Interesting Links for 12-08-2019

[andrewducker]

Alternative non-spherical earth theories

(tags:comic funny conspiracy earth )

The Post-Game Interview

(tags:funny sports interview comic )

Nicolas Cage on Acting, Philosophy and Searching for the Holy Grail

(tags:acting interview )

An occasional reminder that using seat predictors on current polling is stupid

(tags:polls politics uk viaDanielDWilliam )

If Disney want my money then this is what they'll do

(tags:StarWars muppets movies )

Official new pet naming technique

(tags:pets food names )

The audience at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, in multi-part harmony, singing from memory. The actual audience. No words on screen, no-one on stage. Just waiting, and singing.

(tags:wales singing amazing )

Bisexual people have worse mental than straight or gay people. Now researchers know why.

(tags:LGBT bisexual mentalhealth society )

Insect apocalypse in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides

(tags:pesticide insects Doom usa )

Why are there so many new books about time-travelling lesbians?

(tags:lgbt lesbians viaErindubitably books timetravel scifi history society )

Asda signs up its fridges to keep the UK warm this winter (I'm confused as to how this is in any way a battery)

(tags:electricity uk )

Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser

(tags:psychology )

The Queen is not happy

(tags:UK politics monarchy )

The last magnetic pole flip saw 22,000 years of weirdness

(tags:magnets earth prehistory )

41 per cent say UK government should grant a second Scottish independence referendum

(tags:Scotland democracy )

Study shows e-bike riders get more exercise than cyclists

(tags:exercise bicycles electricity )

Worshipper, 65, takes down heavily armed mosque gunman before he can kill anyone

(tags:terrorism Islam fascism norway )

Comments

[movingfinger]

Folkies are the best audiences and the Welsh are the best singers!

I once heard a visiting musician start in on a locally very well-known song, to be amazed and delighted when the audience join in in four-part harmony in the choruses! It must have been like having a soundtrack suddenly appear in real life.

[dewline]

5. I got "Sorry, you are not authorized to see this status." I don't think non-followers are meant to know what the author wants of Disney.

9. YIKES!!!

10. One of the authors name-checked in that article, Kate Heartfield...I think I've mentioned her in my blogging hereabouts. I went to attend a talk she gave at WritersFest here in Ottawa this past spring as well, and she's on the organizing committee - or was, the last I checked - for the local SF&F conven-errrr-conference Can-Con.

12. I hope so, despite the concerns of some of my relatives!

[hutchingsmusic]

The fridge thing is actually something that my company (KTN) have worked on. We did it with Tesco first. Basically, the way that Tesco etc were running their fridges up until now was (of course) a constant stream of power. However, if you reduce the power supply for a bit, the power used to cool it back down afterwards is a bit less than the ongoing stream was, and also at a different time, so if used properly it allows a lot of grid rebalancing.

Relevant links:
https://ktn-uk.co.uk/news/tesco-refrigeration-project-academic-update
https://ktn-uk.co.uk/case-studies/tesco-integrated-energy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261919310311?via%3Dihub

[andrewducker]

Grid rebalancing I totally understand.

But that's not a "battery". Batteries aren't "using less", they're a device which "adds more".

The system might end up in the same state at that moment in either case, but that still doesn't make them a battery.

[naath]

A battery is a device that moves use from time A to time B, it doesn't actually add any energy overall. I can see this is a bit battery like if you squint, don't fridge in the add break in the footy type thing.

[hutchingsmusic]

Naath's correct above - think of it as like a rechargeable battery that isn't charged yet. You can charge up the battery (i.e. get the food cold enough to stay cold for a while) and then use that energy later. So in practice, it acts a bit like a giant rechargable battery. I agree it's an oversimplication though.

[andrewducker]

When you use the energy later does it return it to the grid?

Or does it just not take any?

Because if it's the latter then it's still not a battery.

[doug]

I saw the text for the link about the Eisteddfod audience and thought, ooh, I grew up in Wales going to Eisteddfodau and I'm not sure I could do that. And then when I clicked play and heard Gwahoddiad ... I joined in. ;) And, thinking about it, there are probably dozens I could do the same. "Praise the Lord! We are a musical nation," as the man said.