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by ericd 1y ago
Maybe, but these aren’t fittings, they’re ground mounts with large screws that screw into the ground to hold the entire array down, including under high wind (and have to come with PE stamped system-level engineering drawings talking about
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by ericd 1y ago
Without an inverter/wiring/mounts? Do you mean RV-style DC appliances? Unfortunately, I think Americans are much too heavily invested in current infrastructure to consider going all-in on those…
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by ericd 1y ago
What would you call "the market rate"? You can get pallets of panels right now for ~$0.30/watt at eg Signature Solar (no affiliation, just where I got ours). That might be more than what's available globally, but it&#x27
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by ericd 1y ago
Yeah, we paid more for the little bits of metal that held up the panels than for the panels themselves (aluminum, but still).
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by ericd 1y ago
When it's dead, you can order an UberXL and toss this in the back? Cheaper than a tow truck... Also, 100 miles is a lot on a bike. I think they got rid of this design requirement by just making the range longer.
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by ericd 1y ago
Ehhh Macbook Pros can be configured with up to 128 now, iirc 16 was the max back then. But I guess the baseline hasn't moved as much.
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by ericd 1y ago
>America's first affordable car, the Model T, was released in 1908. In October 1919, less than one year after the Armistice of November 1918 and just four months after the Treaty of Versailles, GM had "created a financing arm c
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by ericd 1y ago
Sadly, still quite a lot in PJM, the highest power usage grid in the nation (DC region): https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electr...
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by ericd 1y ago
Sounds kind of like hyperparameter search - you're searching the design space for the bounds of the different parameters. I don't know if parametric design is possible on reactors, but would be neat if possible.
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by ericd 1y ago
I'm mostly curious if there's any world in which coal beats at-scale solar production, or if it's totally moot. To be clear, I'm not rooting for that so much as looking for an ironclad case against. Nuclear is a whole ca
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by ericd 1y ago
Yeah, but sometimes the intermittency is pretty extreme, and you can get away with significantly less overpaneling and storage if you have a mix of power sources. Not many experts advocate for 100% renewables.
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by ericd 1y ago
I'm not a coal proponent, just trying to understand the veracity of an argument that I think R's make sometimes (that coal isn't economically viable primarily because state regs make it too expensive).
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by ericd 1y ago
I'm curious, in case anyone knows, how much of the economic disadvantage of coal is because of environmental reg compliance versus other, more fundamental costs?
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by ericd 1y ago
I'm considering doing the same, I guess one would basically just be splitting functions, a dedicated NAS, and a dedicated server for all the functions that Synos tend to perform (generally not very well, but at least with pretty low po
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by ericd 1y ago
Why? Run them along baseboards in the corners, you'll never notice them (or at least we didn't at our last house, white on white).
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by ericd 1y ago
Eh flat Ethernet cables can easily be snaked all over with adhesive clips, and if you color match cable/clips/walls, it doesn’t look bad.
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by ericd 1y ago
The Lives of Others is a great one about the Stasi.
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by ericd 1y ago
Yep, that's the majority, and western TX is supposedly super windy, so not replicable everywhere. But they're deploying lots of solar, too.
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by ericd 1y ago
Iirc, Texas has deployed more clean energy generation in the last few years than the entire CA fleet, despite CA subsidizing heavily, and retail energy rates >2x in CA. TX is at something like 3x the generation from wind/solar in CA
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by ericd 1y ago
Well, very few in the US realize that residential solar in the US is 3x the price it is in Australia, let alone that a lot of it caused by regulatory structures, so it’s hard to say it’s a conscious choice we’ve made… But yeah, would be gre
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by ericd 1y ago
Yep, and electrical distribution is frequently a bottleneck, and electrification initiatives (EVs, heat pumps) and data center buildouts are causing that to a larger and larger issue - colocating generation and usage seems very helpful for
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by ericd 1y ago
Our inverter lets you set it so that it doesn't do any grid export, and otherwise sits between the grid and the normal main breaker panel. If you do this, I'd highly recommend that you put a transfer switch in place that lets yo
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by ericd 1y ago
The hot shower thing is an interesting example, since the tanked ones generally have a lot of flexibility in when they heat the water.
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by ericd 1y ago
Pretty sure it's because a domestic auto industry is considered strategically important to maintain in case of war. Also, the supply chain employs a lot of people and maintains industrially important skills.
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by ericd 1y ago
Wonder which way they'd come down on this, seems like it might be a big (and free) attraction, if visitors could see the aftermath of those sunset launches. Seems like at ~60 miles away, the noise shouldn't be an issue.
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by ericd 1y ago
I think the last mile polish has always been a big weakness of the oss ecosystem (on average), so this kind of integration into a nice package is important work, I think. Personally, I’m really enjoying Omarchy.
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by ericd 1y ago
In the US, iirc replacing combustion cars and heating with EVs and heat pumps are larger contributors - the inflation reduction act and various incentives have been pretty successful, and as a consequence, electricity demand has been growin
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by ericd 1y ago
Nah, you can buy retail packs for less than $300/kwh now, I installed some recently. Commercial installs in China are reportedly hitting like $60 installed. Also, 4 hours is the target Jigar Shah talks about for getting solar to a load
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by ericd 1y ago
Yep, easily the worst part of mine, especially since it has to charge at a different time than my phone to allow for sleep tracking.
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by ericd 1y ago
>Now you’re giving checks to parents who were already doing okay at home but also diminished the childcare benefit for those who needed it, which was the goal in the beginning. They're the ones who are basically paying the vast majo

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