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Calwestjobs
2y ago
first of all, youre spreading misinformation. storage is CHEAP AF. BUT not kind every misinfo guru from youtube tells you about. this is cheaper - https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2024
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2y ago
for price of heat pump you can buy 3-6 times bigger PV array. heatpumps are not expensive but they are not cheap COMPARED to other alternative. cop is not constant, it changes. closer the outside temperature and indoor temperate is, less wo
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2y ago
if it works in germany, czech republic, poland which is higher latitude than 99.99999999% of USA or 80% of canada population then it will work even in USA too. Again read my first post, it is NOT about reaching 100% offgrid which is expensi
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2y ago
PV + heatpump maybe. PV + resistive heater yes. solar thermal is not worth price wise. solar thermal can be feasible only for big installations as is in stralsund, leipzig... - megawatts. solar PV is order of magnitude cheaper in small syst
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2y ago
just check newspapers title pages in UK today.... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70wylzyqw2o
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2y ago
For Brexit - facebook and cambridge analytica got fined.... that is not UK sabotaging itself. US tools are very successful in UK because UK uses same freaking language as US does.
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2y ago
Finishing investigation is not point in time when people knew it was Putnam.
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2y ago
efficiency of no MPPT is around 10 percent lower then with MPPT system so no issue. 2000 watt is maybe max what you can have on balcony - physical size, and 2000 watt inverters are like 20 $. well connecting anything to grid is/should
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2y ago
solar pv heating. my PV system is paid after 6 years of use. if i use current prices for energy. last two years market/spot prices were even higher than that. so in reality it was paid even sooner. and pv system does not disappear as s
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2y ago
by multistage heat pump i meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator i.e. rv propane refrigerator.
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2y ago
if you can boot, you change what you need to change in running os. efibootmgr works when os is online too, so just do same thing, be online when you are changing parameters.i remember in good old days of first android devices, there were mi
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2y ago
well just piping for hot water system is more expensive then PV panels. But biggest expense is instalation costs(humans) so it depends how you calculate. But PV system can be used for hot water, tv, car, charging kids bikes, lawnmower etc.
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2y ago
Congrats, using as much energy directly on site is crucial for fast and cheap energy transition of economy.
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2y ago
Yeah that too, but that has limits, for example european union regulates building industry in such way that every new build, rebuild has to be done in a way that your heating energy requirement is already lower than your hot water energy re
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2y ago
In Czech republic - europe - they made law that says anyone can built up to 100 kWp solar array, without any building permits, township meetings, HOA nonsense etc. You want it, you can build it. Best way to be independent of your neighbors
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2y ago
Hot water tank heated by electricity and powering on at noon is flattening curve. You can say hot water tanks are cheapest, simplest and fastest deployed energy storage device. Solar + hot water tank can provide any house in US with 100% so
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2y ago
well i am booting from usb stick too, on one of my big computers, but because my system is encrypted, i even remove TPM when im not around. not possible on notebooks tho...
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2y ago
- inferior bootloader - you need basicest of basic of a bringup then "call" linux kernel which does rest because it has to do it anyway with any bootloader - check redhat nmbl video from devcon2024 - live editing- 1999 way - look,
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2y ago
Boot partition is unnecessary, not unnecessary when something something, IT IS unnecessary EVERYWHERE EVERYTIME. and even if for some edgiest edge case you need boot partition, NO you do NOT need any graphics driver in your /boot, who
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2y ago
Why invent wheel when we already have Reticulum network which provides integrity and confidentiality on OSI Layer 2 ? So for every packet. It is not better to build "apps" on top of a secure network? That way even if "app&quo