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The humble beginnings of the aircraft carrier dates to the start of the 20th century, with

the first fixed-wing aircraft to ascend from a ship being in 1910 when a U.S. pilot took

off from the USS Birmingham.

It wasn't until the 1940s, when what were then known as fleet carriers, began to play

a very significant role in warfare, with the U.S., United Kingdom and Japan leading the

way in developments.

Today aircraft carriers are considered 'capital ships,' meaning one of the primary ships

in a naval fleet, along with battleships, battlecruisers, and nuclear submarines.

Despite this, few countries currently have aircraft carriers and those that do have many

less than the U.S.'s 19-strong fleet.

The U.S. is also the only country to own supercarriers, the largest known military behemoths to sail

the seas, although China and the U.K. are developing their own.

Today we'll look at two of America's supercarriers, in this episode of The Infographics Show,

the Nimitz Class vs the Gerald R Ford Class.

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Notification Squad.

First of all, we should point out that Nimitz Class has been a lodestone in the navy's

arsenal for some time.

The USS Nimitz (CVN 68) was commissioned in 1975.

The USS Gerald R. Ford is said to be 98 percent complete, and after more trials, its expected

deployment is 2019.

The ship has experienced some skips and bumps during development, although some pundits

believe it will be in a class of its own.

In terms of costs, the Nimitz Class' tenth and final iteration, the USS George H.W. Bush

CVN-77, commissioned in 2009, was said to have been made for around 6.2 billion dollars.

By comparison, the Gerald R. Ford Class is estimated to have costed around 12.8 billion

dollars and a further $4.7 billion in research and development.

This makes it the most expensive warship ever built.

The Nimitz Class weighs approximately 97,000 tons, has a length of about 1,092 feet (333

meters), and a beam of 252 feet (77 meters).

Its top speed is around 30 knots, or 35 miles per hour.

The Gerald R. Ford will also weigh almost 100,000 tons, have a length of 1,106 feet

(337 meters), and a beam of 256 feet (78 meters).

Its top speed will also be 30 knots.

The Nimitz Class gets it power from two A4W nuclear reactors, which power four propeller

shafts.

The Ford Class shows some superiority here, fitted with two new-design AB1 nuclear reactors,

which are said to create six hundred megawatts of electricity, three times more powerful

than that of the Nimitz Class.

Supercarriers are often referred to as being a navy unto themselves, due to the large number

of personnel and equipment they carry.

The Nimitz Class carries around 5,000 crew.

The Ford Class is said to be able to perfectly function with around 700 fewer crew members.

The Nimitz Class is armed with 16–24 RIM-7 Sea Sparrows or NATO Sea Sparrow missiles,

three to four Phalanx Close-In Weapons Systems or RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles.

The Ford Class will carry two Mk. 29 missile launchers, two Rolling Airframe Missile launchers,

and four Phalanx Close-In Weapon Systems.

It's also said that due to the Ford Class's ability to create so much power, it will mount

laser self-defense weapons.

As for armor, the Nimitz Class has Kevlar over its vital spaces, as does the Ford Class.

Both carriers can hold around 75-85 aircraft and also helicopters, but the number of aircraft,

as well as the type of aircraft, can change.

The Nimitz has typically carried F/A-18E or F Super Hornets, F/A-18C Hornets, F-4 Phantoms,

F-14 Tomcats and more.

The Ford Class will also carry F/A-18E or F Super Hornets, as well as EA-18G Growlers,

F-35C Lightning IIs, MH-60R Seahawk helicopters, and unmanned helicopters.

One of the reasons for the excitement around the Ford Class, however, is the fact the Electromagnetic

Aircraft Launch System will be able to generate magnetic fields that can greatly improve the

take-off speeds of aircraft and cause much less damage than the formerly-used steam activated

catapult systems did to aircraft over time.

The method of using catapults that needed steam power is said by some pundits to be

outdated; a laborious process that required lots of maintenance and was time-consuming

due to waiting for steam pressure to build.

The Ford Class also has a superior landing system in its Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG),

which will reportedly be more effective than the MK 7 hydraulic arresting system used on

the Nimitz.

However, in 2016, a report by the Department of Defense Inspector General said the AAG

had yet to be proven in its superiority.

The Ford Class will also receive an upgrade in its electronic warfare systems.

Up until now, the U.S. Navy relied on the AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare Suite, with the

Ford Class using more advanced AN/SPY-3 and AN/SPY-4 multifunction radars.

This is known as Dual Band Radar, and essentially performs as many tasks as the many radars

used on the Nimitz.

Other positive attributes given to the Ford Class over the Nimitz Class might not sound

quite as exciting, such as its superior sewage system, various improvements regarding how

space is optimized, new electric weapons elevators, a larger flight deck area, and a redesigned

island.

The Ford Class's dedicated website states, "During the design process, the shipbuilders

found hidden value in every square inch of the ship."

This, states the site, will save Americans billions over the years.

Another aspect that is important, and one in which America arguably leads the way, is

technological automation.

The Ford Class requires fewer crew, partly because of automation.

It makes sense to have fewer crew in many ways if the ship runs just as well.

As Newport News Shipbuilding's President Matt Mulherin said in an interview with Gizmodo,

not only will operating costs be down, but the life of the sailor should be much easier.

"We've taken off a lot of bunks, and taken off workload for a lot of sailors, but it

retains all of the functionality of the Nimitz-class ships," said Mulherin.

The Ford Class in some ways is a mega-computer, consisting of fiber optic cable that stretches

for millions of feet, vastly improving data speeds and the reliability of data.

As we heard in the beginning, the U.S. is not alone in building highly advanced supercarriers.

Not much is known about China's CV-17, although analysts have stated that it will be endowed

with an advanced electronic suite and updated Type 346 radar.

Much speculation has surrounded its carrier's catapult system, although the People's Liberation

Army Navy have stated that the next Chinese aircraft carrier will have an electromagnetic

aircraft launch system.

The UK is designing two supercarriers, one of which is the HMS Queen Elizabeth.

This will not require catapults due to it carrying only vertical or short take-off and

landing aircraft.

The same goes for its other supercarrier-work-in-progress, the HMS Prince of Wales, whose aircraft fleet

will largely consist of American-made F-35B Lightning II stealth multirole fighters, the

variant of the F-35 for short take-off and vertical-landing.

