This new series with have Lucas Till in the title role. No sign of Richard Dean Anderson, but, as can be seen from the image above, the Swiss Army Knife is making a re-appearance.
And then there was this pilot, which had as its central character, the nephew of the character played by Richard Dean Anderson / MacGyver from your childhood you’ve been waiting for finally happening trailer new MacGyver TV series remember MacGyver 80’s TV show featured bright know-it-all dude knew how to make the most of any dire situation figure out a way to get out of it new MacGyver series in the works MacGyver episode first trailer new MacGyver show character Lucas Till MacGyver Richard Dean Anderson starring Addison Timlin Michelle Krusiec George Eads action movie takes place in our present young MacGyver secret organization many talents will be put to good use secret agent unlike any other MacGyver escapes perilous situations paper clip his trusty knife his wit CBS character movie air Fridays 8:00PM starting this fall /
DroneDefender, shown above, has two emitter aerials, one of which can transmit signals to disrupt control signals from the operator. The second aerial can transmit signals to disrupt GPS or GLONASS for drones in self-navigation mode.
Dronebuster operates similarly, but has the advantage of being smaller & lighter than DroneDefender, which can weigh up to 15 pounds (6.8 kilogrammes).
Or this low-tech approach may still bear fruit: http://hhg2tech.blogspot.com.au/2016/02/in-netherlands-police-are-training.html/ Dronebuster point and shoot command hacks pesky drones jammer gun exploits library drone control protocols anti-drone technology public safety military organizations drunken federal employee crashed a drone White House lawn Navy League Sea Air Space Exposition two slightly different approaches problem anti-drone device deployed in the hands of federal law enforcement military street legal version coming soon drone killer Sea Air Space DroneDefender system developed researchers nonprofit research and development organization Battelle DroneDefender two-pronged drone jammer disrupt command-and-control signals from a remote operator disrupt automatic GPS GLONASS guidance two triggers powered by a small backpack DroneDefender radio-frequency targeted simple optical sight range of about 400 meters Battelledirected RF energy weapon sends jamming signal Industrial Scientific Medical ISM bands global positioning bands 30-degree cone point of aim Department of Defense counter-drone gun Dronebuster CTO chief technology officer Flex Force Dronebuster drones interfered with firefighters California first-responders local law enforcement version Dronebuster federal government customers device broadband jamming DroneDefender much smaller DroneDefender aimed optical sights integrated radio frequency power meter signal analyzer trained device distinguish what kind of signal is being emitted from the drone telemetry remote video streaming control jamming technology illegal to use in the US new version developed Flex Force operates completely within FCC regulations drone targeted new device FCC license jamming C&C Dronebuster exploits weaknesses drone communications protocols Dronebuster's operator trigger fly home command drones land command cycling through command sets various drone systems GPS GLONASS jamming add-on card available only to federal customers pending FCC approval Dronebuster customers /
electric rail car + rocks + hill = electric energy storage system Credit: ARES/Wired
Electrical energy can be stored using pumped hydro. I.e. use electricity to pump water uphill in times of oversupply, run it down through a hydro-electric system in times of shortage.
Anything at the top of a hill contains a store of potential energy, which can be released by running it down the hill. Case in point, a company called ARES (Advanced Rail Energy Storage) plans to have a rail energy storage system in Pahrump, Nevada by 2019. Electrical energy can be stored in the system by powering the electric motors to drive the rail car up a hill. Energy capacity of the system can be increased by increasing the mass of the rail car. Among the cheapest ways is loading the rail car with rocks.
Energy stored in the system can be released by running the rail car back down the hill, using the electric motors to generate electricity. Same principle as regenerative braking in an electric car.
ARES’ pilot system is planned to have a capacity of 12.5 megaWatt-hours.
