Recent content by TLM

Bipolarizing the spectrum is, I believe, a simplification brought out by the "left" because that makes it easier to facistify the opposition. I have seen presentations where more axes are brought in with fairly good arguments. But this probably goes too far into politics. I would like to see...

I am afraid it is much more spread out than that. Just hop over to the other germanic language speakers on the continent and look there.

It seems to be one of those things you have to believe in for it to work.

Read this with interest and did some Ging; result more confused: cuprammonium was used in large quantities for making viscose fiber and apparently still is used in undergarments. Also got results that copper treated fabrics are used in pillow covers. Various copper compounds have been used in...

Years ago our Welsh terrieri was the monta efficient rat killer ever, Rattus norwegicus did not have a chance if he got sight of it. A rat a day made him the happiest dog.

Looks like I am going to spend some days in the Danube delta in June. Travel involves plane changes so we have decided to travel with cabin only luggage. That kind of means no knives but I want one when there so any suggestions for a reasonable cheap knife for the duration? I don't have the...

Just a general comment: Savotta is here (in Finland) considered a high quality manufacturer but not cheap. Almost all of their production is domestic. I don't always quite agree with their design decisions but their quality is still high. I and many of my friends have a kind of love-hate...

Pedantic mode on; it is "Savotta jääkäri". "Jääkäri" meaning "jaeger" if one is more familiar with the german word. :D

All the ones I have handled are very soft, haven't tested them for carbon content.

:D I put it as a side note because it is not the every day usage.

True, though one should remember that the "toughness" is dependent on both the steel and it's heat treatment. Also at the extreme both can be used to achieve the desired properties. (Just a side note: in most tech usage "iron" is reserved for pure - or almost - element and "steel" is an alloy...

It helps to even the heating. Mag Curie temp does not care about anything else than temp. It is used as indication to ferritic-austenitic change because In practical carbon contents It happens to work.

Most cars here have dedicated headlight mode for day time. It works. There is a problem though, the one not using lights is just not noticed. It does cause a few accidents as people are used to looking for the lights.

It is not a very difficult calculation to do for your latitude, calc what is the highest angle at midsummer and put your panels 20 deg lower than that. It would give you a fairly good stationary angle and close to stat optimum. Follower panels are good for about 4 months, outside that...

Panels work well enough if they are within 15 deg of the straight line to the sun. Here in the north a follower panel gets over twice the amount of energy in comparison to a stationary one around midsummer.