As Britain and China have yet to finish these rather expensive ships, not only is the U.S.

the only country to have an electromagnetic aircraft launch system on a carrier, but it

is only joined by France in having steam catapults.

The two French ships, however, are not considered supercarriers due to their smaller size.

Russia and India are also said to have aspirations in building a supercarrier, but right now

that's a long way off.

So, how do you think the old pro ranks against the arguably more advanced Ford Class?

Just as the development of the F-35 has been criticized for devouring dollars, the new

supercarrier has been met with similar concerns.

Only recently, President Donald Trump said he was no fan of spending money on what he

referred to as digital catapults.

We'll leave you with that, and hope to hear your opinions in the comments.

If you liked this video, be sure to check out Nimitz Class vs Admiral Kuznetsov!

Thanks for watching, and, as always, don't forget to like, share, and subscribe.

See you next time!

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"SLIPPERY STUFF" LUBE REVIEW (THE BEST!) [CC] - Duration: 7:12.

Hey guys, it's me Chaseypoo. Back at you with another review.

Today, I will be talking about lube. And I've never talked about lube before because I don't really make videos about lube

but I don't know why I haven't and I'm holding so much lube in my hands right now

and I can't wait to talk to you about it. As always, these videos are sponsored by Early To Bed who send me

products for me to try out and review for you guys. If you see anything on the wall that you're really interested in they're probably

from Early To Bed although there are a lot of things on there that aren't from Early To Bed.

But take a look at the link in the description below and if you buy anything I get a commission

but you also get a discount because there's a discount code in there, so we both win. Today I will be reviewing lube,

by Slippery Stuff.

This is a company that has a bunch of different types of lubes that I want to touch upon. The first one is

silicone based lube alright, don't use this on any toys that you have because the toys that you have are probably silicone.

You cannot use silicone lube on silicone toys, because it will completely destroy the the wiener the,

whatever silicone toy that you have

it will like erode it. It's just not fun.

So this you will use if you are having sex with a person that has a penis - and I was swallowing there

I wasn't trying to not say the words. I was literally swallowing. I was literally swallowing as I was saying penis.

So you can use it if someone who has a penis. If you really want you can

technically use silicone lube on a condom if you put it on your toy

but I will not recommend that. Don't do that because it can still touch the silicone on the base

and that's really - don't just, don't do it alright. This is also good for masturbation.

So if you're just going to play with yourself, and that's what you want, and you're looking for something

to use,

silicone-based lube is good for that. The reason why silicone based lube is so good and why people still use it - even if you

can't use it with toys - is because it really lasts long because it is made out of silicone.

But there are also negative sides of it. So other than it would not mess up all of your silicone toys,

it does stain things.

I'm not sure this one actually stains anything,

but I've heard that a lot of silicone lubes do stain things. So anyways this lube is very good for masturbation

and if you're going have sex with someone with the peen so yeah. Or I guess if you want to just like put your

body parts inside yourself if that's not big enough these things inside you.

The second thing by Slippery Stuff that I want to talk about is the

um,

Personal Lubricant liquid, water-based. Now Early To Bed does not have this specific model on their website

I don't know if they will ever get it, but I went to a sex shop, and I decided to ask them

'what's your best lube', and I found a whole bunch of stuff that I was like

I don't know about this. So I googled it,

but a lot of people - a lot of people - said that this was really good. Now the thing about this lube

It is very good and it lasts very long.

Which is what I've been looking for in water-based lube because that's really hard to find because it's not silicone

and it dries out really quickly. But the thing with this lube is that when you put it on your hand -

and I'm not going to do it because I'm going to get lube everywhere - you put it on your hand and even if you close

the tip the lube somehow it just kind of it kind of dangles on so then you have a trail of lube. Alright,

I'm going to be like really graphic

and I was kind of doing some stuff on my floor the other day and like suction cup a peen -

I was kind of like riding it: There was fucking lube everywhere. When I walk on that side of my room

I'd slip I need to like mop it is dangerous, but in terms of water-based lube that is very much

long-lasting, this is recommended.

I have used Sliquid in the past which is the blue and the pink bottle in the behind me - that is also being reviewed

- that does not last as long as this one. If I was to tell you, if you were asking 'which lube do you like the most'

it will be this one over here by this company.

This is very good lube. Now this is the liquid type.

What I love is that this company makes a lot of different types of lube.

And I will tell you that this is the winner. Out of all the lubes that

I have this is the lube that I found that works the best

it works in so many different ways. Yes, I know that

i'm just showing you - you can't really see because the light. It just says gel and it just says Slippery Stuff.

So this is just what the packaging looks like it looks like it's been bent a lot because there's really not that much lube left in it.

'So Chase why is this the best out there?' Because when you open it up

and you put it onto your hands -

it's a gel which means that it's on your hands and you not going to leak everywhere like the liquid version of Slippery Stuff

water-based. The liquid stuff that I just showed you, it really just kind of goes everywhere,

it's very hard to cup it and it like, leaks and it like kind of strings along

and there's lube everywhere. This, you put it on your hand

and it stays on your hand and you can put it onto the peen and it's not just going to go everywhere.

It's going to go exactly where you're putting it.

I will say that this lube is

amazing

when using the Bono.

If you don't know what the Bono is please look at the description and the link please - look at the link in the description below.

I put the

reviews that I have done for the Bono -

there is a reservoir tip in the front where you have a syringe.

What I do is I take the lube in here

and I put it inside the Bono. So when you squeeze the Bono it comes out a little bit

and then you're able to jack off the Bono before you're having sex with someone or if you're going to masturbate with it.

But the gel is amazing, this is my favorite lube.

I'm about to buy like a bucket of it, and I'm not even joking with it -

I have found the lube that works for me and works with the things that I like to do. I like to do anal a lot

and having water-based lube is really tricky because it dries out really quickly - and an ass is not moist like the front hole.

So I have a lot of issues with that, so what do I need to do? What should I do right? So I have decided

to use this lube even though I didn't know anything about it

and I bought it and I'm very happy that I did because for anal it's really great. It does dry out,

I can't lie to you. It's water-based. It's not perfect. It's not silicone.

Um.

