Friday, January 31, 2020

Why the Film Industry Is Thriving in the Russian Wilderness

Stepan Burnashev has loved cinema since he was a child. Growing up in Yakutia in eastern Siberia, then part of the Soviet ...

Our Coming Debt Crisis

The Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations will be remembered as the ones that caused the debt crisis that will hammer our ...

Warm water discovered beneath Antarctica's 'doomsday' glacier, scientists say

Scientists have found warm water underneath the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, which could speed up the melting of the ...

Amazon roars back into $1 trillion club, powered by one-day delivery boost

There is no stopping Amazon.com’s revenue growth, Wall Street analysts said on Friday. The e-commerce giant re-entered the $1 ...

Tech companies, we see through your flimsy privacy promises

There’s a reason why Data Privacy Day pisses me off. January 28 was the annual “Hallmark holiday” for cybersecurity, ...

FBI launches investigation into Pegasus spyware vendor over US citizen hacks

has launched an investigation into NSO Group based on suspicions that US residents and companies may have been compromised ...

Russia panics as two cases of coronavirus infection reported in Siberia

Cases of coronavirus infection have thus been reported in more than 20 countries. Russia will evacuate its citizens from ...

Air Force Finally Releases New Images of Stealthy B-21 Future Bomber

New photorealistic renderings of the B-21 Long Range Strike Bomber have officially landed. The Air Force together with the ...

BREAKING: Sen. Murkowski a No On Additional Witnesses

It is game over in the Senate chamber for President Trump. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) put the nail in the coffin of the ...

Mar-a-Lago Gate Crashed, Shots Fired: Report

A black SUV breached two security checkpoints at Mar-a-Lago, leading to shots being fired at President Donald Trump’s Palm ...

Requiring Cell towers to operate during power outages isn't practical

Though I suppose it might be possible if you had Solar arrays there next to each and every Microwave cell tower for transmitting Cell phone signals, and if you had automatic Diesel powered generators, it is more likely that the solar panels and diesel powered automatic generators would be stolen in remote places and just disappear without any human there to guard them.So, because of this it just isn't realistic to do this unless you hire someone to be there at that tower 24 hours a day. Then you have another problem which is it is Not safe to be that close to a microwave tower ongoing within say one block or more without significant health problems resulting.

So, I suppose you could install someone within 1/2 mile of that tower below the transmission directions but even then that doesn't seem cost effective to me at all even with fires putting out power transmission all across northern California like they did this last year.

So, forcing any power company to keep cell towers working during power outages isn't really feasible economically speaking any way you look at it. It isn't practical.

So, yes, it is dangerous to have cell towers not working because cell phones cannot work (at least in that area (sending or receiving). However, it isn't realistic to force power companies to do this either.
So, until cell transmissions are satellite based we might not see reliable cell phone transmissions especially during fires or bad weather all over the country and world.

Blackouts that cut cell service aren't just annoying, they're dangerous

Commentary: California may require wireless carriers to keep towers operating during a power outage. Good. As deadly ...

Car chase ends with shots fired near Trump's Mar-a-Lago

A car chase ended in shots being fired near President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort Friday in Florida, police said.

Coronavirus and the iPhone: How the pandemic could disrupt China's supply chain

If employees can't show up to work, then you can't build smartphones. How do we deal with the threat of global supply chain ...

To put Coronavirus in perspective regular flu kills 646,000 people a year worldwide now

But, only 8000 have died in the U.S. so far this season. But, worldwide it's:
646,000
Seasonal flu kills 291,000 to 646,000 people worldwide each year, according to a new estimate that's higher than the previous one of 250,000 to 500,000 deaths a year. The new figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other groups were published Dec.
As the novel coronavirus spreads, so has a slew of online misinformation and conspiracy theories about the mysterious illness ...
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WHO declares coronavirus a global health emergency as cases top 9,600

South Korea has repatriated 367 of its citizens from Wuhan. A charter flight from the outbreak epicenter landed in Seoul’s ...
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