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Kayak Paddle Length - How to Pick, relative to your height

This quick writeup provides some info as to what y'all's paddle's length should be.

After going kayaking on the river every week for a while, I've noticed that I've been wanting a longer paddle. I want my strokes to be longer and I want to be able to put more force into each, without having to switch sides all the time. I'm 6' and decided to move from a 86" to a 95" paddle - I'll keep y'all posted how it goes!

Meanwhile, here is the reference table I've used to make the decision.

France shuts down half of their nuclear capacity

Energy.

 

I don't think it's due to solar out-performing. News says the reactors are down for maintenance / corrision repairs. I'm afraid the anti-nuclear movement is political: successful nuclear would obsolete the climate change stuff. Whether they say they shut down nuclear because solar outperforms, or because there is corrosion, is besides the point.

I would hope energy prices go negative on good days! That's the excess energy you can feed into AI and crypto mining.

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Spain: 70% Of Tested 'Unaccompanied Minor' Immigrants Are Actually Adults
Okay... spinal tap? Or did the migrants need to donate a finger?
Spain: 70% Of Tested 'Unaccompanied Minor' Immigrants Are Actually Adults
Okay... spinal tap? Or did the migrants need to donate a finger?
Inside Artemis: Il profilo di volo
Notice there is no video from the mission at all. What a fraud...
What communist regimes REALLY did to women
WTF is this? Since when do women need "bodily autonomy"? Is that the same as murder of children? And since when do women need "more say" in how the society "is run", while having more "free time"?

Blabbering on tv is not the same thing as running a society. In fact, politicians don't "run the society", industrialists and operators run it. Lumberjacks run the society.

Running a society is hard work, men's work! If a woman wants to run a society, she needs to grow a pair of balls, and then "free time" will be a thing of distant dreams. WTF is "free time" anyway? My time is not free.
Primeiro Conjunto de Satélites Comerciais Nucleares para Lançar a Bordo SpaceX Rocket
According to their web site, it produces 0.00000004 watts, an amount so small there isn't even a consumer device that could measure any energy output above zero, much less power anything. And it costs $5,250.00. Hence, the satellite needs solar power.

To scale this up to generate a single watt would cost $10.5B and weigh 15 tons.
Primeiro Conjunto de Satélites Comerciais Nucleares para Lançar a Bordo SpaceX Rocket
According to their web site, it produces 0.00000004 watts, an amount so small there isn't even a consumer device that could measure any energy output above zero, much less power anything. And it costs $5,250.00. Hence, the satellite needs solar power.

To scale this up to generate a single watt would cost $10.5B and weigh 15 tons.
World's First Commercial Nuclear-Powered Satellite Set For Launch Aboard SpaceX Rocket
According to their web site, it produces 0.00000004 watts, an amount so small there isn't even a consumer device that could measure any energy output above zero, much less power anything. And it costs $5,250.00. Hence, the satellite needs solar power.

To scale this up to generate a single watt would cost $10.5B and weigh 15 tons.
World's First Commercial Nuclear-Powered Satellite Set For Launch Aboard SpaceX Rocket
According to their web site, it produces 0.00000004 watts, an amount so small there isn't even a consumer device that could measure any energy output above zero, much less power anything. And it costs $5,250.00. Hence, the satellite needs solar power.

To scale this up to generate a single watt would cost $10.5B and weigh 15 tons.
Primeiro Conjunto de Satélites Comerciais Nucleares para Lançar a Bordo SpaceX Rocket
Voyager 1 relies on Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) for internal power.

Because the spacecraft was designed to travel far from the Sun where solar panels are useless, it required a nuclear power source.

Key Features of the Power System

The Fuel: The system uses Plutonium-238 in the form of plutonium oxide.

Heat to Electricity: The natural radioactive decay of the plutonium generates heat. Thermocouples then convert this thermal energy directly into electricity.

The Units: Voyager 1 carries three RTGs, which are mounted together on a long boom to keep radiation away from the sensitive science instruments.

Initial Output: At launch in 1977, the three RTGs combined produced about 470 watts of power.

Current Power Status: due to the radioactive half-life of the plutonium and the degradation of the thermocouples. The power output decreases by about 4 watts every year
Primeiro Conjunto de Satélites Comerciais Nucleares para Lançar a Bordo SpaceX Rocket
Voyager 1 relies on Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) for internal power.

Because the spacecraft was designed to travel far from the Sun where solar panels are useless, it required a nuclear power source.

Key Features of the Power System

The Fuel: The system uses Plutonium-238 in the form of plutonium oxide.

Heat to Electricity: The natural radioactive decay of the plutonium generates heat. Thermocouples then convert this thermal energy directly into electricity.

The Units: Voyager 1 carries three RTGs, which are mounted together on a long boom to keep radiation away from the sensitive science instruments.

Initial Output: At launch in 1977, the three RTGs combined produced about 470 watts of power.

Current Power Status: due to the radioactive half-life of the plutonium and the degradation of the thermocouples. The power output decreases by about 4 watts every year