We often talk about the climate impact based on greenhouse gases, but extracting fuel from the ground and using it in exothermal processes of course also releases energy as heat....
Its not the question you asked, but Nuclear plants can raise the temperature of the bodies of water they use for cooling nuclear plants. Additionally climate change is reducing water availability needed for nuke plants which is something I don't hear the nuclear advocates talk about when we're facing a dryer and hotter future. We'll have to start turning off nuclear plants right when we need them.
This is already happening occasionally in the last decade:
Lochbaum analyzes reports from the NRC showing when nuclear plants scale back generation because of warm water.
In June, nuclear plants in Georgia, South Carolina and Pennsylvania scaled back their generation multiple times because of hot temperatures warming their cooling water. The Limerick power plant on the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia has scaled back because of high temperatures frequently over the past decade, according to the reports.
The Dresden and Quad Cities plants in Illinois had to scale back because of high water temperatures multiple times over the past five years. The Duane Arnold plant in Iowa and the Monticello plant in Minnesota also reported scaling back generation because of temperatures.
It was majority employee-owned before the acquisition but is now majority owned by private equity firm. The main change I'm noticing is that everyone is being pressured to work uncompensated overtime (we're all on salary here) and requests for training/professional development have been all but eliminated. They also initially...
You could ask if you are eligible for a retention bonus. This is a cash award that is given if you stay X amount of time, or if they lay you off before X amount of time. These are commonly given to key employees when a large transition is happening. It should be a significant amount. About 10 years ago I was offered an $11k retention bonus and accepted it. It doesn't require you to stay working there, you could leave at any time, but it gives you a bit of protection if they part ways with you early, and if they don't you get a nice chunk of change at the end of the period. I didn't think I'd say, but things did get a bit better (until they got worse again), but I did get the bonus, and was laid off within 12 months of the payout (so about 3 years later after the retention bonus offer).
If they say "no", then they're telling you that you're either not valuable enough or that they are keeping their options open for laying you (and likely others) off. Brush up your skills and resume and start looking elsewhere. You're likely not going to be fired/laidoff immediately, but its its not going to get better.
Using your choice of words it would be "stable/static". Effects of gravity moves at the speed of light. Perhaps a better example would be Earth orbiting the Sun.
The Earth is 8 light minutes away from the Sun. Meaning, the sunlight we see on Earth at this exact second left the Sun about 8 minutes ago. If we wave a magic wand and make the Sun blink out of existence in a fraction of a second, the Earth would continue to orbit the, now non-existent, Sun for the next 8 minutes. After 8 minutes the Earth would stop its circular orbit and head straight out of the solar system at what ever direction it was traveling at the end of the 8 minutes.
That’s amazing, thank you! A ghostly remnant of gravity still exerting 8-ish minutes of influence on earth (in the event of the sun’s instantaneous disappearance) is something I never heard or thought about before, but it makes sense.
Also for us standing on the sun facing side of Earth when the magic wand was waved would still see the sun shining in the sky for 8 minutes because that light had already left the sun before it blinked out of existence. We on Earth would experience the loss of the Sun's gravitational influence on the planet and the light of the sun at the same moment as both light and gravity travel at the speed of light.
This is not the first time I’ve ranted about the previous owner’s wiring jobs, though I think they were on the other site (and I had a different username there)....
Sounds like this person did shabby work elsewhere they thought would be “good enough”.
I opened it up and found that…there was a good ground there (to my relief) but he apparently just decided to use a two prong outlet. WHY? He had to have gone to special effort to find a two prong outlet to install.
Probably because they likely had an old receptacle laying around and, staying on brand, it would be “good enough”.
“Employers are unprotected. We have no rights. We don’t get overtime or breaks. The only thing we get is what’s left over after everyone else takes their cut. At some point, the risk outweighs the reward.”
Right, that’s what Entrepreneurship is. You take the big risks for the potential for big rewards. If you’re not earning enough after paying all the bills, maybe your business model isn’t viable.
I don’t have light rail in my city (one of the top 15 largest US cities). One of my favorite things to do when visiting other cities on vacation is use their public transit. NYC’s MTA is middle to low quality/price compared to other North American cities. I won’t even compare against Europe, because theirs are so much better overall than ours.
