How do they do in the cold? As in below 0 F? If you can manage the temperatures just by opening or closing louvers to control natural convection it will work well residentially. The weight really doesn't matter if it only moves for installation and a changeout once a decade after.

Remote control and monitoring. Multiple wells miles apart, multiple storage tanks on various hills, an office, plus the on-call operator who can check in from home and Management too.

The system I'm on uses radio links from tank to pumps, and a cellular connection to the water board and operators. There is a clear line of sight from the tank on the hill to the pumps down slope but in other systems that is not the case.

Probably LRO vs. Danuri

Who says the Chinese are playing on a level playing field? See my entry above.

"China set anti-dumping import tariffs of up to 57% on U.S. polysilicon producers (such as REC Silicon and Hemlock Semiconductor) beginning on July 24, 2013 (following initial anti-dumping investigations and rulings announced in July 2013 and extended/reviewed in subsequent years)"

I worked for REC Silicon at the time and yes the Chinese did indeed do that. At first there were work-arounds but those were gradually closed down.

The REC polysilicon plant in Moses Lake WA (20,000 tons/year) is still there and has been shut down since 2019. They tried to restart it in 2024 but it supposedly couldn't meet the current quality standards. There was reportedly some skullduggery about the testing procedure but I can't speak to that as I retired in 2018.

Note that REC was not dumping polysilicon, I am well aware of their cost of production and their sales price. The fluidbed reactors were vastly more power efficient that the Siemens reactors. REC shut those down in 2013 if I remember right. The Butte plant ran them longer producing float-zone grade material until high power costs shut them down too.

The Chinese intend to be the monopoly supplier of PV panels, or at least 90% of them. They will and have done whatever is needed to achieve that.

It's the same policy as they have with rare earths, and EVs. Yes, "It's so cheap!" now, but eventually they will be yanking that supply chain.

Except instead of pursuing policies that would help open models at the expense of Big AI, anti-AI people pursue just the opposite - policies that can cripple open source AI but have no realistic ability to meaningfully hurt big AI. It's so short sighted.

Actually, no, what they usually do is much more insidious: fingerprinting rather than watermarking. The fingerprint isn't actually included in the audio, it's included in a database. If they want to tell if the track was generated, they just try to match the fingerprint in the database. Can't filter it out of the track like you can with a watermark.

The two mainstream options (both about half a year old now, we're due for something better) are Ace Step-1.5 and Stable Audio 3 Medium.

Ace Step has full vocals with its music. See here for examples. The downside in my opinion (judge for yourself) is that it has Suno's flaw of sounding too "clean", "mainstream" and "uncreative", except even moreso (Udio was always much better than Suno at this, albeit "less well behaved" - but Udio is out of the game now).

Stable Audio 3 doesn't do vocals, though it has other useful features, like inpainting (great for fixing glitches in recorded tracks for example). In my view, it sounds a lot better. It can also be used to create sound effects. License is a bit more restrictive, though, if you actually care about that, but generally won't affect the average user.

Both are trained on fully licensed data and both are open-weights. So even if the devs released a version that included some sort of watermarking in the future (or someone developed a fingerprinting algo for the existing versions), you could just finetune them to break that.

TL/DR, if you want open source and want to just churn out a full track: choose Ace Step 1.5.
If you want open source and want to do instrumental tracks or to supplement manual work (such as your own vocals) or do audio editing: chose Stable Audio 3.

This Boomer (Generation Jones at that) is out of range of OTA TV. Also there is no cable service here. And I gave up a satellite over a decade ago.

Hence my question. Someone else posted that OTA TV households are only 14% of the population. So again, what difference does it make?

Those of us who have rubbed elbows with our fellow student-athletes in Intro to Astronomy should know that the visible surface of the Sun is known as the photosphere, and it is the first layer at which the gas density has gotten low enough that photons are no longer trapped and can fly off into space, giving what we observe as sunlight.

I thought this was a parody of one time Senator from Indiana and later Vice President:

Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

On the Dark Side of the Sun, of course.

I understand the reasoning behind wanting the limit, but does TV actually matter anymore?

You left out the limits of vision, as in fog, snow, and deer standing on the side of the road at dusk.

There is where something other than conventional cameras would be helpful.

This has to be a troll. Nobody on Slashdot is actually this stupid.