I live in Denmark and that’s at least how bathrooms are basically everywhere here. It’s nice.

I did the same when I had surgery and was couch ridden for days. That was great. I then watched the “Tolkien cut” of the hobbit movies

He died so we dye

Lmao I looked at the wiki paged to see how unhinged it is and who joined/declined. The list of countries accepting is basically exactly who you’d expect.

It took until now to learn that Denmark wasn’t even invited.

But then how do you drain it after? Maybe the plastic liner can be lifted out and dumped?

Yeah, exactly. You definitely save some copper by running ethernet to remote racks but by raw wire count it’s not reduced much. There’s a LOT of modern plants (power and manufacturing plants) that have way more wiring than this in a photo

Um, I mean the boiler(s) itself are a small part of it. It’s all the other stuff. I am not a coal expert by any stretch, but if you think of the signals required just to convey coal, probably dozens or more of drives with run/stop/various errors/temperature/current/voltage/perhaps VF, plus all the sensors you need to use motors like that with (presumably bucket conveyors?) like slip, like explosion disk detection from dust. Not like all of those have to be present, but every step has so many signals.

Plus then you’ve got a steam turbine and a switchyard, plus all the plant utilities like process heating and cooling water, compressed air, steam turbine makeup water, etc

Nowadays you do IO to remote racks that are close to devices (like valves/motors/etc) then use Ethernet to make it go further. Pre ethernet there were typically proprietary cables for the same, but thankfully that’s a thing of the past

But something like I mentioned with a motor drive having all those signals, yeah it’s typically just an Ethernet cable + power + estop (usually hardwired still). So maybe 40-50 wires down to 5-8

I mean nowadays yes but the pic has some old relays in it, I’m fairly sure the DCS/PLC is not ethernet if there even is one

It’s about IO not compute. The controllers for plants like this aren’t very complicated but they can have many thousands of signals going to/from them. For a ~500MW plant I’d expect somewhere between 2-5k IO, more if it’s nicely automated.

Automation engineer, have worked on power plants.

Sounds like an awesome president.

I have the same story (with a huge failure at a metal factory) that I had a dozen times made a big scene about how terrible an idea it was. The corporate guy who suggested it decided to email god and country that if only (my team specifically of) engineering had supported us more it wouldn’t have happened like that. I was fuming, spent half the night furiously detailing and outlining my proof of how we supported him, bad idea, etc.

I ended up drunkenly scrapping the entire write up and just reply alling “fuck you (name)”. Perhaps my proudest work moment, tbh.

I used to work at a really shitty metal factory as an engineer. I’d have to help get the lines going again after our weekly shutdown, and it was always a 24-30 hour work day, once per week. So 5 am until 5-10 am the next day. Very little for breaks (though they did feed us), almost never any sleep. That drive home after was harrowing. It probably would have been safer if I was drunk

For all my hard work and dedication I got rewarded with fucking nothing because that’s how capitalism works

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USA’ian who lives in Denmark: let’s do this shit. It’d probably be a big QoL increase for a fair few people in CA

But the GDP per Capita is not insanely different, $85k vs 102k (source: wiki)

Ugh ever since they started charging extra for egirl bathwater (vegan) I have been going to BK

Roll tide?

Idk what the other dude is talking about. It definitely exists some places.

Source: live in Copenhagen, don’t own a car.

I was really expecting this to be a video too

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Anyone have a link beyond the paywall?