rhodozelia

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by rhodozelia 6y ago
how long before I can buy a Tesla for 50% of what one costs now? If the batteries are going to get so cheap we should be seeing some great price drops in electric cars. If not ... why not? And that reason will probably apply to battery ener
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
Who pays for the shadow generation system that we keep perfectly maintained and ready to generate 100% of system demand on the 5 days stretch of cloudy windless days? This cost has to be added to the cost of building a 100% solar/wind
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
Compare gasoline prices to the electricity prices in Texas recently, Texas has experienced negative prices in windy periods and prices at the artificial market limit of 11,000 $/MWH, which is the equivalent of $396 / gallon of ga
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
A 60 gallon tank is considered large around here, so no wonder you had a 200 gal tank if it only heated at night!
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
What if you rent the house out? Can it be an investment then? It would produce a return, positive or negative depending on your costs and the rent you can charge.
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
How much would you have to save? For me it is thousands I can’t be bothered to delay kids bath times to save five bucks!
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
the grid is quite reliable in most of the world and provides as much power as you want whenever you want. I much prefer simple dumb appliances than smart crap that is garbage after 5 years. If the price is high like in Texas recently I can
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
How much money do you need to save for the incentive to exceed the effort and discomfort? If you make $50 an hour how much effort will you spend every day to save $50 a month? I am sure the variable rates helped to incentivize people to con
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
Can you be forced to sign something that changes the terms of your employment agreement?
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
I can’t find the link but the virus they took from sick miners to study and what is now called covid-19 were 95-99% the same. A fellow did their masters thesis on it in 2016 or so
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
Commit a non violent crime and get 500k? Where do I sign up
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
I had a drafting course as part of my ee degree. It was mostly paper and pencil drawing shapes from different perspectives but it did have an autocad component once we were supposed to know what to draw. One of the first things they taught
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
Everything gets to be crap by adding the label beta. Texas electricity system, beta!!
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
I’ve been using redmine for project management for a decade. It is reliably excellent.
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
Link? There are a lot of caveats to that! Does it get the solar to 95% of the time available at name plate rating? 98%?
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
>If you ran your entire grid on just solar and wind, no nuclear, or coal or natural gas peaker plants, you'll find that wind and solar is no longer cheap, and is much less resilient to exceptional circumstances. >That kind of is
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
Devices like “spot” which allow a distress signal to be sent exist. Some can tether to your phone so you can use the phone to enter a message. I just miss the days before screens
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
I’m happy with the status quo of going to wilderness as one of the only ways to get people to leave their phones alone.
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
Not sure why you are downvoted. Utilities are natural monopolies. It makes sense for one entity to provide the network. The risk is that the monopoly gets fat and lazy, but there are many examples of failures from both approaches. And I als
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
I am sure nuclear is just about the most expensive power if we are counting construction, operation, and decommissioning. But also consider that it is a firm source of power not subject to the weather. The value of a kWh is quite high when
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
Hanhikivi is 1000 MW and will supply 10% of Finland’s energy needs according to Wikipedia. Olkiluoto is 1600 MW and should therefore supply 16% of Finland’s energy needs. Wikipedia says it will Be online in February 2022. So for 16 billion
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
Personally i don’t think what happened in Canada is anywhere near on the same level of “genocide” as what is going on in China, but it is impossible to truly know. I Was hoping to get some discussion on the comparison between the two situat
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
The prime minister of canada declared that canada had conducted a genocide against the pre-european inhabitants of the continent. It looks like Louis Riel's Metis revolt in 1885 was the last [0] real battle or war. The genocide Canada
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
Dice up their pay any way you want, I get 15 days off a year above and beyond statutory holidays. Teachers get ... over 50? That’s a lot of time to live that most people dont get
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
These vehicles are more like golf carts than cars. Top speed of 56km/hr. No safety features. What is interesting is that the batteries, converters, and motors are so cheap that they offer a golf cart with a vehicle body for $2500.
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
Uh ... it does compete with farmed solar? Anyone deciding whether to buy power from the utility or generate their own is doing the analysis to see which “wins” the competition.
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
Granted, I’ve never worked on a natural gas fired turbine, but I imagine every generator given the option would prefer to run consistentently at maximum output as that is how they would get the maximum ROI. Hydro plants can adjust output bu
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
keeping old fossil plants sitting idle but in working order is possible but will cost nearly as much as generating at full capacity, minus the cost of fuel. Imagine a car that sits in a garage and once a decade you take it out and thrash it
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
I don’t foresee anybody paying for all this over built over provisioned solar/wind generation and transmission. I suppose if it has to be overbuilt 4x to be as reliable as the power system we have now then my power bill will be 4x more
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by rhodozelia 6y ago
Given that residential customers pay quite a bit more than the wholesale rate for power rooftop solar must be an investment that pays for itself or nobody would do it!

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