Texas power issues. Wind farms getting iced up (Part II)... 38

[JohnRBaker]

There were certainly very few US cities NORTH of us.

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[Fischstabchen]

JohnRBaker,

Seattle and Spokane are more north than Houghton. There are a lot of cities of 7k people just as north or more. Map distortion makes it look further north. Same with the northeast.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Perhaps, but when you're looking North and all you see is the cold expanse of Lake Superior, knowing that the far shore is Canada, any awareness of your precise latitude tends to have a minimal impact on your thoughts ;-)

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Irvine, CA
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It's finding someone you can't live without

 

[Fischstabchen]

One summer I put my sleeping bag and tent on my bike and biked to the northeastern corner of Minnesota to the Canadian border and back from central Minnesota. Things start getting pretty sparse once you get past Grand Marais and approach the Indian reservation Grand Portage. There is old highway 90 and new highway 90 and if you are going to bike around Lake Superior, you can take old highway 90 for most of it on the MN side and follow the shoreline. It is quite pretty in the summer. I stopped to swim in Lake Supperior in Grand Marais. The water was still pretty cold in August.

 

[RedSnake]

No fishing rod ?

Best Regards A

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.“
Albert Einstein

 

[JohnRBaker]

Yes, a right-of-passage was that at least once before graduation, you had to take a dip in Lake Superior, and of course, if you waited until the last minute, that meant that you're going to have to take that plunge in June. And if you think Lake Superior is cold in August, you should try it in June.

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
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Irvine, CA
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[RedSnake]

When I was really young, the grand premier was always 24 June midsummer, in the Boltic Sea +6 C then 3 times a day all summer

/A

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.“
Albert Einstein

 

[JohnRBaker]

Yea, like jumping in that pond after our visit to the Sauna. BTW, that was in Gimo, Sweden in May.

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
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Irvine, CA
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The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without

 

[dik]

You don't drown... your thingamajiggers move up into your throat and you choke to death...

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

 

[RedSnake]

Yes but without the sauna before ;-) coming home with blue lips freezing and shivering, next day all forgotten same thing.
After a sauna it's nice with a cold dipp in a creak, pond, sea or in snow, it is refreshing

BR A

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.“
Albert Einstein

 

[1503-44]

I used to go swimming almost every (summer) day June-Aug at Lake Shore Park. Looks like its Calumet Waterworks Park now. That lake was cold all the time, but I'd get out 100% blue in June after just 15m. My uncle built an air compressor from a motorcycle engine before the war and would go hard hat diving there up till the late 50s.

 

[JohnRBaker]

This picture was taken a couple of miles south of Lake Shore Park, down near McLain State Park:

February 1971 (Minolta SRT-101)

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Irvine, CA
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[RedSnake]

Well it also works with a salmon ladder if available, talking about hydro power ;-)
And you get more jacuzzi feeling.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/video/30242646-lilian-72-badar-aret-runt-i-en-laxtrappa-som-en-jacuzzi

Best Regards A

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.“
Albert Einstein

 

[1503-44]

Is the fog horn still there?

 

[JohnRBaker]

Don't know. It's been a few years since I was there. However, if all goes well this year, we'll be in the Houghton area in late July and early August. Michigan Tech is planning to restart their summer youth program for pre-college students and our #4 granddaughter has signed-up for one of the the week-long programs (in her case she's taking 'Human Physiology'). She's currently a sophomore in Texas and she was planning to go last year but it was canceled. The school is working to get it back in place this summer. She wants to go next year as well, which would be her last to qualify (you can't have graduated). The plan is to drive to Texas, pick her up and drive to Michigan. At the end of the week, our son and his wife plan to join us and they will take her back and we'll stay as my 50-year college reunion is scheduled the first weekend in August.

Anyway, it's all conditioned on the virus having been at least controlled enough that the program comes-off as planned.

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
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UG/NX Museum:

The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without

 

[Fischstabchen]

Michigan Tech. is a gem of a school in my opinion. It isn't so research focused to water down the curriculum with unnecessary material. If I were to describe it in a sentence, I would describe it as "one of the best engineering schools for people not wanting to go into academia" or "an A level engineering school for B level students." Its power program is well known around Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Occasionally, I bump into Mich. Tech power grads in Texas but it is rare. I think they might be the only program in the U.S. with an official program for electric drive trains for cars. They have one of the few remaining EV-1's on campus.

 

[dik]

Fisch... more unbridled capitalism:

https://theintercept.com/2021/03/18...ium=email&utm_source=The Intercept Newsletter

Texas seems to be ripe, for the picking...

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

 

[CWB1]

Tech has the opposite reputation among Michiganders. Its generally considered a token degree for the children of wealthy Detroiters who want away from their parents and aren't allowed to leave the state, which IME fits the general population of their grads that I have met. Houghton is fun but visiting can be a weird experience, it and Traverse City (another small college town) are definitely straight out of the west coast with large populations of hipsters and a very un-MI vibe.

EV development/technology is a staple of most every major university and many community colleges stateside today, its largely displaced traditional ICE courses IME.

 

[Compositepro]

DIK the definition of capitalism, unbridled or otherwise, is not, as you appear to imply, "any immoral or criminal activity".

 

[Fischstabchen]

Dik,

Yes. You keep trying to wrap capitalism into any environmental issue when you don't to try hard to find environmental issues in any type of ownership of production or market function.