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Comment Re:Genius (Score 1) 165

Sure? I've had PV on my roof for the past year. 430W nominal panels. Problem is most of them point east and some of them point west, because the orientation of my house, and the ones that point west are shaded the later half of the afternoon due to trees. Despite the sub optimal orientation, they average about 2kwh daily when the sun is shining.

I'm in lower NY where we have like... weather and stuff, y;know? I'm sure they'd do a lot better in California with better orientation. Full sun for 5 hours a day on average is not unreasonable.
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Comment Re:Genius (Score 1) 165

The payback for these types of systems is like 3-6 years depending on circumstances.

A single 400W panel with microinverter should handily average 2kwh daily as pong as it's pointed in vaguely the right direction. In California that's reducing our electric bill by over 60 cents a day just for power costs, not including avoided taxes and fees. Doesn't sound like much, but at $400 "installed" it's paid for itself in well under 2 years. After that, basically free money as savings to the tune of like $20/mo.

And you can take it with you.

I'd say it's a no-brainer if you have a place to put it, but if you're actually opposed to the concept you might actually not have a brain.
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Comment Re:So how do these work? Phase matching? (Score 1) 165

There are mini clip-on current sensors. For measuring potential you still need to either also know resistance, or probe the points between which you want to measure it. You could measure differential current, and then if you used that measurement to break a circuit, you'd have a GF[C]I.

Comment Re: If we're wondering why (Score 1) 121

State driver's licenses exist, at least today and for decades (as long as I can remember is itself, alas, a significant number of those now — but longer than that) alongside state ID cards which resemble them and perform the same function.

SSNs were never intended to be used for anything else, and should not have been. But here we are with allegedly non-social credit scores.

Comment Re:Installed, and disabled Google Maps (Score 0) 197

How about buy a non-Google phone if you don't like it.

Typical anti-consumer, corporation-fellating clown shit from the usual source. We get it, anything the corporations do is great and we should all look up to them. If we were righteous, we would be as successful as they are!

This is why antitrust law exists and applies to more than monopolies.

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