Had to explain to an engineer that Wind Power is not a viable replacement of Hydro Power... Why?

Quant Bio_ wrote:

you are not fun to be wrote:

Haha, of course you bring up IQ to measure how smart someone is. Then, you criticize your peer about her thought process. Is IQ the best measure to determine how smart someone is? Also, what determines if someone is smart? There are so many ways to determine this. Lastly, who actually takes IQ tests for you to get these averages? I only know one person who has taken actually taken an IQ test and somehow he is part of Mensa. He’s definitely average, but I guess he can feel good about himself bc he’s so smart!

You’re in your mid 20s or so? Your net worth being at 87th percentile means jack. Haha. Does that mean you have like $75k in net worth or something? Wtf. You ain’t wealthy at all and net worth at your age doesn’t mean anything. But you’re a smart guy and know where you stand. Lol

Yea, getting paid $90k-$130k after grad school or PhD is not that impressive at all. I’ve been way over that with my BS degree after about 5 years of working and it’s pretty common if you’re not diddling around.

Anyways, for you to really answer what I criticized you with straight answers show how much of a man child you are yourself. Go ahead and continue to feel superior compared to others with your “smartness.”

I'm in my 30s and have more than $200,000. I'm also familiar with the research on general intelligence, g, and other psychometrics. You clearly are not.

I also have better things to do than repeatedly troll letsrun. I'm sure your life is really great though.

Quant Bio wrote:

I am in graduate school for something that might be called mathematical biology... Was recently talking with a female Civil Engineering PhD student about dams and power in our region (the PNW), and she was adamant that all the dams should be removed and replaced by wind power because it's a better power source at this point. When I explained to her that water flows 24/7 and wind does not blow 24/7, it was like this had never crossed her mind before... I also had to explain to her that all the wind energy produced in the entire state of Washington equals only a small fraction of what the dams in WA produce, so removing all the dams and replacing them with wind would require increasing wind power by over 600% from its current levels. She was completely ignorant of this also...

I left the conversation pretty confused first because I was surprised someone in civil engineering would be so ignorant and frankly pretty stupid, but especially secondly that they would be so extremely sure of themselves despite having apparently never looked into any actual data or numbers at all. Is this sort of thing common?

you are not fun to be wrote:

Quant Bio_ wrote:

I'm in my 30s and have more than $200,000. I'm also familiar with the research on general intelligence, g, and other psychometrics. You clearly are not.

I also have better things to do than repeatedly troll letsrun. I'm sure your life is really great though.

Oh, you’re in your 30s and get only $90k-$130k after grad school or PhD? That’s worse. Yea, not very smart decision financially. For you being so smart, thought you’d make smarter financial decisions.

I just looked up my net worth percentile by age. I guess I’m at 97th percentile. I only have a bachelors degree. So, obviously my IQ is lower than yours since I only have a bachelors degree.

Or, am I smarter to realize to not waste so much time in school and actually grow up?

And don’t tell me money isn’t a factor since you obviously care about money knowing your net worth percentile by age and your expected salary.

How can such a smart person who can reason and think so logically. A person who can start a thread putting down a person for not having the ability to think logically about hydro power vs wind power be this bad financially. Lastly, if $90k-$130k is in Washington state, that is nothing.

Primo Numero Uno wrote:

The Civil engineering discipline would have little ability to deal with this specific topic any more than your average person. Although your average person can research this with no engineering and understand pretty easily the issues with wind compared to hydroelectric, relating to reliability, and peak demand.

If you're looking for an engineer who would better understand this a mechanical or aerospace is probably going to be more suited than the other engineering disciplines. However, this really isn't an engineering issue with the exception of understanding how ridiculous the concept of backing up the grid by battery is. This is more an issue of understanding how the power grid works and how consumer demand works. Most people don't get what peak demand is or what type of energy generation is best suited to meet baseline demand.

One thing a lot of the enviromentalists do not get or want to accept is any solution we implement will have some negative consequences. There is some negative consequence to anything we do. We need to accept that and choose the least negative outcome.