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by yessql 3y ago
> Will these “guerilla solar” units that plug into a receptacle to back-feed get approved for use? They are approved at up to 600 Watts in Germany, and that will probably get increased to 800 Watts soon. You can just plug the inverter ou
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by yessql 4y ago
This is fantastic. Would love to be able to have logarithmic y-axis!
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by yessql 5y ago
When you define the market as electric vehicles instead of passenger vehicles. In Europe, the electric vehicle market is growing very fast. But all these EV sales come at the expense of gas/diesel sales, so I think it is a bad idea to
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by yessql 6y ago
I think the only thing the market has going for it, is that everything else is worse. Interest rates are negative or near zero, so bonds have the risk of losing value as interest rates rise, as the Fed needs to fight inflation. They also ha
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by yessql 9y ago
Imagine how much simpler a commercial charging station is than a gas station. You already need electricity for a gas station, but you no longer need to send tanker trucks out to fill tanks and technicians to maintain all the mechanical pump
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by yessql 9y ago
> Chevy shipped a few hundred more Bolts than Teslas one month In the US only (majority of Teslas sold oversees in October, as is always the case in the first month of each quarter).
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by yessql 9y ago
For the US only. Tesla generally ships most cars oversees on the first month of the quarter and loads up in the US in the last month of each quarter.
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by yessql 9y ago
Yes, I would have seriously considered the new Leaf, since it is about $5k cheaper than the Model 3. It would effectively cost $18k in Colorado vs $23k for the Model 3. It would be nice to have the Nissan service and manufacturing capabilit
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by yessql 9y ago
Tesla actively cools its batteries and chose a long lasting battery chemistry. The Leaf, does not cool the battery, and the early Leaf model had a really bad chemistry.
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by yessql 9y ago
I wouldn't compare the Leaf, which has no thermal management system with a Bolt, which does. The Leafs are basically designed to degrade. Tesla's and Bolts are designed to last.
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by yessql 9y ago
Well, you said this was a dangerous plan. The biggest danger is that you have to go back to work. If you continually only withdraw 4% of your nest egg (reducing your absolute withdrawal during market drops), then make up the difference if y
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by yessql 9y ago
Or god forbid, you work a little bit to supplement your nest egg during those 43 years.
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by yessql 9y ago
It is interesting also to see financially independent people who are happy to rent, keeping their assets in more lucrative and flexible investments than the real estate they live in. There are lots of reasons to rent. It is generally a mutu
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by yessql 9y ago
If you could drive into Florida and sell bottles of water for $5, people will do it. Same with gasoline. Price signals work.
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by yessql 9y ago
I can write sort algorithms that are nlog(n) or n^2. Both pass functional tests. I can write code that reinvents the wheel, instead of using the solid library I've never heard of. I can do things in non-idiomatic ways that testing and
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by yessql 9y ago
All patents are open. Tesla offered to share them with other auto OEMs, if they sign up to agree to Tesla's terms.
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by yessql 9y ago
Good video. They said costs could one day get down to $50 per MWh. We already have solar plants selling at around $30 per MWh, so that doesn't seem like it will be a major source, although it has the potential to run all day and all ni
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by yessql 9y ago
I was just thinking how well this correlates with the presidential election map.
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by yessql 9y ago
"The difference is shippability"
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by yessql 9y ago
The way they do all stock charts. Because otherwise CNBC would be really boring. OMG The meaningless Dow Jones Index jumped 0.25% !!!
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by yessql 9y ago
After hours trading is often very different than the market the next day. Two percent in after market just means there won't be a very big jump tomorrow.
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by yessql 9y ago
Exactly right. Coal mining as a job has declined much more than coal as fuel. It's just easier to blame regulations and outsourcing than to admit that people can't compete with machines in energy production and manufacturing.
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by yessql 9y ago
Too geography dependent, and we will probably never build another large hydro project because of the environmental impacts.
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by yessql 9y ago
Commercial and Residential solar are excluded. Those might add up to half a percent or so. The other 9.5% is probably due to energy efficiency.
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by yessql 9y ago
Solar panels have a warranty for 25 or 30 years. Their output slowly deteriorates over time, but there are 50 year old panels that still work fine out there.
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by yessql 9y ago
I haven't experienced it, but I've only had a couple interviews/jobs as an electrical engineer before switching to software, where they happen almost every time. I think it's a sign that universities are failing to be tr
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by yessql 10y ago
It's about the possibility of having your visa granted, not whether you need one. Perhaps you have heard about the travel ban in the US?
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by yessql 10y ago
Is lithium the most expensive material in the chemistry?
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by yessql 10y ago
That makes sense... Li is typically 4% of the weight of a Li-Ion battery, so that would align pretty well.
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by yessql 10y ago
Bill Gates really amazes me with his lack of vision. He thinks renewables are not a solution to sustainable energy and taxing robots makes sense. Bill,automating physical labor is not the issue, it's automating driving and white collar

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