We could put a mylar mirror at L1. They did it to increase insolation of Mars in KSR's trilogy, but you could use the same idea to reduce it. It's theoretically possible to do it with modern tech, though we certainly won't as it would require cooperation
I've transported a lot of that type of stuff in a minivan, using a tarp to keep it clean. Also you can put the Xmas tree on the roof rack. Those micro bed pickups can do basically one potentially relevant thing that a van can't, which is carry a fridge upright. Usually though you can get free delivery for something that expensive. I guess if you buy a lot of used refrigerators they might be handy?
It's where almost everything on Amazon comes from. (Albeit often in quantity from their other site Alibaba.)
My first boss in tech used a Kinesis keyboard. He blamed his severe carpal on emacs.
"They also have to certify these app stores, they aren't just going to let anyone set one up and start distributing malware or pirate streaming apps."
Yeah, you have to put those apps on their app store so they can benefit.
I joke slightly, though they have distributed malware before.
Conspiracies are the norm and not the exception. The wealthy meet in private clubs and offices and discuss how we will live our lives for their benefit. Are you new?
True. Many are much bigger assholes.
IP infringement is the name of the game on the Google Appstore, filled with copycats and straight rip-offs any cursory check would pick up before allowing publishing.
It's not illegal to make and sell a similar product with a similar name. Retail stores are filled with them. This doesn't make the App Store good, it isn't, it's crap. But it also means that they don't have any duty to prevent those apps from existing. They may chase them off the store if enough people complain, but only because people are complaining and it's cheaper than some other approach.
Reading the tea leaves, it sounded like the market for a full-size electric pickup is comprised of individuals who seemingly suffer from terminal range anxiety. So Ford is rumored to be relaunching the F-150, except on the new universal platform and also as an EREV - it's supposedly gonna have a generator on board.
Ford didn't even make the version of the F-150 Lightning which should have existed. The tradesman version didn't offer the big battery as an option! You could only get the fully loaded model with it. This is presumably because they couldn't get enough batteries to sell all the models which should exist, so they reserved the big packs for the most expensive models, since nobody would buy those models without the big battery.
Let me spell it out very plainly because you donâ(TM)t get it.
Instead, you plainly proved that you don't get it.
At no point do I want the electric company to commandeer the power in my car to reduce my range.
This functionality is good for both V2H and V2G. If you don't want to do V2G, don't! You can still do V2H. If these acronyms confuse you, then you aren't sufficiently educated to participate in this conversation. If they don't, then your comment is inexplicable.
A cheap $500 generator isn't going to fully power most houses
I got a 7.6kW generator for $550. It's just open frame and loud AF. If you have gas heating appliances it's more than adequate, if not then it isn't.
You'll also need a generator interlock installed if you want it to actually power the house instead of running extension cords to a few appliances.
To do a legal permanent install, yeah. But you physically could turn off the main breaker, connect a generator to a branch circuit (perhaps on a sub-panel) and run the important things in the house that way. Lock out the main breaker (with an actual lock, preferably) and turn off any unneeded circuits for safety. Use a breaker at the inlet panel sized for the branch circuit wiring. I have nothing like this connected, but I do know for a fact that it's a viable strategy if you don't get carried away with what you try to run.
It works the same way, you need to buy and install additional equipment to do the cutoff if you want to do V2H. These days there's hardware which can live between the meter and panel that does it, so it doesn't physically require a new panel — though it may statutorily if your locality hasn't caught up to reality. But if the system is designed correctly (which is a big assumption and probably unwarranted given that we're discussing Ford) you can also use the same functionality to run a jobsite without needing more equipment.
I've never understood this V2H for load shifting - it makes no sense when you actually think about the additional cycles you are putting the vehicle battery through.
It doesn't work like you think it does. A rack of quality batteries is expensive. Doing a 10-20% cycle on your vehicle doesn't wear the battery like a full cycle does. A battery which can do 5,000 full cycles might be able to do 20,000 partial cycles or more.
So would ye olde Subaru Symmetric AWD, though.
Too bad they're practically all CVTs now, you have to buy a pissed off one to get a transmission that won't implode.
Off roading isn't really environmentally destructive if you stick to the trails. It's the clown asses who take all the little shortcuts who do the harm. Those guys really are assholes.
The biggest boys who buy the most servers provision them via netboot, which is why it's on. You are not the biggest, so you have to turn it off. Me neither, so I also have to turn it off.
But this is a good old buffer overflow fail, so this is some 90s shit they could have caught with analysis tools, and it's really not because the manufacturers leave PXE boot on. It's because components of UEFI BIOS are apparently written by amateurs.
You know, the difference between this company and the Titanic is that the Titanic had paying customers.
