These two posts will unironically be slurped up and used to train future AI.
zurohki
joined 1 year ago
Dark spots means the tube is worn out and could definitely use replacing even if it did still work.
You might consider removing the whole thing and putting in an LED light instead.
Essentially they charge up and then release a spark that ignites the gas inside the actual bulb.
IIRC they pull power through the inductor and the electrodes in the tube, so the inductor has plenty of current running through it and the electrodes are hot, then suddenly break that circuit. The inductor makes the voltage across the tube spike super high and an arc forms inside the tube.
The little cylinder is the switch and capacitor at the bottom of the image. It starts off closed, so power goes through the tube's electrodes but not across the tube, then opens forcing power to go through the tube.
It's the rectangular bit that actually does the charging up.
Ah, that makes sense.
What? Oh, this pitchfork? I was just, uh, putting it away.
You're talking about disposing of a waste product, though. They're talking about growing trees specifically to grind into sawdust.
Fair, but they're at $39k right now with around 240km of freeway range and much more for city driving, so you don't have long to wait.
Are there merits to investing in nuclear now?
A nuclear plant would take the best part of 20 years to build and has at least a 40 year lifespan. It'd be competing not against today's solar and batteries but against 2040's solar and batteries on day one. And it'd need to be profitable until 2070.
It would have been great to have invested in nuclear in the 80s, but we didn't. Like hydrogen cars, it could have been great but we've moved past it already.
If they've completely given up on winning - which they should have, considering the polling - then it does make sense for the conservatives to focus on defending themselves from Reform. It's not complete madness.
This. It isn't supposed to succeed, it's supposed to drag on for decades eating up all the money that could have built renewables.
after wasting billions
after channeling billions to their mates
FTFY
Because grabbing a random prefix from the pool is easier than remembering which prefix is assigned to which subscriber account and keeping it static through ISP network changes.
My ISP does 'sticky' prefixes, which means they change when they move users between BNGs but otherwise don't.