Re: Wind Solar unreliable compared to Gas Coal Nuclear

Jim Wilkins wrote:

> "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.

I did a lot of work as active duty Navy, with all DOD branches.  Don't
worry on GS grades, that doesn't apply to contractors.  (for the rest,
'Government Civilian' is GS. Large percentage of them are retired
military veterans on second careers.  GS13 is equal to Army Major or
Navy LT CDR but on the civilian counterpart).  I retired from GS work
after 5 years and 4 months.  I get a small monthly pension from them
for life and have a sizable TSP account as well.

> 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.

Grin!  My dream sheet said 'any ship overseas, any shore overseas, then
any east coast or west coast.  Of course the Navy sent me to San
Antonio TX, AF Manpower Personnel Center, then next to Camp Smith
(marines/Army) at IPAC Hawaii.  I didnt get to serve with the Navy
until I was 6 years in and that was as an instructor for basic entry
skills training in the computer rating (mos for you).  Then I finally
got my dream ship at the 12 year mark and the rest was all sea except
for 4.5 years of it.  Had a blast!

> 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.

Snicker!  Had 'one of those' too most of my career.

Anyways, my uniform was cuter!  Dixie cups suit me!  Also got to wear
blue jeans at work until I made E7.