chris222

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by chris222 2mo ago
Dishonest post. When you bought your system you were grandfathered into either NEM 1 or NEM 2. Please provide proof that your arrangement changed.
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by chris222 2mo ago
Australia has been a great success for solar and battery storage. Your statement about a wealth transfer is putting no value on climate change or good air quality which benefits all.
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by chris222 2mo ago
Bluetti already has a product for this available in the EU. I have been posting eveywhere that they need to bring it to the US. https://www.bluettipower.eu/products/balco-transfer-hub Balcony solar without storage is a
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by chris222 3mo ago
Tesla might support it. https://www.teslarati.com/apple-developing-missing-link-tesl...
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by chris222 6mo ago
A high powered EV charger is 800 volts. Totally safe and outdoors in thousands of places.
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Why do we need lots of Nuclear power long term?(gridstatus.io)
4 points by chris222 6mo ago|3 comments
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by chris222 6mo ago
I see an overwhelming interest in Nuclear power in our media and in online articles posted to reddit and HN. In many discussions I have had online and in person most people are significantly misinformed in that they think that Nuclear powe
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by chris222 6mo ago
Win8 was a disaster. Hard to understand what Steven is even saying or his point about the Macbook Neo. The Neo is enabled by the increasing capability of the phone chips and the pre-existing completed move to ARM for MacOS that happened ove
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Oil Surges Past $100/barrel(oilprice.com)
57 points by chris222 6mo ago|8 comments
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Ercot Max Solar Record 31 GW(gridstatus.io)
5 points by chris222 7mo ago|3 comments
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by chris222 7mo ago
The peak max solar record in ERCOT was hit today at over 31GW. Five years ago it was only 5.4GW. The peak renewables to load was also hit today at 83%. Throughout the entire day solar, wind and battery storage provided the majority share of
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by chris222 7mo ago
Robert has a whole set of youtube channels on electric vehicles and other renewable technology. It’s quite impressive what he does now but I always see Kryten in him, strange. https://youtu.be/TUi03zA4DAM?si=F55U2fbHjGcksHaK
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by chris222 8mo ago
Yah, check this one out. https://www.docanpower.com/panda-52v-942ah-48kwh-prebuilt-pa...
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by chris222 11mo ago
The safety aspect of them is probably more important than in grid storage. Also the performance at colder temps.
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by chris222 1y ago
I find it’s best to use it to actually give context. Like prompted with a peice of information that the LLM doesn’t know how to look up (such as a link to the status or logs for an internal system), give it a tool to perform the lookup.
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by chris222 1y ago
The described version of community solar is nice. How it is usually implemented like in Maine ends up sucking. The root cause is that they wanted community solar customers to be able to opt-in and opt-out any time. As such it isn’t really w
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by chris222 1y ago
I consume about 17MWh a year between two EVs and a large heat pump for winter heating. I will have overproduction now with the 2nd array. We do have net metering at about 80% of the cost on NEM 2.0. Our bill is split by transmission, genera
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by chris222 1y ago
You can do bidirectional with most GM vehicles now with the GM energy solution. I don’t have this but I did have a call with them. Thier max output is only 9.6kW so it can’t do a whole home backup and the car can only run in backup mode wh
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by chris222 1y ago
Part of it is the weight of a battery this size but the bigger issue is the aerodynamics of the large frontal area. The Lucid Gravity has a 450 mile range with a 123kWh pack. It’s the only other vehicle with a range close to the GM large pa
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by chris222 1y ago
I’ve just done a legtimate 425 mile solar powered round trip which is the culmination of many things I will explain below. I can now effectively drive anywhere in a 225 mile radius and back for about $10 total cost and on 100% solar power.
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by chris222 2y ago
Dropbox does have a terminal level which I think was IC4 when I was there. On the other hand they have recently done a layoff round every 1-2 years and if you are not a growing employee with a higher salary you could be at risk.
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by chris222 2y ago
It should be funded by a carbon tax… the root cause of the more rapid and intense climate change. Gas and carbon emitting electricity sources should be a LOT more expensive than they are. That would then push more people to EVs and renewabl
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by chris222 2y ago
Why doesn’t the UK just deploy large battery banks like Tesla Megapack?
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by chris222 2y ago
California is also going negative quite often now. Instead of dropping prices and encouraging usage during those times they curtail. The utility model is completely broken. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?i
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by chris222 2y ago
California has the stupidest energy policy I have ever seen. And their PUC has some of the most corrupt people on it.
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by chris222 2y ago
Public opinion changes if you ask someone if they want a Nuclear plant next to their house. Nuclear is extremely expensive so if you poll on the cost of energy you will also have a different outcome.
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by chris222 2y ago
Renewables plus storage is already cheaper than Nuclear. It also is safer and much faster to build. There are some next generation reactor designs that are worth investment but for immediate generation capacity wind and solar is much better
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by chris222 2y ago
Not many people in tech are really aware of how the auto industry works. Mostly the insane lead times on new products. What is out there and for sale now is something that was likely designed 3-5 years ago. You are right to point out the in
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by chris222 2y ago
The grid capacity isn’t really a monolithic topic either. Here in the Northeast we have easily enough generating capacity with already planned additions. Coal generation is also virtually extinct.
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by chris222 2y ago
I don’t think the end state is everyone with an EV has home charging, that’s not practical. The next generations of BEVs are getting faster and faster charging with longer ranges such that I don’t think this will be an issue.

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