eldaisfish

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by eldaisfish 10mo ago
More batteries. I cannot believe this is a serious question. A small battery pack can easily run most essential domestic services.
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by eldaisfish 10mo ago
Use your local library? I’m amazed to see so many comments focused on everything but libraries.
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by eldaisfish 10mo ago
I regularly use soulseek to download archival copies of music that I pay for. The artist makes their money, and I don’t have to worry about my account access. Soulseek is brilliant.
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by eldaisfish 10mo ago
as is the consequent traffic, pollution and inefficiency that choices like yours add up to.
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by eldaisfish 10mo ago
i take it you are not from the old world? Only in north america will you find dense cities without small, normal grocery stores. These are incredibly common in all of the old world.
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by eldaisfish 10mo ago
are you familiar with population distributions and the fact that more of the word lives in urban areas than rural? >So everyone drives Citation needed, because this is obviously false. >Or if they're too poor to afford a car then
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by eldaisfish 10mo ago
most people in the US are forced to drive, they don't willingly choose to sink large sums of money into a rolling metal cage.
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by eldaisfish 10mo ago
"we" here is a minority of the population in any developed country. The vast majority of people - almost globally - live in dense areas.
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by eldaisfish 10mo ago
cars are barely efficient in terms of time. In cost terms, cars are incredibly expensive once you add in infrastructure costs, insurance, fuel, the cost of land use, etc. Public transit is efficient even outside areas of high density - see
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by eldaisfish 10mo ago
Think about what was lost in the quest for dark mode versus the benefits. I would argue that menu icons are more useful than dark mode in several situations.
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by eldaisfish 11mo ago
India's rail network is not fully electrified, this is false. Even the most popular broad gauge network is not fully electrified. Diesel trains are still very common. Remember also that the Indian government is very skilled at manipula
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by eldaisfish 11mo ago
the #1 problem with the EU's administrative structure is that its power comes from below, i.e. from the member states. Any of them could pull a Brexit and the entire union could be in jeopardy. The #2 problem is language. Despite what
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by eldaisfish 11mo ago
i wonder if the incessant marketing from US auto companies had anything to do with this "desire". Why invest in more efficient engines, at lower profit margins, when you can convince your customers that their obese vehicles are al
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by eldaisfish 11mo ago
yes, what is "normal" has been redefined to align with what is more profitable for the US auto companies. There is no real reason why most US drivers suddenly switched from sedans to large SUVs and bloody pickup trucks in the past
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by eldaisfish 11mo ago
this is also my understanding. The range is large because it caters to passenger cars, lorries and construction equipment. Construction equipment is seen are more rugged (it often is) and this is now projected as a desirable trait for SUVs
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by eldaisfish 11mo ago
you weren't in a short car, you were in a normal car. Society really needs legislation around auto obesity. Cars are too big, too high, too heavy, all at despite being less practical than a station wagon from twenty years back.
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by eldaisfish 11mo ago
this is a racist dog whistle. Stop with the "mass immigration" BS. India, contrary to what the racists believe, has a long and successful vaccination program. A country of 1.5 billion people has around a 70% MMR vaccination rate a
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by eldaisfish 11mo ago
all true, but in the vast majority of electricity markets, inertia is not priced. what does drive the price of electricity is fuel cost, not grid stability. Solar inverters do not have physical inertia but they can have fast frequency respo
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by eldaisfish 11mo ago
This has almost nothing to do with how electricity is priced.
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by eldaisfish 11mo ago
comments like this really show that many people with strong opinions do not understand how the electricity grid, electricity markets or electricity economics work. Electricity is priced at the edge entirely because demand must match supply
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by eldaisfish 11mo ago
you heard wrong. What most electricity grids forbid is exporting power from your home to the grid when the grid is down. The claimed danger is that energised power lines will kill people working on the lines. The reality is that the vast ma
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by eldaisfish 11mo ago
keep in mind the limitations of these forecasting calculations. On an AVERAGE day, assuming AVERAGE weather, assuming AVERAGE load, you should be fine. The trouble with relying on the weather for your electricity is that it is entirely poss
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by eldaisfish 11mo ago
I am an electrical engineer based in Ontario, Canada. I'm very interested in the energy transition, especially the shift to electric vehicles, electric heat and the opportunities this creates in the electricity sector. Looking for cont
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by eldaisfish 1y ago
ok, but if you depend on software for work or business, you do not update your OS until you can guarantee and verify that your software will work. The original iOS version worked. Maybe don't update iOS if you want to continue using af
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by eldaisfish 1y ago
your gripe is valid but misdirected. I also own a copy but, the one-time validation requires a validation server. Once that server goes offline, i can no longer install Affinity on a new machine.
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by eldaisfish 1y ago
No, you don’t. Cold climate heat pumps work just fine at even -30 C. In fact, many malls and offices in Northern Ontario are switching to heat pumps only because electricity is so cheap. What heat pumps really need in cold climates is reaso
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by eldaisfish 1y ago
Well, in that case, you don’t need a heat pump. You need a sweater and an AC. The real advantage of heat pumps is in displacing high cost fuels.
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by eldaisfish 1y ago
no, this is complete nonsense and should be dismissed as such. People being "scared" is how north america ended up with vehicles the size of tanks. The vast majority of cold climate heat pumps work down to - 20 C in most cases and
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by eldaisfish 1y ago
that's odd because Ontario and Quebec are colder than most of the US and just these two provinces account for about one million heat pump installs per year since 2020.
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by eldaisfish 1y ago
and if you believe that heat pumps do not work below freezing temperatures, you are part of the reason why misinformation keeps spreading. You should know better. You should be ashamed to be spreading straight up lies.

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