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You have a common border with Denmark, right? There might be a possibility there…

Right, my bad. I thought you were explaining turbines in relation to the post, which would indeed have one attempt to run sand through it if not used with either liquid or steam.

I also wrote turbine and generator separately, as, as you stated, turbines and generators are not the same. I, in turn, hope I didn’t give the impression that they were.

I fully agree about the system as a whole better being described as a battery, which usually includes generators of some sort to convert the stored energy back into electricity.

And yes, this is a rather precarious article, which also is why I wrote the half-question half-joke about unnecessary conversion steps using turbines.

And that’s my confusion, why use a turbine (connected to a lift) to turn the heavy weight into a flow of steam or liquid, presumably to convert this flow to electricity using another turbine with a generator connected to it, instead of simply converting the heavy weight to electricity using a lift (or corkscrew) to turn the generator?

This is, of course, assuming that a turbine only is a turbine when it is driven by steam or liquid.

I guess the publishers of the article either got the definition wrong, or there’s a less used definition of turbine which I am not aware of.

But isn’t the definition of a turbine “a type of machine through which liquid or gas flows and turns a special wheel with blades in order to produce power” with the “power” (aka. rotational energy) going to a generator?

Where does the liquid or gas come from? Isn’t this battery supposed to lift heavy, solid objects?

It doesn’t outright state that it uses solid weights, but their illustration looks more like they’d use a lift with sand or weights, and not a turbine with liquid or steam:

Very interesting, and good to hear.

Though, I’m not sure why they would drive a turbine to drive a generator, instead of just driving the generator directly. Their illustration doesn’t show any turbines either.

They didn’t even use pictures of the cases, they just write about gardening with a picture of proper gardening tools.

So it appears, though I’m unsure whether it auto-accepts required cookies, those that have no opt-out option. If it’s banners, and not walls, then UBlock blocks the banner and thereby doesn’t give permission to store any kind of cookies, including the required ones. Kinda as if you browse the site without ever interacting with the banner.

Sadly, both need to trust that the site actually follows the rules and respects the selected/unselected cookies.

EDIT: Scrap all that, most sites don’t respect cookies settings either way, might just get either of the above and Cookie Auto Delete or something similar.

You are right, please excuse me.

Filters out as in hides it from you?

Ublock origin is very good at getting rid of cookie banners, though you have to enable it in settings, not sure about pay walls.

I have a friend who also stutters, or, I found out he stutters after knowing him for a few months.

Apparently he uses a similar technique where he “sings” what he wants to say in a slightly higher-pitched voice when talking in a professional setting. He sounds totally normal when using it, but you’re not in doubt when he doesn’t.

I’m sure it took a lot of training to master it.

Three to six hours are pretty standard when doing weekly DnD, but DnD parties (like LAN parties) are also pretty awesome every now and again.

But I cannot really imagine purely doing 12 hour games. Weekdays are too short for that, and I prefer keeping weekends free for non-repeating events.