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by mepiethree 7y ago
Great, then I can be stuck on my work and on my writing.
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by mepiethree 7y ago
Nuclear is great in your part of Canada, but where I live in California there are several advantages to solar... 1) solar is distributed. In the past couple years, California has had massive fires caused by transmission lines. Right now, mi
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by mepiethree 7y ago
> Will the sun start shining at night in 20 years? Do batteries stop working at night? > No. Because we know we can power an economy with fossil fuels, and do it in any weather, day or night. ...and irreparably destroy the planet by d
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by mepiethree 7y ago
> solar needs the grid to be even close to viable This was true 20 years ago and will be laughable 20 years from now. > The only power generators that can do that are ones that burn fossil fuels. Fossil fuel generators do NOT ramp up
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by mepiethree 7y ago
Yes you can switch to the regular grid and yes you can sell back your power in most states ("net metering"), though that often just manifests as a credit for your night time electricity usage. 38 states, DC, and Puerto Rico allow
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by mepiethree 7y ago
You can do that with normal solar panels, or with these I recommend using project sunroof to see if doing so would make you money. They analyze your roof size and tilt, trees around your property, etc. For free. https://www.googl
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by mepiethree 7y ago
> First, that basically everyone was pulled off working on Energy to deal with Model 3 issues because they were do or die for the company Well that, and because SolarCity was hemorrhaging money
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by mepiethree 7y ago
The profit model for utility companies is to build new power plants, power lines, and substations, and charge their rate payers for that build ("rate base" it). Then they get a cut of their expense as profit. If too many people bu
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by mepiethree 7y ago
So you never want to work with... any junior dev ever? I can't think of a single person we have hired out of college who used Git well.
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by mepiethree 7y ago
> some people don't see the humor in dark humor because they are unfamiliar with darkness Other people (like me) don't see the humor in dark humor because we live in a form of darkness all the time. My partner is bipolar, and I