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by microdrum 7d ago
Do they have anything as good as Amp (which is able to use free models)? Amp has been in the lead for almost a year now and doesn't seem to be relinquishing it.
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by microdrum 8mo ago
Yup, Growatt is the Chinese OEM that Base Power white labels to pretend it does US manufacturing. In fact this stuff is low quality. You need to be careful. There are gradations of quality at cell, pack, inverter, control levels. You will b
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by microdrum 8mo ago
For what it's worth, Tesla PV/batt inverters are bad, almost as bad as the Chinese manufacturers mentioned ITT. PW3 has very high failure rate ~10%+RMA, not good enough IMO to be in the path of power at my house. (Their motor inve
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by microdrum 10mo ago
exactly right -- although tesla is weak on power electronics for the industrial scale sites, too. there are SPOFs there in the power conversion chain. but a DISASTER in residential.
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by microdrum 10mo ago
Tesla Powerwall products (including Powerwall 3) have a massive failure rate. Seems like 10% over lifetime. Shoddy technology compared to the leading competitors, especially the inverter. They should go back to white labeling cheap Delta in
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by microdrum 10mo ago
It has better search and context management under the hood, which matters for big companies. But you can also see quantitatively that Sourcegraph produces the most accepted code: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/
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by microdrum 10mo ago
Of course, Sourcegraph is better.
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by microdrum 1y ago
These are forcememed companies, unfortunately. Neither Palantir nor Anduril make a single thing that China doesn't, and neither one makes a single thing at attractive cost that would intimidate China in a conflict. They could disappear
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Enphase Bidirectional EV Chargers(enphase.com)
1 points by microdrum 4y ago|0 comments
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by microdrum 4y ago
EVs with BrakeFlow resistive protection against thermal runaway also will have a big impact –– allowing for faster discharge into the grid. Increasing cRate for grid services can "bring forward" the point in time –– so 2030 could
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by microdrum 5y ago
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/05/ajit-... The phenomenon is that consumer prices for broadband go up, even as the wholesale cost of bandwidth (what Comcast is reselling to you) goes down
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by microdrum 5y ago
Yes, I violated eli5 rules. Sorry
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by microdrum 5y ago
Same reason internet bandwidth if more abundant and cheaper than ever, but your Comcast bill seems to actually only go up. Local rooftop solar, with no reliance on utility monopolies, is the most important thing in the global energy picture
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by microdrum 5y ago
Does anyone have any good articles about AWS (or other) lock in? I have Matt Prince's article about egress fees, but I'm looking for something more thorough.
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by microdrum 5y ago
No, Westinghouse has designs for small reactors too. One prob with oklo seems its amateurish funding and founding. The other is that maybe 1 mw isn’t so useful. 100mw makes a difference (with distribution), so does 50kw (without distributio
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by microdrum 5y ago
Real science investors with access to high level nuclear talent never seemed to think much of this company. Its financing seems to be Koch Industries, through a strange sort of PR/VC arm they have. The denial is substantive. I am pro f
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by microdrum 5y ago
Many are not lawyers at all, as is the case here. What gets me is that amazing innovation was taking place, and privately financed. CA households were themselves paying out of their own pockets to build the huge additional capacity needed f
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by microdrum 5y ago
Now, PGE will pay you unreasonably low prices when you sell power back to them. So much so that installing solar may not make sense. You will still buy from them at $0.30/kw, or even more during peak. Additionally you will pay to PG&am
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by microdrum 5y ago
He is referring to a statistical quantization mistake that the target, COVID lockdown critic Alex Berenson, did not make.
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by microdrum 5y ago
"If I get the immunization, I won't get it." That is what the word vaccine means to ordinary people. Stop accusing me of changing a definition that your side is changing. [1] That kind of behavior belongs on Reddit. [1] http
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by microdrum 5y ago
The burden isn't on me, a fan of vaccines that have documented high performance. (There are many of them. They aren't hard to find. Try medRxiv.) The burden is on you, a person who seems to believe without evidence that the COVID-
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by microdrum 5y ago
In American tort law, the standard is what a reasonable person would understand from the statement. A reasonable person understands "vaccine" as something sterilizing against the target. The COVID-19 vaccines wouldn't be call
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by microdrum 5y ago
"Herd immunity from natural exposure is dangerous and isn't going to happen. A year and a half on, only 4% of the population here has tested positive." That's because a lot of people have had it, never felt too bad, and
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by microdrum 5y ago
What makes you think the vaccine is an extremely effective solution to lockdowns? There are now many examples of high-vaccination countries with the same rapid case count rises that were the excuse for lockdowns in the first place. The vacc
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by microdrum 5y ago
No. Enovix beat them to market (seemingly by just a few months) with a 100% silicon anode. These two companies will change the world, the only question will be is it Enovix (which makes whole batteries) or Sila (which only makes anode mater
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by microdrum 5y ago
Enovix now has a 100% silicon anode battery in actual production. Looks like they will win the race. Former IBM / FormFactor probe card guys. Factory in Fremont California. From last week: https://vimeo.com/575951266
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by microdrum 5y ago
Facial recognition works pretty well, as anyone who works in the field can tell you. So it's already different from phrenology. It's even more different from prenology in that facial and voice recognition are search and surveying
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by microdrum 5y ago
I agree. As someone from a poor family, never received inheritance of any kind, and now (40 years old) makes +/- $1M per year, I climbed through every 'tax bracket'. The income tax system is absolutely designed to make it ver
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by microdrum 5y ago
It can be true both that AI beats radiologists AND the number of radiologist jobs in the U.S. is going up.
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by microdrum 5y ago
You are exactly correct, and being downvoted because of religious zealotry. This is a mathematical model. Yes, face coverings cover the face. It's a long (and ultimately disproven) leap to: face coverings materially suppress virus in a

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