I never claimed to be smart.

Of course its British.

I bought a simple spin bike thirdhand. Guy who owned it before me got it from a gym. You twist a knob and it increases pressure on a leather brake. Its built like a tank.

Its great and like you say, if I wanted I could just look up spin videos on youtube for free.

Why would I bother with a Peloton?

Industrial sabotage is whats needed at this point imo.

WEdaho

He had good sense to crop the one picture so no one has an image of Grandpa doing the Nazi salute.

Libertarianism as a philosophy may not be. Libertarian as a modern political entity surely is.

Im not a fan of either, but you have to realize at this point the name has been hijacked by the far right chuds of the world.

How mildly opinionated of you.

Ah, I must have been thinking renewables was the majority. I used to live there but its been a while!

Maine is primarily hydro so half by wind is an odd goal for that state. Boosting wind production is good and theres lots of it there, but its not like theyre burning mostly coal or anything.

Im glad you pointed out the algorithm thing. Seems like people get fed up with social media platforms like X(?) and Reddit and then come to alternatives demanding the same features that, at least in part, led to them being fed up in the first place.

I actually disagree with OPs assertion that these federated platforms are ‘almost as good’. Theyre better. More features doesnt mean a better platform and in my opinion often makes them worse.

Big one right now for me is regenerative gardening. Ive gardened for years and have always practiced some of the permaculture principles, but this is the first year Im gardening with the explicit goal of regenerative gardening.

Nothing spices up the climate crisis like a little bit of possible world war and nuclear threats.

Spicy planet we have here lately.

Genuinely curious how the EROI compares to a single sided panel.

It is generating more electricity. On the flipside (heh) it would cost more energy to produce.

Oh yeah…yeah yeah yeah…I know some of these words!

Good idea!

Ah ok so the idea is if youre capturing it, it isnt running off into the river system. That does make sense.

This setup is but its only three high. As you add more you would have to play it by ear.

Whats the logic?

So this is 3 of these stacked up together. Each is 11.4 liters. All that equates to about 9 gallons. Thats enough to water my gardens probably 1.5 times. I have a lot of garden beds though. If you just had a small one you could do more.

My total setup is 116 gallons (but thats with two large rainbarrels too) which lasts me a long time.

A good rainstorm would fill this setup very quickly.