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by beembeem 3y ago
Roofs should do more than just capture the energy of the sun, it needs to capture and store the water that hits it, because diffusing that water is enormously expensive at a city level. Hint: shingle roofs inject things into otherwise fresh
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by beembeem 3y ago
This is the case across much of the US. Seattle dumped 100 million gallons of untreated storm & wastewater in 2022.
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by beembeem 3y ago
This was prior to the introduction of transactions years ago. The versions stated in your comment are past EOL and not offered in Atlas today. Not relevant to today's reality.
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by beembeem 3y ago
Yes, you cherry-picked an under-regulated market with cheap land. Not to mention that cheap land is usually further from metro areas and thus requires more distribution costs. Either way, as I mentioned land acquisition cost does not fully
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by beembeem 3y ago
> Which costs are they able to externalize by building grid scale solar The biggest one is transmission. Most utilities have an arrangement where they can receive a certain return from customers with new capex. No large-scale transmissio
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by beembeem 3y ago
It is because utilities can externalize many costs with their current development practices. Every now and then the federal government jumps in with some more funding for them too (see: Diablo Canyon). Incentives aren't aligned between
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by beembeem 3y ago
Thanks for the link. Two issues I see missing from NREL's analysis: land use and distribution. I don't see a cost attributed to land in there. It's free for residential because it's already put to use, but not so for uti
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by beembeem 3y ago
A few comments: Your comment assumes that the utility needs to be using up lots of land to power customers. Rooftop solar is far more efficient and there is no extra transmission required. Utilities don't need to consume vast tracts of
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by beembeem 3y ago
I would appreciate data to the contrary, but the accounting in your first claim doesn't seem right to me. Behind the meter rooftop solar should be the most cost-effective because no new distribution is required nor is any land use chan
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by beembeem 3y ago
It would actually cost them a significant amount in lost revenue. It's not merely disrespect of users, its money vs user goodwill.
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by beembeem 3y ago
Correct, merely a money issue. Incentives are in the wrong place here.
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by beembeem 3y ago
Aha, to clarify for others - Vancouver WA is what you're referring to, not BC.
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by beembeem 3y ago
The problem you didn't touch on specifically is that it still makes sense to separate sewage from runoff, which is not cheap and becoming increasingly common in major US cities. Untreated sewage mixed with storm runoff makes for far wo
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by beembeem 3y ago
I went down this rabbit hole on National Beer [1] day this year. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Beer_Day_(United_Stat...
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by beembeem 3y ago
Bingo. Corrosion. Everything would need to be "marine-grade" aka expensive to plumb :)
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by beembeem 3y ago
That's really cool! Thanks for pointing this out.
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by beembeem 3y ago
I'm definitely going to try this, but oy javascript. It's probably the reason this can be written with so little code but I would prefer a native binary that doesn't have the npm dependency.
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by beembeem 3y ago
Thanks for linking those sources. I think this is the key part of the article: > increased demand over the coming years, including data centres, cryptocurrency miners and greenhouses. Price them out. Don't give sweetheart deals to u
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by beembeem 3y ago
> how many years a installation in a non-geologically/thermally active area can run before it changes the temperature of its lithic heat sink I would imagine this varies, but is a much smaller problem than e.g. heating up water habi
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by beembeem 3y ago
I present you the most amazing solution to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z3ZyGlqUkA Not to mention that the dams in Washington state do account for spawning/migration and slow down flows at certain points of t
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by beembeem 3y ago
> Right now there's no sustainable source for baseload power. To push back on this, there is a centurys' old technology for this in hydro. There's also an emerging field of geothermal. The Pacific Northwest (both sides of
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by beembeem 3y ago
Oh this is what you meant - making a living through permaculture. Can confirm that SelfSufficientMe strikes me as a great dude with engaging content.
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by beembeem 3y ago
At first I assumed this was the one near Belize, which is quite well known in the scuba diving community [1]. In fact, the picture on this post is probably of that one. However, this new one is over twice as deep! [1] https://en.
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by beembeem 3y ago
It's a replicaset at least, correct? Hopefully not standalone
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by beembeem 3y ago
I don't claim to know too much about Arianespace, but I wonder if this has any connection to the Russia situation and not being able to launch Soyuz rockets due to sanctions. https://spacenews.com/arianespace-and-oneweb
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by beembeem 3y ago
yep, would be great to have this ultimate list but for Emacs *ducks for cover*
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by beembeem 3y ago
Have already seen this with other stolen property with other PDs across the country. - "It's too risky" - "not valuable enough" - "could be dangerous" - "can't prove your stolen item is where the
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by beembeem 3y ago
I guess they didn't perform a basic web search: https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2014/09/izat-location-tech... https://investor.qualcomm.com/news-events/press-releases/det
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by beembeem 3y ago
Whew! For others - search "Eucalyptus" and "Portugal" for more info on why planting these in non-native habitat is incredibly destructive.
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by beembeem 3y ago
please tell me this is a joke...

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