather conditions. And you need enough panels to both power ...
Jump to post(Off topic) It was interesting to hear Ukrainian An-12s in southern Canada (Alberta) shortly before the war. I always wondered what they were doing there. There are several Ukrainian registerd AN-12's flying in Canada, USA, Mexico and Caribbean. Most are carrying car parts.... I assume other genera...
Jump to postIMO, it is stupid that we are "retiring," rather than "refurbishing and expanding," nuclear power plants in the US. There's a limit to how much you can refurbish an individual reactor. Just like aircraft, fatigue can lead to cracks and reduced reliability, which in turn can crea...
Jump to postHowever, I will agree with you on the massive gaping hole in the PV cell life cycle. This is not something that the "free market" will correct, seeing how the same issue applies to the disposal of other electrical appliances. PV recycling is possible but requires economy of scale to be pr...
Jump to postAre there missile tactics developed to defeat point defense, for example shooting several missiles simultaneously at a ship, some sea skimming, some coming from the top ? I would guess yes. Swarms and saturation attack has been a staple of missile research since '45. Modern ship based air defence (...
Jump to postRJMAZ wrote:Yes the F135 and F119 has cold exhausts with low IR signature. The spinning fans and turbines also do not reflect radar to provide a low radar signature..
Even though the parachute system is saving lives, which of course is a good thing, I'm a bit worried about the amount of times it is having to be used.Are modern light aircraft really this prone to failure? Structural failure is very rare. Engine failures and fuel issues are relatively common, on t...
Jump to postA water bombing aircraft fighting forest fires in Portugal in this year's fire season has crashed yesterday, killing the pilot. The cause is unknown, the aircraft type is assumed to be an AT-802F Fire Boss single-engine floatplane. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/waterbomber-pilot-dies-fighting...
Jump to postAt least there seems to be a certain competence in accurately forecasting what the airport is and is not capable of doing, and well ahead of time. 'Forecasting' might be a bit too strong of a term. Heathrow has faced massive problems over the past few weeks, with multiple-hours long queues and thou...
Jump to postAfter all his controversy in the past months, the Russian government has replaced Dmitry Rogozin as head of Roscomos with the deputy prime minister of Russia, Yuri Borisov. There are rumors that Rogozin is slated to become administrator for occupied Ukrainian territories, so it may be more of a prom...
Jump to postAirKevin wrote:With the charger, you just hook it up to electricity and forget about it. Where do they think the fuel is going to come from.
100000 passengers per day is irrespective of time of day, as is, what carrier they fly on. Not quite, the 100,000 limit is not applied equally to all flights and carriers, and it technically isn't a limit on passengers but on the number of seats. This has led to cancellations of some flights and re...
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