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Post by linen on Jul 14, 2021 10:14:31 GMT -8
Yoda, is this Tesla's cheap power source?
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Post by Yoda on Jul 14, 2021 11:43:48 GMT -8
Yoda, is this Tesla's cheap power source? I'm not too sure. The Tesla power bank is in the state of South Australia. I live in New South Wales. The nanny, anal state.
We don't draw any power from them. My provider says that the energy they supply comes from hydro-electricity. Plus we have solar, which I would like to in the future, upgrade it to be almost self sufficient. Here, if can connect to the grid, you must. To go off-off grid, there has to be no source within a certain distance. Not sure how much. But It all comes down to cost. Putting in power lines to your rural property could cost anywhere from 10's thousands of
The link is a search result. It has many to choose from. But just look at the summaries of the links on the search page result. Gives you some perspective.
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Post by linen on Jul 15, 2021 7:49:10 GMT -8
Wow, that's restrictive that you can't go off grid if you choose to. We have talked about going solar, but we only have about 5 years in this house and then we will be moving to a smaller place. Yes, it would increase the value of this place but we'd rather put that value into our next smaller home.
That's expensive!!
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Post by Yoda on Jul 15, 2021 10:29:52 GMT -8
Wow, that's restrictive that you can't go off grid if you choose to. We have talked about going solar, but we only have about 5 years in this house and then we will be moving to a smaller place. Yes, it would increase the value of this place but we'd rather put that value into our next smaller home. That's expensive!! You can go off grid, but services must not be readily available to connect to.
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Post by Yoda on Jul 15, 2021 11:59:35 GMT -8
After Man Finds Thief Who Stole His Dog, Instead of Calling Police He’s Helping Her Get Into Drug Rehab.
When a pet goes missing, owners frantically search every Lost & Found website, bombard social media with pleas for help, and post rewards in hopes their fur baby will find its way home. Stories with happy endings are always the best ones—but this tale has a twist.
Brayden Morton’s Shar-Pei Darla didn’t just disappear, she was dognapped outside his home in Cranston, British Colombia. Her abductors loaded her into a pickup truck and drove off.
Morton immediately posted word of the incident to social media. It was shared more than 30,000 times. A $5,000 reward offer followed.
Lots of tips poured in but when Morton got a call from a woman who sounded clearly distraught—he could hear her crying in the background—he knew he’d found the dognapper.
Instead of lashing out, he comforted and reassured the woman instead. They arranged to meet at the parking lot of a local mall. The woman, still in tears, gave Darla back to Morton and apologized. She hadn’t acted alone, but she was truly remorseful for her role in the crime.
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Post by Yoda on Jul 15, 2021 12:04:25 GMT -8
Teen Invents Clever Fire Extinguisher to Save Your Home When You’re Away – and He’s Donating All the Profits
A kid moved away from his friends and the familiarity of New Jersey to California, then immediately grabbed a local problem by the scruff of the neck with a brilliant invention.
Along with potentially winning himself a career in advertisement television with an excellent reveal video and excitable timbre, an 11th grade San Francisco student has invented a fire-activated extinguisher to protect the property of those he loves now that he lives in a state that has a wildfire “season.”
A single device is capable of protecting fire-risk areas in one’s house, while multiple can form a defensive perimeter around one’s entire property against low to moderate intensity fires.
“Over the past three years, there have been almost 7,500,000 acres of wildfire in California alone, destroying nearly 50,000 structures,” describes Arul Mather, inventor of the Fire-Activated-Canister-Extinguisher, or F.A.C.E.
When a sensor on the device heats up to a certain temperature, a glycerin element bursts within, releasing an eco-friendly fire-retardant spray 5-6 feet in all directions with the aid of a sprinkler. The retardant can be re-filled quite easily, and the only other human-controlled aspect is the initial introduction of air-pressure into the canister which can be done manually through a valve at the top.
Absolutely brilliant. What an innovative young man. - Yoda
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Post by linen on Jul 15, 2021 15:34:13 GMT -8
Good stuff Yoda!
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Post by linen on Jul 15, 2021 15:42:50 GMT -8
Let me tell you about the young man that came over to our house yesterday.
Backing up a little, he answered my ad in the paper for free raspberry canes last year. While he was digging up what he wanted, we got to talking about my ducks that he saw out free-ranging. I asked him if he wanted some babies next year (I had already rehomed what I had) and he said yes. So yesterday Rachael decided she had had enough of being a mom. Hers were born June 4th so they were old enough to take care of themselves at this stage.
I have a place that I pin up messages to myself on people interested in my ducks and saw a note that a "Mike" wanted Muscovy ducks summer of 2021. I didn't remember who he was but gave him a call. He said yes he wanted the four that I had! He was just getting home from work so he said he'd be over in about 15 minutes.
As he drove in and got out of his truck I remembered who he was from last year. We got to talking and he is such a nice kid. Polite, respectful, all while talking about the animals he already had. He took a look at the 4 ducklings I had told him about and fell instantly in love. We must have talked for an hour even during a brief summer rain. I told him about my miracle duckling by another mom and took him over to show her to him. Yes, he wanted her to when her mom Lilly was done raising her. And to my astonishment Lilly came out of her duck house followed with her little one to show this stranger her baby. I have to explain that Lilly doesn't like "humans." So this was quite the display of congeniality.
Before he left he tentatively asked if he could bring me a dozen eggs from his chickens and some honey. I asked him if it was his honey and he said yes. So I definitely wanted some.
He came by this afternoon after work with a half pint of beautiful amber honey and a dozen of his eggs.
There are some really nice young people still around. It warmed my heart to have this encounter with this gracious young man.
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Post by Yoda on Jul 15, 2021 15:57:00 GMT -8
Awesome story linen. Seems like you two did a bit of bartering.
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Post by linen on Jul 16, 2021 7:40:43 GMT -8
We gave him the raspberry canes last year (as well as about 20 other people) and when he asked how much for the ducklings this year, I told him nothing. I didn't expect anything in return. We have an excess and we simply wanted to share.
He was kind enough to ask if we would like some of his liquid gold (honey). They did a lot to harvest last year and their yield was relatively small. So it was a precious gift.
I will call him in the fall and ask if he wants some pears. Our pear trees are loaded this year.
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