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How to deal with global warming, from a control engineer’s point of view (3)

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I have just read these series of articles about global warming on the website of Control magazine, they are written by Béla Lipták. I found them quite enlightning. This is the third. https://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2021/controlling-the-future-part-3/ About the author: Béla Lipták Béla Lipták is an automation and safety consultant and editor of the Instrument and Automation Engineers’ Handbook (IAEH). He can …

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How to deal with global warming, from a control engineer’s point of view (1)

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I have just read these series of articles about global warming on the website of Control magazine, they are written by Béla Lipták. I found them quite enlightning: https://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2021/controlling-the-future-part-1/ About the author: Béla Lipták Béla Lipták is an automation and safety consultant and editor of the Instrument and Automation Engineers’ Handbook (IAEH). He can be contacted at liptakbela@aol.com.

Watt is a horsepower?

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Like everybody else with a broadband internet connection, I spend an embarrassing amount of time watching YouTube videos. Shame on me. The only redeeming factor of my worthless habit is that the videos I like to watch are usually about stuff I like; history, science, engineering, planes, cars, astronomy, space, computers, well you get the …

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Want a chip? join the line…

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An unexpected shortage You may have heard some news about the worldwide shortage of chips. Not potato chips, or wood chips. We are talking about integrated circuit chips, a.k.a. silicon semiconductor chips, like the ones you could find inside your PC, at least when manufacturers still allowed you to open the case without voiding your …

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A Koenigsegg is not an egg based swedish food

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There are other good things about Sweden, apart from köttbullar (Swedish meatballs) If you think that Sweden is just a place to find boxy Volvos and weird Saabs, then the following fact will surprise you: One of the three fastest production cars in the world was designed and built in Sweden. In a world dominated …

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The ominous Tuesday the 13th, April 2021

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Yesterday was Tuesday the 13th. For most of the world, Friday the 13th is the traditional bad luck day. But for the majority of Spanish-speaking people, Tuesday the 13th is the ominous one. The fear of the number 13th has a scientific name: “triskaidekaphobia”.The fear of the Friday the 13th is called “paraskevidekatriaphobia”. Apparently, its …

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Configurando un DP/PA Link en TIA Portal

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Introducción El entorno de trabajo TIA Portal de Siemens es la herramienta preferida para la configuración y programación de los controladores Siemens más recientes. Es un entorno relativamente amigable, visualmente más atractivo que el tradicional Step 7, aun cuando los requerimientos de hardware son elevados si se desea trabajar con proyectos relativamente grandes. Y exige …

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