SaveTheTuaHawk
@SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Plug-In Solar Panels Are Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards |Ten U.S. states have legalized systems that can be plugged into standard wall outlets. The technology typically does not require permits 1 day ago:
I can see old EV batteries getting a second life doing this. The state will then charge you a fee for not using electricity they generate.
- Comment on Plug-In Solar Panels Are Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards |Ten U.S. states have legalized systems that can be plugged into standard wall outlets. The technology typically does not require permits 1 day ago:
Nevada NV Energy just put in a surcharge for those with roof top solar.
- Comment on Plug-In Solar Panels Are Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards |Ten U.S. states have legalized systems that can be plugged into standard wall outlets. The technology typically does not require permits 2 days ago:
As soon as this becomes popular the grid monopolies will get it banned.
- Comment on Why are most household appliances single voltage? 1 week ago:
I buy a plane seat for my washing machine. It’s for emotional support.
- Comment on Prusament launches "PA11 Natural" filament- plant based PA nylon for mechanical parts 1 week ago:
Finally admitting CF filaments were a scam, and dangerous to work with.
- Comment on batman effect 1 week ago:
Everyone knows he has high quality Bathotics.
- Comment on batman effect 1 week ago:
they should have used Robin as a control. This is the problem with psychology studies calling themselves science. Maybe people are so self involved on their phones they didn’t see the preggo but Batman distracted them.
- Comment on Can anyone tell me what type of bird this is I keep seeing? 1 week ago:
European giant finch. Lovely plumage.
- Comment on Brazil's electricity grid is now 84.6% renewable, with solar and wind together s 1 week ago:
And Brazilian petrol stations all offer ethanol fuel options. So while the world is suffering from Trump’s wars, Brazil just switches to a cheaper, cleaner fuel that comes from carbon capture.
This really threatens the US oil lobby and government.
- Comment on Filament quality 2 weeks ago:
If you only care about utility, clear plastic of any type is best. Colours, textures, silks, are all weaker and don’t print as well.
Advice from VoidStar labs
- Comment on Filament quality 2 weeks ago:
Just to add…avoid any carbon fiber doped filaments, they are proven weaker and those carbon fiber fragments are dangerous to breath or touch.
- Comment on Filament quality 2 weeks ago:
PLA is all the same, and works well because it’s the only plastic designed for 3D printing.
I find huge brand difference in PETG, but it does not correlate with cost.
- Comment on Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears 2 weeks ago:
grid buffering does not need that. It’s literally guys looking at demand and phoning around to turn up or down generation.
Fun fact: this was the first in a series of events that caused the Chernobyl explosion.
- Comment on Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears 2 weeks ago:
Capacitors don’t hold energy for long.
- Comment on Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears 2 weeks ago:
Somehow, only China uses HVDC transmission, with much lower losses over 1000km, and the lines can be buried. I got you started.
- Comment on Switzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next? 3 weeks ago:
or just put panels on flat top buildings and cover parking lots.
- Comment on Switzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next? 3 weeks ago:
that’s literally any maglev train in use in China or Japan.
- Comment on Switzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next? 3 weeks ago:
the panels are protected by the rails,
Think a little harder.
- Comment on Switzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next? 3 weeks ago:
rocks, sand, parts, snow, ice all land between those tracks.
- Comment on Switzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Switzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next? 3 weeks ago:
“We can put solar panels in the tunnels! Give me another trillion!”
- Comment on Switzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next? 3 weeks ago:
We have demonstrated that the solar plant between the rails is safe.
But nothing about reliable. It snows in Switzerland.
- Comment on Where there people in the 1980's who refused to call 3.5" floppy disks floppy disks? 5 weeks ago:
In their dreams
- Comment on Two Game Retailers Are Refusing To Sell GTA 6 Until There’s A Disc 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bambu Slicer now includes Ads 1 month ago:
They are all versions of Slic3R.
- Comment on Bambu Slicer now includes Ads 1 month ago:
Creality’s new Klitek printers are imminent. Multiple tool heads, push pull feed for TPU.
Bambu upped the game but the competition is coming back better.
Push pull TPU feed + Siraya tech glass fiber TPU is going to allow truly strong anisotropic prints.
- Comment on Bambu Slicer now includes Ads 1 month ago:
You wanna share the G code for that?
- Comment on I bought Trek earrings (image in post) on Etsy and the seller included a hand drawn note. 1 month ago:
It’s a design made by a laser cutter. Maybe handmade refers to the two hands that were made.
- Comment on Why this $10 spectrometer chip could bring real-time chemical sensing to wearables 1 month ago:
Wearable continuous glucose monitoring. Not just for type 2 diabetics, but people on the road to becoming diabetic if the don’t put down the Mountain Dew.
- Comment on Waterproofing PETG prints? 1 month ago:
Three walls of PETG should be water tight. if not, you are under extruding.