But it doesn't dry out as fast as

Sliquid and it doesn't dry out as fast as the liquid version of Slippery Stuff. The gel is really really good

And you do need to apply

but you don't need to reapply as often. And the really great thing about this, too

is that it is taste and odor free. It doesn't taste or smell or like -

I don't know how to explain it, it doesn't taste like lube. Like, lube

I feel it has like a distinct taste. This doesn't smell like lube.

But the bottle a little bit sticky because I was using it a little bit. Anyways,

If you have any questions

please let me know if there's any lube that you recommend that you say is the best lube that you've ever tried, and it's water

based - please tell me because I would like to try all the different types of lubes and review them for you guys.

If you have any questions

let me know. If you would like to buy this Early To Bed sells this and also sells the silicone version over here,

I will put the links in the description below. Please, like I said, this is from Early To Bed.

They're awesome.

If you would like to buy this product go in the link in the description, use my discount code because then you get a discount.

Alright, thank you so much for watching. I love you guys so much have a great day. Bye!

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Weber® Certified Hands-On Cooking Classes At Riverside With Andrew Dickens - Duration: 5:20.

So we're just about to start our next three hour hands-on barbecue master class

here at the Riverside Barbecue Centre. We've got some amazing ingredients if

you feel like joining us just go online come a sign up to one of the courses.

They're brilliant!

So this is Andrew, and he's going to be going through the whole evening with you, and I'm going to be around.

Before we start folks health and safety brief... Not all the barbecues will be on at the

same time but what we say it assume every single barbecue is red hot!

What we've got is two stations folks; we've got one station there...

and one station there and we're all going to be doing the same thing

so what we're going to be doing is splitting into - is it 19 we've got? -

(There's 20)

Twenty, right, so two teams of 10, so if you've got a mate stick with your mates

but generally speaking we're going to have 10 people kind of on one side...

..and ten people the other side.

And we've got everything divided into two.

And the way we're going to work through all the recipes, and there's quite a few

if you don't do the first physical chopping up

putting the recipe together, cooking it, then you do the next one. you can all work your

way round. So some will be doing "choppy choppy", some will be doing "cooky cooky"

and then just go around to the next one and work your way round

(And "eaty eaty" as well?)

"Eaty eaty!" now that's a very good point!

So flip her over...

...or him (not being sexist)

And get that rapeseed oil everywhere okay

once you've done that I want you to just get that, shake it all over, I mean in

there, in there, in there, and rub it all over.

That's cool!

That'll do! I'm loving that.

That's all good! Lots of salt on this...

This was my birthday present after my wife bought me a very nice barbecue for my birthday..

A perfect way to learn how to use it, fantastic!

(And what's been your favourite recipe tonight?)

Beer can chicken!

(Are you going to try it at home?)

Yes, definitely will! (Thank you very much for coming!) Thank you!

(whispers) One, two, three... Oooooooooooh!!

It's almost as if we knew it would work! I love it! Right Rana so go straight down

that way now now. I'm expecting that to be even hotter. What we at Rana?

(Seventy seven)

(So what's gonna be the first thing you're going to try when you get home?)

I'm going to try this!!

Chorizo with tomato!

Just be a bit, be a bit more positive!

Yes!! Got it!!

Awesome!

Now, we'll lift the lid up, you put it on the pizza stone...

then you just pull it out fully back out okay?

Goodness me, that's hot!

That's it!

(Are you going to be trying out any of the dishes at home?)

Yeah, pizza.

Pizza, yeah, we'll do the pizza.

(You were the pizza master

...you've obviously done it before, are you going to have a go at it on the barbecue?)

Yeah!

(Yeah, and your risotto was very good!) Thank you!

Ah-ha-ha! Oh yes! Look at that!

Sensational! I love it!

(What's the best tip you're going to take home tonight?)

I think searing the steaks actually

the searing grate, that's the thing that was the nugget.

(Were there any surprises?)

Tarte tatin! That was very good! (Great flavour!)

Never thought of cooking anything like that on a barbecue.

Oooooooh, tarte tatin everyone, on the barbecue! Come and get some!

It was all very worth it!

(Did you enjoy the course?) I loved it!

(What was your favourite recipe?) Chicken... and sausages....

...and chips!

Ready? Oooooooh!

So this is David's risotto everybody! Ooooooh!

(How did you find it tonight?)

I thought it was absolutely fantastic!

I've been looking at coming on one for quite a while...

...and er, the nice thing about this is I could come along in the evening and even didn't take a whole day

so it's perfect! A good couple of... a good three hours! Fantastic!

(And what's the best tip you're taking home with you tonight?)

Well there's quite a lot.

A lot of it reinforced giving me a lot more confidence.

what I've done is a lot of looking around on

YouTube but the thing is seeing it live just gives you a lot more confidence in so many things.

Can't think of one in particular. Fantastic!

Much better than I expected!

learnt loads, just got to go out and put it into practice now.

(What were you expecting?)

Probably not quite as interesting. I was expecting a night out but learnt a lot.

(As a vegetarian did you learn a lot of new techniques?)

Yes, yes, lots of really good ideas.

And very helpful at suggesting alternatives.

(What are you going to try at home? I see you holding the apple wood chips there)

I'm going to try using smoking chips with fish.

So that's another brilliant barbecue course done here the Riverside Barbecue Centre.

What do you think folks?

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!!

(What was Andrew like as an instructor?)

Andrew? Who was Andrew?

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TOP 5 Migliori 🍄 POWER UP di SUPER MARIO 🍄 - Duration: 11:00.

Did you really think you got rid of me?

So did you really think you got rid of me?

dears...

I'm sorry for you

because...I'm...

BA...ARIO!

Aaaand...hi people, Hash Cosmos here and welcome back

or, rather, welcome back to me. Ehehe!

Today we'll be talking about a "muy" interesting topic, namely Super Mario

So many times people asked me, under my Curiosities about videogame videos

to make an episode (of curiosities) about Super Mario

Well, today they won't be curiosities but...something worse

far worse *evil laugh*

I'm talking about...

...a TOP 5

Yeee!

Yeah, this time I got drawn by people who make TOP 5 videos

and I decided to make one of them too

So I said "Fine. Let's do a TOP 5 video...but about what?"

