Thanks. Would you recommend any particular dongle? I have some cheap TV ones but they aren't very good.

When I bought an EV over a decade ago, part of the deal was that Nissan were helping to build the UK's first charging network. They ensured that the infrastructure was there. I understand that Tesla later did something similar in the US.

Toyota don't seem to have done that with hydrogen filling stations. I'd say that consumers had a reasonable expectation that they would. A buyback seems reasonable, with deductions for mileage.

If you are paying 40-50c per kWh, it seems like you must have paid a lot for the battery, or use very little, for it not to pay for itself in 12 years.

That said, you would be unlucky if it didn't last a lot more than 12 years. If the manufacturer set a 12 year warranty then they would expect the vast majority to last longer, otherwise they would be giving away a lot of free batteries.

In the UK, where electricity is actually cheaper than that, the payback time for a battery is typically 6-7 years. It can be even shorter if you have an EV, or work from home.

The problem is that it's not a free market. The value of energy exported to the grid doesn't reflect things like how clean the energy is, and utilities are trying to get the most value out of their existing installations before transitioning them to renewables. The government has to intervene to protect the environment.

As more and more people generate their own electricity in ways that don't drain shared resources (solar panels tend not to shade your neighbours), we will have to move energy production to an infrastructure model like roads. Say the grid was treated like roads, a common network we can all use, paid for out of taxation.

Try F-Droid. All apps are open source and most are ad-free.

As for updates, Google fixed that years ago. They update all the OS components separately via the Play Store, the same as apps. It's only the OS kernel and other core parts that doesn't get updated, but that isn't a huge deal because any malware has to get through the layers of Android protections on top before it can touch the OS.

Weird that you would cite "Mainland China" here, when the same thing is entirely true of Western manufacturers.

Android is built on top of Linux, although to be fair the APIs are original.
Linux is a clone of Unix.
Unix is an evolution of Multics.

Apple iOS is built on BSD.

Turns out that nobody really writes stuff from scratch now, it's all built on something else.

As for "homegrown", if you buy some seeds that someone else grew and plant them yourself, I imagine you would probably call that homegrown. It's not a good choice of word, but it's not entirely inaccurate.

Any power consumption figures on the SDR? It's probably not a lot, but they do get warm. So far I've been getting dedicated radios for most stuff. Adding weather station decoding was on my very long to-do list.

The whole model is broken. When there is excess solar it should be getting exported outside California, for a nice profit. There should be energy storage providers buying that power up and selling it back to the grid later, rather than relying on individual households to do it, not least because domestic inverters only follow grid frequency, they can't drive it.

And of course it needs to be done in a way that protects people who can't afford or can't install solar (e.g. because they rent), especially from the fixed costs of grid maintenance. Otherwise you will start to see more and more people going off-grid entirely.

Actually that's not true. In many countries we actively try and regulate away the addictive component or regulate to counteract the addiction (when it's chemical). E.g. You're free to buy cigarettes as an adult. But manufacturers are not free to show them to you. Here they are literally allowed to not be on display, because seeing something strengthens your addiction (as does marketing, something which is banned for cigarettes and gambling in many countries).

Additionally gambling companies here need to provide a cooling off period too.

You're out of touch. It's all about AAAA games now.

I wish I was joking. https://www.ccn.com/aaaa-game-... Mind you at this point it looks mostly like the number of As in the game is an indication of how big of a turd it will be. So far there's been one self proclaimed AAAA game on the market and it is ... no I'm not going to call it a shitshow. A quick look on some questionable porn sites show that even some people out there get pleasure from playing with shit, whereas Skull and Bones has appealed to precisely no one.

Given this screen is completely interactive reading mode doesn't help you at all.

Nope. The process of min-maxing creates its own fun, and fundamentally the game still requires a significant amount of skill. But I suppose you think Formula 1 isn't fun for the drivers since they all are required to drive cars which meet the same spec?

Nope. You didn't understand the parent's post. Nothing in it breaks the laws of physics. Solar is never by itself unless it's not connected to anything. Grid stability depends on all sources of supply AND ALL SOURCES OF CONUSMPTION. Intelligently changing consumption patterns through market incentives is a very real solution to this problem. It's not about usage creation, it's about usage movement.

At present the market dynamics are such that people are incentivized to consume time selectable loads at the wrong time. E.g.Right now it costs me *less* to charge my EV at night than it does in the middle of the day. That is my retail electricity contract at work. Wholesale electricity contracts would say it should cost less to charge during the day during times of excess capacity. I am flexible to choose this time. At no point am I driving more or less as a result of this decision, it's is purely demand shifting. I shift demand to suit my bank account, not the market conditions. This can be remedied.

The non-EV examples of the OP are similar. We need to produce hydrogen, many electrolysis projects are being setup right now as supply followers to take up excess costs. This doesn't create use, it shifts product demand from steam methane reformation to electricity. The use of the product is unchanged - just substitue burning gas and wasting power to using power and not burning gas.

No. Due diligence in this case would have been doing a risk assessment of the fact that it is an unremediated coal mine. Risk assessments include things such as potential future legislation. They either looked at the risk and accepted it, deemed it worthwhile, and bought it (in which case they have zero right to cry about it), or they didn't do their due diligence.

That's really all there is to it. You can't buy a polluted site and then complain when someone asks you to clean it up. In fact a truly poorly written law would be one that forced the original polluter to clean up, since that law would counter hundreds of year of established contract law and the entire concept of risk transfer, which is foundational to virtually all industry and is typically priced into the contracts (there's a reason it was sold for $1, the last site I was involved in that was shut down was not sold for $1 because the other party did their due diligence. We actually paid them 7 figures to take the site).

I dislike exams in general, too much pressure put on one event. I had issues on some exam days. Coursework seems better, if it can be reasonably protected from having the parents do the work.

I read somewhere some years ago that it was the norm to appeal any grade that fell below expectation on an exam, and often re-marking the work would raise it. Is that true?