dhagberg

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   by dhagberg 1y ago

   Wow, getting a drone to survive the massive electromagnetic fields (and plasma!) around lightning strikes is quite an accomplishment. Prior art in the area used rockets trailing a similar light wire to trigger lightning - used by Dr Uman&#
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   by dhagberg 2y ago

   First learned about this from a Carl Hiaasen book, Razor Girl ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_Girl )
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   by dhagberg 2y ago

   Historically, Maine had excellent recreation policies in cooperation with the private paper companies that owned the majority of land in the northern part of the state: areas not actively being logged were available for recreation access, a
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   by dhagberg 3y ago

   They're definitely used in ACARS messages that go to every commercial airplane cockpit...
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   by dhagberg 3y ago

   Most DC fast charging rates are about 2x to 3x the local electric rate per kWh, though stations vary quite a bit based on other factors. Here in Colorado, my home power is about $0.125/kWh "normal" rate putting supercharger r
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   by dhagberg 4y ago

   This new prototype is based on a Lightning Motors Transit to get useful range, rather than the Ford Transit EV that has a very limited range. Ford’s Transit EV design spec is for a local delivery/work van - a bigger battery in that cas
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   by dhagberg 6y ago

   Don’t forget to calculate your egress network costs to download for restore. That could make the costs look a lot worse than other zfs backup services like rsync.net.