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Friday Five May 2
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1.? Did the signing of an agreement between Ukraine and the US for mineral resources surprise you?
2.? Do you support students on college campuses disrupting classes protesting for political causes? 3.? Should students on visas have to comply with all lawful orders of authoirities or face loss of their visa status? 4.? Do you think the US is going into a recession - the first quarter of this year showed a 0.3% decrease in GDP 5.? Why is power inertia important? |
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1.? Did the signing of an agreement between Ukraine and the US for mineral resources surprise you? No, it was in the cards and is only symbolic anyway. 2.? Do you support students on college campuses disrupting classes protesting for political causes? No, but I support nonviolent, nondisruptive student protests, even when the subject is controversial.? They are part of American life. 3.? Should students on visas have to comply with all lawful orders of authoirities or face loss of their visa status? Not all orders should result in deportation.? Otherwise the system is subject to abuse. 4.? Do you think the US is going into a recession - the first quarter of this year showed a 0.3% decrease in GDP No, but a 15% correction (euphemism of drop) in the stock market is overdue. 5.? Why is power inertia important? As I understand it, "power inertia" means keeping frequency consistent.? Electricity suppliers work to keep voltage, amperage, and frequency within limits because electeric things don't otherwise? work right.? Low voltage leads to high amperage, which caused light bulbs, wiring and devices to overheat and burn out, low amperage causes a power loss,many devices likewise don't work properly under low frequency. ? The reason low frequency could be a problem in the past was that clocks would run slower, but I don't know what home appliances.? Motors may run slower, and this can damage things like pumps, but in the past, low frequency was not a problem because power companies would prioritize keeping frequency consistent.? I don't know enough about wind turbines or solar cells to know how feasible that is with those electricity sources. On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 9:33?PM mrvnchpmn via <Chapman=[email protected]> wrote:
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1.? Did the signing of an agreement between Ukraine and the US for mineral resources surprise you? Yes. I thought Ukraine was going to dawdle forever. I know they are in existential?mode, but since politics has merged with business practices lately, I expected deals would be more assertive and pursued with more vigor. Now I am of the opinion the international?political mess will be more resistant to wrangling than I had previously?thought.? I did expect?Ukraine to pact with either the EU or the US eventually. The latter has evolved a new perspective on foreign aid that is based on payment. The former has never been as charitable as the US. Either partner was going to require something in return. 2.? Do you support students on college campuses disrupting classes protesting for political causes? No. Youth is all about idealism, energy?and change. This is good. Such need tempering with social cooperation and obligation, though, and that side of the teaching may have been neglected in recent decades. 3.? Should students on visas have to comply with all lawful orders of authorities or face loss of their visa status? Yes. There is a US young lady overseas who is serving a year for touching a security guard. Without commenting on the culture or the severity of the penalty, I am still of the opinion that if I am a guest I am bound by the host's rules. Getting booted from the premises is an expected and sometimes lenient result of?being a disrespectful guest. Having said that, mediation is sometimes appropriate, especially if the student has the potential to offer value to the host in the future. 4.? Do you think the US is going into a recession - the first quarter of this year showed a 0.3% decrease in GDP Too soon to tell for me, although I am far from an expert. I expect a good deal of turnabout and then more again as things are in upheaval. 5.? Why is power inertia important? Because we are used to it and have developed our engineering around it. Were this a reality in which such were uncommon rather than a fundamental?part of physics, it would be unimportant as our entire technology and the entire shape of reality would be unimaginably alien but perfectly happy with itself. In this reality, it is nice that automotive?braking is predictable?and even nicer that we do not fall into the sun.? |
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? 1.? Did the signing of an agreement between Ukraine and the US for mineral resources surprise you?
Not really - lately nothing surprises me. 2.? Do you support students on college campuses disrupting classes protesting for political causes? Absolutely not.? If they want to raise hell - let? them join the army. 3.? Should students on visas have to comply with all lawful orders of authoirities or face loss of their visa status? Emphatically yes.? Behaviour such as has been seen at Columbia lately would get those students shot in a lot of countries. 4.? Do you think the US is going into a recession - the first quarter of this year showed a 0.3% decrease in GDP I don't think so - I heard yesterday a comment that importers loaded up on import ahead of the tariffs and that is why GDP dropped. The prediction is that the trend will reverse in the next couple of months. Incidentally right now I have work coming out my ears to the point I am not able to get to new jobs for a week - which is nearly a personal record for me over the last thirty five years. 5.? Why is power inertia important? Basically because electrical power doesn't do well with quick changes in supply or demand.? Strange things like loss of frequency control can happen which can damage all kinds of things.? This is essentially what happened in Spain and Portugal this week - which shut off electrical power to about 1/3 of the customers in the Iberian peninsula. If such a thing happened in the US it would be well beyond catastrophic. |
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