Was that an attempt to show some familiarity with science?
Does that help you cope?
I guess not. You seem to be more interesting in touting your experience. And experience is a good thing. It's even better if you walk into it with enough knowledge base to have some idea what's going on.
But you've got some.
Me either. But some people do and we've all benefitted from the knowledge they've revealed with that work.
I have a BS in Ocean Engineering. I started in offshore oil but moved to the Navy (I'm an ex-bubblehead) where I've put in a fair amount of time. I collect, process and analyze sensor data.
I don`t mind at all, do you ?
Just don`t try and pull the same stunt with us as our "nuclear engineer" did when he tried to pass off a copy/paste Navy document he grabbed from the internet as his own.
Your turn.
Sounds real enough & is good enough for me. and as you say now it`s
my turn...I`m sorry, I`m an old hand and therfore that`s
as short as I can make it.
The irony is that our background has some similarities..except for when it comes to experience. I suspect I`m one up on you on that and I don`t think I have been "touting it", it`s something you can`t avoid getting after having spent your entire adult life in your chosen profession.
Which in my case happens to be Chemical Engineering and that a lot of Germans opt for that profession should be no surprise to you when you take a look at our industry.
In that capacity I worked with everything, ranging from GLC, HPLC, Atomic Absorption & Infrared Spectroscopy, Mass Specs, NMR, Nuclear Scintillation and linear particle accelerators
But at first, like most of the batch that I graduated with I wound up in pharmaceutical research, (..where the best paid positions were...). First with Boehringer in Biberach, during my semester breaks when I was a student and then Bayer after I graduated. From there I was recruited by a multinational consortium, (Bayer was part of it).. which for reasons known only to them decided to choose Ayerst Labs in Montreal PQ Canada as their "Stand-Ort".
We managed to file 8 patents there, but this one which is for a clathrate is registered in my name, I blacked out my last name, G.B. Nickel was the CEO of the company which hired me to develop that product.
Analytical and process control Instrumentation has been my favorite part of the job requirements.
That aspect became rapidly more fascinating because at that time all of that started to go digital, the analytical Instrumentation faster than the process control systems.
So that`s the way I went and switched over to the FDA and the Cdn Dep. of Environment, because they were looking to fill positions that opened in trace analysis using state of the art instrumentation, that Universities did not have and could not afford at that time....but were in use in industrial research.
The majority of the industrial instrumentation at that time used GE`s "Genesis" and Honeywell software and I kept up with it as it kept evolving, because I never intended to spend the rest of my time in a downtown lab.
As luck would have it, the same software and much of the same GE process control instrumentation was also used by the military and a lot of lucrative jobs opened up with defense contractors.
The one that interested me the most, landed me first with Garret AiResearch in Phoenix when they experimented using their APU turbines for the Tomahawks.
From there on it was easy to get into a job that combined everything I liked the most. Which are the remote outdoors and a job other than counting butterflies, birds or tree rings.
That`s how I wound up in the arctic and in the power plant control rooms that are on the military bases up there.
That part came "natural" because all of my cousins, uncles etc have been with Siemens and the family on my mother`s side owns a hydro plant near Berchtesgaden Bavaria...which I found a lot more interesting than "hanging out" where most other kids used to at that time.
End of story >>>>
Now I`m retired
Good enough for you?
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So let`s get past the insults and carry on.
I know where you stand and you do what my take is on renewable energy and AGW.
As far as research into new technology, why on earth would you think I have a gripe with that ?
But I do know what`s going on in a power plant control room a generator, no matter how it`s powered + what it takes to compensate for the power factor, demand factor, phase control etc.
It`s not as simple as most people assume. If it were, then why did the Chinese have to
steal the software that American Superconductor developed to control the GE wind turbines ?
I`m not as familiar with theirs, but I do know the one that Siemens uses and know where the "envelope" boundaries are...and
how little it takes to wind up outside this envelope....triggering a catastrophic cascade failure.
No way will wind turbines ever be a stand-alone option in power generation...except in applications that supply loads which are mostly static.
As far as I`m concerned I don`t care who opts for electric cars either.
But Lithium is as good as it can possibly get in battery technology suitable for civilian use.
Same story with that.
It`s pretty well useless without a back-up and that`s where all the latest engineering efforts focus on:
It`s a V2 add-on
gas engine that installs where the spare tire was.
It extends the range to 500 km and drives 2 generators when the control system calls for it.
When it runs it does so smoothly, a coin standing on edge does not fall over, while it`s generating 41 hp using on average 1.4 liters per 100 km
The cost of the add-on package is 2000 Euros and fits into the Fiat, Opel Ampera and the BMW i3.
It`s in response to a new kind of "Angst" in addition to AGW Angst.
The Germans call it "Reichweite Angst" (Reichweite is range limit) and people that drive E-cars get this Angst after they drove more than 50 km and no recharge station is in sight.
So from now on let`s bury the hatchet, if OldRocks & I could do it why can`t you?
Or do you have a problem that "Skooks" and I get along pretty good? I happen to like his sense of humor !
I can`t be the only one...look at the # of views the threads he started are getting !
I thought it`s a Liberal hallmark to be "tolerant"...isn`t it ?