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I don't know of a 3kW inverter that outputs split phase. But you could get the higher-rated EG4 6000XP.

I like that their 3K inverter works with a 48-volt battery bank. They seem incredibly low cost for the value.

Another option is Phocos. You can set the PV / grid / battery priority order.

> EIA expects 13 GW of battery storage capacity to be added between the time of this report and 2025.

That's like 20 power plants worth of instantly available power. This makes paired PV truly dispatchable. Wow.

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Down for me too. In Bay Area, CA.

A great discussion on this: Lex Fridman's interview of David Patterson.

I love my 2019 Leaf. Harsh unsubstantiated criticism sucks.

Seeing all formulas in Excel is a menu-button click away:

Formulas tab > Formula Auditing group > Show Formulas button

Cool that there have been radical improvements in recent years, that haven't broken legacy spreadsheets.

Yup! An array formula makes it much easier to handle this problem from the blog post:

> If you have a set of numbers, and you want to add some constant to them, the way you'd do that is to create a formula that adds the constant to a cell and put that into a different location, usually on the same sheet, and then paste that formula to all the cells in an area with the same size as the original data, and hope that you got the dimensions right.

If I had to steelman a county's solar ban... Solar production is intermittent / unreliable. And hydrocarbon power plants are the county's backbone.

> has generally ended badly

For a good example, watch the documentary:

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Timestamps are valuable for sure.

Here's a related Volts episode on better assessing the real-time (weather-related) capacity of transmission lines (to avoid new transmission in some cases): https://www.volts.wtf/p/getting-more-out-of-the-grid-weve

Yeah, this review is pretty superficial. It seems like it was written by a college freshman that barely engaged with the interview. (Thanks for sharing it though.)

He gets into that in his talk with Lex Fridman.

Better yet, be in a work culture where people happily give credit to and praise others.

Wat Mongkolratanaram A Thai temple that serves Sunday brunch in their courtyard. https://m.yelp.com/biz/wat-mongkolratanaram-berkeley

A counterpoint: Qcells has been expanding their Georgia (U.S.) solar factories. 8.4GW capacity by the end of the year (which is the equivalent of like... 15 typical centralized power plants). Labor costs are lower in the south. But, overall, I agree with you.

The Lex Fridman episode with Andrej was an awesome education. Things explained so clearly.

The cost relative to other places is a different consideration than the value per dollar relative to our other expenses. OP is speaking to the latter.

The Blue Album is epically good.

Recapped, towards the end of the article:

> The Luddites, again, were not anti-technology. They were anti getting trampled on and anti having no say in the way that this industrial development would take place. And when they lost that battle, this was the cost. It was decades and decades of mass immiseration.

I think the eventual "direct manipulation" is to manipulate directly with the mind... no physical movement required.

I disagree. If your soil is depleted and dead, under sprawling petrochemical monocrops... you are fundamentally not a farmer.

100% relevant here, and I appreciate you sharing it again. I'm inspired to try this with my 9 year old.

Ultimately, there's a need for customer-specific real-time pricing that's responded to by behind-the-meter "power control systems"... managing flexible loads, in a way that doesn't negatively affect occupants.

> ...possible to recover heat through partition walls and floors while maintaining a steady ventilation flow.

That's as technical as this article gets. I don't think the author understands the ventilation-system design.