It’s been a big week… me and deck-builder-extraodinaire, Cliff (my father-in-law) built a deck… ok. so he did 95% of the work. But it was fun. And there’s more work to be done, but it’s coming along nicely.
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Touring the Galaxy, at 1500KM/Second!
Some things are just too big to imagine. Supernovas… the giant explosive deaths of stars, which themselves are hard to imagine… (In a few billion years, our own star will go “Nova”, not super.. unfortunately there will be no inhabitants of the Earth left to see it. Indeed, the Earth will be engulfed, eaten, by …
Electrification of Vancouver Island — Addition
Prompted by questions in the comments of the last thread, (here) It just occured to me that it would be quite easy to figure out the theoretical peak load of such a system. All you have to know is the number of locomotives on the system and their maximum rated horsepower and convert it to …
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