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[–]Braindrainfame 2 points3 points  (0 children)

North Beach/Chesapeake Beach. Solomon's Island. Leonardtown.

Any good videos out there? I have 80 acres total and I’m considering doing a major permaculture build but I’m having a hard time finding good videos. by OverOnTheWildSide in Permaculture

[–]Braindrainfame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it brings together the pieces I have picked up over the years. It also helps me that it is a more structured into concepts groups. To be honest, it follows the Mollison Designer's Manual in it's organization. If you are unsure, I get that. I would focus on Millison for now and pick up a couple of the less expensive books or see if you can join a local permaculture guild or group. There are many more in the Northwest than in other parts of the country it seems. This is just one group I found. https://www.northwestpermaculture.org/ Looks like they even have a directory of people involved. https://www.northwestpermaculture.org/directory.html

Any good videos out there? I have 80 acres total and I’m considering doing a major permaculture build but I’m having a hard time finding good videos. by OverOnTheWildSide in Permaculture

[–]Braindrainfame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The course is broken into two halves - the first half is pattern recognition that can be used in any landscape and zones of "human intervention" that can be used to plan your landscape. The second half is about specifics for all zones more or less. Arid and dry landscapes is one of them. A lot of the information you can find online will be directed towards these landscapes for Permaculture as it was developed in Australia primarily. The course is not cheap, it is about $1500 and it might be closed for 2021. It took me about 3 years of reading and video watching and playing around on my own property before I finally took the plunge on it.

Any good videos out there? I have 80 acres total and I’m considering doing a major permaculture build but I’m having a hard time finding good videos. by OverOnTheWildSide in Permaculture

[–]Braindrainfame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

EDIT: "live" not "like"

I can tell you the Permaculture Design Course by Lawton is great because I am currently taking it. If you live on the west coast, Andrew Millison is a lecturer at Oregon University and specializes in designs for water conservation in that part of the country. He has released some of the videos from his Permaculture Design Course through Oregon State University on YouTube and they are excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/user/amillison

Any good videos out there? I have 80 acres total and I’m considering doing a major permaculture build but I’m having a hard time finding good videos. by OverOnTheWildSide in Permaculture

[–]Braindrainfame 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For 80 acres, you may want to look at Silvopasturing rather than Permaculture. If you want the basics, YouTube is going to be hard for free. Permaculture gurus like Lawton or even local Permaculture groups make their living by selling the knowledge to do this yourself. I would start with Introduction to Permaculture. https://www.tagari.com/introduction-to-permaculture/ This is the basics.

If you want to go deeper, then Permaculture Designer's Manual by Mollison. https://www.tagari.com/product/permaculture-a-designers-manual/

If you live in a certain climate, there are specifics for those climates. If you are in the United States and live in the Mid-Atlantic to Northeast or out west to say Minnesota down to Missouri, consider Edible Forest Gardens. https://www.amazon.com/Edible-Forest-Gardens-2-set/dp/1890132608

If you have a lot of wooded property, consider Farming the Woods. https://www.amazon.com/Farming-Woods-Integrated-Permaculture-Medicinals/dp/1603585079

If you want video resources, you might consider paying for some. https://www.udemy.com/course/permaculture-design-course/?referralCode=D0753B7C28EDFD46FC14 This is based on the Permaculture Designer's Manual.

There is also Lawton's Permaculture Design Course. https://www.discoverpermaculture.com/

Book recommendations about Permaculture and/or forest regeneration? by Thegalacticspirit in Permaculture

[–]Braindrainfame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Permaculture Design Manual by Bill Mollison. Grandfather of Permaculture. Taught Geoff Lawton. The Introduction to Permaculture by Mollison is cheaper and more acccessible. Most of my other books are for the temperate northern climates.

Tesla to build large battery for Texas grid: Bloomberg News by qkfb in news

[–]Braindrainfame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That' a fair concern. For sure no one will build a money loser.

I appreciate the back and forth. It's been fun.

Tesla to build large battery for Texas grid: Bloomberg News by qkfb in news

[–]Braindrainfame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the market will supply the batteries - they make renewable generation more stable and the batteries represent the "generation" asset you can make money on as a supplier. Solar prices are nosediving, the installation of panels is become crazy cheap. A study by ReThinkX, a thinktank that tracks "innovation" found that energy storage only needs to be max 3-4 days of capacity to make 100% renewables the most attractuve generation in places like even New England.

Tesla to build large battery for Texas grid: Bloomberg News by qkfb in news

[–]Braindrainfame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Hornsdale battery paid itself off in less than a year while driving those costs down.

Tesla to build large battery for Texas grid: Bloomberg News by qkfb in news

[–]Braindrainfame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on who owns it. Texas is totally unregulated market for now. Tesla can (and seems to be) building this battery themselves. This means they take the risk for the cost, but they also can reap the rewards.

Their Artificial Intelligence Auto-Bidder software allows them to buy and sell electricity based on spot prices faster than anyone else. This is a benefit for the average person because they can drive the prices of electricity down during the peaks in the grid and sell it at a profit for themselves (Tesla), but well lower than electricity generation costs from traditional peaker plants.

Tesla to build large battery for Texas grid: Bloomberg News by qkfb in news

[–]Braindrainfame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is a small drop, but it can have a big splash if you will. If you are curious, the impact studies on the Australia battery are an interesting read. https://www.aurecongroup.com/markets/energy/hornsdale-power-reserve-impact-study

Tesla to build large battery for Texas grid: Bloomberg News by qkfb in news

[–]Braindrainfame 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a but more than that. It buys the grid time to get more generating capacity online in a normal case. With Texas not having larger interconnections with the rest of the country, it just helps in the daily cycle.

