Recent content by nwdiver

The garbage trucks here run on CNG. Which given the price of natural gas the fuel is basically free. And ~90% of H2 comes from natural gas but is ~100x the cost. So they're paying more to use more methane?

Exactly! I've never understood how Tesla is putting in a station that will attract business and the business that is benefiting from that station is still getting paid by Tesla for bringing in more business. Makes no sense. It will be a lot better for everyone if the host helps to pay for...

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Our electrician invested ~$5600 in their battery and it's saving them ~$90/mo. So their battery is helping to put food on the table. No gas in the car though. Both cars are electric. They don't waste $$$ on silly things :)

There is now if you're clever enough. I just bought a pallet of solar for ~$0.25/w. You can get UL rated batteries for ~$200/kWh and a hybrid inverter for <$5k. So the materials cost of 30kW of solar + 70kWh of storage would be ~$45k. ~$32k after the FTC. That would save >$3k/yr. More and...

Signature Solar is offering a unit that is suspiciously similar that has UL9540A certification for ~$3400. LiFe is <$100/kWh at the cell level so we should be seeing a lot more packs at the ~$200/kWh price point. But over-production needs to be the first step. Mounting solar vertically to...

Our electrician lives in an area where he gets 0 credit for his exports so batteries have value. But the first step was to dramatically oversize his system since solar is hilariously cheap now. That's the first paradigm shift I needed to accept. MASSIVE curtailment. He needed to overproduce...

Not many places left where there isn't a supercharger every 50 to 100 miles. That's a much better solution than larger battery packs. They just started construction on a supercharger in Kalispell so Glacier will soon be accessible without too much effort.

aka... 'nighttime' :rolleyes:

Only day of the year that Ruzzians have 'tech' worth stealing. :) US Submarine first in world outfitted with Caterpillar Drive

The cable removal wasn't very sophisticated. Looked like they stomped on the cable until it finally came out. No tools used. It wasn't cut. Electric rate is ~$0.10/kWh. ~$0.13/kWh in the summer. McDs pays the bill. It's likely a rounding error on their other expenses.

No; They removed one of the cables. I'm assuming by stomping on it since it had been yanked out of the bottom of the enclosure. Both HPWCs shows signs someone had pulled down hard on their cables since the grommet was dislodged and the gland nut had been unscrewed on the other clipper creek...

Seems like this is a problem we should probably be taking more seriously....

We need a code change that requires better glass in hail prone regions. Many of the panels survived. With 5 or 6mm glass it's likely most of them would have. It's silly to have the same glass thickness in areas that ~never see hail and areas that see 3" hail every 4 years. It's clear the...

If that were true we wouldn't be closing nuclear plants simply because they're unprofitable. The other ISOs need to become like the TVA. With a CEO accountable to a board of directors which in turn are appointed by POTUS not shareholders. Nationalization not 'nationalism' is the only way...