It is popular throughout the world with many millions of installs. Half the country (USA) has legislation allowing balcony either already on the books or in process.

With a unidirectional meter you can have counting of reverse flow be blocked or count as an absolute value of flow against you. I don't know the details about models and reasons for it yet I know people with these meters have been charged for unintentional export because they for example had the CT installed backwards.

The article says nothing about creating fusion. The announcement was first plasma not fusion.

The issue with the meters is some don't have the ability to measure direction of flow. If you install a balcony solar system and it produces more energy than you are using at the time the energy you are putting back into the grid is counted as energy consumed and you end up being billed for it.

A workaround is some balcony kits have CTs you place around the main conductors feeding your panel. The solar inverter will use the CT to ensure no excess energy is exported.

All micro inverter kits have working anti-islanding as a standard feature. Normal PV systems work the same way. This isn't a function of the meter and isn't optional. The grid communicates with grid tied inverters directly by monitoring AC frequency. In certain areas like CA and HI there are specific frequency thresholds used to kick the grid tied inverters offline.

Which is more believable? Simulating real life in a holodeck or the Goddess of Empathy?

Sand reflects about 70% of solar energy, solar panels reflect about 10% plus another 20% in harvested energy which still leaves you with twice the amount of absorbed energy vs sand.

Greening occurs due to reduced surface temperatures / evaporation due to panel shading.

Screwing panels into place once you've poured all the concrete, installed ground mounts, run all the wiring and electrical boxes is like getting to the 10 yard line and only then breaking out the automation.

On one hand the court argued obscenity for minors is a valid basis for denying 1st amendment protections. On the other hand it struct down the same restrictions decades ago in the CDA due to..drumroll... 1st amendment protections. The court just does whatever the hell it wants no different than the recent pulling of absolute presidential immunity out of thin air.

Now where have I seen the diagram on pg9 before?

"The '193 Patent employs the unconventional solution of providing a flag that indicates both merging and skip mode are to be used. This allows for more efficient coding of merge and skip information"

"For example, the encoder can now indicate that a block is being merged and uses skip mode by using a single flag."

Which flag enables ethical behavior within the legal profession?

"Wavefront parallel processing" allowed parallel processing of rows of chunks in "wavefront" style, where each row could be decoded by a separate processor, and decoding of a given chunk in a given row could proceed once the processing of the row above had proceeded to the chunk immediately above and to the right of"

Had to check the date of the patent to make sure I wasn't losing my mind. Well yea it does say "Mar. 14, 2017".

"The '272 Patent employs the unconventional solution of partitioning: using one type of coding to encode smaller values, and if that coding indicates that the value is larger than a threshold, another type of coding is used to indicate how much larger the value is"

There is no other explanation... I am losing my mind.

I'm getting the distinct impression many of these fusion startups are scams. Term igniting plasma in the context of fusion reactors means you have started fusion. All they did here was create plasma.

The business model is just an endless rope-a-dope of milestones that lead nowhere. Even Trump has a fusion startup (e.g. TAE)

You misread or misunderstood the statement. Nothing was said or had anything to do with those who didn't vote.

Yes, I think an effectively dead leader that isn't being replaced is better than a living one presuming the goal is regime change.

I keep having flashbacks to Sharpiegate. My personal guess Trump is mostly just making shit up. His public statements had the same vibe as the babbling about Iran having Tomahawks.

The "point at hand" of my post was exclusively a response to the absurd characterization "because of the poor downtrodden Iranians".

I don't think #1 makes all that much sense given ample opportunity to bomb North Korea when it didn't possess nukes.

I don't pretend to have any idea why we are or are not bombing any given country. I never supported bombing Iran but I do support continuing it for the sake of regime change now that the bombing has started. I would say compared to North Korea Iran is different in a couple of relevant respects.

1. Iran is the worlds leading state sponsor of terrorism. North Korea except for a criminal enterprise to make money for the regime mostly keeps to itself.

2. Iranian regime is largely seen as illegitimate by the vast majority of its population. North Koreans are so brainwashed it isn't clear to me that is even the case.

I have no way of knowing what was part of any equation. I do know there was global outrage over many tens of thousands of protestors being murdered by the regime over the course of two days. I also know Trump made threats against the regime over murdering citizens and stated "HELP IS ON ITS WAY". It was shortly after this that US military assets in fact started heading in the direction of Iran. The Israelis seem to at least rhetorically be concerned with protecting Iranians taking out check points, regime members responsible for mass murders and conducting overwatch missions around recent Persian new years holiday celebrations.

I have always assumed regime change at least the kind that would lead to RP's prosperity project is less likely than not to be successful. The best measure that tries to be objective I've been able to find is this.

https://iran.aminsabeti.com/en

RP, BB, DJT, CENTCOM...etc have all repeatedly asked Iranians not go out and protest due to danger from regime and bombs actively dropping. There will be a time for it. That time is NOT now. People are still protesting from their homes at night and IRGC goons are still shooting up apartment buildings trying to suppress people shouting anti-regime slogans from their windows and balconies.

I have never in my life argued for attacking Iran or North Korea or any other country. Now that we are attacking Iran any goal short of regime change is in my view counterproductive.

The guy "leading the country" is likely either a vegetable or outright dead.

People don't seem to have any clue of the extent of the oppression in Iran nor are they aware of the extent to which legitimacy has been irrevocably shattered. Saying shit like "because of the poor downtrodden Iranians" is a manifestly ignorant assessment of the situation.

Fake data?

I don't know what fake data means in the context of hidden data so I can't really evaluate what you are saying. Generally while anyone can argue whatever they feel like affirmative evidence is required in court. Simply having unused space is not a crime. Suspicion it might actually be used for something else is not evidence of anything.