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by zbrozek 4y ago
It should zone for more housing so that supply can chase demand and push down prices.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Though not actually at all Volvo dealerships. A friend of mine regularly had to go for quite a long drive to a specific Volvo dealership to get his Polestar fixed. And there were quite a few trips.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
We’ve never had so few rights over our own property, and so many over that of others. I feel this acutely as I have waited years to be allowed to change a leaky roof. It's still not fixed. I've also been waiting a month for a pe
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Why not? Our electric utilities complain about nonuniform load. Isn't a desalination plant an excellent variable load given that its product would get dumped into reservoirs? You could totally flatten the duck curve if you wanted.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Suppose you're a billionaire. Quite a few of them live in my town. Do you actually care at all? Do you even know what you spend on water? I'd wager not. Someone down the street from me is not a billionaire, but the property tax sa
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by zbrozek 4y ago
That sounds cheap to those of us who suffer under PG&E.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I can imagine flaring might produce more soot. And of course Germany is burning other fuel instead of this gas, which is also being burned.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I did similar math with similar outcome for northern California. If the grid gets unreasonably expensive, there are alternatives. I installed a bunch of solar panels because it was cheap and easy and effective.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Multi-pane windows would probably be the easier homebrew option. You could even make the panes out of plastic film (e.g., ETFE).
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Haha, yeah I bet most people who play games these days have a faster CPU than I do. My machine is eight years old.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I find that Steam decompression pegs one core of my CPU and downloads get stuck at 550-600 mbps. It would take a lot less time if it didn't compress anything.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
We need to revisit these kinds of endeavors after legal reform. They're good projects; I support the CA HSR and more nuclear power. But they're doomed to be low-ROI suffer-fests until we can remove hurdles, so let's do that f
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by zbrozek 4y ago
There is no recourse. So have said all three electricians who I have consulted. The PG&E project coordinator makes a decision and that's it.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
California only knows how to increase red tape and hurdles to construction. I voted against the project because I thought it would be excessively slow and costly to complete as a result of the regulatory landscape. It's a fine concept.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
That's exactly how replacing a fire hazard panel would cost me $80k. Random PG&E person decides it's not a like-for-like replacement (despite both being ordinary 200 amp panels) and therefore the underground feeder needs to be
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Nope. I mean replacing a panel. It's precisely what I said, after all.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
It feels like there could be a simple API and CAISO could easily deal with participants at any size. This isn't rocket science.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Try replacing a panel. They make what ought to be routine work, hard. Only in the last couple years has it become cheaper to say screw it and not take their BS and go off grid instead. One of my neighbors already did that instead of spendin
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by zbrozek 4y ago
PG&E makes it so onerous to be connected to the grid that it'll absolutely take something like this for me to stay connected. But I don't belong to the Tesla ecosystem, so this is clearly not the answer for me.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I would like such a thing to be open access and not involve Tesla at all. I should be able to profitably sell to the grid as a random person if there's need.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Mostly ebay and craigslist. I had some alerts set up and was patient.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I did roughly the same thing as the parent poster, but I bought used hardware and got my total installation under $1/Wp. I pay the minimum grid connection charge now. About $12/mo, down from about $150/mo before I got an EV
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Inspectors don't have infinite expertise, and I've found that they're not really any better at catching or avoiding trades errors than the practitioner. Given the high level of maturity that quality products have achieved and
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Farmers, on the whole, are phenomenally capable people. They have to be. They know how to get knowledge when they need it, and when presented with broken equipment they'll diligently work through the challenge using all the resources a
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Is that one so bad in its end use? I would imagine production byproducts would be the bigger issue for plumbing tape, which is effectively solid and used in non-abrasive applications.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Are you out of timers? IIRC the STM32 series typically has timer peripherals that can be configured as encoder inputs.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Not sure what's happened to make this news now; Klipper has been out and loved by many for quite some time at this point. Regardless, it's nice to see it get some press. I run it on all of my filament printers. It's an intere
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by zbrozek 4y ago
From the linked article, A program known as convergence bidding, in particular, is meant to help keep electricity prices steady but instead “masked tight supply conditions” during the August heat wave, the analysis concluded. and Energy
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by zbrozek 4y ago
At a guess, accidents during installation or maintenance, e.g., falling off a roof or grabbing live high voltage DC.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I think siting challenges and getting permitting approvals are likely to drive costs to non-competitiveness even if the reactor is free. And that's a terrible shame since the factory-built approach makes so much sense and our need for

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