For the sake of argument presume this happens. There is a PV on a circuit that is already overloaded with sum of multiple loads across different outlets reaching 17A. 15A circuits in the US are generally fed by 14 AWG romex. The difference between 15 and 17 amps with this gauge wiring is dissipation of an extra watt per meter. This is not going to damage jack diddly squat.

In the real world if a circuit was overloaded in this way then it is going to trip after a couple of minutes unless it is only overloaded when sun is shining on the panels.

Can you name even one such "cheaper" micro inverter that does this?

Multiple micro-inverters are commonplace. You are effectively asserting without evidence the technology does not work. This is what that type of failure you describe would mean.

Lets for the sake of argument assume what you are saying is the case. The solution is requiring home depot to sell listed solar kits that meet applicable standards (e.g. UL 1741 et el). In the US this may be necessary anyway due to state specific curtailment logic.

Millions of people all around the world are doing this sort of install and half of the states in the US have legislation in the works to allow it too. There is nothing remotely "surprisingly dangerous" about plugging panels into wall outlets.

Either way rights of individuals are being constrained by the states threat of violence. Whether it is the right for people to perform, reproduce or generate derivatives of works they encounter or the right to retain control of works you disclose publicly the state is restricting the freedoms of individuals. There is no preferential direction here that works one way but not the other here. It is only a balancing of competing interests thru the lens of subjective sensibilities of society.

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Reality and policy are inextricably connected. Someone who finds themselves annoyed by various taxation and zero agendas espoused by a political group they don't like is probably not going to sit around and dispassionately consider the facts to your satisfaction. The reaction you can expect will be closer to screw you and your little dog too. Denialism simply becomes the more expedient path to telling annoying people to take a hike.

The other issue is true believers have a track record of promulgating terrible policy counterproductive to their own causes. Some examples:

California rooftop solar mandate and NEM 3 disasters. Even if you think PV is great utility scale costs less than half to deploy the same capacity. Indefensible allocation of limited resources (not to mention legitimacy) to address an existential crisis while promulgating policy that causes an 80% drop in the solar industry.

Biofuels are a pointless disaster that in the aggregate emit more carbon than they save yet the insanity persists.

Proceeds of environmental taxes rarely ever spent to address climate change. Nothing says ZOMG we're all going to die like allocating funds to more pressing priorities.

Those seeking to limit use of natural gas in northern climates for the sake of electrification when it is guaranteed to increase costs and carbon emissions. Cart before horse is apparently too difficult of a concept for environmentalists to understand.

ESG has proven itself to be a comical failure.

There are a range of ideological positions on the topic of longtermism ranging from fuck today for a bright future to live today and fuck the future. For some facts simply are irrelevant because their value judgements differ so radically from your own. Agreement on facts before policy can be discussed is a fools errand.

At the end of the day policy is the only thing worth haggling over. This notion there has to be agreement on facts or facts even matter is misguided. Few sufficiently care what is "good" or "bad" within the longtermist context of climate change for objective agreement to matter... Too far out, too abstract, too global, too costly.

Everyone would be better served advocating for policies most people are willing to accept.

While I am sympathetic to the training is not a copyright violation thing because it isn't the fact is still you are (some think unfairly) exploiting the efforts, knowledge and ideas of everyone. You don't get to turn around and cry and whine when someone does it to you.

Most of a models capabilities and compute costs are a result of pretraining. Distillation requires a relatively minuscule amount of compute to pull off.

42 USC 7521:

"The Administrator shall by regulation prescribe (and from time to time revise) in accordance with the provisions of this section, standards applicable to the emission of any air pollutant from any class or classes of new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, which in his judgment cause, or contribute to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare."

In my view air pollution endangering public health is like inhaling lead, CO, mercury..etc which endangers the health of members of the public over time. CO2 doesn't do that at least not in relevant concentrations therefore I don't think this section should enable CO2 regulation for a different purpose of fighting climate change.

These schemes where people redefine terms and play games with no effective limiting principal to achieve a result even if the goal is laudable is still poor governance. Listen to the insanity out of the Trump administration being used to justify all kinds of crackpot insanity. Don't commit the same errors in judgement for a good cause. Pass a law and do it the right way.

