Yes, but when they finally opened this door in iOS13 the API used to be very limited and there weren't too many things that third-party apps could do. But admittedly it's been quite some time since I last looked at this. Maybe things have changed in the meantime. I will try again. Thanks.
The current API is CallKit:
That's what I've been doing since they introduced it. Add in the call blocker I have (ATT's, which appears to be better than the free Verizon app I've installed on relatives' phone [more/better options on ATT]), my phone is "silent" other than the people I allow in by creating a contact for them.
The current API is CallKit:
CallKit | Apple Developer Documentation
Display the system-calling UI for your app’s VoIP services, and coordinate your calling services with other apps and the system.developer.apple.com
That was the point; there is nothing to read. It's just a random CO2 plot with no source for data and there are no links going to any other pages. It's like a standalone webpage.
Fair enough but to talk about Texas is a truly unique case in point, as only in Texas would you have a power supply that decides to be completely disconnected from the rest of the US. That's not the case in the rest of the US, nor the rest of the world. Even Europe interconnects just about everywhere to share their power grids and we're talking entirely independent countries, not just states.
To a great extent I agree with you, the idea that you need to furnish so much info online (account creation) to buy something when many websites (but not a majority) offer payment without storing your data (without creating an account) - I know they force it to facilitate your future purchases (in the hope that you'll find it easy to spend your money with them if there's less friction). Im not a fan for some one off purchases on a particular website, for example hardware shops online that sell tools, cables, screws etc. and the fact that I'ùll use them once for some obscure tool I need and NEVER again and still my address, number, username and password sits on their site for decades awaiting a potential hack.
“Virtually no impact” is not the same as no impact. If the grid can be more green by flipping an optional switch, why not? I would think it’s much harder and certainly more costly to have a net positive impact in the environment from a factory in full production.
Because virtually no impact means it's next to immeasurable and you can do things in your home that have greater impact on the grid than scrutinizing when your phone can charge. Power plants are going to generate the same amount of power regardless of whether your phone is charging or not. They don't alter generation based on demand. The only thing you're accomplishing is freeing up electricity for a different part of the grid. You're not saving any electricity or reducing pollution in any fashion.
If humankind can measure atoms splitting it can measure or at least estimate the impact on the electrical grid. It’s true that if I run my air conditioner (or not) the power plan most likely won’t alter its power profile.
And with those excess energy, the power company can sell them to other companies. Win win for them? 😅 I’m just glad it can be turned off.
Actually, power plants do manage their output based on projected demand. The plant operator can adjust output of specific units or shut them down completely. That's part of load management. I agree that charging or not charging your cellphone will not affect power plant output (unless you've got a cell phone battery the size of a small city. LOL!) But, your statement the power plants don't allter generation based on demand is generally not correct, unless they are running at full capacity and need more.
Yes, as you said *projected* demand. Meaning sometime in the future. They don't go look at the current draw and say hey, turn the coal down a little, we're overproducing. They say we've averaged 6.5 Mw over the last 6 months, we don't need to produce 7 next month or, more likely, they say during spring and fall we don't need to produce as much because the temperature is milder and in winter and summer we need to produce more because of greater draw needs.
Actually, that is exactly what they do. Power generation is actively managed in real-time. Its not a set it and forget it type thing. Electric utilities don't over-produce if they can help it. They don't want to incur the cost of producing electricity if they can't sell it. As demand increases and decreases, generating units are throttled up or back as necessary in an attempt match output with demand. Not on a micro level, but on a macro level.
Yes that macro level is month to month. Not hour or day or week to week. They can't anticipate sudden draws so they're not going to actively tweak the output day to day lest they cause a brownout when there's a concert downtown with a bunch of lights suddenly hitting the grid.
Well, that is what we used to do when I worked for an electric utilitty and then for a state public utility regulator. Demand changes during the day and we actively managed it in real time. I'm just relating my actual experience.
You couldn't regulate in real time, though. By the time the plant registered the increase in draw, there would already be a brown-out happening. I've talked to our co-op and plenty of people over the years from the coal plant across the river and it's always on an average monthly basis that they regulate that I've always heard.
I can only speak from my experience with coal and nuclear generating plants. But, I think we agree more than we disagree. I agree with an average monthly base load for forecasting purposes. But things change from what is forecasted and that has to be accounted for and managed. Also, you have to remember, your little coop is connected to a larger power grid (I hope) and is able to purchase wholesale power on demand during peak demand situations where it cannot generate all the power its customer require. There are a lot of variables at play.
The UK infrastructure is done so that there are a baseline of “always on” power generation stations such as coal etc.
