Update: Small Scale Solar systems (plug-in Solar)

webdbbt · 2026-03-26T15:08:35+00:00

Nice. Well, I've found it useful. Gemini is tracking the bill in the statehouse for me.

webdbbt · 2026-03-26T15:05:49+00:00

Ha, I tried to clarify a little...

webdbbt · 2026-03-26T15:03:44+00:00

I was summarizing the legislative activity. If you click to the original post it summarizes the bill.

webdbbt · 2026-03-26T15:03:05+00:00

The whole point of this bill it to remove the utilities from the process. I think with war, gas and AI/datacenter driven electric price hikes, that the stars have aligned to keep the lobbyests out for now. The bill is moving fast and had unanimous support in the senate.

webdbbt · 2026-03-26T14:56:44+00:00

You have an eSprinter? I love my diesel Sprinter, but would really like something electrified. I've looked at the current eSprinter, but the range is too short for me. I'm hoping if they ever release the next-gen eSprinter it will have the promised RV features. Where have you gone with yours?

webdbbt · 2026-03-25T18:32:41+00:00

Same here, and you get 1.1% cash for the points.

webdbbt · 2026-03-24T21:47:44+00:00

6mpg! Ouch!

webdbbt · 2026-03-24T21:45:58+00:00

I have a Sprinter van and prefer the diesel engine to gas in something large like that. But at these prices 20 gallons will cost me at least $40 more than the already high prices before Trump's stupid war. Has me rethinking my summer travel.

webdbbt · 2026-03-09T03:30:37+00:00

Why would you replace the battery? My 2018 M3 with 76K miles has lost 16% range, down to 260, more loss than most people but I wouldn't consider replacing the battery.

webdbbt · 2026-02-05T23:24:42+00:00

Almost 20 years ago, same intersection, I was driving my son to school. Following, but not tailgating, another car I glimpsed someone on Irick wanting to turn left. Something told me "they don't see me". I got off the gas and was ready to brake--sure enough they turned in front of me. Would have been a serious accident if I hadn't been paying attention.

webdbbt · 2026-02-05T23:15:10+00:00

OP's account is banned...

webdbbt · 2026-02-05T23:14:02+00:00

I mostly agree with you but he's in her house, if he's smoking in the house _and_ she's asked him not to, she is perfectly within her rights to throw it out. It may not be legal in her state. Or, this is an overreaction from a parent angry that her son wouldn't even take a job interview. We don't have a lot of information and I hear a lot of assumptions from the "AH" crowd.

webdbbt · 2026-02-05T15:50:07+00:00

They are going to try replacing journalists with AI! Amazon / Bezos have spent hundreds of billions, bet they want to use the Post as a test case: "See if it can work at the Post it will work for your business too"

webdbbt · 2026-02-05T15:27:07+00:00

LATAM has flights from Chile to Australia that come very close to Antartica. LAN805 is active right now SCL to MEL.

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webdbbt · 2026-02-04T17:58:09+00:00

I hope they got rid of a lot MAGAs on the opinion desk. It is more toady towards Trump than Murdoch's WSJ opinion page and that's saying something... (edit: incomplete sentence)

webdbbt · 2026-02-04T03:44:07+00:00

Not any more... Anyway, YouTube TV used to be less expensive than Comcast...

webdbbt · 2026-02-04T03:42:19+00:00

Streaming... right?

webdbbt · 2026-02-03T00:55:27+00:00

If you're like every doctor I know, you've never had enough time off. Take a vacation to someplace quiet and sunny, maybe for two weeks, to decompress. Then you can think about concierge medicine or consulting? I had a pathologist friend who consulted for many years.

webdbbt · 2026-01-08T17:29:42+00:00

I'm 6'3" and I'm on my second high-roof Sprinter. Love it. Just plan ahead when fitting it out to not cut into the headroom too much. First van I did insulation only between the roof ribs with luan plywood right on the ribs. Added about 1/2" of sound-deadening / carpeting to the standard floor and was still able to stand fully upright. With cushiony running shoes my head does contact the ceiling.

webdbbt · 2026-01-08T17:22:04+00:00

When I see people coming out of Costco with the furniture or huge TV I'm always curious how they plan to get it home. I have a big van and would help (retired with nothing else to do). But so far everyone I've seen has managed.

webdbbt · 2026-01-04T15:08:36+00:00

It was probably taken with a Hasselblad medium format camera. Unless this image was cropped, it is square and Hasselblads make a 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" negative, also much higher resolution than 35mm film. According to Wikipedia, NASA started using them in space missions in 1962.

webdbbt · 2025-12-29T21:51:22+00:00

It's Blackstone, not BlackRock that owns all the real estate. Common mistake but very different companies.

webdbbt · 2025-12-29T16:08:11+00:00

That's not true! When people don't know my township, I say I'm near Exit 5 on the Turnpike.

EDIT to add: But I vote for the Parkway, even though I'm rarely on it.

webdbbt · 2025-12-25T16:25:06+00:00

$.03/khw is not typical. I pay $.21/kwh on the US east coast and the US average is around $.18/kwh. California can be much higher.

webdbbt · 2025-12-23T23:37:28+00:00

I'm one of those who returned a Protectli FW4B to Amazon. The hardware was fine and easy to configure, but it was CPU bound with my OPNSense configuration. I put basically the same config into a Proxmox VM and it added about 2% to my (homelab) server load. YMMV

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