There should be less deference to sanity of technocrats employed by the federal government. As we have seen with this administration that doesn't work. A major issue like CO2 has huge implications for industry and society and is deserving of political evaluation.

AC circuit breakers and fuses in electrical panels exist to protect downstream wiring. They do so regardless of direction of current flow. If less current feeding an outlet is pulled in either direction a protection device need not trip. If more is pulled in either direction the protection device interrupts the circuit.

If current from PV feeds local loads thereby reducing current required to be pulled from wires feeding an outlet this would indeed allow loads to run on the circuit that would otherwise trip the protection device. This isn't a dangerous condition because the wires feeding the outlet are not being overloaded.

This is baseless nonsense. Systems with large numbers of micro inverters are common especially here in the US due to requirement for MLPE stemming from 80v per conductor limit of NEC 690. Anti-islanding is a universal feature of all such devices. The kits come with standard electrical wall outlets and are designed for normal people to plug into an available outlet and have millions of installs.

An RCD outlet on the same circuit works exactly the same regardless of the presence or absence of a microinverter on the circuit. If there is an RCD upstream of the circuit feeding the outlet then detected ground currents still trigger the RCD and shut down the micro inverter. You would have to check with the vendor for details.

This is incorrect and is in fact commonplace in many countries. The panels include micro inverters that are simply plugged into common electrical outlets. The inverter has all of the necessary anti-islanding baked in.

What differentiated the smartphone from PCs is the app store. Bad actors get to leverage app infrastructure to globally cheaply publish low effort malware. Everyone else has to compete with "free" so everything becomes hostile to user interests. The whole system would completely collapse absent jails and permissions.

Permissions are hostile to user interests. So long as software can normalize, retaliate or nag users to capitulate permission systems fail to deliver on honoring wishes of users. Instead they serve to protect the wishes of app vendors. With app stores OS vendor gets a cut of the overall pie and so perversions / user hostility gets baked into the operating system. Permission systems get watered down, basic controls for example controlling network access go missing. Solutions to these problems are systematically suppressed.

The solution to executing untrustworthy software is to run it in environments where access is never denied. In this environment applications have no mechanism to ask or even know what is being denied. User accessible settings control reality the app experiences which sometimes include spoon feeding apps bullshit.

What is needed for PCs is more accessible isolation mechanisms allowing users to separate workspace preventing unnecessary mixing of interests and separating low and high trust software rather than relying on access controls.

The airspace was closed to everything including medevac. There seems to be a variety of avenues for disaster from fools cosplaying Captain Kirk.

I don't understand how the gulf stream can stop. The energy has to go somewhere. It can change or move but stop?

Heck yes, this isn't even a difficult question.

Over a billion dollars was spent on a persistent global scare mongering / PR blitz of utter bullshit that ultimately amounted to absolutely nothing. Subsequently enough people have used and or been subjected to AI. According to public polling vast majority now find it mildly useful while being largely annoyed by the nonsense and zero effort slop.

Bio-terrorism risks have been a concern long before the rise of generative AI fueled by reduced cost and improved capability of enabling technology. Despite nonsensical ABC scare mongering it doesn't have anything to do with "AI".

Sizing 5kw PV /w 5kw storage doesn't seem like a good combo especially for Africa.

Equipment is cheap everywhere. Here in the US fully integrated batteries are $100/kWh. PV about $0.50/watt, or half that for used/bulk. AIO driving 5+kw of PV less than $1k. Everything else... labor, wiring, mounting, adherence to regulatory regimes all massively and unnecessarily hike prices into stratosphere.

Interesting for all of the talk about the environment and how important it is to curtail carbon emissions the US regulatory regime goes out of its way to throw a wrench in everything. From regulations against LSV to absurd requirements of NEC 690 and 706 that more than double cost while reducing safety. You would think people would be able to go to home depot, buy a solar panel /w micro inverter and plug it into a wall outlet to save energy but here in the US you would probably be fined or carted off to jail for that.