Recent content by SR22pilot

Yes batteries have made it to 200K and even 300K if I remember correctly. You do have to be careful because in some cases the battery was replaced along the way. However, I believe there are cases where it wasn’t.

There’s a lot of nuance to this which Elon seems to miss. US immigration will blunt the issue here. China, Europe and Russia will see bigger issues with an aging population. Automation will blunt the problem. Considering Elon’s statements about where he sees robotics going, his stance on this...

History will show that there was a time when we could have cut carbon emissions while improving lifestyle at the same time. Instead we ignored all of the “inconvenient “ data until correcting things became a century+ long effort. Very sad. We have been at a stage where we didn’t need perfection...

I can understand winterization for the immediate future. Longer term, I wonder what you think about the analysis done by Tony Seba and RethinkX? https://tonyseba.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/RethinkingEnergy2020-2030-LRR.pdf

I see we have the same old comments about prior high CO2 levels. As before the key fact of reduced solar output is conveniently missing. The implication is always that scientist who spend their lives studying climate are somehow ignorant of this basic data or else members of a vast conspiracy...

I believe the Jeda hubs do and the have both A and C ports. I use the older Jeda hub. I like the hidden space for the SSD.

I have the Jeda v3 with the spacer installed but no lightning cables. My 12 Pro Max is in the Apple MagSafe case. It works fine both portrait and landscape. I seem to remember the documentation saying the spacer was needed to allow room for larger phones.

Interesting stuff. I didn’t look into Mr. Cool. I had a Carrier Greenspeed put in over the summer and a Rheem heat pump water heater. I had put in an induction cooktop earlier. It was nice having the gas company remove the meter. Unfortunately, I can’t put more solar on the house. The HOA is...

When I went to Mobile I stopped at Auburn. On the way back, however, I had a long stop in Greenville (Kim loves Crackerbarrel including browsing the store) and the car said to just go home (Alpharetta). I had just about 100% to start. I got home with about 14%. That was in a single motor long...

I think Tesla cares a lot about phantom braking. However, there is a reason that phantom braking is a problem on all cars with automatic emergency braking. The degree to which it is an issue depends on how much you want AEB to work in real cases. You can minimize phantom braking a lot if you are...

Thanks!!, it makes sense that heat pump only is the most efficient. However, the admonition to be more efficient by shifting to Energy Saver and the blue leaf icon for energy saver send a different message. I was wondering if it was a lower power heat pump mode. I have the 80 gallon model and...

I set my water heater to heat pump mode but the app keeps telling me to change it to Energy Saving mode for maximum efficiency. I would think that heat pump mode would be the most energy efficient. I find Rheem’s information confusing.

There was a time when the argument was that you were incentivizing technology development with the hope that someday it would be competitive. Now you EV incentives are incentivizing near term action that results in long term gains. I would love to see the elimination of the oil depletion...

Savings if 25% or 75% of cars were electric: Widespread electric vehicle adoption would save billions of dollars, thousands of lives: Study finds improved air quality would avoid health and climate damages

it seems to me Energy Saver should be named Hybrid. When I first shifted to Heat Pump the app admonished me to go back to Energy Saver. I went back to Heat Pump again and this time there was no warning. I’ll look over the next few days to see if it makes a difference.