Muhendis

The owner of the global convenience store chain 7-Eleven has received an offer from a Canadian rival to buy the company, in what could be Japan’s biggest ever foreign takeover. https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/19/owner-of-7-eleven-stores-receives-buyout-offer-from-canadian-rival I thought 7-11 was an American company. We live and learn.

I doubt if Trump will ever be listed as one of the best but apparently he has been granted the privilege of the rudest according to the late Queen in her memoirs.

Now I can understand why 7-11 is being taken over. I wonder if that delightfully useful shop is partially owned by a Thai family............

Suddenly, all those shops who signed up to the scheme have lost their guaranteed customers and all those eligible for the 10k handout are left wondering why they only got 9k plus an IOU for 1k. How does this scheme help the Thai economy? In my opinion it will be a disaster for Thailand.

Free drinks all round if you ring the bell.

South Korea is a good place for dog schnitzel, or stew....................

Training dogs is easy. Training humans is a lot more tricky.

That might not be advisable since the food may now be contaminated.............

Ooooh! Ouch. They may be the next incumbents on Capitol hill. Given a choice of either, I think I would still prefer Goofy over Donald Duck though. Having said that I would not wish either on the American electorate.

Depends how well you cook them first. All toxins dissipate after ten minutes boiling.

Donald Duck & Goofy

John Wayne

Start trawling the money trail. I wonder how many land officials would get caught in the net.

So it would seem that the powers that be have now given up on educating their own people and will import intelligence from elsewhere to claim the tech hub award.

Quite so. The schengen system works in Europe because of free and borderless travel between countries. That is highly unlikely to ever exist in Asia. Once again. a politician has made a statement which is his fantasy idea and nothing else.

The answer to that question is "neither". The tourists trusted their guide who has an intimate understanding of caves and rainy seasons.

Lead acid and AGM are the same thing and I agree caution about dod ranges. At 80% dod you'd be doing well to get 300 cycles out of them. Lead carbons, whilst still the same basic chemistry, are a whole world different as I expect you have already noticed. You quoted 6k cycles earlier Are you able to say at what dod this number of cycles refers? We'd be looking at just under 16½ years life expectancy. That's a huge number of cycles and well worth the investment if the price is right. Remaining capacity and hence life expectancy of batteries is based on the number of cycles at a particular dod. Once the capacity has dropped to 80%, that is when the battery is considered to be at the end of it's useful life. Have you looked at flow batteries? they can go on forever at 100% dod. They will occasionally, after many years, require membrane replacement and maybe electrolyte top up. The only downside for us mere mortals is the mortgage needed for the original purchase.

Increased rainfall = increased humidity = increased condensation on ducts

Shame nobody noticed the ceiling panels starting to sag and/or getting a bit mouldy. The lights all still work so couldn't be a water problem.

What's the dod for 6k cycles?

Ouch! At those sort of prices you're right to go for the LiFePO4's I paid just over 9K each for mine including taxes and delivery. I bought them direct from CS Power just short of a year ago.

OK 2,000 cycles would probably be at 80% dod. That's still good for 5½ years My target dod is 30% which is good for about 10 and a bit years. Here's the spec sheet for my batteries. You will need to scroll down to get to the interesting bits. https://www.csbatterycn.com/hdc12-250-12v-250ah-fast-c-lead-carbon-battery_p289.html Note the temperature range and charge acceptance (speed of charge) figures. I have 12 of them at 48v which gets me 36kW My inverter is home brew 8kW low frequency. Charge controllers are 2x60A Solar panels are 2 strings of 6 panels 550W each.

Perhaps I should mention, when looking at lead carbon battery specs., watch out for the maximum life expectancy. This will be either 15 or 20 years. The difference between the two is the mode of operation. The VRLA type will be 15 years and the 20 year battery will be gel. The life expectancy is based on standby use with trickle charge. In all other respects except one, they perform as well as LiFePO4's. The exception is: They are heavy. You wouldn't want one of them in your smart phone.

It is highly unlikely that a sodium lithium battery will ever be invented. Sodium and lithium are in close proximity to each other on the periodic table so it would not really make sense to include both elements in a battery. I think what you mean are sodium ion batteries. These are available now but it may take some time for them to appear on Lazada. They are currently being fitted to some new cars. You might like to look at lead carbon batteries. I have these in my storage system they are a fairly recent innovation and quite cheap too. So far mine are doing exceptionally well. I won't go into detail here because all the information is readily available on Google.

A very simple response from a very simple person. Trump thinks Kim Jong Un misses him. That says a lot for how Trump thinks. The North Korean dictatorship is what Trump appreciates and would like to have so very much for himself in America. Trump has a liking for that Russian dictatorial killer Putin who is directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds and thousands of his own russian citizens in Ukraine. It would seem that Susanlea would be happy in an America the same as that. The view that Bidden et. al. is an extreme left person tells me that many right wing Americans don't know their left from their right. The democrats of America are, in comparison with the rest of the world, extremely center thinking people who have a desire for what is best for the entire population.