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pehrlichon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://pehrlich.substack.com

Mostly discussing climate / energy / policy. Focus on having slightly more research than common

pehrlichon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://pehrlich.substack.com/

Various climate / energy / policy topics. A focus towards slightly more in depth research than typically seen

pehrlichon Designs for battery tankers to transport renewable energy by 2026

It might help to have some context. I pulled up the NH Net Metering rules and see that they charge the following:

Transmission fees (FERC/federal fees): $12.92/625kWh = $0.02

Distribution fees (PUC/local fees): $25.88/625kWh = $0.04

Compared to this ship: 1000 miles: $41.5 / 1000kWh = $0.04

A full comparison would require knowing what distances NH moves power over, and what other transmission would need to be coupled with one payload from the ship. But I think that this shows the costs may be in the right ballpark. And - having this as an option where lines are not possible (NIMBYism, etc), or in the face of natural disasters, is a huge win.

Now.. is that ship electric?

pehrlichon Ask HN: Looking for prior-HN article on battery design

ah thanks, but sadly that's not the one

pehrlichon Making the travel site people want, even if it’s impossible

"For a week or two" became "For a week"

Looking forward to using this. A lot. :-)

pehrlichon SkiFree in the Browser

Damn, I'm itching for pressure-sensitive arrow keys.

pehrlichon GTalk Syntax Highlighter 0.3 released.

New in this release:

0.3.0 (accessories release) - Copy to clipboard, link to this plugin, in a lightly styled menu - Now supports gTalk with "Pictures in chat" labs extension turned off - Donate button, toggle switch, and fork banner on options page - Google analytics for click events - Sexy new icon.

Thanks :)

pehrlichon Google Talk Syntax Highlighting

Yup, you can see right in the manifest file that it can only access mail.google.com: - https://github.com/pehrlich/GTalkSyntax/blob/master/manifest...

And view all the source code, right here: https://github.com/pehrlich/GTalkSyntax/blob/master/javascri... (This is the one file that does almost all the work)

I really would like to make it as safe and constrained as possible, but by nature this is working with personal data. I think the best thing I can do is to keep it all open source, think about privacy, and encourage people to read the code as much as possible.

Anyway, thanks for having a look!

pehrlichon Prime number patterns

wow, that is very nice. Does anyone else think they notice that primes are near to highly divisible numbers?

pehrlichon The Challenge of Making Friends as an Adult

I read that as the "shared struggle and purpose" being the softball team..

pehrlichon The Challenge of Making Friends as an Adult

Where's summer camp for adults?

pehrlichon Light-field photography

I was thinking that on top of video for a pretty awesome experience

pehrlichon Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive

Theres a second effect, too. When someone who has any resource in the world available to them goes to use the library, you can be damn sure they'll have standards. If libraries are only for those without other options, those who have seen what can be will not be there to demand improvement.

pehrlichon Project idea: Bucket List Social. Hot or not?

There could certainly be some interesting possibilities for fundraising with/for your group (those sharing a goal or goals) as well.

pehrlichon Project idea: Bucket List Social. Hot or not?

Pintrest has to do with things, such as this cream lace pencil skirt: http://pinterest.com/pin/154248355957226784/

Where on the contrary, ZenBucket (As its now known - https://github.com/ZenBucket/ZenBucket-web) has to with goals: such as quitting smoking or learning how to clean a carburetor.

pehrlichon Project idea: Bucket List Social. Hot or not?

Anyone who wants to help with this, feel free to drop me a line at peter.i.ehrlich@gmail.com and I'll put everyone in touch there..

The idea is attractive to me a developer because I want a lightweight way to use a graph database, and the social integrations seem extremely self-evident! (Make a fb app, share when you add something to your list, collaborate with friends to get things done, win points, blah blah, etc etc). All dev help is welome!

As a business person, my getting anyone to use it might be a small miracle. All biz help is welcome!

Bottom line is it can be done in a very lightweight and fun kind of a way. I see no reason a beta couldn't be made and given to testers in a week!

pehrlichon Project idea: Bucket List Social. Hot or not?

sweet! What kind of stuff do you like to do?