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If you believe farmers are beholden to whoever you think they serve, you should be twice as suspicious of agronomists who have no literal and figurative skin in the game.
Farmers love "Big Ag"'s seeds not because they are naive, but because they have a local sale rep who knows the soil conditions and can recommend a variety that will do well for them, and also has a lot of technology backing that up. And the farmers have a lot of their own data - both digital and well-worn knowledge from neighbors. They will gladly pay a lot for seed if they know that seed will produce N% more output.
And no one saves the crop seeds to plant next year, although they easily could despite EULAs, but they know that hybrid drift and other factors will make less money.
Like Smarter Every Day says, farmers are smart[0].
Most CO₂ sensors have the ability to calibrate to either 400 ppm or 0 ppm. So if you really care enough, you can fill a small box with nitrogen and calibrate to 0 ppm.
That's not entirely correct. The spec sheet for the LED will give an intensity vs. wavelength chart, which depending on the LED can be 10s to 100s of nanometers wide. As long as the source LED has a sufficiently bright output in one of the CO₂ absorption bands, it doesn't have to be exactly tuned like a laser.
NDIR is the technology used in most consumer-grade CO₂ sensors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondispersive_infrared_sensor
But realistically for home air quality measurements, it doesn't really matter. If you happened to calibrate it at 600 ppm you'd know when you later saw values below 400 ppm. Or you'd read a little high which probably isn't something you'd even notice.
So if you know the brightness of the LED and the volume of air between it and the sensor, you can calculate the amount of CO₂ by comparing the expected vs. received light intensity.
[0] https://rmtplusstoragesenseair.blob.core.windows.net/docs/pu...
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/aug/15/yubari-japan-...
[1] https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/2014/08/16/yubari-withering...
He focuses on areas such as Hokkaido where there are glimpses of past prosperity but due to an aging population and the younger people moving to the cities, the communities that remain are crumbling, but in a very Japanese way. Hendy has a great sense of humor and the photography and storytelling is top notch.
This is a rabbit hole you won't mind falling down if you're at all interested in different cultures and comparing decaying rural areas to those in your own country.
[0] https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/
and a few sample blog posts to give you a taste:
https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/spike-hokkaido-2/lake-toya-...
Still, a very shortsighted move.
[0] https://github.com/dauphine-dev/drop-feeds
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/drop-feeds/
Because there is at least one person who has been trolling Leo for years, reposting every dumb thing he says, which is easy since he is probably talking at least 15-20 hours a week on a wide variety of topics.
https://shawnjroberts.com/this-just-in-leo-laporte-is-no-mar...
[0] https://beincrypto.com/bizarre-fairy-tale-story-sam-bankman-...
[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/sam-bankman-fried-ma...
The Larry David and Steph Curry ads are pretty tame, IMHO, but the Tom Brady ads are over the top extreme and directly connect his persona and fame to push FTX. It is extremely easy to see how effective these ads would have been to induce FOMO and cause many average people to "get in", and I think if a jury sees these videos back to back, they will be very sympathetic to the plaintiffs.
> That would be 30% of your homes total power capacity just for changing EV
That's the thing - most people have a 8 to 12 hour window to fully charge their car(s) overnight and when you and your neighbors are using practically no energy. Worst case is there is no active management and there is just a new peak at midnight. Best case is that the electric company incentivizes you to not only charge at non-peak times, but also pays you to allow them to manage the charging times.
This technology is not science fiction - it already exists. I got a $250 rebate from my electric company to install a connected level 2 charger. It is not currently managed, but if there is some dystopian future where all of my neighbors aren't burning hydrocarbons, all have EVs, and somehow the infrastructure hasn't kept up, as long as my car is fully charged in the morning, I don't care if it happened from midnight to 2 AM or 4 AM to 6 AM.
But also...
> Most homes have 100 amp service
Most homes built decades ago, maybe. And to be clear, we're talking about US 120V system. I would be very surprised if any house built since...lets be generous...the 1980s doesn't have a 200A supply or couldn't easily be updated.
That is definitely not true. An 80 year old house might not even have grounded outlets, let alone GFCI or AFCI protected outlets.
> You also have to remember that it takes a lot of power to be able to change an EV in timely manner
Nobody worries about how many electric ovens, clothes dryers, or air conditioners are in an older neighborhood. 240V at 30A is a trivial load addition, and even if it were to become a concern, there are existing mechanisms to shed load during peak usage. Even a crude cut-off switch, like many air conditioners have, would be sufficient.
But I wouldn't be surprised if the 2023 (maybe 2026) NEC will require at least 30A 240V service to garages with electrical service.
That's correct, whether you sell them immediately or hold them.
> and only gains and losses from that point are considered capital gains or losses
That is also correct and was my original point. If you sell immediately, you've already paid the (personal income rate) tax and you're done. But if you don't sell immediately, waiting a year is preferable so you are able to claim the long term capital gain rate instead of paying the short term/income rate.
Three people in critical condition after Google data center 'electrical incident' in the Council Bluffs, Iowa datacenter (us-central region, I believe)
But the bottom line is that most individual creators could never justify the legal costs of fighting copyright claims.