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by grecy 2y ago
> it would be a lot of work for not much bang. I don't know. Surely it will be a sellable feature of Starship eventually to service and/or return aging sats from orbit. Grabbing an F9 second stage feels like the perfect way t
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by grecy 2y ago
> The other one is since the second stages are not recovered it is much harder to do an after-flight engineering analysis on them This raises and interesting question - do you think SpaceX will attempt to recover a Falcon 9 second stag
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by grecy 2y ago
> Dealerships should not exist Don't fret too much, they won't survive much longer.
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by grecy 2y ago
It's going to get really interesting when AI starts making questionable images unprompted to do so.
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by grecy 2y ago
> I don't know how obsolete it was Launch costs will be at an absolutely minimum twice as much, likely more like 3-5x. It will only be able to launch a handful of times per year. It is literally bringing a muzzle loader to a machi
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by grecy 2y ago
> Would love to see at least one other provider get into reusability China have basically a clone of the Falcon 9 in testing now. Nine engines, landing legs, etc. etc. It's famous for accidentally taking off during an engine test
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by grecy 2y ago
I agree that it makes sense for the EU to have it's own rocket and rocket talent, but the crazy part is the Ariane 6 was obsolete before it hit the design table. Clearly SpaceX have upturned the industry, but to still be so blind to th
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by grecy 2y ago
I think it's time we stopped calling it an accident.
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by grecy 2y ago
> Shutting down a company results in people losing their jobs. No terrorists involved. I'm always baffled by this unholy protection of "jobs". Making asbestos essentially illegal resulted in tens of thousands of people l
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by grecy 2y ago
> Also, fines that go up to say 10% of global revenue. 10% ? What? if you or I were found negligent that resulted in hundreds of deaths we would be in jail for the rest of our lives, effectively fining us 100% of ALL revenue FOREVER. A
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by grecy 2y ago
No, that is just the page used to organize the face to face meetups
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by grecy 2y ago
Sorry, you are right, $ per Watt.
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by grecy 2y ago
I googled around for a while, and found pioneersolarenergy.com. Super helpful, good shipping price, etc. As well as the 10 year interest free loan check if your province has any rebates. The "Greener Homes" grant gave me $5k (So I
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by grecy 2y ago
Two months ago I got 6.8kW installed on my house for $13,000CAD. Some of that was DIY, but I just bought the whole system retail. So just under $2 CAD/kW installed and running - inverter, licensed electrician and permits, everything. (
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by grecy 2y ago
Nelson has a "tech people meetup" pretty often. https://www.facebook.com/groups/kootenayworkers/
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by grecy 2y ago
Huh, very small world. Me too :)
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by grecy 2y ago
yes, exactly.
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by grecy 2y ago
No, that is still not true, no matter how good the insulation. > That fully depends on the level of insulation. Newly build houses here in The Netherlands rarely cool down when heating is off, and the temperature stays generally stable,
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by grecy 2y ago
Insulation is worthwhile, but has nothing to do with what you are asking. If you are heating a house, or a water tank, or anything, it requires much more energy to keep it at a constant temp 24x7 than it does to let it cool down when you do
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by grecy 2y ago
Do you have a link please? I've only seen the ones that plugin to a regular outlet - the hot water heater is wired directly into the main house panel
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by grecy 2y ago
> All of the quotes and interactions I had with the local solar installers were reminiscent of the used car lot if not outright fraud. I had exactly the same experience. They absolutely would not tell me the actual system cost, only ho
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by grecy 2y ago
Awesome, thanks very much. I wonder if it would be worth keeping it off until sometime in the am the following day - do you need piping hot water from 11pm until about 5am?
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by grecy 2y ago
Can you get tankless electric? I thought they were only gas
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by grecy 2y ago
I would love a way to turn off my electric hot water heater between the hours of about 10pm and 7am. I see no reason to keep the water hot during the time absolutely nobody needs it, and we know it will take less energy to heat it back up a
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by grecy 2y ago
100%. I had no idea I was living life through a fog, and it wasn't until a week or two after I got off coffee that the world got more vibrant. Almost like I'd been wearing dirty glasses and thick gloves and slight sound muffling h
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by grecy 2y ago
I get the same results from regular black tea, now I'm on decaf. Even decaf coffee messes with me.
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by grecy 2y ago
Keep in mind every body is different, and responds differently to inputs. Creatine may not have done much for your body, but that absolutely does not mean it won't be very beneficial for others. FWIW, coffee destroys me - I get the swe
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by grecy 2y ago
Same thing with electricity - some of the highest prices in the world on one of the sunniest continents in the world. Australia was sold a long time ago, and regular people are now paying the price.
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by grecy 2y ago
Last quarter Tesla deployed 4GWh of battery capacity, this quarter it is 9.4GWh. Where do you think that is being deployed?
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by grecy 2y ago
I grew up in rural Australia. We had Japanese exchange students in High School, and the teachers stayed in our house (Mum & Dad were teachers). Even though I was only ~15, I have a very strong memory of the 50, 60 and 70 year old Japane

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