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by malchow 5y ago
* Purports to conduct analysis of alleged underpayment of pro rata distribution costs by people who have solar systems (and do of course pay PG&E when they draw energy) * * Conducts no corresponding analysis of PG&E cost structure,
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CPUC Guts Solar Power in name of “equity,” adds $8/kW monthly charge paid to PGE [pdf](docs.cpuc.ca.gov)
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by malchow 5y ago
Pork doesn't work. Ask people inside DOD who are increasingly frustrated at the Primes leading DOD around by the nose with outdated ideas and outmoded products. For national security, we need a state of affairs wherein it is profitable
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by malchow 5y ago
This is a pork bill from Intel, which used to know how to build competitive fabs and now does not. Federal pork will not make our country better at semi autolines.
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by malchow 5y ago
Yes, you're right. I was only calling out that the parent poster incorrectly referred to the COVID related demand slump of 2020 as a deflationary period. It wasn't.
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by malchow 5y ago
Deflationary means prices going down, not demand going down. This inflation is real, and isn't just a COVID rebound. It's bad policies leasing to lack of business confidence leading to fear of the future. If you are posting here,
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by malchow 5y ago
Congrats to Dylan and team on this release; incredibly cool - more companies, especially those for whom software is a functional organization but not the primary one -- need to take key leaks seriously.
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by malchow 5y ago
For those interested in software in this space: https://cedar.ai .
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by malchow 5y ago
High-level grid interconnection isn't so useful if one (or more) of the lower-level grids being interconnected is so badly maintained that it frequently has to be deenergized. The future probably looks like microgrids, with MID/ne
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by malchow 5y ago
Great point. You can see CA public employee salaries here. [1] The numbers are shocking, not only because they are all overpaid (the effect of public employee unions owning California's Democrat government, a downward-spiral effect pre
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by malchow 5y ago
He's also wrong about there being a water *shortage* in California. There is water *diversion*, designed by environmentalists to save animals, that strips farmers of water.
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by malchow 5y ago
No. That is a "with COVID" number, not a "from COVID" number. You really can't escape the truth that the public policy response to COVID was a mistake –– a very grave mistake. Nothing should have been shut down, and
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by malchow 5y ago
The law doesn’t pass constitutional muster. There are several challenges underway.
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Lithium battery maker airlifts assembly line to SF Bay Area(freightwaves.com)
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Natural gas from trash is undergoing a rapid growth period: https://www.archaeaenergy.com Details: https://d1io3yog0oux5.cloudfront.net/_628372108fa37c6495a97d... As ever, the cornucopians will win and the Malth
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If we prefer trad architecture by a large margin, why did we stop making it?(astralcodexten.substack.com)
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Winning the Global Battery Arms Race: A 100% Active Silicon Anode Li-Ion Battery(enovix.medium.com)
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Winning the Global Battery Arms Race: A 100% Active Silicon Anode Li-Ion Battery(enovix.medium.com)
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by malchow 5y ago
The best journalist in the space is Steve Levine — I’d start there.
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Yes, they've been independently tested with production form factors at sampling quantities by major global OEMs: https://ir.enovix.com/static-files/9231246c-a419-46bb-be35-a... . So this is the real one. You'r
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by malchow 5y ago
Novel chemistries in nano scale in the lab are fun to puzzle about, but pure silicon anode Li-ion batteries really are coming in the next six months, notably from Enovix, and will actually change things. A 2x density upgrade that's rea
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by malchow 5y ago
Swelling jelly rolls have a real competitor in the very near future: https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-to-build-a-safer-more-energyde...
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by malchow 5y ago
Solar energy is cheap, as in $0.03/kWhr. (PG&E charges you $0.30/kHWhr.) The best inverters convert solar DC to household AC at 97.6 % efficiency. [1] Adding more solar is a question of adding another panel. The inversion loss
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First facility in the world capable of volume production of Si-anode batteries(ir.enovix.com)
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We have an interesting company doing this (high-efficiency landfill methane capture and reformation), if any HNers are interested in joining such a company: https://www.archaeaenergy.com . Later this year, Archaea will turn on th
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by malchow 5y ago
Whiskey makers sit on a lot of inventory in order to use a library of older spirits to backstop their highly imperfect annual production. Producers also lose an astonishing 20% of inventory to the "angels' share." The Bloom E
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Remediating TruffleHog Findings with Doppler(trufflesecurity.com)
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It isn't promulgated primarily by historians studying the Middle Ages. It's promulgated primarily by classicists, and in truth held by the majority of academic historians, and I'm willing to believe widely by medievalists. Th
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by malchow 5y ago
Why do you say that's a "medievalist" perspective? The "change and continuity" perspective is endemic to an array of interpretive schools.
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For casual readers unfamiliar, what is happening is typical of what is happening in other corners of university history departments: less factual history and more politicized interpretive dance. Typical young classical historians reject the

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