Recent content by russ_watters

They are an extremely common construction component, they just aren't usually that long. So common that for smaller assemblies you don't even need a structural engineer, there's books of standards for things like ductwork, piping and small equipment construction/support. This commonality...

Do other batteries read normally?

They were threaded rods and the contractor didn't want to take the time to thread the nuts up 15 feet of rod. That's why they asked for the change.

Switched to EE from what? Given that you didn't take the foundational math courses in year 1, and if you fail calc 1 you'll be a year and a half behind, you'll be setting yourself up for a very tough and maybe impossible road. [Moving thread to academic guidance.]

Ugh. "Three environmental groups are suing the federal government to try to block the restart of the Palisades Nuclear Plant in southwest Michigan." Right, "environmental groups" opposing carbon free power. Wild.

So far it's low hanging fruit; restarting plants that were closed/mothballed early is a heckuvalot easier than building a new plant. It remains to be seen if we'll start building new ones (though I guess the next step would be end of life replacements in situ). I think the next big question is...

Well, when society is paying for college, society should decide what college's job is and when an individual is paying for college that individual should decide what college's job is. Since I'm a bit of both, I have my opinion. And I'll put an even finer point on it: the more "society" allows...

Well, college administrators certainly believe that, and there is a common implication (sometimes implied, sometimes stated explicitly) that a liberal arts degree is a complete education whereas a STEM education needs to include half liberal arts to be "well rounded". I strongly disagree with...

Agreed, and to me a lot of this is based on the question/assumption of what the point is of high school or college education. To me, the primary/required schooling every developed country provides should have the purpose/goal of producing functional members of society. There can be a lot of...

"Publish" or "submit for publication"?

I have a TDS meter too, which is useful, but the kits you get with test strips can test for dozens of different contaminants. Example:

You can buy test kits online or in a hardware store. Testing for anything specific?

No, I don't know the mechanism. But anyway, this is a red herring. The radiation of these molecules is not a major factor here, as surface radiation dominates heat transfer to space if there is limited GHG. You seem to think the atmosphere can only be warmed by the surface, when it is both...

You've been told several times already that that isn't true. I don't understand why you keep saying it. No he didn't. You're trying to get that by reading between the lines while ignoring explicit statements that it isn't true:

Of course. Yes. Yes, of course. Are these self-evident questions really what you want to know?