Germany (among other countries) has laws around this. My company pays I think 200 euro a day that someone is on call, so my German reports end up making a decent amount in months they have their on call shifts, especially felt when the team is smaller and rotations more frequent!
> If you took time off during an on-call shift you would be trading it with a team member, so you would never lose that extra wage.
I think this is true in _most cases_, but is not a given. I myself have encountered scenarios where it isn’t true: switching with someone much later in the rotation, only to then end up having to switch again for instance. You could envision a nefarious teammate weaseling out of their fair share with sneaky switches like this, too, though paying for it would maybe incentivize them not to!
BYD et al got massive support from the Chinese government in the past, but most of that support is gone now, and little of what is left applies to exports. The US government's $7500 rebate is larger than what BYD gets per car.
It's easier to register an EV in China than an ICE car, among other things - for instance, ICE cars must be left idle on a specific day of the week (determined from the car's license plate number), whereas EVs can be used the full 7 days a week.
That’s not support from the chinese government, that’s just good climate policy. Sucks that EVs in the US are held back by the government’s poor climate policy.
The GP's post tracks with my recollection from the time. On the return leg of one of the very first trips to Maui three pickup trucks were found with beds full of lava rock, allegedly collected without permission or permits. This was the inciting incident that seemed to confirm the neighbor islands' residents fears that the Superferry would lead to plundering of cultural resources en masse (not to mention making existing overcrowding worse). On a subsequent trip to kauai a large number of protestors (or protectors I suppose, depending on your view) paddled out on surfboards and blocked the ferry's path at Nawiliwili.
The rocks weren't the direct cause of the Superferry shutting down, but in my recollection they sure charted the course that way: people who might have seemed to some like they were just fighting change to fight change suddenly had irrefutable evidence to confirm their fears. There were of course other legal challenges that actually led to the shutdown, bankruptcy, and subsequent abandonment of the vessels. But at the time, on the neighbor islands, it sure crystalized the opposition.
> The Hawaii Superferry started service in 2007 but only lasted until 2009 after the state Supreme Court ruled that a law allowing it to operate without a second complete environmental study was unconstitutional.
A lot of the outer island folks loved it. I did. I lived on Maui at the time.
What brand did you install? MrCool diy seemed the easiest to DIY but my 2 zone install came to about 6k. Surprised to hear a condenser and air handler together could be $850.
Pioneer. I just installed a 2 head and it was about $2000 in total. They come pre-charged but require more work. You have to cut/flare the lineset and vacuum the lines.
The thing I don't like about MrCool is that you can't cut the lineset and have to coil the extra which is a bit janky. Also they have a considerable markup over other DIY.
Was the insulation being important realization related to the mini split install? Curious why that would be more noticeable with mini splits vs other forms of heat.
Capacity. Heat pumps are typically lower capacity (in BTU/hr delivered) than a fuel burning appliance and that capacity drops with very cold outside temps.
Sounds likely, however this is also my first winter—and my first cold sprout—with them, as such I’m learning which temperature to set it at etc. With our gas stove we usually set it higher on cold days, I guess with heat pumps we need to do that even more so.
Inverter drive heat pumps do well in a continuous and lower output situation, so the conventional wisdom (from gas fueled appliances, often with only 1 or 2 stage burners) to do a nighttime setback for economy is less useful economically. Set back for nighttime comfort if you want/must, but not (much) for economy.
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