K0balt

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by K0balt 1y ago
It is enormously satisfying to be doing something that is so useful to people close to you. I just wish I could focus more on that instead of other projects, but c’est la vie.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Thank you for the encouragement. It’s on my bucket list.
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by K0balt 1y ago
It’s been an adventure, but it would be disingenuous to imply that a don’t enjoy the challenge. It is very satisfying to have your work be so useful to many people. As for failure, we have them sometimes, but our casualty downtime for the l
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by K0balt 1y ago
To be clear, we are distributing power over about 600m of length, so it has to be high voltage. HVDC is very very dangerous, I would not want it in my house. Not only that, it’s hard to find things that are efficient and work on high voltag
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by K0balt 1y ago
Lol. Definitely! It’s a ratchet: Need more power: Buy more panels, they are cheap! Need more power: Buy more panels, they are cheap! Need more power: Buy more panels, they are cheap! Need more power: Can’t buy more panels, need more batteri
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by K0balt 1y ago
All underground infrastructure or in concrete utility huts. Powerplant is concrete, no flooding issues due to excellent drainage of the area. We can run on generator to charge the batteries for about 2 weeks on the fuel we keep. Other than
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by K0balt 1y ago
I’m excited to try them too… I’ll get back to you in 5 years lol.
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by K0balt 1y ago
The total cost of the system so far is about $87k, and operating cost is around 4000 a year (includes equipment amortisation, slow expansion, direct operating costs). In all, for several homes, and a farm it’s very affordable. Getting power
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by K0balt 1y ago
I don’t have much in the way of links, but I can give you an overview. We have a fair bit of vertical scale in the terrain here. We extract our water from a shallow well in a natural crevasse between ridges. It is made of concrete blocks st
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by K0balt 1y ago
It grew organically so there was never a huge cost Really, except when we decided to build a building for The power plant because it was getting out of hand. It’s been a few thousand dollars a year in growth as we add batteries and panels.
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by K0balt 1y ago
I’ve been running a solar microgrid on my coffee farm for the last 7years. We started with a few golf cart batteries and 4 panels, these days we’re powering 4 houses, 7 cabins, water extraction, treatment, and RO processing, campus-wide fib
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by K0balt 1y ago
I wonder how many of the eyestrain glasses coatings that block blue light also reduce violet?
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by K0balt 1y ago
Poor reading comprehension skills or a bad faith interpretation. Either way, what you wrote was absolutely fine.
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by K0balt 1y ago
In a case like this it seems like batteries for homeowners would be economically viable and ultimately would actually result in more financial stress for the utilities, as their usefulness would drop to third tier usage. Right now, a 50kw
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by K0balt 1y ago
I think the evidence of bias using typical implementation methodology is strong enough here to be very meaningful.
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by K0balt 1y ago
I’d not say spontaneously, since they evolve over hundreds or thousands of years, but yes, the best memes are evolved to a very high degree of fitness and symbiotic utility. It’s hard to match that on a one-off engineering basis, especially
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by K0balt 1y ago
Yeah, humor is a potent antitoxin.
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by K0balt 1y ago
I think maybe you underestimate memes. A meme is a self copying idea that propagates through “sentient” creatures, which can also include many animals. (Animals can become fearful of arbitrary non-threats through social transmission , for e
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by K0balt 1y ago
I think the concern is for the frothing masses of earthbound unfortunates, not the passengers hurtling gloriously towards destiny miles above the troublesome surface of the planet.
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by K0balt 1y ago
I would assume that any efficient hypersonic airliner would need to use variable geometry or powered manipulation of airflows to attain a reasonable efficiency in the transition zones of its flight envelope, so while you obviously would not
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by K0balt 1y ago
Did this guy just propose a new theory of epistemological trajectories in theoretical physics, beyond the current paradigm of theoretical physicists liking shiny mathematical objects?
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by K0balt 1y ago
Flying it the high limits of the atmosphere reduces sonic boom intensity due to both the extremely low density of the air and the distance from the ground. Ultimately, sonic boom is a sign of wasted energy, so if (big if) we can make aircra
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by K0balt 1y ago
Certainly not for short hops, but if regular aviation is any indication, it’s more efficient even if you don’t even reach cruising altitude before beginning to descend, so I’d imagine any flight that currently is around 4 hours or more woul
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by K0balt 1y ago
At supersonic speeds, the efficiency of an engine like this can be very high, and at high altitudes, travel is very efficient. People don’t seem to get that there is potential for more efficient transport at supersonic speeds/ hyperson
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by K0balt 1y ago
I travel constantly and this is a HUGE issue for me. It used to work with VOIP but now everyone wants to make sure they have maximum sellable data so they require mobile numbers. Also, clownworld security, which is totally bunk as an excuse
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by K0balt 1y ago
Sure, and optimizing earning potential along with tactical flexibility is arguably the best way to maximize that potential. Having a trade as a backup skill gives you tactical maneuverability that allows you to be a more effective negotiato
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by K0balt 1y ago
This might be out of scope, but citizen makes the W770, I recently bought one for <200US lightly used. It manages to be a pretty good chronograph , BLE with an alarm and vibration motor (with a somewhat neglected strange little ecosystem
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by K0balt 1y ago
Sure, resource potential is important. But putting all of your eggs in one basket can push you into a corner, especially in the sense of -feeling- cornered. Options, even if they exist primarily in theory, are a force multiplier. For exampl
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by K0balt 1y ago
I’d call myself a “spiritual” libertarian. Over the years, it became obvious that laws, regulations, compromises, and balances that curtail freedoms exist for a reason. It’s an imperfect world, And if the goal is to maximize human happiness
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by K0balt 1y ago
Oh, you can spend 50k on tools, of course. You can spend as much as you want. But you don’t need every tool to work on every car. Plenty of mechanics work with a single toolbox that you can carry by hand. It will handle 90 percent of the jo

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