mlwiese

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by mlwiese 5mo ago
Framingham, MA has a geothermal system using ground source heat pumps like what you are describing https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/first-networked-geother...
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by mlwiese 9mo ago
No, Lazard estimates the fuel cost is $22-$23/MWh for Gas Combined Cycle, and $13-$18/MWh for Coal. See pages 39-40 of https://www.lazard.com/media/0sopmth5/lazard-releases-2025-l...
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Can You Fool a Self Driving Car? [video](youtube.com)
1 points by mlwiese 2y ago|0 comments
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by mlwiese 2y ago
There is no try, only do. -Yoda
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by mlwiese 2y ago
Note you can toggle off sources in the chart by tapping on them in the legend. Gas plants can respond quickly to changes in load, but they need to be up and running to do that. In the future this will be done with batteries but we don’t hav
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by mlwiese 3y ago
Except pretty much everyone thinks the CCS2 connector sucks compared to the Tesla connector. The EU ought to mandate the Tesla connector instead. We're still in early days, no need to worry about the tiny number of cars that have alrea
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Fact check: Is nuclear energy good for the climate?(dw.com)
5 points by mlwiese 5y ago|1 comments
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by mlwiese 5y ago
You can use CO2 as a refrigerant. Non flammable and enables heat pumps to be practical at lower temperatures. Lots of products on the market. See https://r744.com
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by mlwiese 5y ago
This can be used to monitor someone's breathing in a non-invasive way, which would be good. Here's a startup that has been working on it: https://www.originwirelessai.com/technology
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by mlwiese 6y ago
How do you differentiate your company from https://www.bidgely.com
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An Army of Volunteers Is Taking on Vaccine Disinformation Online(wired.com)
2 points by mlwiese 6y ago|0 comments
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by mlwiese 6y ago
There is movement away from stop-the-world GC, but not to reference counting. The movement is towards better GC. The language Go has sub millisecond GC with multi-GB heaps since 2018. See https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote
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by mlwiese 6y ago
The modern equivalent is Hiccup and Clojure. https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup/wiki/Syntax Clojure has literal lists using parens and vectors using square brackets. By using both you can mix code and mark
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Thinking in a Pandemic: Good Science Is Good Science(bostonreview.net)
3 points by mlwiese 6y ago|0 comments
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Wearing masks in public required starting April 22 in 4 SF Bay Area counties(sfchronicle.com)
1 points by mlwiese 6y ago|0 comments
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25,000 Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus Crisis(nytimes.com)
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Peer Review of “Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara, CA”(medium.com)
3 points by mlwiese 6y ago|0 comments
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by mlwiese 6y ago
This LA study has one of the same authors as the Stanford study (Neeraj Sood). It uses the same test and so it has the same issues with the false positive rate. An honest person would address those but I didn't see that in the press re