Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables

On Thu, 04 Jul 24 13:15:03 UTC, charles <charles@candehope.me.uk>
wrote:

In article <v65vqn$2nm1f$3@dont-email.me>,
  Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:

On 4/07/2024 7:55 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 04/07/2024 09:25, Bill Sloman wrote:

What a load of pretentious crap. Renewable energy sources are the
cheapest power sources around,

 
Bless!
 

and EV let you travel more cheaply than you can in a car with an
internal combustion engine.

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Not at today's renewable electricity prices. And disastrous [
depreciation on EVs

>

Evidence?

>

 If you had any kind
of clue about engineering design,

 >

I am a professional engineer with a Cambridge degree in Electrical
sciences and a lifetime in engineering design
That;s how I do know what I say is true.

>

When I worked at Cambridge Instruments as an electronic engineer I had
to put up with a lot of clowns like you.

>

They had the delusion that their Cambridge degree was of a different
nature to the kind education offered elsewhere in the world - it was
heavier on math, but short on connections to reality. The good ones
could become useful practical engineers, but it took a year or two of
de-programming.

>
I'm also a Cambridge educated Engineer. I believe in "real world"
engineering.

That's good, even necessary, but it shouldn't supress the occasional
excursion into absurdity, which is where ideas come from.

I was just talking to a guy who runs the electronics group at one of
our US National Labs. He asked me what sort of stuff we do, and I said
"lunatic fringe electronics." He laughed and said that's what he does
too.

We agree that scientists present us with wonderful problems to
instrument but are generally terrible at designing electronics
themselves.

I was just reading some similar thoughts about ideas in a book by
Freeman Dyson.