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by elihu 3y ago
Maybe it's a loophole to allow companies to sell fewer "compliance car" EVs to meet regulatory total-fleet fuel efficiency targets? For instance, maybe Ford has to sell the equivalent of one Mach-e for every ten gas-powered F
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by elihu 3y ago
I haven't heard it talked about much either, it seems to be folk knowledge. Awhile back I bought a batch of the wrong kind of plywood and was having a terrible time cutting and thought it was something wrong with the machine. Eventua
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by elihu 3y ago
Alternatively, a machine with a proper enclosure and interlock makes the laser goggles unnecessary. Something else I might add is don't try to cut plywood with phenolic resin. I'm not entirely sure how hazardous the fumes and res
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by elihu 3y ago
Looks like the article has been edited to cross that bit out.
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by elihu 3y ago
Ah, you're right, I copied the wrong number. It's 565 MWh of storage not 185MWh.5. $219,000,000.0 / 565,000 Mwh = $387.61/kwh. That's a bit more reasonable. That's not that far out of line with paying retail
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by elihu 3y ago
I don't know how they shipped them, but apparently you can ship some animals through the US Postal Service. https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_007.htm Spiders and poisonous insects aren't allowed tho
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by elihu 3y ago
$219,000,000.00 / 185,000 kwh = $1,183.78 per kwh. Seems kind of on the expensive side, but maybe it's reasonable for this kind of project -- and there might be some big one-time costs like connecting the site to the power grid. S
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by elihu 3y ago
I think AAC is pretty rare where I am (Oregon) but apparently there's a company in Bend that specializes in it. They're a Hebel distributor. https://northwestaac.com/ AAC floor and roof panels do exist. My impres
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by elihu 3y ago
If one wants to go the "lego things together" route, ICF and AAC are also options that exist already.
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by elihu 3y ago
I think it's fine to assume that "I wonder how we can get this group of people to interact more with this other group people" is the sort of problem that most reasonably thoughtful people have thought about at some point in t
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by elihu 3y ago
Here's one person's approximate location guess: https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/190col8/probable_...
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by elihu 3y ago
That's a matter of active speculation on the Portland subreddit, as you might imagine. As far as I know, no land owner has come forward with the missing window. There's a lot of green space in and around Portland. There's g
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by elihu 3y ago
I also have a software background and have been learning hardware design recently for a midi controller project of my own. For the project you describe, you probably don't need more than a basic understanding of electricity. You'
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by elihu 3y ago
Yeah, 31 is pretty good but the fifths being about 5 cents off kind of throws everything a little out of tune. 5/4 being less than a cent off is great though. If I had to choose an EDO I think it's hard to go wrong with 41. 3&#x
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by elihu 3y ago
Whenever the topic of water in Gaza comes up in /r/worldnews, there's an oft-repeated bit of misinformation that Gaza doesn't have water because they dug up the EU-financed pipes to make rockets. It's not quite base
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by elihu 3y ago
I think it depends on what subreddit you're on. /r/worldnews tends to be very pro-Israel, unless the comment are on a story about settler violence. /r/politics is more balanced.
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by elihu 3y ago
And given that this is a Tesla, it wouldn't really have had many mechanical switches in the first place. Maybe the turn indicator? Which could happily run at 5 volts or something and blink the lights via CAN bus messages.
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by elihu 3y ago
The terminology can get confusing. I many contexts, a "brushless DC motor" is actually a 3-phase AC motor. The idea is that you can think of the motor and motor controller (often called an inverter) together as a DC motor because
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by elihu 3y ago
I think another big part of it is that DC switches tend to get expensive above 12V. Cheap AC switches work fine at higher voltage, because the arc is self-extinguishing as it passes through zero twice per cycle, but DC doesn't do that
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by elihu 3y ago
I call it a USB cable.
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by elihu 3y ago
And yet the technical people need accurate names to call things so they can communicate without ambiguity. I think "charging station" is the least confusing term for the fixed infrastructure part. If regular people call those &qu
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by elihu 3y ago
The terminology is kind of confusing, but usually the thing called a "charger" is the part that converts AC to DC at whatever voltage the pack requires. For level 1 and 2 charging, the charger is in the car. J1772 ports are basic
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by elihu 3y ago
> "No human requires the amount of training data we are already giving the models." Well, humans are also trained differently. We interact with other humans in real time and get immediate feedback on their responses. We don&#
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by elihu 3y ago
> "Goldman Sachs Research now expects battery prices to fall to $99 per kilowatt hour (kWh) of storage capacity by 2025 — a 40% decrease from 2022 (the previous forecast was for a 33% decline). Our analysts estimate that almost half
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by elihu 3y ago
I don't expect Israel to accept a permanent cease-fire with Hamas, given the nature of Hamas's attack several weeks ago. However, severely restricting the supply of food and water to the point where it's far less than what t
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by elihu 3y ago
There's the Arcimoto FUV. I'd consider it a step up from golfcart/rickshaw as it's meant to go at highway speeds, but it's much smaller/lighter than a regular car.
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by elihu 3y ago
I don't think we should forego many of the various amenities that we use energy for, but we definitely can reduce overall energy use without causing a humanitarian catastrophe. Take transportation. Gas engines are somewhere in the nei
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by elihu 3y ago
> We believe energy should be in an upward spiral. Energy is the foundational engine of our civilization. The more energy we have, the more people we can have, and the better everyone’s lives can be. We should raise everyone to the energ
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by elihu 3y ago
LFPs lose some of their capacity early on, but then the degradation is much slower. It's just a weird quirk, it doesn't mean they're going to fail quickly.
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by elihu 3y ago
I was aware that internal combustion cars catch fire more often. There's a bit of a compensatory difference in severity: EVs don't catch fire as often, but it's especially bad when they do. But hopefully we can quickly move

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