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mcbishop
·há 18 dias·discuss
Yup. The closer I am to her friends... the stronger the compulsion. It's like magnetism.
mcbishop
·há 19 dias·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
·há 2 meses·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
·há 2 meses·discuss
But there is some valid concern around internet-connected PV / battery power electronics getting bricked remotely.
mcbishop
·há 3 meses·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
·há 3 meses·discuss
Thanks, it's much easier to load info with the option you shared.
mcbishop
·há 3 meses·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
·há 4 meses·discuss
I've heard the EV charging has played a big role in the maturation of GaN / SiC.
mcbishop
·há 4 meses·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
·há 4 meses·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
·há 4 meses·discuss
> Why the fearmongering?

The main concern is exporting to a downed grid that line-workers are trying to restore.
mcbishop
·há 4 meses·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
·há 5 meses·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
·há 5 meses·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
·há 5 meses·discuss
I really like this guy's drywall-install how-to videos: https://www.youtube.com/@vancouvercarpenter
mcbishop
·há 6 meses·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
·há 6 meses·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
·há 6 meses·discuss
> This is just a grift.

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