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by frankus 6d ago
PV also (usually) lets you export generation in excess of what you're using, is ~immune to freezing, and can be pretty darned efficient if the PV is driving a heat pump.
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by frankus 16d ago
Location: Bellingham, WA, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: maybe for an exceptional opportunity Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, limited Kotlin, backend, and embedded experience Résumé/CV: https://www.linked
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by frankus 2mo ago
Honestly this seems like a super long-shot but at least semi-plausible avenue for putting DAC on the sort of learning curve that took lithium batteries from "high-end camcorder" to utility-scale storage.
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by frankus 2mo ago
Another way of looking at this is that--while it doesn't have to be edible--you have to grow plant matter inside your house at a rate equivalent to what everyone in there consumes as food. Even if you found like an algae or something t
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by frankus 2mo ago
"Residential CO2 scrubber" seems like the sort of gadget eccentric rich people would buy, sort of a distributed DAC system.
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by frankus 2mo ago
Relevant xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2501:_Average_Fam...
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by frankus 2mo ago
The list of things that require an app rather than a web page was pretty long circa 2010, but it's quite a bit shorter now: it's mostly hardware access (Bluetooth/NFC), background activities (like background app refresh), per
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by frankus 3mo ago
If you're in the US, Costco has certain models at the old price through Saturday (or while supplies last). Just pulled the trigger on a 24GB/1TB 13" MbA for $250 off the new price.
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by frankus 3mo ago
The most popular proposal (from Henry George) is to maintain individual land ownership, but impose a land-value tax that approaches 100% of the land rent. The result is that real estate basically sells for roughly what it would cost to rebu
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by frankus 3mo ago
The difference is that investment in a company can create “more company”, whereas investment in land can’t create more land.
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by frankus 3mo ago
I'd like to see these if these can be scaled down into ebike size, or beyond that into micromobilty form factors that people carry around (like lightweight scooters and skateboards).
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by frankus 4mo ago
In the FAQ they discuss how in most of its range this particular species is invasive, feeds almost exclusively on humans, and is not believed to be a major food source for predators.
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by frankus 5mo ago
I grew up speaking German and still use "zu!" with my (otherwise English-trained) dogs for "get out of the way!".
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by frankus 7mo ago
This one is resistive (tiny and cheap to purchase) but will be just an emergency-backup shower once my home renovations are done. The house is getting a split-system air-to-water heat pump with an indirect tank for domestic hot water, so it
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by frankus 7mo ago
I wish we did more e.g. district heating with that waste heat in the US.
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by frankus 7mo ago
The number I guesstimated for my e-scooter is about 500 miles per dollar of electricity.
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by frankus 7mo ago
The electric shower also seemed pretty optimistic. I live in an area with about 50°F/10°C ground temperature and my 14.4 kW water heater can just keep a relatively efficient shower head flowing at a comfortable temperature.
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by frankus 7mo ago
Every single ICE car driving down the highway is throwing away enough waste heat to heat a small apartment building on a freezing cold day.
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by frankus 7mo ago
I feel like the gist here is that "faster, better, cheaper: pick two" doesn't apply to sub-optimally-spaced bus stops. You really can have all three, at the cost of some political blowback from the people who used to have a s
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by frankus 7mo ago
I wonder if part of it is also that mining companies are generally allowed to just leave their tailings in a big pile near the mine rather than have to responsibly dispose of the majority of the ore that has no (or negative) commercial valu
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by frankus 8mo ago
The diabolical case is M5 versus 10-32. About a 4% difference in diameter and about 0.8% difference in thread pitch. Basically indistinguishable with the naked eye and even the "nest the threads in each other" check doesn't h
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by frankus 8mo ago
There's now a product for that: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Kobalt-1-4-in-to-1-2-in-Drive-Metri...
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by frankus 8mo ago
They're obviously not the most affordable things around, but if you have an iPhone and spending ~US$250 on a pair of wireless earbuds won't unduly stress your budget, the transparency mode on AirPods Pro is great for this.
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by frankus 8mo ago
I think the way this would work is you would have your Canadian friend/owner drive it across and then return via another mode of transport. It's entirely possible you could get away with it pretty much indefinitely (especially in
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by frankus 10mo ago
I had a couple of coworkers who had them. I vaguely remember it being based on a ~$35k value in 1997 dollars, so definitely out of my price range as a new graduate earning only a little more than that in a year. On top of that I'm pret
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by frankus 10mo ago
Pre-Tesla EV companies were kind of stuck in a catch-22, where they couldn't enter the low end of the market (because the tech was still super costly) and they couldn't enter the high end of the market (because either the performa
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by frankus 10mo ago
Showering in hot water is one of the more energy-intensive things people do on a daily basis. I have a 14.4 kW on-demand heater that just barely keeps up with a 1.5 gallon (~6 liter) per minute shower head with 50°F/10°C incoming water
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by frankus 10mo ago
My favorite memory is following a map to a small isolated hot spring off of some random gravel road in the middle of nowhere. It consisted of a hot-tub-sized pool and a shower. Whoever was there before had left the shower running. We were t
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by frankus 10mo ago
From that article it looks like all you need to establish a secure connection with the passport is some data that is printed in plaintext on the photo page. It seems (again, if I'm reading correctly) that you only really need a private
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by frankus 10mo ago
Isn't this just seeing a slippery slope and deciding to build a terrace[1], in that the existence of a digital ID doesn't automatically lead to mandate to carry one—any more than the existence of a physical ID card does? [1] to pa

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