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miamizsun

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Posted: Jan 19, 2023 - 8:20am

 rgio wrote:

You're right. 


it's hard for me to fathom that statement
are you available for conf call/facetime with my other half?
because if you are...

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Posted: Jan 18, 2023 - 12:04pm

 miamizsun wrote:
original post was to point out that his mission is to electrify the planet
climate change was a huge driver/reason for this


You're right. Apologies for my participation in the hijacking.

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Posted: Jan 18, 2023 - 12:02pm

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There was more then one time in my testing I found design errors in which I submitted corrected drawing to find them come back to me with an engineers stamp of approval, because they were the ones with a degree. That always bothered me. Bottom line, a degree does not an engineer make, in my book. 

I'm honestly not trying to piss anyone off, and surely wouldn't suggest you're not what you say you are....but...

You appreciate that your experience supports my argument.  A degree does actually an engineer make.  

Your book might read a bit differently if you were the one with the degree.  

I absolutely appreciate that you might not be as good at your job today without the experiences you've accumulated, but the world we live in likes structures it can qualify/quantify, especially if those structures create exclu$ivity.
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Posted: Jan 18, 2023 - 11:50am

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I am gonna have to weigh in on this  as it is a subject that peeves me. I have had the title of Engineer in my job titles like forever and no, I have no degree. I was in the Navy as an Electricians Mate nuke cert. I translated that into a Startup Engineer job at a Texas Nuclear plant when I got out. There was more then one time in my testing I found design errors in which I submitted corrected drawing to find them come back to me with an engineers stamp of approval, because they were the ones with a degree. That always bothered me. Bottom line, a degree does not an engineer make, in my book. 

licenses are key to all aspects including design, review, inspection, insurance, etc.
i don't think musk has an degree in engineering or a pe license
his title is chief engineer and perhaps i should have thrown that in
and i doubt that he has ever driven a locomotive
he has formal training in economics and physics and there is probably quite a bit of overlap there 
(between engineering and physics, esp rocket/aerospace engineering)
his residency, field or on the job training has been twenty years at spacex 
and maybe another 15 or so at tesla 
i'm certain he has hired and worked with quite a few engineers and has a very good understanding of what everyone is doing
and/or takes to make things fly
regarding engineering: i do think it is safe to say that by now he knows wtf he's talking about

original post was to point out that his mission is to electrify the planet
climate change was a huge driver/reason for this



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Posted: Jan 18, 2023 - 11:03am

It's trendy...


All hail the newfound techno-utilitarianism!
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Posted: Jan 18, 2023 - 10:56am

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Elon graduated with undergrad degrees in both Physics and Economics, although there have been inconsistencies in story-telling (he ended up having to prove it in court believe it or not).  

He then was accepted into Stanford's Ph.D. program for Physics but dropped out almost immediately to focus on building an internet company.

Those degrees from Penn are impressive, but Physics is not Engineering.  He's not an Engineer.


I am gonna have to weigh in on this  as it is a subject that peeves me. I have had the title of Engineer in my job titles like forever and no, I have no degree. I was in the Navy as an Electricians Mate nuke cert. I translated that into a Startup Engineer job at a Texas Nuclear plant when I got out. There was more then one time in my testing I found design errors in which I submitted corrected drawing to find them come back to me with an engineers stamp of approval, because they were the ones with a degree. That always bothered me. Bottom line, a degree does not an engineer make, in my book. 
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Posted: Jan 18, 2023 - 10:44am

 rgio wrote:
Those degrees from Penn are impressive, but Physics is not Engineering.  He's not an Engineer.

Details, details.  He also identifies as a Dilbertarian.

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Posted: Jan 18, 2023 - 10:29am

 miamizsun wrote:
but he identifies as an engineer!

This guy identified as Jew-ish...

Elon graduated with undergrad degrees in both Physics and Economics, although there have been inconsistencies in story-telling (he ended up having to prove it in court believe it or not).  

He then was accepted into Stanford's Ph.D. program for Physics but dropped out almost immediately to focus on building an internet company.

Those degrees from Penn are impressive, but Physics is not Engineering.  He's not an Engineer.
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Posted: Jan 18, 2023 - 9:45am

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"All presidents 'engineers' lie!"
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Posted: Jan 18, 2023 - 6:56am

 miamizsun wrote:


but he identifies as an engineer!


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Posted: Jan 18, 2023 - 6:45am

 Red_Dragon wrote:

but he identifies as an engineer!


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Posted: Jan 18, 2023 - 6:19am

 miamizsun wrote:

just another example of an engineer proposing and building solutions
not just persuading others but actually doing something
it seems difficult for some people to recognize this
but why?




Musk isn't actually an engineer...
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Posted: Jan 18, 2023 - 5:49am

just another example of an engineer proposing and building solutions
not just persuading others but actually doing something
it seems difficult for some people to recognize this
but why?


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Posted: Jan 4, 2023 - 8:14pm



The Green War on Clean Energy

Radical environmentalists fight against the very technologies that would cut carbon emissions.James B. MeigsSummer 2022 Infrastructure and energy


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Posted: Dec 14, 2022 - 8:15am

I found the successful Thermonuclear fusion  experiment a nice bit of positive news. Hope it isn't just a blip and they can find a way to recreate it and bring it to scale one day. 
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Posted: Dec 14, 2022 - 5:13am

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Posted: Nov 22, 2022 - 6:59am

Village in French Alps demolishes its ski lift because there's no snow left
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Posted: Nov 20, 2022 - 6:31am

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Posted: Nov 17, 2022 - 7:03am

 black321 wrote:

How a sand battery could transform clean energy

A new way of storing renewable energy is providing clean heat through the long Nordic nights.

At the end of a winding, tree-lined country road in western Finland, four young engineers believe they have a possible answer to one of green energy's biggest challenges.

The challenge is how to provide a year-round, steady power supply from renewable energy during changing seasons and variable weather conditions. The answer nestling in Vatajankoski power plant, 270 km (168 miles) north-west of Finland's capital, Helsinki, is remarkably simple, abundant and cheap: sand.

The Vatajankoski power plant is home to the world's first commercial-scale sand battery. Fully enclosed in a 7m (23ft)-high steel container, the battery consists of 100 tonnes of low-grade builders' sand, two district heating pipes and a fan. The sand becomes a battery after it is heated up to 600C using electricity generated by wind turbines and solar panels in Finland, brought by Vatajankoski, the owners of the power plant.

The renewable energy powers a resistance heater which heats up the air inside the sand. Inside the battery, this hot air is circulated by a fan around the sand through heat exchange pipes.

Thick insulation surrounds the sand, keeping the temperature inside the battery at 600C (1,112F), even when it is freezing outside. "We don't want to lose any heat; the average winter temperature is below 0C (32F) in Kankanpää," says Ville Kivioja, lead scientist at Polar Night Energy, who monitors the battery's performance online.

The battery stores 8 MWh of thermal energy when full. When energy demand rises, the battery discharges about 200 kW of power through the heat-exchange pipes: that's enough to provide heating and hot water for about 100 homes and a public swimming pool in Kankaanpää, supplementing power from the grid. The battery is charged overnight when the electricity prices are lower.

https://www.bbc.com/future/art...







just goes to show what kind of innovative thinking we are capable of. wonder how they could bring something like this to scale.
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