Syonyk

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by Syonyk 4y ago
Suburbs aren't generally described as the "sticks." That would be exurbs or lower. A typical suburban subdivision will have city water and sewage, though depending on the details, you might have a couple community wells and
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Congratulations, you've found something to describe, in a dull and useless way, the concept of energy efficiency in a home. Blown-in cellulose is "advanced," huh? It doesn't answer any of the specific questions about wh
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by Syonyk 4y ago
You're welcome to do that, and it's something some off grid systems use, but the energy storage in that sort of thing is fairly poor. Go do the math on it, but you'll find a 55 gallon drum of water, from "room temperatu
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> All of this is dependent on highways and new roads, new electrical, water, and sewage infrastructure. If you're 20 miles outside a town, you almost certainly have electrical service, but are on a well and septic system. City wa
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by Syonyk 4y ago
My system is grid tie, because the local plans review process and I didn't see eye-to-eye on batteries. I have a solar power trailer for backup power. https://www.sevarg.net/tag/solar2020/ documents the buil
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Wrong way. The house has pulled an extra 4MWh from the grid during the winter months (and pushes more than that back during the rest of the year). I'm past net zero on an annual basis, but that doesn't mean that even a large arr
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> But that's not an argument against PV solar... It can certainly be an argument against residential rooftop solar. In general, "industrial solar" (ground mount, high voltage strings, single axis trackers) is sub-$1&#x2F
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by Syonyk 4y ago
They don't! They only hate poor families who can't afford a $500k+ home and His-and-Hers Matching Teslas.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Thanks. So gas water heaters are fine. Yay?
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by Syonyk 4y ago
When you've confused "per kWh cost" with "energy to the house delivery costs," this sort of stuff sounds good on paper, but it doesn't fundamentally solve the problem that in the winter, homes use a lot more en
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Generally, yes. They tend to have a lot of corners (for their "architectural features" checklist), and those are really hard to insulate well. They also tend to be purchased by people who don't care in the slightest about en
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by Syonyk 4y ago
If there's a good thermal difference between interior temperature and exterior temperature, a thermal imager will help catch an awful lot of the leaks.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
No, because those actually work. But they're also tricky to operate properly. This seems more like "I want you to feel good about your purchase while you're still dependent on external energy inputs." If you can find de
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by Syonyk 4y ago
https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/zero-energy-ready-home... seems to be the main landing page, and it's a bit handwaving... > A DOE Zero Energy Ready Home is a high-performance home that is so energy
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> But you might have to for your work, for example, if you're trading equities. And what if you get kidnapped and put on a gameshow where you have to know about absolutely current world events or they'll kill you and your who
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I find it entertaining that the best solution, "Not reading the news as regularly," is happily enforced by their paywall. > LIMITED TIME OFFER Well, as my time is clearly limited, I'll take your offer and go elsewhere!
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Why, how, and at what latency is tolerable? All anyone can ever manage is some hopefully representative cross section of some set of events, at some reasonable latency. I'm happy with a lower cross section (important stuff filters in d
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by Syonyk 4y ago
How much of that time has it been running? I would wager that it's not been running powered on for 33 years without any repairs. If it has, probably long past due for a re-cap job, and you probably don't want to put a scope on th
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by Syonyk 4y ago
The rest of their "Haha, you bought one of our devices, all your data is ours!" policy doesn't give me much cause to give them the benefit of the doubt here. At least some people [0] have reported their Roku device scanning t
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Wonder why don’t support it. It's probably harder to tie devices in a single household together with IPv6 than with IPv4, or so they think. They don't make (much) money on their devices, they make money on selling data coll
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Solid-state computer components, on the other hand, have no mechanical decay, so they are practically eternal. I wish. Electrolytic capacitors seem to have a functional lifespan of about 10-20 years, transistors do wear out, elec
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> The demand for older compact S-10 and the old compact rangers is sky high. Make them legal again. Wouldn't the Ford Maverick be the modern version of these? It comes in two different forms as far as I can tell - the "truck
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Low lighting... when? My kids are mostly in bed by the time this matters to me, at least in the winter months. And I'd like to think they get plenty of lighting during the day, as we kick them outside for some period of time every day
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Do you know how to order one without Amazon? I'm... rather opposed to them. In every possible way one could consider. I would love to poke with one, but if the only way to buy one is through Amazon, I'm quite unlikely to actuall
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I'm in that age group (post author) - over 40. I've experimented with self-lit screens vs lantern lit {books, e-ink screens} vs overhead incandescent bulb lit {books, e-ink screens}. The results are clear. LED lit screens are a
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by Syonyk 4y ago
... in response to the headline change from my title , which I think I adequately defended in the post: You're rather missing the whole "screws with sleep," which we know is a human health hazard in a range of metrics.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Eh, goal was more readership than my usual blog posts. Which it has now more than accomplished via HN frontpage. And it's not like I'm arguing for changes I haven't personally made. My evening lighting, post-sundown, at hom
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Check the previous post about my spectrometer. You're doing the right thing, but I have a bunch of "smart bulb LED" posts coming up, and even the color shifting ones blat out an awful lot of blue compared to an incandescent,
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Thanks, I'll order some of those and put them through my spectrometer!
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by Syonyk 4y ago
What's your problem with the links in that chain? We know (or, at least, papers argue...) that all of the linkages are true, and I (post author) link some studies that look at the end-to-end results - blue light vs sleep. With what I

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