You just described a water heater.

One that would potentially store heat at super dangerous pressures of steam granted.

Starlink sats

Ja der Typ.

Yeah that’d be brutal on the battery chemistry, probably need a wired sensor. Doesn’t get that cold here but was having similar issues in the negatives. Unfortunately there seem to be less options and they’re more expensive for wired last I looked, but it’s been awhile.

FWIW with zigbee I’ve had better luck with zigbee2MQTT and then using MQTT. If nothing else it made it a lot clearer what was/wasn’t a router and what was just and end device than the native zigbee integration. ( I was getting very frustrated with a less capable no-neutral wall switch. )

Might just be placebo but it feels like there are cheaper/longer batterylife zigbee sensors than there are zwave.

Will anyone be better than Tom?

Became everyone’s friend, became a millionaire, retired, (so far?) avoided falling off the right wing conspiracy cliff. Kind of just a quiet dude.

No the idea is the Left has a long history of infighting over which cause is most worthy or which step in the direction of progress to make to the detriment of making overall progress or actually working against the Right.

Letting “perfect be the enemy of good”.

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So a city?

Surely fires will respect jurisdictional boundaries. It would be rude of them not to.

I mean it’s all digital crystals and voice overrides right? Could have one console up close on the floor and a more secure one back in the corner and control from the bridge.

Best case the energy barrier is also the main thing keeping the doors open so when it fails that’s what triggers them to slam closed.

Molten Salt Generators are cool Solar power too.

Yuppies are weird because it was originally just a way to keep them in the news (“new movement! new group! news at 11!”) and be ridiculous. They got the DoD to sign a contract about exactly how high they were permitted to levitate the Pentagon.

And then it had it’s own Eternal September moment. But everything seems to.

Don’t be silly.

Just move your PC to your laundry room and plug it into the 240V dryer outlet.

Disney hoped the clause would be enforceable. At least part of the reason Disney settled out of court was because they didn’t want to challenge that assumption.

You can put whatever clauses you want in a contract. The law still trumps those contracts if it ever comes to enforceability.

In the GW range batteries aren’t a great storage solution. At that point you’re basically sitting on a bomb with that much chemical energy storage. Before you get into all the losses from having to temperature stabilize the system. The most efficient/preferred solution is an artificial reservoir. Pump water uphill when you have excess power, run the generator when you need power.

Dams also aren’t permanent structures. There’s been a growing concern for awhile now about dams being managed by financial entities. Because local governments couldn’t/wouldn’t run them after their expected lifespan ran out in the 80s/90s they were seen as a reliable investment. Especially if you cut costs. On a dam basically the only costs to cut are maintenance.

Dams being decommissioned instead of failing is a better strategy.

By that logic signing up for Selective Service in the US means the US doesn’t have a volunteer military.

Love the horribly confused operator trying to fix problems with her equipment before putting the call through to the president.

The GaN ones are if you care about size and power. Their dock is basically a high quality laptop dock, and priced equivalently, plus it’s custom shaped to hold the deck.

For a deck that’s just sitting there plugged in all the time yeah not a big deal / worth it.

I think something like NFC or encrypted RFID with the reader in the car would be nice, but would rely on the car having power which is another failure point. Really the best is just to have the fallback of a physical key like a lot of non-Tesla fobs have. Tech for convenience, physical for reliability.

Mostly I think it’s crazy that Tesla’s require an internet connection to unlock “from the phone”. You can’t just connect directly. It spawned an It’s Always Sunny episode when one of the guys had his Tesla fob stop working and then parked in a parking garage and “locked himself out” because the car didn’t have signal and it took days to resolve.