About one of the most popular videogame characters of the world

but not simply about characters or levels, but about his power ups

And probably, if there hadn't been mushrooms, power ups, shit...

...and especially fans

I wouldn't have played anymore in the shoes of an italian plumber who jump on...

...STUFF

Without further ado, despite I know that

you missed me and so you're still drying your tears

let's start with this classification of THINGS

that turn Super Mario into one of the most famous videogames

characters in the history.

Number 5: we're in Mario Galaxy

in an age where hardcoregamers, a.k.a. those who

say "You can't talk about videogames

if you have never palyed this"

treat like a shit every single Super Mario game following the NES

well, Super Mario Galaxy is the slap in the face

who they diserve.

A slap like..."SLAP", I mean...

I've always loved power ups of this game

I liked them so much, that once

I partecipated to a contest in which you could

send a fan-made design

for a possible future Super Mario's power up

Maybe I will tell you even this story...maybe

It hasn't been easy choosing between

Mario Bee, Mario Cloud and Mario Boo

but obviously there's one who won the right to be in

this classification (what a honor)

Mario Rock!

Yeah sirs, the best power up on Mario Galaxy 2, is Mario Rock

in my opnion (Google Translate "Party Rock")

I called him "mario Rock 'n' Roll" because I'm stupid

Don't know, maybe it's because it has a costume

which is different in comparison to the other ones; as the only thing that they change

it's often just the look. Or maybe it's because it's an action

power up, so...you roll there

you break the wall to that side, you kick that person's ass to THE OTHER SIDE

or maybe it's just because I enjoy the

fact, who Mario looks like Golem of Pokémon

So I still gotta decide

the reason, but for now...

banana hammock

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Ponencia Viesgo en Monitoring Day #MMD16 - Duration: 19:00.

First I want is to thank CIC for inviting us to show

our work.

and of course all of you for your attention and for coming to listen.

First I will explain who is Viesgo. Viesgo is one

of the leading companies in the sector

of Spanish energy.

We are the oldest company,

this year we are 110 years old and we have more than

670 thousand clients of light and gas, and a thousand professionals as staff. I am not

going to insist in what our

view is,

What I want to do here is to mention innovation,

this project that we are going to explain throughout this presentation is an

innovation project. Innovation is one of the values of our company

and is a value with a target of continuous improvement in the

technological development and innovation in processes.

The distribution business is changing rapidly, the power

sector has always been a very traditional sector, very stable and what we are

seeing in the recent years is a huge change, ie; one

really fast change in the system.

The three key factors of this change in the recent years are the electronic

counter.

We're

used to hearing the news or newspapers about the electronic counter and

especially distributed generation, the distributed generation both high

voltage and medium voltage, and three challenges we see for the future,

the very near future,

are the electric vehicle, the prosumers, a consumer will

also have the role of generator will be low voltage generator, which

It is called distributed generation demand management.

These are the three challenges. The I explained transformation

really distributor in a classic vision of the business,

it had the power that came to him the transport network and distributed among

Your clients.

If you look closely you here in 2008 really energy balances, this

it is the exporter balance when We are on the positive side is energy

we are delivering to the network transportation, and the bottom is the

negative part, is what we would consuming. If we look at the network Viesgo

in 2008 virtually most Energy is an energy consumed

and if we go now to 2014 and 2015 because almost everything is

generation, ie, from the point of view network transport network

Viesgo behaves as a generator. This I think is one thing that is

general throughout the industry but in the If Viesgo is still a bit

more pronounced.

If we realize at the peak of the installed capacity relative to demand

in the sector are one hundred percent in Viesgo case has come to be

up to 256 percent, ie we have 256 percent power

installed respect to consumption. A little history of

Dynelec project, analyzing our network

we assumed that wind power 80, almost 80% of energy

installed power of forgiveness, the power installed in the network of Viesgo,

if you look geographically 71 percent of this power

Wind is installed in Galicia and and if we focus more on Galicia, the

96 percent of the installed power It is a wind that is this technology

It is really outrageous. At year 2011

We participate in a call to a Project Impact ministry

economy and competitiveness and we had as partners in this project

University of Cantabria and Arteche for dynamic management of the Dynelec lines.

Well, what is this the dynamic management of the lines?

Dynamic management of lines, concept is quite simple, it is

thermal equilibrium, we have the driver

cables along the lines we see that we have a heat won

we have a part which is the heat gained, it would be the red part on the cake,

the red part of this balance, and then We have an evacuated heat.

The difference in this heat

livestock and heat He lost what gives us is a

increase or decrease the temperature. When we have more

heating the cooling conductor temperature rises and when

We have more cooling heating temperature

low conductor.

If you look at the percentage the cake 80% of the temperature

driver is conditioned by the current flowing in the conductor,

while 20 percent direct radiation on the conductor.

As heat or energy evacuated, 94% is cooling

Convection driver. Then this cooling

Convection is directly

related wind there, both the

speed and wind direction.

Then in networks like we have galicia

which we have much energy, much installed potency

wind, when it is windy as we have need to evacuate more energy and

just as we wind

we have the advantage that the conductors are cooled and therefore

lines allow us to circulate more energy by it what

it impacts on the variation temperature?

What makes the cable is lengthened, the lengthened

the low wire down and safety distances decrease by

therefore be taken into account conductor temperature at all times.

If we overcome even further temperature of this driver could

get to impair the driver to Cable, then why we need to

have a driver monitoring.

The Dynelec methodology. Well then once we explained a little

the basic concept, really what It is what needs to be done to

manage dynamic regime in the lines. First and

Most important are the stations weather. we have stations

weather placed in substations on intermediate supports of

lines with these stations weather what we are

is able to know what the radiation, which is the rain, which

wind speed, which direction and has calculated this as the

Convection cable. The thermography to see a little status

we have the lines, and test critical points

which we can have problems maintenance.

The temperature sensors are not suitable for contrasting

especially the first phase that calculations we are doing the

temperatures using our algorithms really

They are tuned and well calculated. The lidar analysis

It is a kind of x-ray in three dimensions it is made with a

multipulse laser and flight which gives us perfectly with a

accuracy of a centimeter for what You see here for a an image in three

line dimensions of roads, houses, trees,

all that would be the layout of the lines. The microclimatic study. How

we can realize a line is several kilometers

distance and the vocation to cooling is not equal in all

its route.

