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- Comment on What is your self-hosting setup for home thermostat? 2 days ago:
I have ESP8266 WiFi modules running Tasmota firmware for a few parts of this. Some report temperature (and humidity just for fun), I like DS18B20 sensors better than SHT30s which seem to have a bit more self heating. Then I also have Mitsubishi mini split heat pumps for which there’s a Tasmota control library. MQTT for communication + HomeAssistant for UI + AppDaemon for automation scripts in Python.
Examples of the UI in HA:
- Comment on A new solar project in Brooklyn could offer a model for climate justice 4 weeks ago:
Households that subscribe to the solar array will receive about a 20 percent discount on their utility bills, resulting in a combined $1.24 million in savings over 25 years — money that could help defray the rising energy expenses that many families face. UPROSE said that the array is expected to cost at least $2.7 million to build, which the partners plan to finance through grants, loans, and tax credits from government and other sources.
Very cool!
- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 1 month ago:
Why is a utility interconnect for rooftop solar a big process, but balcony solar is just plug in? Simply a matter of scale / reduced risk of electrocuting line workers? No net meeting for balconies?
Adding solar so simply sounds great.
- Comment on Even better than a cart of apples 2 months ago:
I would subscribe to his YouTube channel!
- Comment on Startup Alsym Energy, hopes its non-flammable lithium-free batteries can help decarbonize heavy industry 2 months ago:
Although the full makeup of Alsym’s battery is still under wraps as the company waits to be granted patents, one of Alsym’s electrodes is made mostly of manganese oxide while the other is primarily made of a metal oxide. The electrolyte is primarily water.
- Comment on BIOMES 2 months ago:
For 2023, the number of births with name River is 3084, which represents 0.168 percent of total male births in 2023.
Tundra is not in the top 1000 names for any year of birth beginning with 2020. Please enter another name.
Was looking them up at www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi but now “This website is temporarily unavailable,” did everyone have the same idea and it’s only resourced for 1qps?
- Comment on Seriously good cold-climate heat pumps are headed to the US market 3 months ago:
I have Hi2 heat pumps in a 100yo house with recently improved insulation, and it was just fine last year in -15F weather. No gas backup.
One family member has been taking to installers and they keep telling her to heat pumps can’t work reliably, it’s extremely frustrating.
- Comment on China constructs world's first dual-tower solar thermal plant — and it will help generate nearly 2 billion kWh annually 5 months ago:
Was wondering why multiple towers:
In the morning, most of the mirrors point at the eastern tower; in the afternoon, some switch to the western tower.
“The mirrors in the overlapping area can be utilized by either tower. This configuration is expected to enhance efficiency by 24%,”
- Comment on France plans 240MW solar capacity for highways 9 months ago:
Cool, they’re planning:
140 car parking areas and 100 highway interchanges as potential suitable areas for solar deployments.
The article also mentions that all large car parks are required to build solar. I’d love to see requirements like this is the US.
- Comment on Excuse me, my son's name is also Borts... 9 months ago:
I dunno, Jorch thinks he’s got pretty good chances too.
- Comment on An NYPD security robot will be patrolling the Times Square subway station 1 year ago:
Where does the NYPD keep getting these expensive but apparently useless robots?
- Comment on Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than bluetooth competitor. The us won't benefit from it for now 1 year ago:
Right. I care less about 60% less power, and more about will it randomly connect my phone to my car as my partner drives away instead to the speakers I was already using on the desk next to me.
- Comment on BookWyrm.world 1 year ago:
Martha Wells. Finished the Murderbot series, wrapping up the Raksura. All very much of the same cloth, but I enjoy it.
Also recently discovered Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy, I had only read her Temeraire books before.
