Re: Wind Solar unreliable compared to Gas Coal Nuclear

"cshenk"  wrote in message 
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One of the troubles here that I have, is not a 'bad one' to have.  My
science background is primarily 'biology realm' with some chemistry
allowed to lay fallow after my attempt to put myself through college.
I'm probably 'undereducated' by the standards of some here for the
types of knowledge background.

Grin, should be fun to drop a 'silly Sally' into the mix!  My skills
are SQL programming, Navy Education and Training, heavy 'Data analysis'
and directing slim resources for maximum benefit to force generation
(getting the right trained sailor to the right ship when needed).

Spent some time post 26year Navy career (E8) in contracting services
and Mitre rings a bell though I never worked for them.  I was mostly
CSC then moved to GS-13(NETC then NAVIFOR).

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Mitre worked more with the Air Force, FAA et al.  It was structured as a 
private non-profit so we didn't have GS grades, or much bureaucratic 
interference.

That's a pretty solid resume. I benefitted from someone getting the right 
trained soldier to where he was needed. I had listed French and German on 
the "dream sheet" requesting an assignment and was sent to Germany instead 
of Vietnam. I loved being there and driving around the countryside between 
our field communications sites but many Americans didn't, to the extent of 
reenlisting to go back to Saigon. In rural areas they didn't speak English 
and hadn't been contaminated by us.

I was a hardware guy with programming experience mainly limited to low level 
machine control. Being cooped up alone in the lab like Drosselmeyer the 
toymaker definitely isn't for everyone. Dan Aykroyd's character in Spies 
Like Us was close to my reality. His office was in the boiler room, mine was 
beside it, and like him I know a little Russian and KGB = Komitet 
Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.