We can have I shielded by trees, we can have

lines passing through valleys then it is important to know what the

cooling hotspots the calculation of the ampacity and

pass the temperature at point critical. And then finally the subject

legalization, ie us the three lines are

legalized to work at a design temperature and the change this

temperature by making the cables

operate at a higher temperature because we have to make a process

especially the legalization principle has been complex because by

explain to administrations a little

Operation of this technique. As general topics then say

investment required by this technology when compared with what

it would have to build new lines or having to change repowering

the current lines is a low investment, It is a clear example of what

We call smart grids, ie networks intelligent front investments

iron and cables and then see more forward also improves management

of the assets, so far the driver was unknown temperature

and aging this conductor this temperature depends much so

know the temperature both know better what is happening to us in the

cables. The data.

Well we have a day in 2015 had 161 kilometers of lines

high voltage

They are exploited in dynamic regime during 523

hours is also operated by above the nominal capacity

lines and we were able to evacuate 7 gigawatt hours of extra power

whether we would have the Dynelec working. How it has helped us IDBox?

In this dynamic management one of the problems we have with

this project, especially projects innovation, because you're trying things

new, you're installing different comparing with each other sensors,

really if you realize the list of different devices we have and

List different protocols and the media is quite

complex, ie protocols have American DNP3, we modbus,

we IEC in any case, we have different sampling rates, is

ie, depending on the type of weather station

temperature sensors for even the sampling rates are different and

IDBox

It has allowed us to integrate all these field signals and process them power

with our calculation of ampacity, so that has given us two

tools, a tool for management office, the office of

goods are using management dynamic real-time and then to

same time allows us to have a data analysis environment, ie

all these data we have integrated in the tool and we

It allows to analyze, improve our algorithms and follow

our investigations.

concerning environment, as it is an environment

high availability,

we have 2 sides, a main side and one side and good for emergency

especially what we have already said, this is a

office tool that must be 365 days operating 24 hours a day,

in real time. The following Steps. Well here what

I want to tell a little It is the Spadi project is

a draft challenges 2015 collaboration which is

Viesgo, the University of Cantabria, CIC, Lumiker and Tecnalia as partners, and what

You want to go a step further in what It is the dynamic management. Until now

we are able to know the capacity We can run on the line in each

moment. What do we want? We want be able to predict five minutes,

ten minutes,

what will be the evolution of weather and how it will

this affect our ampacity of so this gives you a

tool control center to go warning the wind,

say, because now you have heard

to go down, you have to climb ... that is, predicting a little theme

ampacity. Then, the underground cable

we found that the lines do not airlines are in many

cases and have mixed lines in there are pieces with underground cables

which in some cases can become even bottleneck

for dynamic management, then

Here the goal is to see really what

what variable conditions, as the ampacity

airlines is the wind as moisture, soil temperature,

that conditions have to operate and improve

the active underground cable. good to And now we have had a little what

It is, but this is already a chart data.

This is a real line in Galicia, is the line

Meira-Ludrio and data here are from February 12 to February 14. The

green line is the king of static we call, which is the nominal capacity

line, ie the current may flow and which is

normally circulating in a line air.

The red line

We see what the current has actually transmitted these days,

the whole area that we between the green line and the red line

extra energy would have I could transmit this line for

these two days. The blue line. The line Blue is the ampacity, the current

theoretical maximum that could pass for that line, it's still say between

red line and the blue line have a margin. We have orange

conductor temperature that is even in these conditions we are

exploiting the line above Static network can see that the

temperature is around 50 degrees, which is lower than the design temperature,

ie even increasing energy we are transmitting over the line,

we are using the line to a traditional design temperature

and then in purple it is here wind speed a bit to see the

correlation between what It is the ampacity and what is the speed

of the wind. Conductor temperature and the current flowing through it no

They are directly proportional, here in

we see a different line with a current of 400 amps for

We have a temperature of 63 degrees, whereas with a current higher here

as the temperature is much lower.

We have taken this point and this point and we have compared, that is really not

it serves only have data the currents. Good and

to these things always everything is nice, because everything is not always nice, we

times where things are not as we would like,

in this case, and this is a point importantly, the ampacity, the blue line,

It is below the static rate, static ampacity, namely,

in this case there are moments in which if we

we were exploiting the line to actually rated current

cable temperature would exceed the temperature at which

It is designed. In this case as the current is low because there is no

no problem but there are times which

temperatures drivers They are superior to

design, also take into account that this is northern conditions

Spain where the weather is quite

rather milder than it could be in the south or in Castile. And that's it

the latest findings. Dynamic management has two

aspects, one aspect is that improves asset management, and

we have advanced a little, knowing the conductor temperature know

really what is happening with this driver really know what is

having this driver therefore we will give an overview of

aging driver, and secondly side is a tool that improves

network operation,

having additional information from the point of view of downtown

it allows monitoring in cases of namely emergency exploit networks

Above

limits because they are able to know the

temperature for short periods time can exceed the ampacity and

it facilitates programming work and releases.

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Just before starting, probably if We talk about Nuclenor

because many do not place us

but it is true that if we say that we are the owner and the

company operating Santa Maria Garona, for sure you have heard about

us for everything that in recent years has been talked about

and today we are still talking. My perspective anyway for this

presentation is what we are learning, our trip and also

from the perspective of sector utilities that are suffering the

generation rates and therefore is trying to smarten up to

reduce costs and optimize resources.

First of all introduce ourselves. Nuclenor, 50 percent Endesa and 50 percent

Iberdrola. We manage an American designed plant, General Electric, which

We call a reactor water boiling, 466 megawatts

electrical and connected to the network in 1971. The data here is from

the last ten years we were operating the plant. We stopped in

December 2012 for various reasons, but hey let's simplify economical

matters,

what I do want to show here because then I will link a little to the sector:

we see there are three indicators that are representative of operation which has

had Garoña beyond demagoguery that we can apply, on one hand the

electricity side. We generated from 2002 to 2012 where

you can see a stability indicating a bit reliability of the plant,

we have the capacity factor

meaning the energy generated from or compared to that

where theoretically we could give Garona has always been above

90 percent,

even the green colour you see there, that's the average capacity factor of guano plants

and for which you are not tucked this world, guano is the

World organizer,

is a group of nuclear generators worldwide, and

one that is also important for us is a monitoring matrix

our regulator, in this case the Nuclear Safety Council, established in

Spain in which we compare against a set of values or

indicators and in which the maximum note say, without going into great detail, it is

those green colors you see there,

Garoña is the only plant that from this system has been established

in green and ultimately what comes to say in this slide

is actually the numbers were good and are good but still

we stopped.

