Wanderer

Deleting system32 fixed my issues.

The time of exposure was low. Asbestos was also outside and unbroken.

Insulation was only 1 attic.

Yea pretty much.

Put a shower pipe through a brick wall.

Oh for fuck sake is this another thing you have to wear a mask for?

My fucking dad I swear to god. He knows I got asthma. He had me install insulation as a kid and remove asbestos. I got fucking tinnitus from him giving me a drill and neither of us wearing hearing protection.

But they didn't survive intact did they?

I haven't heard anything for a while and I was just asking for an update if anyone knows anything.

It seemed to me they changed something to cause those vibrations/oscillations so to fix it they could just change it back. Like to me it seems solvable.

But in regards to the reusability of the heat shield, I haven't heard of any progress? So wouldn't it still be regarded as the biggest issue?

I'm ready for another starship test! Maybe mid may

Hopefully we get another improvement on this one. They need to nail the thermal protection, hope it isn't insurmountable.

Any news on active cooling systems or is that once everything else fails?

I'll be interested to see what happens with this.

New forms of industry will work out if you got very low capital costs and high energy costs. The factory is going to be running, what? At most 25% of the year? Probably more like under 10 and unpredictable. That's going to be so weird for profitability.

I feel like storing the hydrogen itself could be an issue. Storing methane seems way easier so I wonder if that happens instead. But is it cheap to make a device that can make huge amount of hydrogen or methane? I have no idea and no one seems to know what's going to happen yet.

I just expect most of it to be dumped. Because it's 1 less thing to buy.

Neat, a point by point breakdown. Love those. In no way are they fingernails to the blackboard of internet discussion

Well unfortunately your mental capacity seems to make it a necessity.

That's what the whole comment is about. "Why" is the entire thesis of the comment. It is the comments entire raison d'être. In summary: the inefficiencies inherent to distributed implementation, the lack of service infrastructure, the short lifespans of the high-density battery chemistries needed in residential installs, etc.

The question is about why you think solar is good for home but not batteries. That hasn't been explained. You used grid issues as a reasoning and inefficiencies. Which is exactly the same as as solar and that was the whole reason for the question in the first place. I'm sorry you're not getting that, I made the fatal assumption you had some intelligence behind you but I'm being proved wrong. You can't even understand simple conversations. The only actual point you made is wear on batteries but that only matters for a financial and environmental factors but your point falls flat on it's face with both. I guess you did also say batteries are better on the grid than at home but that was accepted before the conversation started and the same with solar (at least for me and hence the conversation). The financial business reasonings is just mind blowing, businesses and consumers like to make money and they both do. Financially, batteries aren't some Elon conspiracy theory, that's just business. That seems too much for you. But solar has the same ideas about paybacks so I do struggle to see how you think one works and the other doesn't. Ah well I guess an answer to that isn't coming.

I don't really care, though. It's got nothing to do with the points I was making, which is why I didn't address it. It's largely irrelevant.

Its not though because you think a businessman isn't doing businessman things. That's how its directly relevant to what you said.

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Hahahaha this is the icing on the cake. Your arrogance matches your stupidity. Look if you're going to try correct someone at least spend 10 seconds on google, but obviously that's too much for you. That's how that's words spelt. Hahaha that says it all about your conversation doesn't it? That should be the end of it, but at least I'll finish this comment off.

Okay, no. This is not how residential demand or load balancing or power infrastructure works. There's components you're assuming exist that would have to run on magic to be safe (some kind of automatic interlock cut-in), and even those would absolutely devastate the grid by constantly adding and removing whole residential loads at random.

I don't know what to say. When solar is used in the house it doesn't go down the lines. There is less demand on the wires that's just fact.

I'm sorry. I known you want to come across like you know stuff but I just started by asking you about a simple point and you've come across really badly both in terms of intelligence and in delivery. Good luck with both in the future.

Yes but the trend has changed. Oil demand was growing largely due to China. That has stagnated massively. The change is trend of demand links with a change in the supply from Russia. I'm not on expert on these matters and I don't want to come across like that.

But it seems if China didn't stop increasing we would have had price issues.

With dropping oil prices American firms won't want to drill. Also imports of materials has gone up and China has stopped buying American LNG.

though the generator is going to be far more eco friendly than the batteries over their respective lifetimes

That's just not true.

vastly inferior solution to the implementation of even local grid scale solutions.

Same as solar. But you seem to be pro rooftop solar but not home grids and no explanation why.

Also because there is essentially 0 infrastructure designed to handle said batteries,

Makes no sense because the struggles the grid currently has with solar will be offset. Home batteries reduces demand on the grid and internalise production and demand more into the house.

they wear out quite quickly at home scales (unless you're using uncommon chemistries, but if you're using iron-nickle batteries you're not the target audience here)

In a cost exercise if the batteries last longer than the payback period they are worth it. Which is the case so that point is meaningless.

and because Elon popularized them with his "powerwall" bullshit entirely to pump the stock value of Tesla's battery plant (which is it's own spectacular saga I encourage you to look up, it's a real trip).

I don't under a CEO pushes a good product that helps the grid and helps consumers make money. Your bias against Elon is just limiting your world view.

Batteries in the walls are useful in niches, but the current technology which uses lipo/lion/lifepo4 chemistries is inherently flawed and a route to both dead linemen and massive amounts of E-waste.

Chemistry has nothing to do with electrons on the wires so that doesn't make sense. Lithium ion batteries are recyclable. Yes batteries are Bette Ron the grid but getting them connected is hard. Same solar, waste on roofs but thats how it goes. The arguments are the same.

They could be useful potentially, but as it stands, it's really bad right now.

They are useful. They aren't bad.

Yes it can, I didn't say otherwise. I'm not sure what your point is.

The electricity grid is about matching supply and demand. Hydro is not going to stop massively amount of wind and solar being wasted in a 100% is it?

Also most grids don't have enough hydro storage or inertia to solve to problem by itself.

You need to look up how much grid storage lithium batteries are being built. It's exponential growth. Faster than solar.

The reason it's worthwhile is because solar makes energy with 0 or near 0 price to the owner in certain places, if they store that and use it for later they save money. There are cost calculators out there and for certain markets they make sense.

Of course Tesla pushes it they got a product people want and it makes the consumer and Tesla money. Win win. That's business, nothing shady about that.

Yes batteries are better on the grid but that's for exactly the same reasons why solar is better on the grid.