Basically, there are three possible outcomes. The preferred one when you flip that master switch is that everything works.

The second is that nothing happens, and now you have to figure out what the fuck has gone wrong.

The third is an electrical fire.

When you’ve bolted the panels to your roof, wired everything up, charged the batteries off the mains and flipped the breaker on the solar ahead of turning the master switch, there’s more apprehension than waiting in your own wedding processional.

If you know about PV and LFP, just skip to the politics for the last half hour.

Ketamine: When you want to fuck kids but not remember it.

Yeah, we were a bit peeved at the time.

“An essay” is an interesting choice of reference to the Declaration of Independence. I mean, I guess it was an essay by committee, but that undersells the source.

Sure, but if you’ve got 20 grand to spend on this contraption and already have solar, why not get a shitton of 48V server batteries?

It was nonetheless satisfying.

Engage spin machine!

It didn’t happen, but if it did … usw.

That’s certainly something you could look into. I provide original sources.

Maybe for industrial purposes, this makes sense, but losing half the energy to convert electricity to gas? You have a power line. You can charge an EV or lose 50% of your energy to produce a gallon of gas a day. I’m not really seeing parity here.

I’m assuming we can say this is carbon neutral, since the only carbon is being pulled out of the atmosphere in the first place, but it’s still combustion, and carbon isn’t the only concern there.

You’re not generally going to have a problem with CO₂ removal locally. We’re making enough of it that the trees won’t die.

Water vapour, on the other hand … that could be an environmental stressor depending on siting. Still, unless installing at scale, output of a gallon a day doesn’t seem like it’s going to do much to the local environment.

Ms. Cleland, the Richfield resident, said that three days after the encounter with the ICE agent, she received an email from the Department of Homeland Security saying her Global Entry and Transportation Security Administration travel privileges had been revoked. No explanation was provided.

Ms. Cleland said she had swung from anger to fear. “I don’t know how far-reaching ICE can be,” she said. “I’m struggling to figure out what I can do, without putting myself at greater risk or putting other people at risk.”

Scary shit.

Feels like we had a surge of them a while back, but that’s subsided in favour of Waymos.

Further proof the the AI bubble is the only thing concealing that we’re in a recession. Overhired for Covid? Fine. But that was six fucking years ago, so you’re not really being proactive.

Seems most people under 40 from my online interactions. Though “Insta” is more popular in my experience.

Finally we have a solution to “I want to play a game, but feel like I’m at Walmart.”

This feels like abevigoda.com 2.0.

Though apparently he’s been dead for long enough that the nature of the site has changed.