Didn’t EmptyG bring a poster-sized print out of Hunter’s junk onto the floor for some stupid “gotcha”? I don’t recall Republicans getting upset over that.
At first, I thought maybe it used heat to drive a refrigeration cycle (like the gas-powered refrigerators), but it’s got a solar-powered compressor that freezes ice packs in the walls combined with some hefty insulation. Still cool, but yeah, also uses electricity.
If you are keeping score at home, you have surely noticed that the two most important defense officials in Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet — Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the former military chief of staff Benny Gantz — warned last week that Netanyahu is leading Israel into a disastrous abyss by refusing to present...
Because the right isn’t hem-hawing around and are all in-line behind Trump. The left they’re talking about are the ones sowing division, banging the drum on the left-side wedge issues, and encouraging apathy / vote 3rd party / sit out the vote. Some of those are shills, sure, but not all.
IMO, it’s perfectly reasonable to call those people out because they’re completely missing the bigger picture.
I keep hearing how the (US) grid needs updated to handle the influx of renewable plants, but wouldn’t rooftop grid-tied solar help with this in the short run?
I had a small 1.5 KW proof-of-concept grid tie PV system at my old house, and the way it was described (and appeared to operate) was that it offsets any local usage, reducing the amount drawn from the utility/grid, and if there’s any excess, it’s fed back out.
Assuming small setups, wouldn’t that help keep demand lower and put less stress on the grid? I mean, if you’re exporting tens of KW from a large PV setup, it still has to go through the transformer (which is what the article is focusing on), but small/medium setups that don’t quite meet/exceed your usage would presumably reduce that grid stress.
Yeah, I’ve always assumed those arguments were at least partially FUD, but our grid is aging and struggling already, so I know there is some truth to it.
Grid-isolated + ATS would be the way to go, assuming batteries aren’t a (cost) barrier. It also avoids the pitfalls and artificial BS you have to deal with from (some) power companies if you want to setup net-metering with a grid-tie system.
The setup I had was small enough to fly under the radar, but when I talked to them about setting up net metering for a larger setup, it was such a sham:
They install a second meter that your PV system ties into. Only your PV can hook into this. It’s configured to meter the power flowing out at wholesale rates. There is a monthly “meter fee” for this (same as your meter fee for your regular hookup - approx $12/mo)
All your local usage has to go through your regular meter at retail rates.
The PV goes out the wholesale meter and back into your retail meter; excess goes to grid
You’re billed normally on your regular meter
Power company credits you at whoesale rate for the amount fed through the PV meter.
So, in effect, you generate power, ship it out at wholesale rate, and then buy it back from yourself at retail with the power company pocketing the difference.
Talk about a racket.
Edit: I didn’t realize exactly how much of a racket it was, but here’s some napkin math:
Assumptions:
Monthly power consumption is 1,000 KW/h
5 KW PV system that, unrealistically, produces full power 8 hours a day, 30 days a month
Retail rate of $0.25 per KW/h (my current rate)
Wholesale rate of $0.16/KWh (guessing on this, but it’s proportionate to the wholesale rate I was quoted when my retail rate was $0.14/KWh)
5 KW * 8 hours/day * 30 days/mo = 1200 KW/h PV at $0.16/KWh = $192 - $12 meter fee = $180 bill credit
1000 KWh usage * $0.25/KWh = $250 + $12 meter fee = $262 bill
$262 - $180 = $82 bill even though you produced 200 more KW/h than you used.
“He told me that he felt that by my voicing the system, I could bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives and help consumers to feel comfortable with the seismic shift concerning humans and Al. He said he felt that my voice would be comforting to people.”
Worst case, they’re saving it to an encrypted blob storage, calling that encrypted, and hiding deep in the ToS that you actually agreed to that
And then it’s discovered that bucket was accidentally set to public for over 8 months. Oopsie daisy! But you can’t sue us because also deep in the ToS was a forced arbitration clause.
Also, if you don’t agree to the whole ToS, you can’t use the computer you just paid for.
The “what” gets shot into the sun is less important, lol. I just found it interesting that shooting anything into our sun is more difficult than sending it to another sun.
I disagree you’re helping smaller instances in any way and posit that you’re making the fediverse worse with that practice.
You’re creating and abandoning accounts on the regular. Those accounts federate out to every instance the home one is linked to and exist in perpetuity. We’re talking several thousand instances or more. All filling up with abandoned accounts from the same person.
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