Interesting, I would have thought in many cases it is maybe not trivial, but easily doable at worst. Do you have some personal experience with that?
Water heating, AC, fridges and freezers, maybe even EV charging (in some cases) could be done at any time during the 24 hour period, if setup with proper hysteresis.
Making thermostats that are aware of dynamic energy pricing or, better yet, are in part controlled by the energy company (I want my house to be 21-24 C, I don't care when the cooling happens) would give us massive…
I feel like this is one of the biggest missed opportunities. Why do we insist on our energy system to be infinitely flexible and full power available 24/7? Is a habit of doing the laundry at night worth more than…
Dynamic energy pricing with smart power-hungry appliances controlled by the energy producer would be a great start.
Thanks for the info! What system / DE do you intend on using? What type of work do you do on your computer? I was thinking about getting a wireless keyboard+mice and attach RPi at the back of my monitor to have a clean…
Not sure if absorbing solar in particular has some unforeseen consequences but I saw an interesting article the other day: Tidal Energy Is Not Renewable https://cs.stanford.edu/people/zjl/tide.html We really have to…
Why can't they just walk or bike to their friends? 2-3 km walking distance is perfectly fine, bike extends that range significantly (10 km at least). This was the case for me. Sorry if the question is naive, I don't…
That's why so many people are cautious about "EVs to save us all", to put it mildly. We are so focused on climate change and greenhouse gases that we do not see a lot of other issues and may exacerbate some of them in…
Just nod and smile.
I've been washing dishes by hand my whole life and just recently got a dishwasher. When washing by hand pre-rinsing and soaking is essential so I kept doing that even after getting the machine, only recently discovering…
Tangentially I want to mention that rinsing dishes before running the dishwasher is a known anti-pattern. The first washing cycle is exactly that - a rinsing cycle. I know this is off-topic but saving water is always a…
We are easily manipulated into thinking how stupid people must be but in reality it is often a bad process, tiredness, mismanagement or cost cutting that are responsible for it. I encourage you to read about the "Hot…
Sure but why include that if a text processor is too much for the board? To display static images or demoscene visualisations?
Same here. A great advantage of such devices is they can later be easily repurposed to control home automation, audio system or make a simple DIY project with them. It is much harder with other types of hardware, like a…
Thanks. This is a bit surprising to me since they advertise two 60 Hz 4K display drivers...
I wonder if anyone here is using RPi as a main PC? Seems to be capable of most office work with a bit of multimedia on the side. My laptop is dying and I would love to get something stationary that is low-power by…
Don't forget "refuse". A ton of stuff is not worth the materials from which they were made in the first place. A nice thing to keep in mind is that complex products are essentially non-recyclable. A lot of the elements…
What about iodine?
You can learn more about this framework here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries It is just a way to quantify something very elusive. The point is we are doing a lot of harm without any consideration for…
People will always need more energy, that's why cheap nuclear is a fallacy that many fall for (Jevons paradox). We need high marginal energy prices, preferably progressively increasing with usage. Similar with other…
I'd pick recyclability over aesthetics any day.
I love when scientific articles list "Key Points" and "Plain Language Summary" right at the top: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GB00...
I am not an expert in modern NLP SOTA but from what I see these models do not work that well. You didn't summarize the article but took some of the most important points and shared what really mattered. It may not be…
Where can I pay for information presented in such a short, clear and to-the-point manner? Preferably human generated as well (no to robots). I dream about having access to this kind of internet.
Interesting, I would have thought in many cases it is maybe not trivial, but easily doable at worst. Do you have some personal experience with that?
Water heating, AC, fridges and freezers, maybe even EV charging (in some cases) could be done at any time during the 24 hour period, if setup with proper hysteresis.
Making thermostats that are aware of dynamic energy pricing or, better yet, are in part controlled by the energy company (I want my house to be 21-24 C, I don't care when the cooling happens) would give us massive…
I feel like this is one of the biggest missed opportunities. Why do we insist on our energy system to be infinitely flexible and full power available 24/7? Is a habit of doing the laundry at night worth more than…
Dynamic energy pricing with smart power-hungry appliances controlled by the energy producer would be a great start.
Thanks for the info! What system / DE do you intend on using? What type of work do you do on your computer? I was thinking about getting a wireless keyboard+mice and attach RPi at the back of my monitor to have a clean…
Not sure if absorbing solar in particular has some unforeseen consequences but I saw an interesting article the other day: Tidal Energy Is Not Renewable https://cs.stanford.edu/people/zjl/tide.html We really have to…
Why can't they just walk or bike to their friends? 2-3 km walking distance is perfectly fine, bike extends that range significantly (10 km at least). This was the case for me. Sorry if the question is naive, I don't…
That's why so many people are cautious about "EVs to save us all", to put it mildly. We are so focused on climate change and greenhouse gases that we do not see a lot of other issues and may exacerbate some of them in…
Just nod and smile.
I've been washing dishes by hand my whole life and just recently got a dishwasher. When washing by hand pre-rinsing and soaking is essential so I kept doing that even after getting the machine, only recently discovering…
Tangentially I want to mention that rinsing dishes before running the dishwasher is a known anti-pattern. The first washing cycle is exactly that - a rinsing cycle. I know this is off-topic but saving water is always a…
We are easily manipulated into thinking how stupid people must be but in reality it is often a bad process, tiredness, mismanagement or cost cutting that are responsible for it. I encourage you to read about the "Hot…
Sure but why include that if a text processor is too much for the board? To display static images or demoscene visualisations?
Same here. A great advantage of such devices is they can later be easily repurposed to control home automation, audio system or make a simple DIY project with them. It is much harder with other types of hardware, like a…
Thanks. This is a bit surprising to me since they advertise two 60 Hz 4K display drivers...
I wonder if anyone here is using RPi as a main PC? Seems to be capable of most office work with a bit of multimedia on the side. My laptop is dying and I would love to get something stationary that is low-power by…
Don't forget "refuse". A ton of stuff is not worth the materials from which they were made in the first place. A nice thing to keep in mind is that complex products are essentially non-recyclable. A lot of the elements…
What about iodine?
You can learn more about this framework here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries It is just a way to quantify something very elusive. The point is we are doing a lot of harm without any consideration for…
People will always need more energy, that's why cheap nuclear is a fallacy that many fall for (Jevons paradox). We need high marginal energy prices, preferably progressively increasing with usage. Similar with other…
I'd pick recyclability over aesthetics any day.
I love when scientific articles list "Key Points" and "Plain Language Summary" right at the top: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GB00...
I am not an expert in modern NLP SOTA but from what I see these models do not work that well. You didn't summarize the article but took some of the most important points and shared what really mattered. It may not be…
Where can I pay for information presented in such a short, clear and to-the-point manner? Preferably human generated as well (no to robots). I dream about having access to this kind of internet.