Anirudh (PhD)

"Based on a true story" are the most powerful four words in cinema. Its also the most misused. What if filmmakers decide to abuse your trust in biopics to inject ideology within? Let's decode 4 Dravidawood films, their Hindi inspirations & 2 antidote biopics in this 🧵(1/12)

@hanak0103 Wait till you see Buses, lorries and tractors going the wrong way !! 🥲🥲🤡

インドの道路のカオス感を生み出している1番の原因は、逆走バイクだと思う🏍️🇮🇳

You've seen this image do the rounds. The story goes Gas turbines blades - 5 years booked - single crystal blade technology - only 3 companies etc. Yes & No. Here's a no nonsense, first principles breakdown: Firstly, Single crystal blades are used in a gas turbines (power) or a jet engines SPECIFICALLY where temperatures exceed 1,600°C A single crystal blade is a piece of metal made of one continuous grain of nickel superalloy. No grain boundaries, no weak seams. That is why it can survive 1,600°C gas at 10,000 g of centrifugal force for 30 years. But SC blades for Jet engines vs power turbines are very different. Same process but very different. In a jet engine, the single-crystal blade is the Stage 1 rotor of the high-pressure turbine. It is roughly 10 centimetres long and weighs a few hundred grams. It spins at 15,000 to 20,000 RPM. It runs in cycles, takeoff to landing, ten times a day. What kills a jet blade is fatigue i.e - The slow weakening of metal under repeated cycles of stress and temperature change. A power turbine Stage 1 blade is roughly 20 to 30 centimetres long, including the root and shank. It weighs 1.5 to 5 kilograms It spins at a steady 3,000 to 3,600 RPM. It does not cycle, it sits in 1,600°C gas continuously for months. What kills a power turbine blade is creep i.e - The slow stretching of metal under continuous heat and centrifugal force, year after year. Different killer = different alloy. Power turbine blades carry more rhenium for creep resistance. AND Different size means different physics. Growing a defect-free single grain through a 30 cm volume is multiple times harder than through a 10 cm one. Casting yields are lower. That's WHY the number of facilities that can do IGT-grade SC reliably is much smaller than the number that can do aero-grade. EVEN Within gas turbines we have F-class, H-class, J-class and theese Gas turbines for power generation are sorted by firing temperature. Meaning, higher firing temperature means higher efficiency, which means more electricity per cubic metre of gas. 1. F-class (mature, 1990s onwards) fire at around 1,300°C with combined-cycle efficiency of 58 to 60%. 2. H-class / HA-class (2000s onwards) fire at 1,450 to 1,500°C with combined-cycle efficiency of 60 to 63%. 3. J-class / JAC-class fire at around 1,600°C with combined-cycle efficiency of 63 to 64%, using rhenium-rich alloys at the absolute limit of metallurgy. As firing temperature rises, the metallurgy gets harder. The reason customers want H and J, not F is that each generation jump cuts fuel cost by 5 to 8% per MWh. For a 1 GW base-load plant, that is over ~₹1,000 crore in fuel savings every year. Every utility, hyperscaler, and LNG developer specifying new capacity wants H-class or J-class, not F. WHERE IS THE BOTTLENECK TODAY FOR GAS TURBINES? F-class capacity has plenty of headroom. Customers do not want F. H-class and J-class capacity are the constrained ones. Howmet's IGT-grade Stage 1 single-crystal line for H and J class is sold out. The in-house casting lines at GE Auburn, Siemens Berlin, and MHI Takasago are sold out. WHO CAN ACTUALLY MAKE THEM? For aero, capable countries number about 8. For heavy-duty power turbines, the commercial club drops to 3 as far as ROW is concerned. GE Vernova in the US, Siemens Energy in Germany, Mitsubishi Power in Japan + China & Russia have turbines that perform with varying performance parameters. Hope this was insightful. If you're still reading. follow and repost. Tc.

🧵Great Nicobar -> India’s Most Underrated, Criticized, Strategic move. And, China is watching VERY CLOSELY. Everyone is debating the Great Nicobar Island project. But almost nobody is asking the real question: >Why is India willing to spend ₹70,000+ crore on a remote island?

@rishibagree How casually throwing around the word Genocide.

If these leftist scums and brain-rotted cockroaches are opposing the great Nicobar project, then rest assured that the project is very beneficial for the nation.

@drishtadyumn As if Shitty Congress and the Left didn't do these. We know how Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb was indoctrinated in the Gangetic plains.

so you're telling me these sanghis have an ideology that they are trying to spread, to unite people towards a single goal? holy shit, who could have seen this coming

@apostateluffy @Elden_to @gaintLoki_ @HUSTLEER195 Why would a man wearing burkha? 🤔🤔

IMU Was Muslim Women In Burqa All Along #IMU #ONEPIECE1182 #kagurabachi119

Complete destruction the island is planned. The project is going to involve cutting down crores of Trees. This will change the entire island's climatic conditions forever.

@ayukawa_river Gokarna?

みなさーん、これインドですよ！ カオスなインドもある。こんなインドもある。

HARAMBALL - SIMEONE ENGLISH VERSION

@saikirankannan Dictator General Kylian Mugappe gonna complain.

Are Real Madrid players ready for Heavy Metal football and all that running ???

@wasuptalababy Sound bending

Lightening - fire bending 🔥 Blood bending. - water bending🌊 Metal. - earth bending 🪨 ?????? - air bending 🌬️

@drishtadyumn Teresa?

this woman is Albanian by the way can you guess who else was Albanian and obsessed with jeetus

@mohitlaws How can a person be this dumb?

Dhurandhar is already a masterpiece film and these dialogues in Japanese will just elevate it so damn much… full on anime vibes.. and also this poster is so colourful and cool…..

@PodiVennai Means DMK going out of power.

When Entire world is talking about elections and forming govt , Dumeel media is busy with who that meesic director was , who did jalabula jaks with some kelvi padaatha paatu padra pappa...🤡

@Pivot2Centre Cholas used these islands as launchpads for Srivijaya conquest.

The history of Andaman Islands is one of brutality. British used it as a prison for rogue freedom fighters (while “real” freedom fighters ended up with a library at Pune jail). Then Japs got control of the islands during WWII and brutality reached another level. Somehow, when British were on their way out, they gave the islands to India instead of making it their territory. India lucked out - all the focus was princely states and partition. The islands just came in. India must develop these islands. It gives India unmatched leverage over China, SG, Korea, and Japan.

@jayakod76862470 @arivalayam @Udhaystalin @abaraj2O @DigitalKadai @dmk_youthwing @DMKITwing Yaar ya adhu Inba annan ku pombalai vesham potadhu !!!

ஸ்டாலின் தொடரட்டும்! தமிழ்நாடு வெல்லட்டும்!

@deepan_civileng Agree License raj is still kicking, here are the facts. x.com/anirudhmurali8…

The remnants of Indian License Raj Bureaucracy 🫣

@Pivot2Centre Going by Rajnath's statement yesterday. Who knows might be restored soon.

The day BJP losses power, the water will flow as usual. Return of Aman ki Asha pro max! Modi’s lasting legacy (I have given up on Kaveri engine now) could be a canal system to move IWT water to PB, HR, DL, and UP. That would make it political and hence permanent!