Christmas or the planet?
The month-long celebration of Capitalism with a premise of theological significance. I woke up with the theme tune to Sonic The Hedgehog in my brain, it followed me around all day.
Until we start playing with singularity tech, I don't think we can do much to the planet other than making it inhospitable to the residents and a mite grumpy.
You're just stuck in the last century
Moore's law ended. I'm not putting adblue in my diesels. Don't underestimate percussive maintenance..it's a feature..
Haveya noticed my twentieth-century hardware keeping pace despite their age?
I shouldn't be picking on batteries really..
Yes you should. Pet hate of mine too, particularly li-on
Is it the pointlessness of them that bothers you?
The complete lack of (empirical) operational data?
The market's naivety regarding
Non-Unity Efficiency? Compounded by their reluctance to measure and document it from an end-user installation which includes all the variables (embedded losses and parasitics) using impartial metering?
The irony of them being the inverse of their intended purpose?
That there's a nil-sum-gain grant for them because cubicle warriors drank the kool-aid?
The lack of appropriateness compared to load matching your array size and orientation?
That most of them don't work in a powercut and disconnect the solar from the installation while they're down?
That a battery requires an internet connection? Guess what happens right after a powercut in many parts of the world....
That the manufacturers are calling them "AC batteries" with a straight face?
I think there are instances they might be suitable. If you can thermally manage them for low upkeep and you have significantly more generation capability than load...
{Edit...but they're tiny and expensive...so if you oversize gneration are you gonna fit it inna 1kWh bucket?....Chocy Teapot Evo. Award worthy?}
If it's all the same...and it's definitely not...more solar less battery. It's often a choice between would you like to double your generation capacity or triple your payback time?
Ok, ok I'll be a good sport and kick 'em while they're down....
Better than a battery options nearby..lemme see...um...tough one..
Insulate the water tank...
I know I can do better...volume is more of an issue than standing losses to be fair.
...wrap tape around the pipe lagging.
Halogen oven.
Twice the efficiency of a conventional oven and a smaller volume. I only use a conventional oven when this yolk is full. Had it 5 years.
Robot Cow.
It makes this stuff.
...because how is filtering protein through a cow efficient? Less methane in the atmosphere. Less deforestation for burger trees...maybe..
I could get a new fridge with another A on it!
Run Air Conditioning...ha...nope, not necessary here!
I could stop taking the tractor to the shop to get bread....
I can't imagine why the covid figures are going through the roof.
The organic caltrops from the People's Republic that's currently securing them a monopoly on world trade and a smokescreen for operations in the South China Sea? It's a trixy one alright.
Gas patio heaters are definitely banned here. Not sure about electric ones.
Sadly gas ones are better. They don't come with the conversion inefficiency to make fire into high tech electrickery from fire mostly then transport it a coupla hundred miles. 30kW electric in the ceiling is 60kW of fire in the powerplant.