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Is ABQ getting a 3rd Supercharger location?

PBS Newshour had a segment tonight on an effort in California to increase community lead prescribed burns. I'm happy to see this getting more attention. One thing that sometimes keeps me awake at night is that the area surrounding where my Mom lives hasn't burned in >40 years. It's a little...

Fun fact about plugshare. It appears that deleted 'reviews' still count toward the check-in total so you can tabulate how many deletions have occurred. One site has 312 Check-ins and >250 have been removed. Question: Why is plugshare defending Russia? 2nd Question: Why aren't they catching more...

.... why isn't this more of a thing? Honestly I think I would be willing to pay MORE for a retreaded tire. Tires are nearly impossible to recycle. Most are burned.

I know there are several threads discussing components of Building Electrification but I was a bit surprised we don't have a general thread for it. There was a news story about the aftermath of the Marshall fire near Denver that was a bit surprising. Xcel was donating thousands of electric...

Anyone else have their bags packed?

I'd like to trade 19" sport wheels for 18" aero wheels. Local trade is preferred. Located in West TX, SE NM.

Wasn't sure where this would fit. Mods please feel free to move it if there's a more suitable thread already. The video is long but if you're interested in the utility space I found it informative with regards to the kinds of questions regulatory commissions are interested in and the goals of...

If Francis Energy is as prolific in NM as they are in OK there should be a lot of CCS available soon.

I'm planning to purchase ~$4,000 worth of clipper creeks for my Go Fund Me project. Clipper Creek provides a 10% discount at $10k. Thought I'd see if there was anyone in the ~NM area interested in joining a group buy. Could make a great gift for that family member that just HAD to buy a...

I thought it would be worth having a thread to discuss how difficult and perhaps impossible it's going to be for L3 charging to operate as a viable business. One fact about electric billing very few people have experience with is demand billing, being billed per kW in addition to per kWh. In...

I have a friend that's offered to make me a homeopathic spritz for my Tesla to help block some of those nasty EMFs; He's offering a variety of 'potencies' at different price points. Couldn't find anything online on what would be the best deal for a P85.... would 100C be overkill? These are...

Which industry CURRENTLY receives the most subsides IN THE US from construction through the first 10 years of operation per MWh produced.

I don't think there's really a difference. Please get the first vaccine you're offered. Just thought it would be interesting to see which is more common.

This was too good to not share. This is from a legal filing in the election 'fraud' lawsuit in Georgia.

Hmmm.... do I have a conceptual error? Is time independent of energy? 1J = 1NM.... and NM is independent of time. But 1 NM is... Now I'm confused. Trying to recall how math works... if the denominator is squared... what effect does that have? I know gravity is a FORCE defined as...

I thought there was already a thread about this but I was unable to find it; It's hard to think of an area where there is more cognitive dissonance within the environmental community than when it comes to harvesting timber. Tesla has caught a lot of flak for the fact they're cutting down a...

The recent passing of Chuck Yeager has given me another reason to rant about the absolutely insane trend in our society to essentially out-right reject candidates for some positions based purely on the lack or a college degree. Instead of attending college Chuck Yeager fought in WW2. Upon...

So... one of my friends is building a house and I managed to convince him to go 100% electric. The biggest hurdle as it often seems to be is that his wife 'had' to have a gas stove. I was aware of induction stoves but I hadn't really looking into them. When I converted everything in my home...

There was a recent episode of the 'Politico Energy' podcast where they were discussing the rare agreement between Environmentalists and anti-Environmentalists with regard to the proposed pebble mine in Alaska. What I found 'interesting' was that the main point the anti-Environmentalists made in...

I've been trying to think of a way to pose this question. There's a widening gap between L2 and L3 charging at least in the Tesla world. It used to be ~20kW to ~100kW but now the fastest L2 in a new Tesla is 48A (~11.4kW) while Supercharging is ~250kW. I'll use the CyberTruck for context...

I see a lot of significantly misinformed posts with regards to module level optimization. This topic frustrates me because it's a large source of wasted capital as far as solar installs go. By and large there is virtually no financial benefit to using optimizers. Even with the rapid shutdown...

I was hoping this would happen. Netflix made several environmental documentaries available for free on YouTube including one I think is the best; 'Chasing Coral'.

We just finished up the first of hopefully at least 3 HPWC locations. Tesla donated the equipment and my company performed the installation at cost with funds donated via Go Fund Me. I'd like to install a pair of HPWCs in Artesia next but the cost was higher than I expected (~$4300) since we...

