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mcbishop
·19 dni temu·discuss
Yup. The closer I am to her friends... the stronger the compulsion. It's like magnetism.
mcbishop
·19 dni temu·discuss
As a dad, I have a strong compulsion to tell (bad) dad jokes. Ideally puns. All the time. I didn't used to be this way.
mcbishop
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
> As a rule, the highest-paid workers at Mondragon cooperatives earn only six times more than the lowest-paid workers.

And I bet these salary-capped co-op leaders are still appropriately capable / qualified. The U.S. billionare situation is ugly.
mcbishop
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
But there is some valid concern around internet-connected PV / battery power electronics getting bricked remotely.
mcbishop
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
All good, I appreciate what you built! On desktop with Windows 11. I just tried it again and it was much easier to see the info (thru hover) than before.
mcbishop
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Thanks, it's much easier to load info with the option you shared.
mcbishop
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
This is awesome. It'd be even more awesome if it was easier to show a power plant's info upon hover / click. ...It's currently too much of a cat-and-mouse game for me.
mcbishop
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
I've heard the EV charging has played a big role in the maturation of GaN / SiC.
mcbishop
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
A distinction was made:

> the transfer switch variety switches your house between the inverter and the grid whereas the disconnect just physically disconnects the inverters output
mcbishop
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
Thanks, and I agree that a DIY-inverter designer should be able to meet grid-interconnection requirements (e.g. IEEE 1547-2018). With that said, I think case-by-base evaluation from the AHJ would be prudent without a UL listing... something that AHJs don't want to do.

I'd prefer to just put the DIY inverter behind a transfer switch (with an adequate battery bank and maybe a small propane generator)... with the grid as emergency fallback.
mcbishop
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
> Why the fearmongering?

The main concern is exporting to a downed grid that line-workers are trying to restore.
mcbishop
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
Not that this is accepted by insurers or AHJs ("authorities having jurisdiction"), but one can use UL-certified components in an (open-source) _assembly_ that itself isn't UL certified. This at least supports the argument that the overall product is safe if thoughtfully designed and assembled. An example is the OpenEVSE level-2 car charger (which I had a really good experience with).
mcbishop
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
The creator of OpenClaw, for example, has come to appreciate grammatical / spelling errors in human writing (as he said in a recent Lex Fridman interview).
mcbishop
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Loosely related: This Lex Fridman discussion with a nuclear-fusion engineer, about 1-million-amp 100-million-degree electrical systems... blew my mind: https://lexfridman.com/david-kirtley
mcbishop
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
I really like this guy's drywall-install how-to videos: https://www.youtube.com/@vancouvercarpenter
mcbishop
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
For me, there's a sharp binary: If I ask AI to "own" a coding-problem solution — with me passing back the failure responses until resolved — my mind gets numb and I learn nothing. If I insist on owning the solution — using AI in my effort to better understand the problem space — my mind is active and I get better at coding. Sometimes I'm lazy and fall into the former. But mostly, so far, the latter.
mcbishop
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
Thanks for this! ...Thanks for helping me curb my naivete a bit. I think you'd appreciate this effort at even cheaper grid-scale chemical battery storage: https://www.volts.wtf/p/can-second-life-ev-batteries-work
mcbishop
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
> This is just a grift.

I'd like to understand why. Just too much complexity? Gravity storage is compelling to this layman.
mcbishop
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
I'd love to see an unbiased financial-analysis comparison: this vs. hydro vs. electrochemical.
mcbishop
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
I think the heavy investor subsidization / speculation makes this different. The high cost of early 1Tb flash drives was largely borne by buyers.