Before our present situation, just for

your knowledge in July 2013 we

officially entered in a cessation of operation, but from that date

our owners, who are Endesa and Iberdrola, they asked us better to present

the application for renewal operating license of the plant and

now we are waiting for the technical opinion by the board.

The continuity of the plant has social-political reasons we all

know, but there are other economical aspects that are obviously above

but not only for Garoña, also many generation plants

now in this country and outside this country, and there is one technical

aspect.

I'm going to focus especially on this technical aspect,

but on the technical side that can help us and what we have

deepened to help to make more competitive plants. Probably

all of you are wondering what we have done since we stopped so far,

because it is the question from most of the people, and it is the question that

people do when I'm in different forums. We have the plant, we are doing

mainly three things: first, maintenance. We are keeping the

reversibility of the plant to make feasible

any decisions.

We are or we have presented to the council nuclear safety all our documentation

they asked among other things, which for us has been a milestone, which is

the inspection of the 100 percent of our vessel that has always been in the

newspapers and where it has been shown you can successfully operate

beyond 40 years, and other thing It has been important for us is

to use this time to get ready for what would be an extension of

life to 2031, with many challenges managing the ageing of the plant and the

assets, that here we will not address, but that is part of our

strategy, and the use of new technologies such as

monitoring in supporting utilities, in reducing costs.

I put this chart because I firmly believe that it is important for me,

90% of success is preparation, and in this case it is

one of the things we have done, also from the point of view of

our sector is to take that bag you see there,

We have gone to the United States, we have seen a little of what the sector in

America is doing in the utilities, primarily nuclear but

also seeing other utilities who are suffering,

we have made a benchmarking with Exelon, for those who do not know it, Exelon

is an organization that manages 21 reactors in the United States and is

an example of a management model, we have also been in Luminant, in Texas, which is

probably, if you look on the internet,

the reference in monitoring systems for nuclear power plants,

They have monitored the Comanche Peak plant having two

units 200 kilometers from Dallas, and having a

set up a center where they are able to monitor how the plant is

functioning and critical assets.

We have been doing benchmarking in Oil & Gas with companies both

aeronautical, in the sense that they are regulated companies that are

suffering a lot at the level of costs and so for us it is important to be

regulated and manage these costs. And then we have participated in

different forums. We present our strategy to the American Nuclear Society

and we participated, we have been fortunate to be invited

to participate

in meetings from the American Energy Department, where utilities have been treated

in a sectoral level,

and just so you know where we're

in utilities. These four plants, each one is in a different place,

Vermont Yankee central is between Vermont and

Massachusetts, US,

Kewanee is in Texas, Pilgrim which it is in Massachusetts and of course

us, Garona. What do they have in common? They have in common that all these

plants had large numbers, capacity factor above 90

percent, but still the two below, Vermont Yankee and Kewanee stopped

despite having license approval, approved by the Nuclear Security Council

for 60 years, and Pilgrim already has an end date and Garona

we are where we all know.

This is generating a big debate in utilities here and in the sector

in United States and what it is doing is to give work even

to the American Energy Department because you are seeing that companies can not

support those low prices for energy and what it has done is

focus on four aspects, but which interests us, and we can see

there, is to work in Technology Systems applied to the generation

to gain productivity. And there are, we are in the monitoring day, as the

Monitoring is vital for survival of our actions.

In that sense I think that in all your companies probably have heard

to your CEO and always thig one thing that is scanning.

Another thing is then if it is carried out or not, but everyone talks about scanning,

and in this case we

also try to go to that scanning because certainly

a change of technology has to be done to improve.

Basically what it is being done in the sector is on one hand, we must

guarantee income, that is no more that always taking connected

plants, based on availability and reliability of the

plants, and on the other hand a system that is intensive in human resources and

in stock, because we have to go to optimize our

resources. And all of this only right now

we believe there is a magical number used in the sector, I was before

talking with a partner in the industry and he said another even larger,

but well the one we have managed and handled is to achieve to

reduce 25 percent in operating costs and maintenance of the

plants, without touching the unique value it is important for us, the

security.

Then we have to work on reliability, we need to work on improving and in

process optimization which ultimately improve the productivity of our

means. We are also based in what we have seen,

We have designed a system, we have seen that

monitoring is not monitoring by monitoring but we have to go

to intelligent monitoring, in IT called predictive analytics.

Historically in maintenance

We have moved from a maintenance based on to a condition maintenance

, to a maintenance focused on reliability,

but these three concepts, it has been a progression, now the improvements are

asymptotic and therefore we must go for something else

and the sector has found the opportunity in the software, the

software is all day analyzing in a

continuous way, to analyze the parameters we have in our plants. Later I'm going a bit more deeper

in this analytical prediction, just at the moment

we have said, we have our assets, we have our processes,

we have to manage these data that in most of the cases we already

have. It's funny how if you so think of your facilities, depending on how they are,

but if you see the level of data which is increasing every day thanks to

our intelligent systems and it is also

lengthening the gap, with the actual use we do of data.

That's what predictive analytics tries to avoid. We also

deliver to each of the people involved in our

plants, the data they really need.

I'll explain the example of my plant, but what happens in all plants

in a worldwide level or in United States at least, that is my more direct

relationship.

We have engineers call systems engineers who are engineers

controlling the health status of systems and components. This

people, their mission is to monitor the different variables, different

Data from these teams and from them to test if there may be a

problem or not and take action.

60% of the time this people is collecting data. We have data from

maintenance,

we have data in operation, we have chemical data or data from

other processes we have, but really these data do not flow as

it should in the organization, many are sometimes fiefdoms.

