I wonder if it's by design. TestFlight apps have a hard user install limit, I remember waiting around for someone to leave previous betas to try them out.
Suicide decriminalisation, abortion and euthanasia legalization, decriminalisation of homosexuality, same-sex marriage, gender recognition, disability rights, abolition of death penalty, indigenous rights and land sovereignty, probably a lot more. That's in the eighties, nineties and two thousands, depending on the country.
It's interesting that we're seeing situations now where we have excess energy, and can't think of a good use for it that doesn't just involve storage.
Kind of like a home energy dump that does something tangible, like bake a potato or something. You could come home in the afternoon and be rewarded with a reheated meat pie, or some chips that are automatically dumped into an air fryer.
I've heard that aluminum smelting makes for a good "energy dump" and actually is almost more important to the economy at energy price aribtrage than as a source of aluminum. But Iceland and a few other places have already taken a lot of this market and maybe we already have as much aluminum smelting as we need.
> They make your battery charge to full capacity in advance of the event..
> We've paired our batteries with solar panels..
Does this imply that the scheme will charge your battery from the grid, and that you don't technically even need solar?
I've never considered that one might get a battery without solar, but I guess you might have some power needs that would make it worthwhile to draw on during cheap periods and drain at peak?
Solar is very popular in Australia, to the point that we have too much surplus during the day. So now we often have effectively free energy late morning to early afternoon.
So while not common, some people here do get batteries despite having no solar, to store the excess from the grid for when it’s more expensive later.
We're in the GMP program from TFA. We don't have solar (it's on the list of longer-term projects). GMP is using the batteries solely to time-shift the load by charging from the grid during periods of low demand and drawing during periods of high demand. It decreases their (and indirectly their customers') costs because peak-rate power is expensive to buy or generate.
(seems like it would make sense for GMP to deploy batteries everywhere commercially logical first wave, and then follow with distributed solar generation across their service territory: https://greenmountainpower.com/map/service-area/)
Correct, solar not needed. Depending on your battery capacity and usage patterns you could enroll in one of the plans that lets you pay cheaper rates off-peak to charge your batteries from the grid, and then power your house off the batteries during peak times. Some places this makes a lot of sense - the spread here (between off-peak, flat rate, and peak) is not favorable enough to make it interesting though, as far as I can tell.
I’m not sure why you’d offer a drop in option if you can just build it into the car.
Extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) / Range Extender Electric Vehicle (REEV) do exist on the market already.
A more practical solution is to just rent out a small generator on a trailer.
Unless I’ve completely misunderstood what you’re getting at.
Wow that is very very cool. Thank you very much for digging that up & sharing the link! Sometimes visuals like that really help me process information.
Technology is generally considered to be something that is invented: there's a debate in whether language is invented/created or whether it is innate to humans (you wouldn't say sight or hearing are technologies).
Also a debate on whether math is created/invented or discovered (IMHO hard to argue that pi (π) is invented).
Electricity also isn't invented, yet an electricity network uses a lot of technologies. This is kinda true for everything. Invention is a discovery, so I fail to see the dichotomy.
Given that there is evidence [0] to support the idea that (spoken) language is hard-coded into the human DNA, I think language might, like dancing, be something 'innately human' and not a learned technology :)
As in, if we had a total disappearance of all humans on Earth, and then put some new humans on the depopulated Earth, they'd quickly develop a common language, if they were genetically similar to modern humans, but would take a while to start writing.
Arguably, things like counting and geometry could also be viewed as something innate in humans - our mammalian brains view the world as a 3-dimensional real vector space, and so we will instinctively have the ability to understand the concept of a 'circle', or 'seven', or a square, or even multiplication ('three groups of three people each'), but the act of writing down those thoughts, and the literate culture focusing on those concepts which stretches from Euclid to Wikipeda, Library Genesis, and Terry Tao's blog, is obviously a developed technology.
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