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by 205guy 7y ago
My friend said he picked 12V because that's what the easily-available LED bulbs are rated at, and he just wanted a simple lights-only system. I guess you could pick whatever voltage you want for your loads and cable runs, but you need
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by 205guy 7y ago
A friend of mine did something similar. He put in a small solar array with only 3 panels, an inverter/charger, and 400 Ah of 12-volt batteries. This DC then feeds into a breaker panel and goes to lights in all the rooms. He uses LED sp
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by 205guy 7y ago
I find tea-balls fiddly and hard to clean. The Ikea strainer looks better but still small. What I found easiest is a Chinese tea strainer: it's a metal mesh (stainless, hopefully) that is as large in diameter as a standard (American) m
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by 205guy 7y ago
This comment was provocative by associating the Tesla-nay-sayers to anti-vaxxers and flat-earthers, but I think it's worth discussing, and so I vouched for it. The author sixQuarks adds two points about difficulty in the automotive mar
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by 205guy 7y ago
My idea was just to have this integrated into your ISP bill. I once thought that ISPs should pay for all content, then pass the bill onto users + costs-and-profit. I guess there would need to be separate standardized rates for video, audio,
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by 205guy 7y ago
It all goes in a circle though: why did city governments sanction taxi cartels (by issuing a fixed number of medallions)? Because if anyone can be a taxi anytime (aka open market), then you get a race to the bottom, both in quality and avai
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by 205guy 7y ago
This is actually a very interesting and seemingly accurate description of what powers so much of the internet.
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by 205guy 7y ago
I agree with those saying climate change is a huge stressor for young generations. I had the same argument with a friend about fear of nuclear war into the 80's, but she convinced me it wasn't the same. They are both existential f
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by 205guy 7y ago
I'm going to join the chorus saying that it's cool what you can do with an algorithmic and programmable font. However, my next thought is that will create noisy and busy displays or web pages and so it is of limited practical&#x2F
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by 205guy 7y ago
That is a very powerful idea, thank you for posting it.
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by 205guy 7y ago
I'm not a professional by a long shot, but I agree with the other commenters who say that half-manual modes (A and S) are very useful in all situations. The video was good, but I don't think he went into enough detail how the 3 se
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by 205guy 7y ago
Buck minster Fuller called, and he's still waiting for us to implement the future he envisioned. See the section titled "The Global Energy Grid:" http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2009/02/buckminster-fu
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by 205guy 7y ago
These are great insights, and I thought of a 4th one, at the intersection of your 1) and 3): when a rural land-owner wants to develop their property or small or large business wants to start a new venture locally, the environmental regulati
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by 205guy 7y ago
neals clearly said "50% loss of electricity when transporting" which has nothing to do with intermittent generation and need for storage. He claims to be an operator of electric charging and hydrogen fueling networks, and I was ho
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by 205guy 7y ago
Can you explain how you can say "up to 50% loss of electricity when transporting over long distances"? That seems very high, and in my opinion disinformation. The first search result I found [1] says an average of 6% among US stat
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by 205guy 7y ago
Another possible mechanism that I have heard of are dough conditioners. They make bread soft and fluffy without the need for cultures or letting the bread rise. But bread cultures (such as sourdough starter) feed on the gluten (and make gas
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by 205guy 7y ago
I must put in a word for my favorite sport: week-long solo backpacking. Meditation, frustration, overcoming, self-reliance, singing at the top of your lungs, not speaking for days, exhaustion, mental challenge, pushing yourself, scenery and
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by 205guy 7y ago
I totally disagree. One can argue that free federal highways are problematic (car/truck and oil-dependent transportation), but given they exist, it is totally logical and consistent to not allow funneling drivers onto toll-roads. Other
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by 205guy 7y ago
SF has the notorious 38 Geary that had 55+K daily ridership (boardings) in 2017 [1]. It has many of the problems of an overloaded bus line (traffic causing buses to run together, etc). Oddly, the SF Muni metro lines (what they call the ligh
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by 205guy 7y ago
Maybe that's what LIGO is detecting now...
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by 205guy 7y ago
The French tried: both Paris CDG and Lyon airports have TGV stations in them. There was a time the trains were even code-shared and you could book them as regular connections. It was very convenient when it worked, for example from the US t
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by 205guy 7y ago
Also, Southeast Asia probably means drinking green tea, which equals fluoride, thus good for teeth (up to a point). Relatedly, I remember hearing of archaeologists finding skulls of "cave men" (can't remember the time or plac
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by 205guy 7y ago
You're making the same mistake again: the rocky coastline of a volcanic island in the middle of an ocean does not become sedimentary. It is constantly being eroded. The plasticrust that is not ingested/incorporated by molluscs and
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by 205guy 7y ago
My wife was sensitive to the flickering of CFLs and LEDs running on AC, so we installed some dedicated 12V DC circuits in our house and they are really great. We run strings of DC LEDs from them, and they are bright and flicker-free. You ca
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by 205guy 7y ago
The docking is a bit of a constraint (need to know where they are and walk to/from the nearest ones), but they existed before the GPS-enabled IoT dockless bikes were developed. They also had some advantages such as not needing a data p
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by 205guy 7y ago
I've used these bikes in San Francisco several times on visits, they are great for getting around the downtown area. Public transit is 2.50 per ride ($3 cash starting July 1st), so it's cheaper as long as you are in their service
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by 205guy 7y ago
I'm not sure who is saying what in this thread, but Russians had their share of atrocities. Note this is very graphic and haunting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
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It's a publication for outdoor enthusiasts (and armchair enthusiasts too) who care about such details (equipment and its capabilities). Not all satellite products work in all regions, and readers might be interested in what worked in t
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by 205guy 7y ago
While there certainly have been changes to Internet usage patterns, I think all experiences are still possible. In the early 90's when this mother's group was taking off, my usage of Usenet wasn't very social, it was more lik
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by 205guy 8y ago
A large vat at the store, with a spigot to refill the bottle you brought with you. I've seen this for cooking oils and honey, not sure it exists for cosmetic products.

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