Then the first mission, and that is where you are going to see what we have done with

CIC, is to achieve an infrastructure that centralizes this information and that 60%,

which is not only a fact of Garoña nor a Spanish central data, is data

you can see in Epri

as actual data average from the systems engineers systems dedicated to this. We have

to eliminate such unproductive activities and that gives us the software,

which is capable of feeding from all data available in the plant,

through this software we are able to generate models, this is not science

fiction, it is in plants already, and generates models of behavior that

will be compared always as model real vs variable and when you have a gap you

will tell the engineer; there you have, I have a gap, begin to study why, but there is when

I begin to really pay my engineer, I dont have my engineer to catch data and

that is a change of philosophy We have to do and we're doing

and that's what comes to explain this process of what we call

intelligent online monitoring, the jump to predictive analytics. This

that I am presenting, we presented in

2015 at the American Nuclear Society and what is our model, we see

it is the model of a nuclear power plant to which we have to go now, in which

on one hand we have to contribute to the plant reliability and that is what

that I said, that is, we have a lot of data on the computer, lets put

the software to work to do the sieve of what is important or is not

important.

On the other hand our critical assets transformers which are mainly

generators, emergency diesel, our generator, our turbine, expensive systems,

we have to lengthen his life as much as we can and the best way is

optimize through monitoring it. Now is

being talked and is already implemented what is called the

prognosis maintenance that is, we have a lot of operational

experience because our industry has sued us and we have what we call

fault signatures. These fault signatures, we're getting them

in our databases and from the actual plant data

we are able, because it is being made in transformers, diesel machines,

to identify potential problems and the best moments

to intervene in it.

The difference is what we have in the plants, and if you just look,

five years ago all plants thermocouples were watching the

temperatures in bearings, this is an example of pumps, they had

a vibration which bears the predictive maintenance team went with his

laptop, grabbed a data and from there the month. In many

cases it was looking and comparing, but when you get the alarm you probably

already had the fault in the bearing and you had the fault in the component. What

we are talking about here is before reaching that failure problem

when you have a deviation, pull the alarm, and that's what we talked about for

improve our reliability, and that increase in revenues for plants.

Now let's talk about the other party: productivity. We are intensive as saying

before in human resources, we have many activities, then we will see one of

which have been automated with CIC, which it has a lot of human administrative work

of catching data, interpretations, export data to

Excel, macros ... that can be automated and reduce the time our people

really dedicate to that.

We have rounds and the term mobility, in which we catch data, left in a

separate database, and then if we want that information that is not

compatible with the rest,

we have to go one by one to those fiefdoms to go looking, as

centralize information. And the third, but hey that's no longer an issue

much of our sector, use computer vision in the

meaning that, especially in places where you have radiation, as it is a

process of a nuclear power plant,

if you are already able to have cameras they detect leaks without having

rounds,

that's what you gain from your control installation. As stated objective is the

25% reduce our costs operation and maintenance. What have we

worked with CIC?

The first build an infrastructure that is able to centralize all

our data and we are able to analyze it and make it available to

all members of our organization we want. Here there is

an important thing that I have seen and I think it's

very common, from information systems, IT was usually the

department of information technology who was concerned. All digital

systems, all process control systems of plants or

factories, the instrumentation and control departments, they are departments

more of a plant, and between these two there is a huge world. But it is not going

to be another way but to converge the operating technologies with

information technologies, and on that any

manufacturer who wants to go to a digitalization will have to take the

leap.

We will have to work on mobility to transform in real-time the data

that our rounds are seeing. Ultimately efficient information

management and with them also with CIC

We have worked and are working in pilot projects that allow us

to learn the use of these technologies.

Only one question that I always liked in one of those meetings

I was in the DOE, MS was there. MS is a

company that it is working a lot with us, it has made us response times

for our pressure transmitters, but well, what I was saying was, what

is the most important treasure the plants have?

the data. You can not have an idea, each one in their sector will know,

but we have data to give and take, and often the question is why,

the use or not use of it, that's the question.

with IDBox we have always worked with CIC in the development of our system

information management, but in 2015 we migrated to the platform

IDBox the last in the sense to allow us to be willing to

step into centralize all the information, shared and

distributed in the way it is interesting for us and also the new tool

allows us everything shown in the previous presentations,

about analysis, which is important with everything I came

saying on predictive analytics. There are computer data we have

but hey, the important thing is that we are creating infrastructure for

information flow. What I said about task automation

chores.

This is an example that we have developed. Medidas ambientales is

a company of which Nuclenor owns 50% and the other 50% is Eulen, but

obviously works with us, because we are

owners.

We manage, control, and monitor many temperature points

in the Ebro river, the Ebro is the river that we use the

water for cooling. As well as the control of discharges of our

purifiers and we have to make reports and send them to the

Ebro river federation. What did we do? and what do we do? because we are now

in the validation process because obviously there are official reports and

we have a long period for validation. We have a person in

our environmental department who went monthly and picked data

from our registers because they were located at many points away from the

plant, poured on your computer, in that computer then he was making a

data export to Excel with different configured macros and

get the information and then write the report we sent to the

hydrographic confederation.

All this, valued resource,

imagine that right now, we have to send all data from

different positions via telephone, then we have them on our server,

We convert, analyze them and make the report, and give the report to the

person, thereby productivity improvement is clear.

The other aspect we work now are the operation rounds,

we have always people around the plant taking data from

local instrumentation,

besides instrumentation we always have to our computer

process, which is basically ninety-odd percent information from

important parameters that are all computerized,

and all we do is use the rounds for vision, visual inspection and

collecting information in different points, which now is in an independent

data base, a standalone application, which we

are not able to gather with IDBox, what we are doing are rounds

with Fieldeas, which is the other CIC product for mobility,

preparing to share the information and then export this

pilot project to all that are the others, which is maintainance to

get information. Ultimately use mobility technology in

Real time for our shift leaders, our people operating in decision

so they have all the information available and therefore making decision

is much more conservative and more efficient.

Finally, I would like to at least modestly, what

we have learned, there are four points.

These three who come here and the next we'll talk then. In the three who you see

It is important and is a recommendation to systematize

management innovation technology, I mean, if you

ask the different departments in your companies,

the operation has a vision, the instrumentation has another vision,

electrical maintenance has another vision and to say the least people in

computing.

