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by diebir 4y ago
The US rockies region get to negative F all the time. The area around Antero Reservoir gets to -20F -30F all the time. Winter Park overnight parking is commonly around -10F overnight. Camping in a car is not an issue at all. Living in a va
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by diebir 4y ago
60 kwh at 4 kilowatt gives you 15 hours of heat in a van in cold weather. Granted, you may not need full 4 kilowatt of heat at all tines, so let's say it's one full day. You drive to BigSky Montana to ski and after two days your
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by diebir 4y ago
One does not need heat to sleep in a car (slept dozens of nights at ski resorts). This does not mean that you can heat up a van/rv with electricity. (I have lived for a month in a van in Montana/Colorado/Wyoming. Camped in a
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by diebir 4y ago
12 kilowatt hours of battery storage gives you 3 hours of heat at 4 kilowatts. In 3 hours you freeze, literally (it's -0F/-18C outside, around Antero, Colorado). 12 kilowatt hours of battery is close 10 $10K in cost and takes 6 fe
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by diebir 4y ago
I just own a camper van. In current state of affairs, heat is a solved problem with diesel. Air conditioning still does not have a viable solution, aside from shore power. You can't practically use electric for heating or anything real
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by diebir 4y ago
I mean that trying to heat with electricity is not feasible for a van. You need 2-4 kilowatt of heat to stay warm in winter. In summer, AC is another unsolved problem: most of these RVs hang in campgrounds on shore power because this is the
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by diebir 4y ago
Good luck heating this thing with electricity. Or air conditioning. Nowhere to go w/o good old fossil fuels.
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by diebir 4y ago
What a strange idea to build an el camino (unibody pickup) for a flagman ev by a company... It is not a good pickup. It is not a good SUV. Why? Because Ford sells a lot of pickups? But Ford pickups are actually useful as pickups, Rivian is
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by diebir 4y ago
Many people and myself included, would love to see Lake Powell drained. It serves little purpose and we would be better without it. As a bonus, we'd get wonderful Glen Canyon back.
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by diebir 4y ago
I am in the same boat as this woman, probably got a few good months left. I am planning self deliverance with helium as soon as symptoms become significant. For now I am just checking things off my bucket list and trying to have as many adv
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by diebir 5y ago
Whatevs. Joe Rogan, as far as I could tell is some sort of loud macho redneck type that does not have anything interesting to say. On another note, Spotify is so buggy an application I am surprised how/why anybody is using it. The most
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by diebir 5y ago
Similar case in Colorado 5 years ago: https://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/07/28/father-and-son-were-k... Canister stoves that produce a small amount of carbon monoxide have an unfortunate feature of making more
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by diebir 5y ago
If they were backpacking, I'd say carbon monoxide from a stove most likely. Otherwise maybe only lightning makes some sense. All this "toxic gasses" seems way too unlikely.
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by diebir 5y ago
What do you mean "bc is useless". I use it all the time!!
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by diebir 5y ago
Wow, loved this! Beautiful mystery, Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid.
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by diebir 6y ago
IntelliJ and the rest rock. I switched from Eclipse 8+ years ago and never looked back.
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by diebir 6y ago
Something to note. You do not have to be "sedated" for colonoscopy. I have had two and requested no sedation for the last one. It is mildly uncomfortable, but not painful. The "sedation" is not really anesthesia, but rat
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by diebir 6y ago
Could you share the link to the place that digitized the VHSs for you?
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by diebir 6y ago
I could never understand the point of a gym. Just a pair of running shoes. Some dumbbells. I picked up slacklining and bosu ball training during the lockdown. Why does one need a "gym" ??
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by diebir 6y ago
A lot of this is Mac OS X fault: it still does not have an easy canonical way of installing things and has no way for uninstalling. I don't get why in this day mac os can't have something like RPM or any number of other package ma
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by diebir 6y ago
Here's something on the next level: https://thingstolucat.com/category/trip-planning/ Skurka is obviously is one of the great ones. But so is Luc and he extends quite a bit on the subject.
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by diebir 7y ago
I spend so much money on Backcountry.com, I get personal emails from a "gearhead" (a rep assigned to me). I have sent him a (very polite) email asking to inform the corporate that I will be suspending my spending until this is res
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by diebir 7y ago
Ford
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by diebir 7y ago
I recently bought a domestic vehicle. What a mistake. The assembly quality is awful. I don't know how they assemble the body panels I thought it was all done by robots, but robots would not miss spot welds or misalign parts and retry w
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by diebir 7y ago
There's little evidence that this is due to a campaign. RMNP in Colorado had a similar jump in number of visits, as well as Yellowstone and the Grand. The problem is simply too many people, too little wilderness. Unless we stop growing
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by diebir 7y ago
Well, that's just stupid. Hybrids would be the fastest way to improve fuel economy for the most common types of vehicles that Americans are buying (SUVs, trucks, etc). Maybe this will kill GM. Good riddance.
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by diebir 7y ago
Ha-ha I had to check whether this was the place where I served in 87-88. No, my unit work location was about 10 miles south along the same road. Also a bunch truck based radio stations, buildings, huge antenna fields, etc. We did radio surv
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by diebir 7y ago
The world is overpopulated. Humans have already eliminated as many species as other great extinction events. Our industrial activity has changed the Earth climate. There is very little wilderness left anywhere. The forests are getting clear
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by diebir 7y ago
I think in the US for the most part nobody cares much about Windows anymore. For the consumer Apple simply provides a better experience, for developers the Windows is in the past. Microsoft products are essentially the budget option, AKA &q
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by diebir 7y ago
Sorry, what is mobile home? A trailer in trailer park?

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