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/First-Grid-Scale-Rail-Energy-Storage-Project-Gets-Environmental-Approval-Fr/ natural resource gravity local utility surplus electricity power electric motors 9,600 tons of rock concrete filled railcars up 2,000-foot hill railcar generate electricity regenerative braking energy used to move the train up the hill stored when it comes back down ARES pilot project demonstration track in California Pahrump $55 million energy storage system utility companies relatively minor adjustments electricity output input Nevada project power capacity 50 megawatts produce 12.5 megawatt-hours electricity energy electrical energy relatively large battery storage projects Fifty megawatts economies of scale ARES CEO James Kelly more efficient larger ARES rocks gravity low-tech cheap project on-the-ground electronics telecommunications equipment railcars specifications IHS Emerging Energy Research kiloWatt hour energy storage analyst GTM Research new technology simplicity ARES different scenario safety weight future of energy storage /
If you are looking at buying a hard disk drive, it’s easy to compare speed of rotation, size of buffer, read & write speeds, but what isn’t usually available is good information on reliability.
Problem solved – Cloud backup provider, Backblaze, has recently published the results of its experience with over a billion hours of aggregate drive usage.
“HGST, Inc. (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital that sells hard disk drives, solid-state drives, & external storage products & services.” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST/ one billion hours HGST rules the roost hard disk reliability five-year-old disks still going strong Cloud backup provider Backblaze latest data accumulated reliability hard drives passed more than a billion hours of aggregate drive usage started tracking reliability in April 2013 HGST drives disc drive disk drive most reliable trend continues failure rate remarkably low three years in service 3TB and 4TB units annualized annualised failure rates 2TB units on average more than 5 years old small increase in failure rate extraordinary reliability bad experiences with certain models annualized annualised failure rates approaching 30 percent Seagate's performance Backblaze most common disk type 4TB Seagate unit nearly 35,000 of the drives in use demonstrating a failure rate of 2.90 percent Seagate 4TB units worse failure rates better pricing availability Backblaze typically orders disks 5,000 to 10,000 at a time suppliers of Seagate Western Digital-owned HGST Western Digital Toshiba disks 4TB 6TB 8TB units pricing cost-effective bulk availability uses a mixture of different disks Vaults individual Storage Pods older storage pods holding 45 drives standardizes standardises standardize standardise on a particular type Backblaze buy 1,200 disks deploy disks at scale /
Frame from Rage Against the Machine's, "Sleep Now in the Fire" music video Credit: Rage Against the Machine/consequenceofsound.net
Hey guys – it was a warning – not a suggestion!
This is the video in question – image at the top of this post appears momentarily around the 1 minute mark
The Simpsons depicted the situation after a Trump presidency
http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/10/rage-against-the-machine-predicted-and-mocked-donald-trumps-presidential-campaign-16-years-ago// Rage Against the Machine predicted mocked Donald Trump presidential campaign 16 years ago political rise The Donald band's video Sleep Now in the Fire ridiculously accurate memes Donald Trump’s so-called hair viral Vine clips incredibly easy to mock businessman turned kind of politican long before Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign officially began band predicted the massive shitstorm headed our way Rage Against the Machine Billboard alt rockers’ 1999 music video Sleep Now in the Fire proudly holding up Donald Trump for President sign RATM apocalyptic campaign deride the hell out of it clip ever-political outspoken Michael Moore greedy dystopian society despicable people Trump a real shot at winning the White House hats off to RATM The Donald RATM The Simpsons predicted trashed Trump’s political career 2000 episode Bart to the Future /
1 Waverly Labs: “10. Does it work offline? Yes it is designed to work offline for overseas use.” – http://www.waverlylabs.com/2016/05/faqs-about-early-bird-and-launch-date// Pilot earpiece language barriers live conversation translation Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Babel fish Star Trek universal translator science fiction break down intergalactic language barriers New York startup Waverly Labs Pilot earpiece in your ear provide near real-time translations of multilingual conversations technology science fiction reality Babel fish from Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy translate any language in real time Manhattan-based company called Waverly Labs commercializing commercialising electronic device Pilot earpiece listens in to a conversation communicates your smartphone close-to-real time translation several potential weak-link systems clear signal built-in in-built microphone converting signal from speech into text both speakers' languages good effective translation online translation engine Google Microsoft translating each language spoken chatty form convert translation text to speech earbud do all these tasks concurrently if the other person keeps talking all these systems are already out there up and running none are perfect glitchy and inaccurate steadily improving Waverly Labs launch with European Latin and Germanic languages handled far better by online translators Euro-to-Asian language translations Google Translate Microsoft's Skype Translator real-time conversation translation mobile desktop applications Pilot key innovation wearable device whispers the translation into the listener's ear works out in practice inevitable delay translation system the conversation the other party received the translation of the last thing you said super quick Waverly Labs launch the Pilot system pre-orders via Indiegogo deliveries launch a mobile app translation experience on your smartphone pair of earpieces foreign friend communicate real-time translation technology suggest that the language barrier may finally be broken /
Many sustainable sources of electricity are highly variable, most notably solar & wind.
