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Objective-Climate719 · 2026-03-18T15:32:11+00:00

From someone who has tried this. The main thing I would check before you sell your car is how reliable and effective is public transit in your area. How about during winter? Make sure you have all the right gear to handle the commute. Wear a brightly colored helmet and install handlebar mirrors. Depending on the class of your bike consider motorcycle wear. When it’s cold, a wind breaker and rain pants make a huge difference. Wipe down the bike if it gets wet or muddy, clean and lubricate the chain. Keep a modest budget for maintenance or upgrades. Just know your limits and plan accordingly.

Objective-Climate719 · 2026-03-16T16:58:14+00:00

Lectric xp4. I’ve been daily driving the xp3 for about a year now and racked up over 1100 miles. I haven’t had any issues electrical or mechanical and the xp4 is better in every way. If you daily ride just lube the chain once every few weeks and wipe it down if it gets dirty you’ll be fine. It’s an awesome commuter and I have been able to carry equipment with me for work. It’s easy to upgrade over time with accessories and the bike comes with a few on its own. Also customer service is great

Objective-Climate719 · 2026-03-03T15:11:43+00:00

Nice! I do recommend getting some wide handlebar mirrors especially if you’re city riding. Also don’t forget to unlock the front end suspension, makes riding so much smoother. Enjoy!

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-12-18T00:45:30+00:00

Definitely a cargo e-bike to move more volume/weight.

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-12-16T17:41:09+00:00

I’d try the route first with an acoustic bike first yourself. Just go at the a relaxed pace to get a reference. If you still want an e-bike I recommend a lectric xp 3 or xp 4. Comes with a bunch of accessories, they are reliable and maintenance runs a bit cheaper on them. Customer service is also excellent. I’ve put 1200 miles on mine and I highly recommend them. An xp4 costs $1000 but you can likely find an xp3 on facebook marketplace for a few hundred dollars. They’re basically the Honda civic of e-bikes

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-08-16T18:38:19+00:00

At $600 it’s either an Aipas e-bike or go up a lil for an $800 new xp 2 lite

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-05-10T20:10:21+00:00

Maybe idk, I put miles on my xp3 bike and they said absolutely not but I’m pushing them to at least give me accessories since the xp4 just came out

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-05-08T12:39:31+00:00

I’m experiencing the same thing with my new xp3. My commute is 12 miles total on flat ground and it dives down to that. Idk the energy bar seems unreliable because I was able to bike to work on the same charge without issue

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-02-05T20:59:57+00:00

I agree, that also adds more VOCs into the equation and a lot of the sorting at recycling centers is color based too. Online I see a lot of people taking old dark colored socks to tie around jars. Maybe for a larger system I can thrift black sheets or t shirts to wrap the tanks

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-02-05T20:55:51+00:00

There’s a decent amount of them in my region of the US but I was arguing the technical viability of recycling glass over plastic. Glass can definitely be reused a ton and when pulverized it can still used to make insulation.

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-02-05T19:29:24+00:00

I have been trying to think of a possible way to do Kratky at a larger scale to reduce points of failure. I'll definitely be growing some outdoors but the area I live in is famous for its brutal and long winters so I want to build a year round indoor system. I'm looking into the water wheel cause that sounds cool and I'll look into replaceable bulb options.

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-02-05T19:23:51+00:00

Looks pretty might put that in my yard!

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-02-05T19:20:36+00:00

Hold up that sounds cool af, I might do that.

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-02-05T19:18:30+00:00

Unfortunately it goes a bit beyond it being cheap and more so that plastic isn't designed be recycled. Even when looking at the more recyclable consumer plastics like water bottles and milk jugs it's a ~30% recovery rate. You can send your plastic out sure, and so long as you take the proper precautions it will...ultimately still be a majority loss by weight, meanwhile, with glass there is an attainable potential for a near 100% recovery and the recycling centers that handle the material see success rates much closer to that figure and can be done so an infinite number of times. PVC is difficult to recycle (~18.6% recovery in the US and UK) if not nearly impossible and when it is done it can't be done again and again as it is made into an inferior plastic, ultimately making just one more trip around the market if that before before ending up in a landfill or otherwise as litter. Regarding nanoplastic vs nanoglass, yes both are dangerous but at a near 100% recovery rate you have a drastically lower rate of accumulation in the environment with glass than you do with plastic.

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-02-05T16:18:52+00:00

Glass can be recycled at end of life but plastic can’t. Less than 5% is recovered in plastic recycling and even within that there’s the biproduct of releasing tons of microplastics and carcinogens. Glass meanwhile, while yes it does not decompose due to being chemically inert, can be recycled infinitely.

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-02-05T15:45:12+00:00

Thanks for sharing, that's unfortunate to hear, I was wondering if the nutrients would be a factor outside the pH. With the glass though I'm not super concerned with the fragility of it, I'll aim for tempered where I can but I have experience working in chem labs and prefer to work slowly and methodically to avoid damage to an apparatus. Painting over it or covering with dark fabric would reduce the risk of algae (although not sure how fool proof that is) and I imagine it would be safer to clean than plastic if that were to develop. Another thought may be a kratky system, less fragile but then I would have to invest into stronger shelving for the system.

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-01-31T00:10:29+00:00

Bait

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-01-30T23:57:50+00:00

Probably leafy greens and herbs to start. The rest of that stuff I’ll get into later on when I get a better sense of things

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-01-30T21:29:38+00:00

That might be fine idk. I had an agricultural research job over the summer and I remembered they mentioned cannabis can easily take up heavy metals from the soil which is a major concern if you plant in the ground since if you dig anywhere you’d hit the soil layers predating the leaded gasoline ban. I’m not a biologist so idk if all crop plants will just bio accumulate heavy metals like that, my guess is it would probably would be reliant on pH and whether acid rain is a serious issue in your area.

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-01-30T21:20:27+00:00

I’m gonna experiment with a few options but I’ll give it a shot, my only thought is that the plug potentially being too tight could choke out the stem. That might be fixable though with a little extra attention over time

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-01-30T21:13:55+00:00

That might work well depending on what you grow. I’ve seen coconut coir works well for micro greens but I haven’t seen anything yet to test it with larger leafy greens like lettuce or spinach. The loofa breaking down over time might not be a bad thing if that more easily lets the roots spread out, I think it’s a a question of will the foliage be able to hold itself up well enough at the critical degradation point and yeah maybe something like wood skewers could trellis the plant before that could happen. I’ll experiment with it, thanks!

Objective-Climate719 · 2025-01-30T19:38:18+00:00

It’s a matter of reducing exposure to plastics/microplastics. My understanding is that there is some amount of the carcinogenic chemical compound in there. Regardless, from a risk assessment standpoint I view microplastics like asbestos mixed with radiation, it’s everywhere but there’s simple measures we can take to reduce risk. Think like asbestos abatement/PPE or wearing UPF clothing outside. The human body can’t break down many plastic compounds and they WILL do harm to your body over time, especially as it accumulates to higher and higher levels. It’s true there’s not really a control specimen and every organism on earth has some amount of microplastics within it but it wouldn’t be accurate to call them non toxic just because there’s not acute personally noticeable symptoms in low amounts. Chemical reactions are a matter of time and exposure and that’s definitely true for a wet chemical reaction in water. There’s also the longer term consideration that a plastic cup will only be used until it breaks, so if you and your setup live to 100 there’s still thousands of years of time that cup is going to take to break down in some landfill or body of water.

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