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Comment · 10 days ago
Isn’t the MWh more like 2-4x in the US for grid sized batteries?
Comment · 7 months ago
When did upper middle class start meaning upper class? Something like 90% of Americans identify as middle class now.
Comment · 8 months ago
U-3 Unemployment doesn't include people not actively looking for work, people making less than they'd like, or working less than they'd like.
https://www.lisep.org has alternate measures that try accounting for take home wages as well as seasonal variability (construction is noted as being volatile but relatively well paying).
Comment · 8 months ago
Turning transparency off significantly improves the look and responsiveness imo.
Comment · 1 year ago
In the US, at least, there are some utilities that charge based on maximum kW (demand) and total kWh used (energy). ComEd in Chicago is a utility with a demand rate plan option.
Comment · 1 year ago
Idaho Power’s local generation is quite clean. But…during the summer in Idaho, almost a third of energy comes from Wyoming and Utah where coal is still a substantial part of generation.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you look at the all years view on electricity maps (https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-MIDW-MISO/all/yearly), 25% is share of generation from coal in MISO.
I'd be curious to test the GP's point. Since electricity maps doesn't have cost data for most US balancing authorities, you maybe could try figuring out power costs per balancing authority to end customers by using something like the https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/ "Sales to Customers Customer Sited" data. Revenue over Megawatthours for Industrial service.
Comment · 1 year ago
I agree vision zero hasn’t been particularly effective in the US. In Boston, we have roads like Jamaicaway where the speed limit was lowered to 25mph and people regularly drive 50. Speed limits are functionally unenforced.
Human behavior as a focal point of blame is skewered in a book that just came out.
https://a.co/d/21guqjp argues that traffic engineering and design is what has resulted in the much higher death rate in the US than its peer countries. If lanes are wide (3.5m or larger), people will drive as fast as is enforced.
Comment · 1 year ago
There seem to be two competing nomenclatures around strong/weak typing where people mean static/dynamic instead.
Comment · 1 year ago
Doesn’t BYD have a bus factory in LA already?
Comment · 1 year ago
Why are em dashes a giveaway? They’re auto inserted on Windows for two hyphens still, aren’t they?
Comment · 1 year ago
I updated to avoid paying the new American tariffs. The advertised AI features were decidedly underwhelming.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you’re interested in a what an analog clock in decimal time might look like: https://decimal-time.netlify.app/
Comment · 1 year ago
On the northern edge of Jamaica Plain (east of Brookline in Boston proper), there's a pretty stark example of Brookline's accumulated advantages. On the Boston side of the pond that separates the two, there's Jamaica Way. It's a four lane road with few pedestrian crossings, and drivers regularly going way over the 25mph speed limit. The multi family housing on the Boston side is significantly cheaper and denser as well. It too has a trolley (the E branch of the Green Line), but unlike the Brookline side, the trolley on the Boston side isn't grade separated, so it's quite slow. It also typically runs older rolling stock.
Comment · 1 year ago
Massachusetts has a state level Transit Police, at least.