When did I ever say that?

The point being made seems to be that the distribution network doesn’t need upgrading for AI loads, but does need upgrading if you want to charge EVs at peak times. That’s accurate. Nothing more, nothing less.

Distribution network != the grid.

Getting the energy to/from the storage can still be a big issue. You potentially even end up double-storing it.

You might be able to pay less if you move to a time of use plan.

That depends on how the plans are set.

At least in NZ, the law forbids cross-subsidisarion i.e. customers on one plan paying more/less than is proportional to the cost of serving them, averaged across the group.

This means that here, if you are a cookie-cutter use-power-at-peak-times household, it’s going to be cheaper to use a flat 24hour plan than a ToU plan, because the peak rate will be higher than the 24UC rate.

If you have an EV, you’ll almost certainly be better off on a peak/off-peak plan.

Note that for a while, plans where you pay the current wholesale spot price were called ToU and those can be painful to be on.

Yes, but…

The distribution limits are almost always an afternoon/evening thing. Early afternoon for warm climates (aircon and cooking dinner) and evening for cold climates (cooking dinner, showers, heating).

Midday for solar injection.

Hence the famous ‘duck curve’.

The distribution network has plenty of capacity overnight; we just need people to wait until about 11PM before we start charging.

At that point we get the question of whether we have the generation.

Why can’t both be accurate?

And there we have the difference between advocating and enforcing. Plenty of people now have the time to focus on safety issues; doesn’t mean they get any more effect than the people advocating for veganism or environmentalism.

In a functioning system (and bear in mind that sometimes the US doesn’t have that, and I’m certainly not taking the US situation as a goal), a regulator is often going to step in and make you stop.

People only caring once it affects them personally means that the people who haven’t been affected yet are going to keep vibe-coding dams and drag-racing on public roads.

Coercion can be a relative thing - anything from slavery to a gentleman’s agreement that if you help me build a house, I’ll help you build a house, because neither of us wants to lift rafters on our own.

The work required to e.g. build a (reasonably large) bridge is substantial; the work required to maintain that bridge in a safe condition is also substantial and it’s quite well known in free software circles that maintenance is a lot less sexy than building another shiny new bridge - government can struggle with this too, but that’s where rigid safety and oversight systems come into it. Start looking at dams and it gets way more scary.

Many many safety failures affect far more than the person who made the decision. That said, you often find the opposite - many people value others’ safety more than their own.

This can be a critical mass thing, though. Some projects are pointless unless you get enough people involved, but then have worthwhile results.

I would also put ‘safety’ in the “valuable, but no one wants to use it” category (note - not create safety systems, but convincing the truck driver or forge worker or backyard chemist to implement and use them).

Some idle comments:

• In hot climates, an indoors HWHP is preferred, as it offsets AC loads. In cold climates, put it outdoors.

• Avoid putting AC units directly in the kitchen due to fouling the filters.

• Multiple single splits can be cheaper than a multi split, and are generally slightly more efficient.

• Shade can help reduce AC loads significantly.

Things that are uncommon and exceptional on a small scale can be entirely predicable and routine on a large scale.

Car crashes are rare for individuals and might fuck up your whole month/year/decade.

Talk to EMS and they might not even remember it; they’re that common.

Same goes for evil.

The article seems to be focussing on the “making bad decisions” aspect - i.e. “don’t use it for anything important”.

I wonder if this is also an attempt to limit IP liability in case someone claims that copilot reproduced copyrighted/patented material?

Obviously entertainment is also full of copyrighted material but the payouts aren’t usually quite as big as patent claims.

It recognizes Zionism as Israel’s foundational ideology that has created and maintains an apartheid regime between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. It further affirms the right to self-determination and liberation of the Palestinian people and supports

the establishment of a “single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine, with Jerusalem as its capital.” This effectively would eradicate the State of Israel.

I am not sure these two are fundamentally the same.

“Palestine should exist as a state” does not necessarily imply “Israel should not exist as a state”.

Get your parents to write an actual will.

Where things seem to get messiest is if someone gets an ‘advance’ on what they’ll receive in the will, except it’s not written into the will so there is disagreement on whether they should get a full share or not.

Generally speaking, you want panels to:

• Have minimal shading (especially by e.g. poles for overhead traction)

• Not get contaminated by dripping oil/grease/brake dust.

• Not complicate access (either by being in the way or by being damaged and live) for repairs or rescue efforts.

• Not be subject to vibration or impact.

• Be located densely and near connections to the electrical grid, so that the cabling per panel is minimal.

This breaks just about every one of those.

Go put panels on every house/mall/supermarket and then panel roofs over every carpark and railway station first, then we’ll talk.

No, but it does mean that basically everything built for standard domestic/commercial use is unsuitable and instead you have to use rail/marine/heavy-industrial grade equipment, and maintain it regularly.

And maybe they can maybe reuse use of the electric railway infrastructure to wire the panels?

Way too high voltage to be practical.

Still dumb. Less dumb than on roads, but still dumb.

Council democracy isn’t based on electoral parliament, but on general assemblies.

Oh yes, so different.

So, add a recall election mechanism and let everything else play out the same?

Because most parts of the US would probably reelect the same candidate if an election was held tomorrow (literally the standard polling question).

Renaming things doesn’t make them work better.