For North America, NYC needs to up their game compared to the DC metro, Chicago’s L, or Seattle’s Link. San Diego an Toronto are also both nice, but not nearly as much coverage of the metro areas. Boston also gets high marks even though their system and rolling stock looks absolutely ancient. Philly’s Septa is about on par with NYC’s MTA in my opinion, but the cost of MTA is one of the higher priced services for what you get. Chicago CTA’s $5 full day pass Ventra card is the best value I’ve seen in the country.
Seattle does something I haven’t really seen elsewhere for their light rail. The trains are powered by overhead electrical catenary wires, and the rails in stations and many tunnels are level to the ground.
So some of the tunnels under the city are just level paved which means the Trolley buses can use the same tunnels as the Train! It was surreal to be on the bus with the diesel engine running through city streets, then the bus took a ramp down to the “train tracks”, hooked up to the catenary overhead, diesel engine stops and electric motor purrs to life, then you’re driving in the same tunnel under the city that the Link train does at other times.
Seattle also has a completely separate light rail transport in its Monorail!
I rank MARTA pretty low compared to other cities. Cleveland’s Rapid (RTA) ranks quite a bit higher than Atlanta’s MARTA to me. However, my city has zero light rail, so I’m still a bit envious of MARTA. As shit as it is, what is more shit is nothing except city busses.
While there was an announcement shortly before the WGA strike, and Alex Kurtzman confirmed the writers room is back up and at work during an NYCC panel, Paramount+ is moving forward on promotional information about the forthcoming new ‘Starfleet Academy’ show....
Agreed. OP, I’m sorry this has happened to you. I wish you the best.
For others in the future, a crappy 1 room “extended stay” hotel might cost more for housing temporarily, but would likely be more money in your pocket at the end of the month than unemployment. Getting a job is much easier if you have a job already.
First, I wasn’t suggesting it as a permanent move. You live in the other place until you find a job back in your original location, but all the while you’d still have a job, income, and most importantly, health insurance.
Do you guys and the people who upvoted you not have friends and family?
Multiple times during my childhood one of my parents had to move ahead to a different city to take a job while the other parent stayed in the original place until the end of the school year and we’d move.
I’m baffled by the nonchalant suggestion that someone pick up their life and move across the country thousands of miles from anyone they know, on what is more or less the whims of strangers.
You do what you have to do to make ends meet. When there is no easy way you do the hard thing because thats what being an adult is.
Is the heat produced by fossil and nuclear fuel negligible?
We often talk about the climate impact based on greenhouse gases, but extracting fuel from the ground and using it in exothermal processes of course also releases energy as heat....
Private Equity Firm Bought My Employer
It was majority employee-owned before the acquisition but is now majority owned by private equity firm. The main change I'm noticing is that everyone is being pressured to work uncompensated overtime (we're all on salary here) and requests for training/professional development have been all but eliminated. They also initially...
[Physics] Does gravity have 'elasticity'? If a solid sun-sized object zooms across space at the speed of light, then abruptly stops, does it take gravity some time to 'settle' around it?
Is it a stable/static effect no matter what, or is it a bit more stretchy/bouncy depending on how the object is behaving?...
The world’s best airline is paying staff a bonus of 8 months’ salary after record annual net profit of $1.98 billion ( www.cnn.com )
Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO’s private jet in 2023 ( techcrunch.com )
Latest rant...wiring by the PO
This is not the first time I’ve ranted about the previous owner’s wiring jobs, though I think they were on the other site (and I had a different username there)....
18+ Pornhub Shuts Down For Texas ( lemmy.world )
Lame sauce. Can our elected officials just freaking decriminalize weed instead of worrying about dumb crap like this?
'We have no rights.' Frustrated with California wage laws, Moonstone Bistro in Redding cuts lunch service ( krcrtv.com )
'Leave them stranded': Rideshare drivers shut off apps at Atlanta airport, boycott for hours ( www.fox5atlanta.com )
If you have company flying into Atlanta for the holidays, they may have a hard time getting a ride to your place.
Paramount+ confirms series order for 'Starfleet Academy' ( www.startrek.com )
While there was an announcement shortly before the WGA strike, and Alex Kurtzman confirmed the writers room is back up and at work during an NYCC panel, Paramount+ is moving forward on promotional information about the forthcoming new ‘Starfleet Academy’ show....
The reason CEOs want workers to Return To Office is because they want you to quit ( www.fastcompany.com )
Got laid off today.
Whole Maryland office is being “consolidated” with Austin. They offered to move us to Austin if we want. How fucking generous....