Syonyk

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by Syonyk 6y ago
I don't think social media was doomed from the start - there were many years of healthy enough communities (I'm mostly familiar with LiveJournal in the early 2000s) that didn't have all the downsides of modern social media.
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by Syonyk 6y ago
No problem. If your concern is the particulate matter, then, yes, banning old diesels makes some sense. They don't have the particulate filters - those started showing up in the 2000-2010 era. However, I would rather see that implem
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by Syonyk 6y ago
It depends heavily on what you're calling "bad information." There are certainly cases where there's a difference of opinion - different interpretations of some external reality. But there is also "bad information&q
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by Syonyk 6y ago
> you're literally burning money for no reason? Correct. And destroying your engine in the process. Beyond washing down the cylinder walls (cylinder/ring wear) and diluting the engine oil in the process (worse lubrication for
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by Syonyk 6y ago
The pointless out of band emissions testing of an emissions compliant truck (that easily passes the tests) having to go in for a test because it smokes a bit under hard acceleration and someone called it in for "rolling coal" is v
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by Syonyk 6y ago
What about it? No vehicle will do it from the factory, so I don't see how it's relevant here. It's the result of running a diesel massively, massively over-rich (with aftermarket tuning), and it's absolute hell on the
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by Syonyk 6y ago
I'm referring to the 20-40 mile range class of PHEVs - Volt and crew. We're pretty rural, and the 35 mile range our Volt has will get us into town and back comfortably without lighting up the gas engine once.
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by Syonyk 6y ago
Why not both? Plug-in hybrids (PHEVs, range extended EVs, that general class of vehicle) give you the flexibility to run on whatever you can find, and also function nicely enough as a reasonably efficient generator for electrical power. Bu
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by Syonyk 6y ago
(Solar Shed guy here, I currently have 5kW of panel hung on my office, 10kWh of lead acid, 2kW of inverter, etc) Unclear as to what you mean "off-grid for 24 hours" - do you need to be off-grid 24/7, or simply run a 2kW devic
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by Syonyk 6y ago
Thanks for catching the new domain on that one!
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by Syonyk 6y ago
Not really. I can run 1500-2000W during the day if I care, but there's no way I can run a 2kW load, 24/7, without massive generator use. My battery bank is way, way too small for that. I typically idle around 75W overnight in t