Recycling PLA from 3D prints exists, without the bio part. I buy filament from a local supplier that recycles failed or unused prints into pellets, then rolls of filament.
I've noticed this too. I always assumed it was meant to make price comparison more difficult for consumers.
A recent FTC lawsuit [1] made me realize it could also be meant to prevent the seller's platform from doing price comparison ("if Amazon discovers that a seller is offering lower-priced goods elsewhere, Amazon can bury discounting sellers so far down in Amazon’s search results that they become effectively invisible")
That's not what the article says. The article doesn't even state the problem.
The actual problem is that cold batteries have higher resistance, so these cold cars aren't charging. The owners need to run the heaters in their car for 30-45 minutes before they try to charge to be able to effectively charge at all.
Right if everybody's range is reduced (due to cold) and charging takes longer (to warm up the battery, if it wasn't warmed before arriving, which could either be user error or due to a car that was parked nearby outdoors before being taken to the charger), then the effective capacity of the chargers is reduced by a large factor and quite possibly people are running out of battery waiting for a spot. I suspect a large fraction are Uber drivers who may not have a spot available ti charge at home.
Indeed, it's not a good article. It is low on actual information about causes, just one sentence, it is low on context and comparison, and spends time talking about other issues.
It is IMHO pushing a point of view that it hopes to confirm readers' current opinions.
The article says nothing about the charger. (Maybe you can quote it?)
In general, Teslas won't supercharge until the battery reaches a specific temperature. It's well-known that a Tesla will sit at a Supercharger and heat the battery until it's warm enough to charge, sometimes for 20+ minutes.
As far as why this incident happened, I have no idea, and nor does the article speculate.
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One expert told the news outlet that cold weather can impact the ability of electric vehicles to charge properly.
"It’s not plug and go. You have to precondition the battery, meaning that you have to get the battery up to the optimal temperature to accept a fast charge," said Mark Bilek of the Chicago Auto Trade Association.
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There's a wave of new tinkerer's that think they need a solution with an OS, USB and 8 Cores. The amount of projects I see using a full blown Rpi instead of an esp is just nuts.
Lots of negativity in here. So this is nice. I use HA at home and it's nothing short of amazing. I primarily use Zigbee devices and they all just work. I pay Nabu Casa for the external access and Google integration. I look forward to replacing my Google Homes with HA as well.
I don’t understand the negativity at all. HA rivals or exceeds commercial automation systems like crestron, RTI, etc. clearly those people don’t have any industry experience. I’ve generally never had an issue with HA beyond my own fault, like a buggy integration.
Home Assistant is an amazing project. I use it a ton, and I deeply appreciate what they've done.
HOWEVER, Lovelace specifically is pretty terrible. Having used Grafana extensively, trying to use Lovelace to arrange a UI is so far backwards that it's constantly grating to try to create or modify dashboards. I really wish there was a way to use Grafana as the UI and embed cards as panels. The ability to drag and drop, resize, and move UI elements would be a godsend, but instead it feels like I'm writing Tk-style UI arrangement in yaml, and it's awful, so I do it as infrequently as possible.
Lovelace is pretty terrible, 1 hint I can give is to use vertical stacks, they're much easier to deal with for organizing where you want components in a given stack, then if you wanna move a component between vertical stacks go to the yaml view and cut it from source and paste it in the destination.
It's annoying to have to do a workaround like that but it makes it bearable at least.
On that I agree, giving what's possible with opensource UIs like Grafana's, it could be probably borrowed (I mean, the whole JS code) in Lovelace as well. But I guess there is some debt from early versions that makes that more complicated.
I agree the UI can be improved a lot but in my experience a truly well done smart home does not need a lot of UI. I have automated pretty much everything and only use Grafana to show some data.
If you actually want to include Grafana panels in Loveloce... that actually works. I described how to do that on my blog here if you are interested: https://thesmarthomejourney.com/2021/05/30/add-grafana-to-ho...
I’ve never seen Crestron or RTI used for commercial building automation, aside from Crestron lighting controls on a rare occasion. Crestron is mostly an A/V company with a lighting controls line as far as I’m aware.
