Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@bonifartius

Some important questions:

- How much electrical load will be on the system?
- How much sun do you get at your location? (does it vary a lot by season?)
- How reliable does the system need to be? (If you don't mind running out of electricity occasionally, you can get by with a much cheaper system)

If the load is high, or the total wattage of the panels is high, then you may need to design a system with a higher voltage. Otherwise you can just use 12V batteries/12V system.

@freemo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns

@icedquinn

>"...everyone is constantly advertising about how they want your money..."

Sex is the same way as money. But almost all animals advertise for it, not just humans.

Another oil industry hack.

I just blocked someone on qoto for retooting (as an image) a racist twitter message.

#electric #cars #EV #electriccar #green #energy #fuel #gas #oil #driving #science #renewable
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If you don’t like high gasoline prices, then you actually want more people driving electric cars, even if you don’t drive one yourself.

Every driver who drives an electric car is someone who is not competing with you to buy gasoline, and not creating more demand which drives up the price of fuel.

So please encourage more people to drive electric cars, so the price of fuel will go down.

(image: wikimedia commons; CC-BY-SA-4.0; attribution Adrian Grycuk)

@freemo

I provided a source in my toot.

@lucifargundam

#simultaneity #relativity #startrek #chess #spacetime

3D chess is actually 4D chess (unless all of the moves in a game are made simultaniously).

@tanweerdar@mstdn.social

(Pink Floyd - Have a Cigar)

#MastoPrompt
#SmallPoems
#Poetry
#monster

We're just knocked out, we heard about the sell-out
You gotta get an album out, you owe it to the people
We're so happy we can hardly count
Everybody else is just green, have you seen the chart?
It's a hell of a start, it could be made into a monster
If we all pull together as a team

Oh, BTW, which one’s Pink?

#MastoPrompt
#SmallPoems
#Poetry
#monster

@icedquinn

The charged fabric in masks attracts particles and makes them stick, like socks stick your blouse when you pull them out of the clothes dryer.

Even neutrally charged particles will stick because they become polarized by the static electric field of the fabric.

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- Electric fields
- Brownian motion
- Polarized polymers
- Face velocity and particle mass
- Sub-micron melt-blown fibers

The science behind how an N95 mask can filter out virus-sized particles while allowing nitrogen, oxygen, and argon molecules (air) to easily flow through the respirator’s fabric.

This is an advanced webinar (even though they call it basic) by the company that makes the equipment that NIOSH uses to test N95 masks...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqtxEklVsAU

@iankenway

Makes sense. If his decision to cut worker's pay makes the company more money, then his value to company is more, so his salary is higher.

#sarcasm

@freemo

>"It is also important to recognize the vast majority of things that fall in this middle ground are, in reality, false..."

Not sure if that's true of not, so I guess it's probably true.

(If your statement is true, then things I'm uncertain of are most likely false. Therefore, your statement should be considered false, and therefore, if uncertain facts are not most-likely false, then they either have an equal probability of true/false, or they are most-likely true, in which case the probablity woud be that they are true -- assuming equal probability of those last two suppositions. So therefore, your statement is most probably true.)

I'm sure all of this is thoroughly covered in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (a work of fiction).

Correction...

That should be $2.63, not $2.68.

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I just filled up my car. It cost me $2.68.

That's $2.68 total, not $2.68 a gallon.

I drive an electric car.

#gas #gasoline #oil #price #gouge #ev #saudi #opec #electricCar

@icedquinn

>"also weird to encounter pro-gun lefties."

You mean like this guy...

@soundwave

Well, I don't think that's true at all. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.

@lucifargundam @trinsec

A polymerase chain reaction could be used to verify that the semen stains on Lewinsky’s blue dress were actually Clinton’s. The test was possible back then (and much easier now). The guy who invented PCR said his discovery was inspired while on an LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) trip (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4813425/), however, there is no evidence that either Bill Clinton or Monica Lewinsky were on LSD during their trysts, so their inspiration was apparently an evolutionarily-inspired, billion-year-old instinct.