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- Comment on Miku’s coming home 7 hours ago:
The US already lost in a spectacular way, so I got my personal spite wish.
England shutting the fuck up seems like as solid a reason as any to a take up a new cause, so I’ll join you.
- Comment on European-style plug-in solar could quickly cut soaring utility bills in Massachusetts 21 hours ago:
Each unit has it’d own inverter that uses the line frequently to sync. Current won’t flow from the panels without the line already being active.
The panels are basically inert by design without companion home current, which is also why they are safe for lineman during outages. This makes them useless as backup power however, but that isn’t their intended use case.
- Comment on HoneyWire: Open-source, zero-agent cyber canaries for your homelab (Thinkst/OpenCanary alternative) 2 weeks ago:
Looks like the following from github:
Suite of Official HoneyWires: Includes native TCP Tarpit, Web Router Decoy, File Canary (FIM), ICMP Canary, and Network Scan Detector.
I don’t see any AI disclosure on github or here OP. Can you specificy how AI has been used on this project?
- Comment on Europeans are making the most of cheap solar panels – by creating green garden fences 2 weeks ago:
Nah, something wrong with the video embed on some browsers. I just tapped the middle play button on the fence video and it stated showing one about hidden solar panels at historical sites.
- Comment on Europeans are making the most of cheap solar panels – by creating green garden fences 2 weeks ago:
Most of these fence panels are bi-facial, i.e they have panels on both sides. They catch light reflected from the ground/snow/etc. They cost a bit more than single pane panels, but not a lot more. Like 15-20%.
You dont get nearly double the power, but they tend to work a bit better then single panels facing the sun because solar panel efficeny degrades with heat. When the sun is at its strongest, traditional roof mount panels take a significant efficiency hit. Because bifocal labels are generally positioned more flexibly, they have much better cooling that compensates for their bad angle.
Hard disagree about vandalism. You will likely never have an issue, and even then the individual panels aren’t that expensive to replace. A wood fence would likely cost more to cover the same surface area of one 7ft x4 ft panel.
- Comment on Utility-scale solar uses only 0.07% of U.S. prime farmland, says SEIA 3 weeks ago:
Technology connections did a barn burner video on the solar, and opted to do some testing on farmland use. In his comparison, he only looked at 100 acres of ethanol corn farmland, I.e the fame land used to only add ethbol to gasoline.
He found that compared to the fuel produced by the single yearly harvest of corn, that the electrify generated by solar panels in it would allow a car to cover 70x as much distance, and that was assuming the worst case in EV fuel efficiency.
Another calculation he did? He also found that if we just used ethanol corn Farmland, just the land that makes gas for cars in a thinly veiled farmer susidy program, and covered them with solar panels, we could produce 7x the total energy demand of the entire United States. Seven. Times.
This of course ignored interconnects, storage and georgraphy and what not, but the scale is so unimaginable, that they almost don’t matter. If we just eliminated gas subisiides to farmers, we could power all of america and use not an sqft of other farmland.
The farmland/scale debate is agitprop. Its noise to make excuses to not use the magic energy machines that make power for free and instead to keep paying oil companies trillions. Thats all.
- Comment on Every anime ever… 5 months ago:
There are whole seasons of the anime that are a break, and im not even talking about the “catch up” ones that are 8 episodes long.
- Comment on IcanfixherIcanfixherIcanfixherIcanfixher 10 months ago: