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by adrianN 1y ago
Tangent: there is little reason to believe that fusion will provide cheap power.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Arenas are a nice tool, but they don't work for all use cases. In the limit you're reimplementing malloc on top of your big chunk of memory.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Having a pile of junk ready when you want to start a permanent base sounds like it could be useful.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Dropping bombs straight down seems like a solved problem. The difficult part here is dropping something slowly.
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by adrianN 1y ago
That's 3.3 amps behind the breaker. So if your wiring is set up for 16 amps you can now draw 19.3 amps before the breaker kicks in. That's within the safety margin. But if you allow PV to feed in more you exceed the safety margi
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by adrianN 1y ago
The 800W are to prevent fires. You can’t just arbitrarily raise those limits.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Phase out of nuclear was agreed upon after Fukushima, long before Habeck had anything to say.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Cellphones are popular there too, does that make them a bad idea?
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by adrianN 1y ago
My bill includes a fixed cost part that is supposed to pay for grid maintenance iirc.
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It costs the state nothing to remove regulations preventing the installations and people who buy one see ROI of 15-20%. It also helps the grid by moving production closer to consumption.
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by adrianN 1y ago
That’s why I specified „developed“. Economic growth in developed countries has been decoupled from energy use since the early aughts at least.
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by adrianN 1y ago
You get everything you need shipped from Amazon. You open the box and install it. These things are designed to be set up by amateurs. It’s half a dozen screws per panel. To hardest part is lifting the panels outside the balcony.
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by adrianN 1y ago
A kW of panels produces about 1000kWh a year in a sunny location in Germany. Electricity is around 30c/kWh. A 1kW+2kWh batteries and inverter set costs about 1k€ shipped from Amazon.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Standard of living has been decoupled from energy consumption for quite some time now in developed countries.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Germany uses millions of hectares to grow biofuels. They would be better used for solar panels, but NIMBYs prefer endless monoculture.
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by adrianN 1y ago
It takes literally two hours to install and plug it in if you have two left hands like me.
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by adrianN 1y ago
My 1kW southern facing setup produces a little less than three kWh a day, about 1000kWh a year. A have a battery too so I manage to use most of that energy myself.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Germany is using gas or oil for heating too. Heat pumps are gaining popularity, but most heating is still fossil fuels.
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by adrianN 1y ago
It is completely rational to install one of these. The paypack times are just a few years, depending on how sunny the balcony is.
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by adrianN 1y ago
What a ridiculous take. I have one of these systems and a 2kWh battery attached to it. It reduces my electricity bill by about half and will pay for itself in less than five years. I sacrifice nothing of my balcony, the panels hang outside.
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by adrianN 1y ago
My twins spent a month in the ICU but my insurance covered it.
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by adrianN 1y ago
It is my understanding that in the US many common health issues can cost you millions of dollars.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Panels have warranties of 25 years.
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by adrianN 1y ago
As soon as you add moving parts to your setup costs and maintenance explode. It's usually better to just buy more panels instead.
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by adrianN 1y ago
I suggest we don't put the burden on the individual consumer, because that won't work. For systemic problems you need systemic solutions.
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by adrianN 1y ago
The question is how much microplastic has been produced for farming the cotton and turning it into a bag? These problems are impossible for consumers to analyze.
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by adrianN 1y ago
A problem is that any novel antibiotic is put on the restricted use list of reserve antibiotics which massively shrinks the market.
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by adrianN 1y ago
How much do you capitalize on reading papers that are written in English right now?
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by adrianN 1y ago
Making a successful software company requires a lot more than good programmers.
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by adrianN 1y ago
I think a major problem nowadays is that we use antibiotics in absurd amounts in the meat industry.

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