By contrast, some non-sustainable sources of electricity, have little ability to vary their output – most notably nuclear & coal. This is often represented as highly desirable, “base load”.
To balance electricity supply with demand as it occurs, a power source which can be quickly varied is required.
What coal, nuclear, solar & wind have in common is their unsuitability for this purpose.
A sustainable electricity source eminently suited to this purpose is hydro-electricity – water running down hill used to turn turbines, which drive generators to produce electricity. Case in point, the Dinorwig hydro power station in Elidir Mountain, North Wales, can go from zero to 1.32 gigaWatts in 12 seconds, to match rising demand.
Dinorwig, in common with many other hydro installations can also store electricity by pumping water uphill in times of oversupply, such as from solar on sunny days, or from coal or nuclear in the middle of the night. Such a system is called “pumped hydro”.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station/ Electric Mountain Elidir Mountain slopes Llyn Peris reservoir smaller higher Marchlyn Mawr reservoir up in the hills dropping two reservoirs one of Britain’s biggest post-war industrial projects Dinorwig pumped storage power station mountain effectively a monster battery power is stored pumping water from Llyn Peris to Marchlyn Mawr at night generated by letting it flow back down at times of peak demand Dinorwig designed supplement Britain’s national grid station First Hydro Company owned by Engie and Mitsui fastest installations of its kind peak output of 1.728GW Wales power station massive industrial equivalent uninterruptible power supply Dinorwig through visitor centre Electric Mountain Llanberis other side of the valley Snowdonia national park Dinorwig power lines underground power station publicly owned Central Electricity Generating Board 10 miles of tunnels central hall six valve units National Grid Britain’s power supply analyse television schedules breaks in popular television programmes TV pick-up in power demand coal and nuclear power stations take hours to increase output solar tidal wind power Pumped storage stations Dinorwig designed specifically to cope with spikes in demand power station power-flushes lake through a Welsh mountain ramp valley power station site mountain station travel downhill tunnel steeply quickly Francis reversible fixed-speed turbine magnet magnetic repulsion generate electricity industrial scale cavern six enormous water slides flowing artificial cave main inlet valves Dinorwig six turbine units giant taps water upper reservoir flows gently sloping tunnel falls 450 metres 1,476ft vertically sloping tunnel speeding it up manifold six pipes turbine two 16 tonne yellow counterweights climb a metal staircase turbine hall power station Francis reversible fixed-speed turbines bigger casings turbine made by Markhams of Chesterfield British industry turbine hall vast scale internal floors Dinorwig Dinorwig recovers 76 per cent of the energy it uses to pump the water up the pipes at night 76% efficient Dinorwig’s construction mountain above the power station uphill Snowdon Pass of Llanberis power station Electric Mountain working power station station caverns machinery Dinorwig British engineering history /
