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I logged in to 311 to ask a question about the new charger at the Healey school, and there was messaging about EVs. Now: is this posted to the EV charger apps? Nope. So you could get there and not know there's a problem.

Verizon 5G, $35/month for the 300 mbps / 20 up plan (my needs are not huge, this does the TV streaming and the zoom meetings just fine).

Somerville MA. Was previously paying 3x that for crappy Astound service at half the speed.

on Air at EV charging · c/evs · 1 pts · 3y

Heh. You are welcome. This is how I found out too--a random discussion.

on Air at EV charging · c/evs · 1 pts · 3y

There's a company near me that is piloting a mobile charging service. https://www.sparkcharge.io/

When the charges on our thru-way all failed over Memorial Day weekend, they provided the emergency service. I heard they were also in talks with AAA to be something that a tow truck could carry, or some emergency service vehicle.

Solutions exist. Just not yet at scale.

on Air at EV charging · c/evs · 7 pts · 3y

My EV came with a compressor in the trunk. Last time I needed to fill the tires it worked fine.

I didn't even realize this until one day on the Nissan Leaf discussion boards, which led to a hilarious discussion of a whole bunch of us who had no idea we were carrying our own solution to this....

Ah, right. I was wondering if we could go back to the golden age of science blogs as all the other social channels were imploding....

I was still posting at reddit until recently--but I noticed that even the top items in r/science are getting half the score they used to.

Well, as one of my advisors used to say in grad school: "Evolve or die". Nice to see you here too!

Hmm. My panels come with a 25 year warranty, I think. I wonder how to get someone to evaluate them. That said, our production is still in line with previous years during current year 7. But worth keeping an eye on.

This was interesting to me too:

The Fig. 5 shows expenses for replacement of damaged inverters which rise sharply as well after about 10 years of operation.

I also know our inverter came with a 10 year warranty. We should have it looked at around year 8 and make sure it's running right, and/or make a claim on that.

Yeah, it's a little like people who went to Harvard--you find this out within 2 minutes of conversing with them. I do a lot of local history stuff in this area, and...yeah. There's a lot of them.

I was amused to watch a film recently called The Last of the Winthrops. So some lines peter out eventually....

Huge, if true. I think a lot of people in rural areas need to be exposed to something besides Christian radio....

And it really could benefit people who have jobs that can be WFH now--people could live in these dying towns with real incomes, money to spend, and kids in the school systems.

I hope they get it right.