This HPWH made by Rheem requires only a 120VAC wall outlet. It requires a plastic condensate drain tube. It uses about 350 to 450 Watts. Theirs drew 65 kWh for the month of August. Their electric resistance water heater used 290 kWh average per month. The water heater cost $2533.00 from Home Depot. This article
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This chart shows the 9 Planetary Boundaries and how they have been breached. Some don’t look that alarming but *anything* past the green is bad. The Novel Entities is especially troubling. https://www.iasparliament.com/current-affairs/daily-news/breach-of-planetary-boundaries
A quick Google search for “US meat subsidies” turned up this:$38B/year in meat and dairy subsidies, $17M/year for fruits and vegetables. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26872805:nIE https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F26872805%3AnIEsjCg05Ef7QCY7oVPiSJ1IQR4&cuid=469956 —————————- Direct corn ethanol subsidies are lower, around $100M. But indirectly, the renewable portfolio standard forces fuel companies to subsidize ethanol by mandating it. https://www.taxpayer.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/TCS-Biofuels-Subsidies-Report.pdf Perennial grass ethanol has not advanced as
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If the Antarctic and Greenland ice melts, it will cause 10 meters of sea level rise. If the AMOC stops, it could throw Europe into a mini ice age. If the rainfall in the Amazon rainforest turns to drought there are large areas that would become savannah, and become a net carbon source. If the
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Andreas Lindström This “realclearinvestigations” article is full of lies and hypocrisies. Quote from article:“”Hyped as technological marvels, EVs are boobytrapped with a host of inconveniences and tradeoffs. By now many people have heard about range anxiety, exploding lithium-ion batteries, and the environmental destruction caused by global mining for battery minerals.”” Last first. The amount of
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They will be assembling up to 200 MWh of batteries and will be scaling up for mass production. Factorial Energy opens solid-state battery plant, the largest assembly line of its kind in US
Almost every BESS – battery energy storage system – that I read about has a maximum storage of 4 hours. This Tumbleweed Project is a BESS but has 8 hours. I don’t see why the other BESSes are not capable of running at lower power for more than 8 hours. I have this suspicion that
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Yes, California’s grid will be able to handle more EVs. https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/01/california-electric-cars-grid/
We used similar “homemade” outlets on extension cords – we must’ve had more than a hundred around campus. But the fire inspectors wrote us up for using them in permanent locations under desks. We had to change them to commercial power strips. But I set up a temporary registration and add/drop classes area every semester,
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This guy deserves the punishment. But why did it take 7 years to get him? And if he spent pretrial time in jail, he may have to spend little or no time in jail. If he had been caught in time before the election, the publicity could have made a difference in the outcome of
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