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by mcbishop 3y ago
Cool that there have been radical improvements in recent years, that haven't broken legacy spreadsheets.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
Yup! An array formula makes it much easier to handle this problem from the blog post: > If you have a set of numbers, and you want to add some constant to them, the way you'd do that is to create a formula that adds the constant to
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by mcbishop 3y ago
If I had to steelman a county's solar ban... Solar production is intermittent / unreliable. And hydrocarbon power plants are the county's backbone.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
> has generally ended badly For a good example, watch the documentary: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
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by mcbishop 3y ago
Timestamps are valuable for sure.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
Here's a related Volts episode on better assessing the real-time (weather-related) capacity of transmission lines (to avoid new transmission in some cases): https://www.volts.wtf/p/getting-more-out-of-the-grid-weve
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by mcbishop 3y ago
Yeah, this review is pretty superficial. It seems like it was written by a college freshman that barely engaged with the interview. (Thanks for sharing it though.)
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by mcbishop 3y ago
He gets into that in his talk with Lex Fridman.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
Better yet, be in a work culture where people happily give credit to and praise others.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
Wat Mongkolratanaram A Thai temple that serves Sunday brunch in their courtyard. https://m.yelp.com/biz/wat-mongkolratanaram-berkeley
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by mcbishop 3y ago
A counterpoint: Qcells has been expanding their Georgia (U.S.) solar factories. 8.4GW capacity by the end of the year (which is the equivalent of like... 15 typical centralized power plants). Labor costs are lower in the south. But, overall
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by mcbishop 3y ago
The Lex Fridman episode with Andrej was an awesome education. Things explained so clearly.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
The cost relative to other places is a different consideration than the value per dollar relative to our other expenses. OP is speaking to the latter.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
The Blue Album is epically good.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
Recapped, towards the end of the article: > The Luddites, again, were not anti-technology. They were anti getting trampled on and anti having no say in the way that this industrial development would take place. And when they lost that ba
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by mcbishop 3y ago
I think the eventual "direct manipulation" is to manipulate directly with the mind... no physical movement required.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
I disagree. If your soil is depleted and dead, under sprawling petrochemical monocrops... you are fundamentally not a farmer.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
100% relevant here, and I appreciate you sharing it again. I'm inspired to try this with my 9 year old.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
Ultimately, there's a need for customer-specific real-time pricing that's responded to by behind-the-meter "power control systems"... managing flexible loads, in a way that doesn't negatively affect occupants.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
> ...possible to recover heat through partition walls and floors while maintaining a steady ventilation flow. That's as technical as this article gets. I don't think the author understands the ventilation-system design.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
Thanks so much for your work and sharing. I'm excited. Great that you're able to update settings... not just read data. I assume that changes to settings are synced with Enphase's cloud as if done with the cloud-based API. I
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by mcbishop 3y ago
It's much easier to step up or down AC voltage than DC voltage. Too bad the article didn't address that (in the context of its DC transmission hyping).
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by mcbishop 3y ago
Thanks so much for your note and these links! Can't wait to give it a shake.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
I assume the Home Assistant integration is through the Enphase cloud account. Herein lies the peril.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
As an Enphase inverter owner and installer... I'm excited about this blog post and their related posts! I assumed there was no way around Enphase's cloud for getting data. I like Enphase hardware (they also have batteries and smar
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by mcbishop 3y ago
Points taken. I just wanted to clarify that it's more involved than swapping out the "plug".
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by mcbishop 3y ago
> it can be a cost-effective way to isolate This never occurred to me, thanks.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
> I'm pretty sure it's an estimate Yeah, I (cynically) assume this utility-provided breakdown data is worthless. There's no way around circuit-level monitoring.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
I've heard that it's hard to measure gas in residential contexts, because the pressure is so low.
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by mcbishop 3y ago
If you can recommend one of these gadgets... I'd really appreciate it.

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