Therefore the integration of these worlds of IT and OT is fundamental and

sistematize it, I think that's fundamental, manage it through

a visible head that is the one that leads the way. The second, the partner, this is not

that easy, this digitalisation, what everyone's talking about but in my opinion

It is not as easy as to say pum! there you have it, so the

partner

of your choice is important, in our case I think CIC gives us

flexibility, gives us first proximity that requires this type of

projects and something that is important to me, it is prototyped or go to demos, better

to fail early and fail cheap than to do large projects which are sold

internally very well at first, but the costs for

organization are very large.

Prototype, spend and learn to fail, learn the problems but always in

my opinion from the point of view of expenditure control. And finally, I was

once

at a conference of this lord director of MIT and co-authored of a

book called "Second machine age" and goes on to say in his preface, and

you can see on Internet if you search that reference,

when the second revolution started, allt he utilities installed the electric motors,

but do you know when the productivity of the facilities did really improve?

It's funny but so,

thirty years later and it matched when all managers

were retiring heads. I mean, what is important is not the technology,

the important thing is to look for productivity, our workflows and I have

seen on my plant, where you say: I have this flow to a work order

now use my technology but adapted to my flow, adapt the flow

to what the technology is capable of and then you will improve the

productivity.

Thank you very much.

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Hey, what's up?

Thanks for tuning into episode number three of I Haven't Played This Game in Years.

So, this time I'm gonna play a game that I haven't played really in about 25/26 years

and when I was a kid I used to like this game; it was one of the first games I ever owned

for the Sega Genesis: ESWAT.

Now, I ended up selling all of my Sega Genesis games, but then I got back into collecting

when I was like nineteen, and I bought a bunch of my games back, and this was one of them,

though I really didn't put too much time into it.

I've only played maybe a handful of times since then and I just basically got it because

I remember that I liked it so much.

So, I decided for this episode let's go ahead and play through ESWAT, see what I think

of it now, and see if it matches what I felt for it many years ago.

Let's take a look.

Back in the eighties cyborgs were all the rage.

Movies such as the Terminator brought human-android hybrids to life.

It was only natural that the genre would crossover into law enforcement with movies such as RoboCop;

and an even bigger no-brainer to bring that genre into the world of video games.

In 1989 Sega released an arcade game called Cyber Police ESWAT.

While not technically a cyborg, the protagonist dons a cyber suit once he is promoted to a

certain rank, and looks strikingly similar to RoboCop, undoubtedly influenced by the

brilliant 1987 Verhoeven film.

The following year, on the heels of Sega's still relatively new 16-bit machine, the Genesis,

ESWAT was ported to the system.

As Sega commonly did with arcade ports such as Shadow Dancer, the game was not a direct

port of the arcade version, but was instead, a brand new game which borrowed elements from

its arcade counterpart.

You control Duke Oda, a police captain in a futuristic, crime-ridden metropolis.

The game begins in the city where you face-off against numerous antisocial thugs, hell-bent

on wiping out the police force and taking over the city.

Duke, with pistol in hand, is able to fire to the left, right and above, with controls

and stage layouts similar to that of Shinobi.

After taking out a group of rogue prisoners who had taken over the city's prison, Duke

is then promoted to the rank of ESWAT: Enhanced Special Weapons and Tactics, where he is then

put into a cyber suit equipped with rocket jets to allow for flight and the ability to

equip a number of special weapons.

These special weapons can be equipped by picking up icons dropped by the enemy, and then toggled

to the desired gun by utilizing the H.U.D.

If Duke should meet his demise, whichever gun is currently equipped will be lost when

you begin your next life from a certain checkpoint.

ESWAT consists of eight stages, which can become quite difficult.

The jumping mechanics feel weighted down, as if the cyber suit actually weighs a ton.

Taking damage from enemies can become frustrating as there is a very small grace period of invulnerability

before Duke can receive more damage.

Enemies can just pile up on you and end your life in no time at all.

When baddies get in close, good luck!

The flying mechanics are spotty as hell, as Duke flies in the air almost too fast, just

like in a shooter when you collect too many speed power-ups.

Then before you know it, you're out of fuel, and have to tediously wait around for the

gauge to refill.

The special weapons aren't very "special" either, with the most useful being the Plasma

Cannon, which charges while not in use.

The stages offer different environments such as a laboratory with living slime, and a disorienting

dark base which requires heavy utilization of the jet pack.

This stage can get extremely frustrating, as my blood is starting to boil just recounting

it.

Each level also has its own unique boss, most of which are extremely cheap, but can usually

be defeated once its sweet spot is discovered where you can hover without taking damage.

The graphics in ESWAT are a bit dark and drab, and overall, nothing to really blow a load

over.

The music, while having some catchy tunes, are pretty much "meh", and the stages

recycle the same few songs over and over.

I do really dig the boss theme, though.

With clunky controls, iffy hit detection, and cheap enemy A.I., ESWAT at times can be

downright brutal.

As a kid I used to play the game on easy, as I often did with games that offered the

option to do so, and it was fairly manageable.

Now as an adult, I always choose to play games on normal or a higher difficulty, and ESWAT

was much more difficult than I had remembered.

I got pissed.

A lot.

ESWAT definitely isn't for everybody.

I honestly would have preferred a direct arcade port, but I understand Sega's desire to

include more platforming.

But it doesn't seem to work very well with a cyborg that controls as if it were a robot

made of garbage cans— exactly where this game belongs.

If you want to try ESWAT out for yourself, the game is still cheap—and for good reason.

It's also available on Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection for the PS3 and Xbox 360.

If you're curious, then go for it, but curiosity killed the cat, and if you're like me, ESWAT

will murder your patience.

So, what do I think of ESWAT now?

(raspberry sound) Game is freakin' garbage, man.

I don't know—I really did not like it this time.

The controls are clunky, the difficulty is kinda cheap, like the way the enemies can

just hug onto you and kill you within no time at all.

Like, I really hate games that do that, and I just didn't have fun with it this time

around.

Now, I did play it on easy as a kid, so maybe that's why I liked it more.

But honestly, the game doesn't offer all that much.

The music is mediocre, the graphics are average, it's--I don't know, I mean, you might

like the game, but I think it sucks now.

It's not very good at all.

But, that's just my opinion.

So, anyway, thanks a lot for tuning into this episode.

What do you think of ESWAT?

Have you played it?

What do you think?

Anyway, thanks for tuning in.

I will catch you all later.

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