I actually have solar. The entirety of my south-facing roof is covered, but it’s only 7.6 kW clipped to 5.6 kW by the microinverters. It’s about 70% of my usage right now. I’m trying to get to 100% through efficiency upgrades.
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I’d really like to get a heat-pump water heater but my current one is a lowboy, so I’d either need to excavate clay from underneath it or move the lines/power supply. The only lowboy heat-pump water heaters are incredibly expensive.
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Progressive Politics@lemmy.world•Doctors warn flour sacks entering Gaza laced with Oxycodone: Report61·4 days agoI’ll trade two sacks of regular flour for one of oxycodone.
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Technology@lemmy.zip•BYD is testing solid-state EV batteries in its Seal sedan with nearly 1,200 miles of rangeEnglish10·11 days agoHyundai announced they don’t expect to release solid-state EVs until 2030, but their solid-state plant has been operational for a bit now and they’re filing full-scale solid-state production patents already. It’s going to be a real race to the finish.
Adam’s ale (also referred to as Adam’s wine, especially in Scotland; sometimes simply called Adam) is a colloquial allusion meaning water. It alludes to the idea that the biblical Adam had only water to drink. This inference gained popularity around the beginning of the 19th-century temperance movement.
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comto politics @lemmy.world•She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.11·15 days agoYou would need a lot of people actively involved to pull something like that off and the number of conspirators involved is inversely proportional to how long the conspiracy can be kept secret. So if it happened, the truth will come out in a fairly short time. Until then, I don’t see any point in entertaining these ideas or getting overwrought by them.
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comto politics @lemmy.world•Trump says relationship with Musk is over7·24 days agoI’m sure Salman is elated.
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Therapy Chatbot Tells Recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a TreatEnglish9·26 days agoAnytime an article posts shit like this but neglects to include the full context,
They link directly to the journal article in the third sentence and the full pdf is available right there. How is that not tantamount to including the full context?
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comto politics @lemmy.world•Trump's tariffs would cut US deficits by $2.8T over 10 years and shrink the economy, CBO says17·27 days agoThe tax bill and the tariffs are separate. In sum there would be a $40M surplus each year for a decade.
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comto News@lemmy.world•Rogue communication devices found in Chinese solar power inverters10·2 months agoInverters and solar battery storage generally have some combination of wired and wireless communication. You need to communicate with the grid for real-time pricing and forecasts so the system knows when to charge and discharge. Also you want the system status of all the panels and batteries. If somebody slices through the wrong fiber line near your site, it’s important to still be able to get that information.
If you get a home PV system, they’ll often have the option of a cellular modem. The controller on my home system has Wi-Fi and Ethernet with the option of a cellular modem. It wouldn’t surprise me if the board comes populated with some of the components necessary for cellular functionality even if you don’t opt for it.
I’m just saying they need to divulge more details before one can conclude this is nefarious.
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comto News@lemmy.world•Rogue communication devices found in Chinese solar power inverters169·2 months agoOver the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers, one of them said.
The two people declined to name the Chinese manufacturers of the inverters and batteries with extra communication devices, nor say how many they had found in total.
They’re very light on details. Sometimes it’s cheaper to make one PCB in huge numbers and only enable the cellular modem on the higher priced models or when a subscription fee is paid. Their mere existence without any additional information shouldn’t be particularly alarming.
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Europe@feddit.org•‘Rogue’ devices found in Chinese solar inverters raises cybersecurity alarm in EuropeEnglish17·2 months agoFronius is Austrian and there are a few others but none producing microinverters that I’m aware of. If you are doing an install with no shading issues during the day, regular inverters are preferable though since the costs are cheaper and there’s no DC-AC-DC loss if you include a battery backup.
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comto politics @lemmy.world•'Lie and cheat!' Trump rants furiously after MSNBC host calls him 'illiterate clown'5·2 months agoWe need something to chuckle at while we’re taking a break from making IEDs and bioweapons in our terrorist cells.
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.7·2 months agoThey have a “basement dweller” achievement if you hit two years.
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Technology@lemmy.zip•4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is EverywhereEnglish9·2 months agoLast tine I went on there I got a 3 month ban for making fun of Roy Moore losing to Doug Jones. It’s as much an echo chamber as anywhere else, if not worse.
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comto politics @lemmy.world•SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic PrimaryEnglish161·3 months agoThere was a poll showing that Trump won voters who don’t follow politics at all by 14 points. There seems to be a substantial proportion of the population who just picks who they vote for based on how well things have been going for them for the last 4 or 8 years.
With inflation, the pendulum swung towards Trump. After 4 years of tariffs, declining dollar value and Trump being unable to run again, I think that pendulum will swing fairly hard to the left. So conventional wisdom on not picking a candidate who will scare off centrists could be out the window. In which case, you might as well nominate AOC or someone similar.
Of course, president AOC won’t be able to accomplish all the things she wants to without a supportive congress and getting that to happen is a much bigger challenge than winning the presidency.
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Technology@lemmy.zip•'OLED and LCD will die out’: A microLED expert explains how the superior TV tech will finally become affordableEnglish10·3 months agoµLED doesn’t experience any burn in, lasts decades, has perfect blacks and can reach higher brightness than you would ever want to look directly at. If they can get them to where OLEDs are now in terms of price they’ll take over the market.
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Increase in Nissan LEAF Range from 73 Miles to 373 Miles Shows Astounding Improvements in Electric CarsEnglish38·3 months agoThe first Nissan LEAF was the 2011 model, and it had 73 miles (117 km) of range — at a cost of $33,600 if Google’s AI research is right.
Why don’t you click on the damn link and check that it’s right?
Maybe one that supports renewable energy and c