Last year I saw an ad on Facebook for 100 USPS Xmas ‘forever’ postage stamps (normally cost 58 cents each) for $39.90. I needed Xmas stamps and yes, I know that the USPS doesn’t sell stamps at discount, but I wanted to take the risk and see if they were selling counterfeit stamps. So I
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The California PUC has halted NEM3.0, which would have reduced the amount per kWh that customers with solar get when they sell their power back to the grid. NEM3.0 would discourage future solar customers from getting solar. The utilities are claiming that the money that is saved by solar customers is costing the non-solar customers
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So many fearmongers claim that solar panels are not recyclable and will fill up landfills. That myth is codswallop! (BS) https://cleantechnica.com/2022/02/08/fraunhofer-ise-invents-silicon-recycling-process-for-solar-panels/ There is *no reason* why solar panels which have lost 20% of their capacity can’t continue to be used. They still have 80% of their capacity – 250 watts or more – and can
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This is in Indiana in Indiana courts. But it may set precedent for future rulings in other state or federal courts. Consumers with rooftop solar are getting fed up with the utilities changing or removing the pay that they’re getting for selling solar power back to the utility. The court needs to make a rule
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Court upholds California Net Neutrality Law. This is a blow to the telecom providers, that wanted to throttle the speeds of users to make more money. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-california-telecommunications-jerry-brown-2db073ce6d11c7274fd9c6291d3c411b
The coffee may become more expensive and more difficult to obtain. But everyone will have to eat less meat, especially beef, and less dairy products. We will have to switch to chicken, which takes less resources to grow. Or just give up meat and eat a plant based diet. Please read these words and enjoy
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A string of LED xmas lights had been fritzing on and off, then it finally failed. I had to pull out 4 lights before I found two that were dead. I had to file off the ridge around the base to get them to fit properly into the base. So it’s back working again. It
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https://cleantechnica.com/2022/01/21/unpacking-the-electric-cars-arent-as-green-as-you-think-claims/ Quote: << Final Thoughts All this talk about carbon emissions overlooks one important point. In addition to the carbon dioxide that pours out of the tailpipes of conventional cars, they also spew a cloud of fine particulate matter into the atmosphere. Whether its coal, oil, gasoline, or diesel, fossil fuels create FPM pollution when
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The Utilities are complaining about net metering, that the rooftop solar owners are getting back too much money so the non-solar customers must be charged more to make up for the utilities’ losses. They say this is unfair to non-solar customers. To me, this looks like the utilities have a flawed business model. They should
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