ghouse

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by ghouse 7mo ago
But the cameras that the law enforcement officers canvas in the area aren't centrally aggregated and tagged with meta data such that they can be queried at scale.
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by ghouse 7mo ago
Anyone have insights on V2G or V2H capabilities? If we can have open standards to allow my car to interoperate with my home batteries (Franklin, Enphase, Tesla Powerwall or others), we'll all be better off.
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by ghouse 7mo ago
+1 I considered "(is supposed to)" preceding "protect"
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by ghouse 7mo ago
The Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to a speedy, public trial in criminal prosecutions, protecting defendants from excessive, prejudicial delays between indictment or arrest and trial.
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by ghouse 7mo ago
Due process under the US Constitution protects everyone in the US, not just US citizens.
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by ghouse 8mo ago
If you can't make heads or tails of the videos, then how is it clear to you he wasn't merely filming?
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Flock cameras remained active after officials asked to be turned off(therecord.media)
7 points by ghouse 9mo ago|1 comments
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by ghouse 9mo ago
Two cities that recently asked a automated license plate reader (ALPR) company to deactivate their cameras say they have discovered that some devices remained operative long after officials directed the firm to stop recording.
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by ghouse 2y ago
While I too find it distasteful and distracting, the inclination to expunge politics from conversation may have played a role in getting us (at least in the US) where we are: 1) where people have forgotten to talk about politics politely, a
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by ghouse 2y ago
Price signals. One approach would be a revenue-neutral carbon tax on extraction of sequestered carbon. And border carbon taxes for imports from countries who don't also have an internal carbon tax.
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by ghouse 2y ago
This is because PG&E retail is about 2.5x the national average. Also, worth noting in the event the conclusions are extrapolated to diesel over the road transportation: train diesel is much less expensive as it's exempt from fuel (
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by ghouse 2y ago
> Most of the energy used accelerating is recovered at the next stop, so the fast acceleration does not consume much energy. Not "most," but a lot. From the article: > regenerative braking on the new trains is generating an
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by ghouse 2y ago
Though to become a law, the president would need to sign it.
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by ghouse 2y ago
I only know the western US. And my experience is consistant with your own -- specialized applications. They would love to reconductor the other circuits. In the US, the utilities make a guaranteed rate of return on investments in the tran
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by ghouse 2y ago
Increased weight makes reconductoring much more difficult as the structures are designed to carry specific weight. Increased size can also impact structure loading from ice or wind. So, generally, reconductoring does not materially increa
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by ghouse 2y ago
You may be referring to either 1) the real-time line ratings (directionally required by FERC order 881, or 2) technology like the "SmartValve" from Smart Wires which dynamically adjusts impedance to keep conductors within their op
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by ghouse 2y ago
As the new conductors will have lower impedance, some breakers may need to be replaced to interrupt higher fault current. Otherwise, it's likely the only substation equipment needing to upgrade would be series compensation stations wh
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by ghouse 2y ago
The algae, forest, and other capture projects do not appear to sequester, on a geologic time scale, the atmospheric carbon. Even the sequestering of carbon through enhanced oil recovery is of uncertain time scale.
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by ghouse 2y ago
I do not believe that this is accurate. California Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) have had their profit decoupled from revenue since 1981. [0] The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) allows for an equity rate of return on assets
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by ghouse 2y ago
It's not severed. Still part of the real property and owned fee simple, but subject to use restrictions.
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by ghouse 2y ago
The electrical grid has many different resources that can be constrained. For example, the entire grid may not have adequate supply to meet demand, a transmission line may not have adequate capacity to deliver electricity from generation t
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DOJ Sues Apple for iPhone Monopoly(cnbc.com)
23 points by ghouse 2y ago|2 comments
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by ghouse 3y ago
PG&E is an investor-owned regulated monopoly. Other utilities in California are publicly owned (either government, or non-profit. For example, LADWP, SMUD, Palo Alto, Turlock and many, many more). Those publicly owned utilities have
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by ghouse 3y ago
As an industry, the term "power plant" is something that generates power (electric energy). However, much of the DER opportunity is not generation, but load. Which is why the term "Virtual Power Plant" is a misnomer an
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by ghouse 3y ago
The electrical grid is designed to cover the highest load (typically the hottest hour of the year; A/C drives peak load). Most of the grid is a fixed cost. The transmission lines, distribution lines and the power plants recover enormou
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by ghouse 3y ago
It's a horrible naming choice and it shows the industry preconception that a power plant is a large, transmission-interconnected facility. It also, IMHO holds on to an outdated concept that all generation must be centrally dispatched.
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by ghouse 3y ago
I think the Democrats (Intuit headquarters in California) are primarily to blame here, but they find odd common ground with a portion of the Republican party who want to run up the debt by cutting revenue (while increasing spending).
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by ghouse 3y ago
For most tax payers in the US, the government has all of the necessary information to calculate tax liability through W-2, 1099, and other filings from third parties. A pragmatic approach might be to use this information, populate a tax for
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by ghouse 3y ago
The CDC believes that: "Lead fumes are produced during metal processing when metal is heated or soldered." https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/lead/workerinfo.htm
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by ghouse 3y ago
So long as the supply of oil is finite, it's not a lie. The predictions of timing, however, were clearly wildly wrong.

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