Building automation is owned by Johnson Controls, Carrier, Siemens, and Honeywell. There are some smaller manufacturers around, but those four plus Trane sell the vast majority of commercial building automation systems.
I manage electricians that wire up building automation systems, for what it’s worth.
And to be honest, knowing what I do about commercial building automation, I don’t see why you’d want to automate your home. If I was going to upgrade the lightning controls in my home, it would all be local non-networked controls from Lutron. I’m not sure what you’d monitor on your HVAC system.. do you really need to know what speed your furnace fan is spinning at? Most home HVAC systems aren’t large central boilers/chillers that send chilled/hot water to terminal units that can call for more heat/cold, a furnace can be controlled with its factory controls and an external thermostat.
Nope incorrect. Crestron and rti offer end to end solutions for whole home automation including the commercial space. Clearly you don’t care and/or get home automation, no skin off my back. It’s not for everyone
That's a good point. Likely, rates have mostly peaked. There will potentially be downward pressure soon.
On top of that, many cars are hard to get. Low production, backlogged demand. This means fewer deals on finance and lease rates.
I remember 0% lease and finance rates, 15 years ago when the interest rate was this high, because car companies wanted to move product. But now they have no need, not with them unable to supply demand.
So my point is, I decided to keep my current car longer. Rates matter.
What is this based on? I am not so sure if I believe that. Canada's inflation rate jumped to 4% last month (although a lot of that was apparently due to an increase in gasoline prices).
It is not 4% per month, that is the yearly rate, as a current value. And it didn't "jump", it went up a tiny bit.
Target inflation for the Bank of Canada is around 2% yearly. The bank did not increase rates the last round, and inflation is dramatically down from a year ago.
Fair points and I stand corrected in some of my wording. But that still doesn't explain why rates have "mostly peaked". It is equally possible that we are nowhere near the peak.
Many infatuationary pressures have eased. I could write a bunch of things here, but you'd get a better look if you googled on why the bank of canada has eased off a bit on rate increases.
Of course, the future is an unknown, but inflation is about half what it was a year ago.
Heck, there has been some talk of deflation! A lot of stuff peaked due to supply, and those prices could drop dramatically.
That's why I said "mostly peaked". But rather than large jumps every announcement, I suspect we'll skip some, and only have small, quarter point corrections. Maybe one in October, and in the spring.
This indicates a soft landing, but I agree, we'll see. Anything could happen.
Can an American explain to me why there are so many solar scams in the USA?
I'm about to bring my 20,000W rooftop array online. In my country I simply got quotes from local professionals and it was painless. I picked the best system that met my needs and they installed within weeks.
You know how haggling is accepted in some countries as part of doing business? In the US, small businesses scamming consumers if simply part of doing business. It's up to the consumer if they want to spend their time getting competing quotes or finding trusted referrals. But for a lot of people, a lot of the time, it's just easier to pay the premium even though you know you're getting ripped off. You'll find this in auto repair, landscaping, construction, plumbers and electricians, even web developers!
In the US, it is really hard to sell solar in a lot of places. This can be true even for houses where it would obviously be useful and even when incentives make it so obvious that anyone _should_ do it.
Companies minimize their sales cost by using the lowest cost, most effective salesmen that they can find and don't monitor them very much.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the ones that you hear from the most are the ones that you almost certainly shouldn't do business with.
I feel like there should be some term for this kind of market, where the worst of the worst natural rise to the top for periods of time.
I made an account after years of lurking to say. This is it.
I use to make and sell a very specific piece of hardware. The only reason I started a shop was to sell my surplus. It cost roughly the same for 1 as it did for 20. So I started selling them for $2 more than I paid and sold out. Then I did it again, and again. I sold about 100 units all together and never once did I hate my hobby during this time. At the same time, it never paid my bills. Nor did I ever think of quitting my job.
Is there a name for flipping a hobby into a full blown career? Does Flanderization fit?
I had to stop after the whole shipping shitshow during covid. Prices in my country have not recovered yet.
