The gas boiler has a small tank where the radiator circuit's water is heated. Warm water accumulator is analogous to making this tank larger. The radiator connections would be moved to the big tank and the boiler would be made to warm that tank. Perhaps typical combination boiler isn't optimal for this setup, so incorporating other heat sources might be best timed when the boiler is due for replacement anyway.
I suppose a modern gas or oil burner doesn't need one. But this sort of solar based heater as well as ground-source heat pumps typically would need it. They are not very expensive however, as they are just heat-insulated tanks of water. Of course space requirements and such might rule out adding one in many cases.
There are solutions in the market for this. The heat recovery system is filled with glycol solution, which means it doesn't freeze over even if left unpowered during sub-zero outside temperature. Then there's a temperature sensor and a control unit that only runs the pump when the fluid in the panels is warmer than the warm water accumulator of the home heating system.
The heat collectors are vacuum insulated, so provided with enough solar radiation, they will work even when it's very cold outside. These systems work okay for example here in Finland. Of course it's a limiting factor that you normally need the heating most when the solar radiation is at the minimum. If you've got a swimming pool or some other use for the hot water during the summer, it's a good deal.
The current HMD models are being manufactured by Foxconn in China and there's also a wide range of Foxconn middleware running on the phones. Foxconn also has a factory in Hungary, so probably the manufacturing partner is the same for these European made models too. I don't know if there's any difference in the security posture.
I think some fighter jets have the intakes on the upper side of the fuselage to enable this. Closing intake by some flaps seems like a bad idea, given that on take off you'd probably want to have all the power you can get.
There was a time-unlocked beta version of Windows Memphis (98) making circles that was shoddily rebranded as Windows 97. Of course it's likelier that the parent mistyped either 95 or 98.
I have a similar setup, though with Linux. From my experience I can recommend taking a look at restic (https://restic.readthedocs.io/). It does encrypted and deduplicated snapshots to local and remote repositories. There's a good selection of remote target options available, but you can also use it with rclone to use any weird remote. Just remember to keep a backup of your encryption key somewhere besides the machine you back up ;-)
Exposed wood in the ground doesn't last long, if it does become part of the soil the carbon will escape into the atmosphere. The branches in cold climate might take a decade to decompose, but those too will end up releasing carbon quite soon. It is true that nature takes care of it, so it's not a waste problem like plastic is, but carbon-wise this part of wood stops storing not long after the tree is cut.
Even when sawed into boards for construction, quite a big fraction of the mass is discarded during the process: the branches, the bark and the parts of the timber that is leftover geometrically in the sawmill. Then all the shaving, sanding, cutting, drilling, etc. and surprisingly small part of the growing tree ends up as a part of a building.
Germany is the biggest economy inside the EU and they've been fairly competitive globally so far. Also they've made some pretty unique political decisions, such as the nuclear phase-out.
I think you are onto something, although we've got three :). Raising well-balanced kids, who then become well-balanced adults isn't for nothing of course, but it's way harder to measure than the raw count of babies.
This is basically what Finland does, but it doesn't seem to result into larger baby count. These are very humane policies and I'm all for them but they don't solve this particular problem.
This isn't quite the only fab in Dresden. GlobalFoundries (ex-AMD) even does 12nm manufacturing in the same city, at least according to Wikipedia. There are others too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Saxony).
That is a perfectly reasonable position. Personally I consider it a hobby to tweak these things. During high volatility periods of energy price home automation can be somewhat profitable too, as it enables scheduling of the load periods to coincide with cheaper power.
My thinking was the same for years, but then I learned about Home Assistant. It's a wonderful open source package that integrates with everything. And there's a lot of options for local wired or wireless transports that keeps smart home usable without third party servers or even an internet connection.
In my setup I have some Wi-Fi connected outlets running Tasmota and some light bulbs and thermostats on Zigbee.
It's technically not quite that way, shutting down a nuclear reactor doesn't destroy it like a blast furnace. However it might be practically true after a couple of years. The institutional knowledge is gone, many moving parts degraded due to stillness. And also a lot of relicensing to do. That must be way harder for a plant that's not currently operational.
It's interesting how the level of detail improves as the camera gets closer to objects. Specifically the transparency of foliage gets more detailed when getting closer. That makes one think if a multipass version of this thing could use the details it learned later in the timeline to improve the detail level earlier.
Is some of these a product that runs on mainline Linux? I feel like a device that only runs a kernel with weird vendor patches is going to be stuck on that kernel, which might be a problem for software support going forward. And will certainly be a problem from security point of view.
I believe this is how Rosatom makes their VVER pressure vessels, their factory being called Atommash[1]. They are currently delivering a number of them.
Are there no regulatory or insurance limits for this that apply in your case? I would like to be able to do similar level of electricity installations in here, but I like keeping insurance cover even more. Save $$$ only to lose $$$ $$$ on fire?
The sector is way more centralized than what you'd think by looking at the tractor brands you see around. Massey-Ferguson and Fendt are both AGCO brands. Besides them and John Deere, there's CNH Industrial making Case IH and New Holland tractors. I expect all of the three make a lot of their revenue from the service business, so there's not that much incentive to be disruptive.
That's an interesting idea, any source? Certainly the containment building is very heavy construction, supposed to be able to withstand a passenger jet collision. Keep in mind the design was made right after the WTC attacks.
The long term waste repository is a separate project, it is not included in the same project. The LCOE does include it however, as financing waste storage is mandated in the law. I think what makes the LCOE so low is the fact that the plant vendor offered the construction as a turnkey solution with them covering the risk of overruns. So the price paid by the plant owner does not cover all the construction costs. In fact it's less than half of the costs.
Norsepower (https://www.norsepower.com/) is a Finnish competitor that already has run some pilots and there are ships being built with their technology. I hope the competition helps both thrive!
One cool feature of Infinite Mac is missing from these, unfortunately. That is the clever virtual disk system and block by block fetching of the images over HTTP that allows for practically instant execution. Most people have internet connections that are at least as fast or even faster than the HDDs of 90s computers, so reading a remote disk allows for emulation that has no slower I/O than the real machines had.
The northwest US doesn't seem* to be worse than most of the Europe, where we have a veritable boom of solar power. Granted, it produces next to nothing during the winter, but the yearly production makes it profitable still. Even for well insulated house you need some heating in the north, but it can be surprisingly little. It's not like these houses are going to be built totally without network mains.