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Yup, Growatt is the Chinese OEM that Base Power white labels to pretend it does US manufacturing. In fact this stuff is low quality. You need to be careful. There are gradations of…

For what it's worth, Tesla PV/batt inverters are bad, almost as bad as the Chinese manufacturers mentioned ITT. PW3 has very high failure rate ~10%+RMA, not good enough IMO to be i…

exactly right -- although tesla is weak on power electronics for the industrial scale sites, too. there are SPOFs there in the power conversion chain. but a DISASTER in residential…

Tesla Powerwall products (including Powerwall 3) have a massive failure rate. Seems like 10% over lifetime. Shoddy technology compared to the leading competitors, especially the in…

It has better search and context management under the hood, which matters for big companies. But you can also see quantitatively that Sourcegraph produces the most accepted code: h…

Of course, Sourcegraph is better.

These are forcememed companies, unfortunately. Neither Palantir nor Anduril make a single thing that China doesn't, and neither one makes a single thing at attractive cost that wou…

EVs with BrakeFlow resistive protection against thermal runaway also will have a big impact –– allowing for faster discharge into the grid. Increasing cRate for grid services can "…

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/05/ajit-... The phenomenon is that consumer prices for broadband go up, even as the wholesale cost of bandwidth (what Comcast is…

Yes, I violated eli5 rules. Sorry

Same reason internet bandwidth if more abundant and cheaper than ever, but your Comcast bill seems to actually only go up. Local rooftop solar, with no reliance on utility monopoli…

Does anyone have any good articles about AWS (or other) lock in? I have Matt Prince's article about egress fees, but I'm looking for something more thorough.

No, Westinghouse has designs for small reactors too. One prob with oklo seems its amateurish funding and founding. The other is that maybe 1 mw isn’t so useful. 100mw makes a diffe…

Real science investors with access to high level nuclear talent never seemed to think much of this company. Its financing seems to be Koch Industries, through a strange sort of PR/…

Many are not lawyers at all, as is the case here. What gets me is that amazing innovation was taking place, and privately financed. CA households were themselves paying out of thei…

Now, PGE will pay you unreasonably low prices when you sell power back to them. So much so that installing solar may not make sense. You will still buy from them at $0.30/kw, or ev…

He is referring to a statistical quantization mistake that the target, COVID lockdown critic Alex Berenson, did not make.

"If I get the immunization, I won't get it." That is what the word vaccine means to ordinary people. Stop accusing me of changing a definition that your side is changing. [1] That …

The burden isn't on me, a fan of vaccines that have documented high performance. (There are many of them. They aren't hard to find. Try medRxiv.) The burden is on you, a person who…

In American tort law, the standard is what a reasonable person would understand from the statement. A reasonable person understands "vaccine" as something sterilizing against the t…

"Herd immunity from natural exposure is dangerous and isn't going to happen. A year and a half on, only 4% of the population here has tested positive." That's because a lot of peop…

What makes you think the vaccine is an extremely effective solution to lockdowns? There are now many examples of high-vaccination countries with the same rapid case count rises tha…

No. Enovix beat them to market (seemingly by just a few months) with a 100% silicon anode. These two companies will change the world, the only question will be is it Enovix (which …

Enovix now has a 100% silicon anode battery in actual production. Looks like they will win the race. Former IBM / FormFactor probe card guys. Factory in Fremont California. From la…