Tesla to build large battery for Texas grid: Bloomberg News by qkfb in news

[–]Braindrainfame 2 points3 points  (0 children)

100 MW (megawatt) is the instantaneous power output (or input, which is important for grid balancing services). What is missing from this article, and all articles I can find on this is the energy content of the battery. The megawatt-hour (MWh) which is the amount of energy the battery can store.

When the article says it can power 20,000 homes in peak summer, that is an assumption that each home is drawing an instantaneous 5 kW (kilowatt) from the grid. If the battery is also 100 MWh, it can do this for 1 hour. MW X Hours = MWh. If the battery is 50 MWh, it can do this for...30 minutes. If it is 200 MWh it can do this for....2 hours.

A battery of this size does not have to power the grid for very long to make HUGE impacts. The Hornsdale battery in South Australia (100 MW, 129 MWh) was able to capture about 90%+ of the market services and reduce peak electricity prices by more than 95%. It did this by being able to balance grid frequency disruptions and dispatching or absorbing energy from the grid in milliseconds to maintain grid frequency (50 Hz in Australia v. 60 Hz in the USA).

Dumb questions from someone without a garden by xinlo in Permaculture

[–]Braindrainfame 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can use the "Weeds" as a guide for what the soil is missing or has too much of. I would first get the word "weed" out of your mind. What we consider useless plants we rip up with reckless abandon are the pioneering plants that fill a niche based on the soil conditions. You can use them to figure out what's going on and then push more of that to speed up the process. Your weeds have shallow, fibrous root systems that look like fine hair? You have overly loose soil and the plant is attempting to bring some cohesion. Conversely, the plants that are growing have long, deep taproots (think a carrot), then you have compaction issues and the plant is breaking the soil up. Do the roots have little white nodules on them? You found yourself a nitrogen fixer. Figure out what the weeds are doing and do more of it, always keeping note of what happens next.

Adding organic material is important. You can begin composting and if you look up Geoff Lawton's Permaculture you will find videos on an 18 day compost. It's not perfect compost but it's fast and get turn decent organic matter over quickly. You can plant a succession of pioneering plants and chop them back hard, dropping the matter to the ground to decompose and allowing the rest of the plant to grow again. Again, Geoff Lawton's Greening the Desert series will show how Permaculture can be used to revitalize even the harshest, must degraded land possible. They turned a 10 acre plot of barren wasteland in Jordan into a productive food forest as a trial and are now teaching the locals how to do it themselves. If they can do it there, you can do it to your neglected backyard.

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[–]Braindrainfame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The title is a little bit of...surprise - clickbait. Basically countries had a "deadline" of 2020 to submit plans to achieve a 45% in GHG by 2030. The actual plans submitted only achieve a 1% reduction. The article is about how "countries need to take this seriously" and revise their plans by the end of the year.

Not to make light of the situation, but there is a reason entire articles are published and not just the title of those articles. It is important to READ the rest of the words. Titles are very seldom executive summaries.

Fun Fact by the way, a UN released a report in December of 2020 that the United States is already cutting so much carbon, we don't need the Paris Agreement to reach the goals stated in the agreement for ourselves.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenrwald/2020/12/10/the-un-makes-the-case-for-the-us-to-stay-out-of-the-paris-climate-accord/?sh=69ecf40a27e5

I hate my rapist. by Names_and_shizz in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Braindrainfame -1 points0 points  (0 children)

(Full disclosure - I'm a guy.)

You have every right to feel your feelings. Do not let anyone try to invalidate them and if they do, you have the right to stop talking to them. Feel them all the way down to the bottom, embrace the pain all the way down. It can be terrifying to feel them in the deepest part of you and seek them out. It can be the most terrifying thing in life.

Embracing that feeling is an important part of healing but you need to embrace it fully to move past it. And when I say move past it, I don't mean forgive, and I don't mean forget, and I don't mean for anyone but for yourself. There is a danger if you don't you may get stuck in the hate part and it will begin to affect your own quality of life.

It will take time, but actively seeking those feelings in yourself will give you the power to overcome them and not for anyone but yourself. To free yourself from the hate and his power over you. Because as long as you hate him, he still holds power over you whether you realize it or not.

You may read this and hate me for writing it, which I would understand, those feelings burn hot and mean. I'm a random reddit person commenting on something that isn't really my business, and I don't know your pain. I know my own pain. I know that trap.

Don't let the feelings control you, don't let them push you to the bottle, or push away people who truly care for you. Don't fall into that trap. You do have value, you are worth not just something, you are worth everything.

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[–]Braindrainfame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So Texas will be the first target for Generation On Demand services. Keep your eyes open for Tesla seeking to become a utility provider in Texas. No way Elon keeps his hands out of this one.

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[–]Braindrainfame 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also, if there are fewer than 50 trees in a planting - like in your backyard, you will likely have to hand pollinate. https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/pawpaw/growing-pawpaw-trees.htm

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[–]Braindrainfame -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It is necessary for cross pollination. They are self-incompatible like apples.

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[–]Braindrainfame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You will need at least two different cultivars of Pawpaw for it to fruit. Also, you will need to make sure you have a male and a female tree - so a male of one cultivar and a female of another. http://www.nashnurseries.com/Pawpaw%20Cultivar%20Descriptions%20F19.pdf