This thread is a bit of a rant against Thorium. The ratio of how much it's mentioned: economic viability as an energy source is ~1B:0. I think there's a group of people that honestly believe Thorium or Hemp are literally the best solutions to every problem we've ever had, have or will have...

I thought this would be an interesting thread. So many people take what we have for granted or forget the 'oranges' ;) ... of many of the things we've achieved as a society. Especially now that POTUS is doing his best to tear down any semblance of a professional public service; I think it...

I found this interesting. When I was at Standing Rock I considered the word 'Indian' to be a (very) mild slur and I felt uncomfortable using it. Never occurred to me that some of the Sioux might prefer 'Indian' over 'Native American'...

Not a comfortable topic but a necessary one. When I punch my ticket I don't want to be cremated or embalmed... I just want to return to nature naturally.

The NM PRC is conducting a storage workshop October 31 at 11am; There is a second workshop scheduled for December 4th.

*Not a tax professional so please do your research and consider anything I post as 'internet gossip' until you verify it yourself* :) I thought this might be an interesting and hopefully educational thread. I'm definitely and advocate of working to live and not living to work. IMO having the...

I visit family once a year and my Mom had found a yellow jacket nest under her spa. She used 4 20oz cans of 'Wasp spray' trying to kill it and only succeeded in getting stung. I used <5oz of dish soap poured into the end of a garden hose and destroyed the nest with a stream of soapy water...

Still not sure how this happened... but the FLIR image is interesting. This is what solar panels look like in IR with shorted bypass diodes. Basically each cell group is just a short circuit.....

Love the dedication. Choosing a 2 day train over a 4 hour flight. Trains are better anyway :)

I've discussed this before on a thread I've lost track of (If someone knows where it is please link to it). Optimizing panels on a string in which all panels have the same orientation does ~nothing but waste $$$ if that string is on an independent MPPT... even if there's shading. I had to...

This almost makes me want to go to a MAGA rally... almost... Here's why this is the perfect gift if you're behind on current events; White House Wanted U.S.S. John S. McCain ‘Out of Sight’ While Trump Was in Japan: Report

If anyone is interested I've started a Go Fund Me to collect donations for EV charging in SE NM. The available places to charge is embarrassingly thin. Targeted areas would be Carlsbad, Artesia, Roswell and Capitan. I co-own a PV installation company in NM and plan to use our electricians to...

This is AWESOME!

Give him a call. Tell him this is an idiotic idea. Washington State Senate transportation bill would more than double electric vehicle registration fees

Anyone else in the club yet? :)

We had snow for the first time since I was able to monitor a system with module level monitoring. Since the previous discussion regarding optimizers vs bypass diodes is buried in an unrelated thread and there appears to be a TON of confusion around this issue I thought a dedicated thread might...

There aren't many documentaries that are hard for me to watch emotionally. This one was probably tied with 'The Cove'. As difficult as it is to watch I absolutely rank it as a 'must see'. The most profound part is that you're witnessing the near complete destruction of one of the most diverse...

Thought this might be a good place to offer assistance with a lower chance of getting scammed... Not sure how helpful this is since it's not in CA; I have a rental available in Bremerton, WA. More than happy to provide a few months of free rent to a family that has been displaced. 3 Bed...

Unless you're legally ineligible these are your only options. Please VOTE!

There are already several exemptions recognized by the IRS that allow people to draw finds from their retirement accounts prior to reaching 59.5. I think an exemption to allow people to invest in Solar PV should be added allowing people to pay for a rooftop system from their IRA without the 10%...

If you use hot water... you should really have one of these. Practically a drop-in replacement with the exception of the required condensate drain. And they're currently on sale for ~$1500. The sale usually lasts a month or so and occurs twice a year. They use ~70% less energy than a...

ALMOST as ridiculous as AGW denial. Thought this would be 'fun' too :D

There are pockets of what could be considered a 'sovereign wealth fund' in the US but so far as I'm aware there's no national fund. Norway has a Sovereign Wealth fund ~3x its GDP. If the US had a similar fund it would be $54T! A properly managed fund could reduce the need for taxes and...

Quick summary. Rate 59 is a tax on solar generation that Xcel charges DG owners. For example even if you have batteries; If you produce 1000kWh export 0 and import 0 you pay ~$36 due to the decreased revenue to Xcel from kWh sales. Behold our elected officials discussing this tax. The...

Anyone get their car wrapped in WA? Looking for recommendations.

Interested to see how many people are doing their own PV systems vs hiring an installer. IMO solar has the highest return of any DIY project vs how difficult it is... I mean... where else can you save up to ~$20k with 2-3 days of work? HVAC is probably a very close 2nd...