It's on the north side, it gets sun but not too direct. The same cannot be said for me, working on it on the hottest day of the year so far. Stick a fork in me. I'm done.

Once in my shared apartment, while I was in university, a guest of a roommate was dumping a lot of rubbish in the bin, and I pointed out we had baskets for recycling. "Yeah, but it takes time to separate the parts. Do you think [CEO of a huge fossil fuel industry in my country] does that?"

I didn't know how to answer that.

The CEO went to jail a few years later.

Edit: nope, it sounded too good to be true. He didn't serve time. He is still a CEO of something else. FML.

I took the screenshot then and I was too lazy to do it again before posting :) Also, sometimes the integration that does the prediction becomes more realistic and the difference would have been less strong. But it looks like it didn't re-evaluate the prediction, and the second half of the day was even worse :)

You are correct of course, generation happens without direct sunlight. In fact, today it was raining and I never saw the sun (until literally 5 minutes before sunset, go figure). It's actually awesome to get what I get on a rainy day, jokes aside.

I can confidently say that there was no direct sunlight involved today because I have panels on the northwest side, that doesn't get any direct sunlight these days, and they behaved just like the south. Even pale sun makes the south take off way past whatever the north string can do. Didn't happen today

Every time I see that brand in the store my mind goes "ooh black Betty, blend-a-med"...

Software company? They misspelled "private equity" in a peculiar way.

I don't like walking upside down, so I stick to the top of the sphere :D

It should be configurable to limit draw and depending of SoC, and it should be compensated. But it should be possible.

If you are connected to the grid you participate in the grid. You shouldn't be allowed to avoid it, unless you go off the grid entirely.

I didn't know Maybe, but I take the opportunity to suggest Actual, which took an opposite path (born as a closed SaaS solution, and upon commercial unviability was turned FOSS, and, boy, am I grateful for that).

https://actualbudget.org/

Are you trying to be a cliche stereotype of a vegan in a joke?

I'm not vegan, I don't eat meat and I very occasionally eat fish. I follow this community because veganism is something I value without being fully committed to it. The idea of eating something I like without the bitter ethical side-dish (in theory, nothing is perfect) is very interesting to me. And totally worth of the "vegan" label.

I waited until I was caught up with the last aired episode to seek confirmation of it, but I recognized him on the first call and found it extremely funny.

PS. Love your handle by the way. The next raktajino at the replimat is on me!

The link to "green energy push" in the title is pernicious. There are laws, laws are broken while mining, green energy per se should be left out of the title.

17% extra isn't much, especially if the manufacturing is within the EU, where it could be seen as an investment.

It's not zero either. I wish the real "savings" of relying on final products imports would be more quantified like this. It might not be worth it, sometimes.

But then, how much of that supply chain is china-free, once you go past the first level of the bill of materials.

“Based on data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, one advanced nuclear plant (2 x AP1000) produces 33.17 MW per acre, while one offshore wind farm produces approximately 0.006 MW/acre, which is approximately 5,500 times less efficient than one nuclear plant,” Interior said.

Yeah, wasted space, they should build a nuclear power plant over that... check notes... ocean.

Thank you! That seems to agree with what I observed in a mostly shady southern panel, where I observed the same early in the year, and while there are still some, they seem to have moved on (well, as long as I dont look on the north side :))

That is fascinating about them using it as incubator. I forgot that ants don't all lay eggs.. So they must be taking them there from where the queen lives?

I'll leave them alone and observe for a while and ping you here if I have questions, thank you!

As an ADHD person that watched (until I found it too boring) a lot of The Walking Dead in 2x speed, I kind of see what you mean, but...never in this show I felt the need to skip anything (only when I rewatched episode 2 to convince my wife to stick with the show after she noped-out at the end of the pilot, I had to skip the seizure scenes to keep her attention long enough to make her interested in the mysteries they introduced. I'm not proud of the manipulation. But she's a Plurb too now, so, eh, ends, means, you know)

Whenever something drags for too long, I look around. The sets have a level of detail and care that few other shows enjoy.

The only thing annoying me is that I would have a list of question as long as my leg, and she's not asking the right questions. That ain't solved by fast forwarding, though.

I am often fatigued by Cassandras. They are right, of course, but its their curse. They are EXHAUSTING. Cory Doctorow is a Cassandra that often offers perspectives to show the way out (or A way out) of whatever doom he's presenting. And pragmatism is part of why I like him. I'm tired of purism.

10 kWp but ~45% of it on the northside. We're in south Germany, 49ish degrees north. We redid the roof (bought a house with resistive heating and almost no roof insulation... Picked up a bit of a project here) and covering 60% of the south side with panels is required by law (at least to get some subsidy), but we would have done anyway. Don't use this day do evaluate the project :)

slrpnk.net was gone for a while, and I didn't update the thread, but I wanted to thank you again, @[email protected] We went through a cold-ish and super rainy week and into a heatwave, and while they kept shuffling their cocoons around, they seem to clean up after themselves and leave when hatched. Now, it seems like it's an invasive species around here, and they are a bit annoying in some places (my wife's workplace had an indoor wave of them). I'll confirm the species when I get a chance. But for the specific case of the greenhouse, they are very considerate guests, ignoring my plants, nursing their babies, and GTFO. I think they leave the panels cleaner than they find them. A+ guests, would host again :D

The location is southern Germany. I don't know if carpenter ants are a thing here.

They now amassed almost everything in the sections of the panels that are partially covered by the structure. It rained hard for 24 hours, so they are not shielding from the sun,

The ants are now spread on at least 4 panels (but crucially, not in the one that I flushed, fully damaging the tape). I guess it's very humid in there, I let it bake off a bit before reinstalling it, but then I thought it would dry also while installed, given the damaged tape. The heavy rain didn't make it worse (the openings are in a protected area)

I will have to spend the better part of a day to remove and fix all panels, so I guess I'll observe the evolution until the weekend. I would not have the time (and the weather!) for major maintenance until then.

The garden has several spots with heavy ants activity. I naively expect that after hatching they will move out...

Clearly a mistake to focus con electrification where we don't control the supply chain. Better to keep pumping oil where we... * checks notes *... Yeah, well, end of the press conference, nothing to see here.

I don't say that biofuels don't have a reason to exist but I have a feeling they are mentioned just to say something "alternative" to electrification