winstonford

Great question @oconnore. 2 answers.

1. The target price for Ra http://canopyrising.com/#ra is $600-800, just under what you would pay for a 1kw emergency generator. Initial market is apartment renters in flat-roof, multi-floor urban buildings, who can not run generators indoors b/c of fumes, etc.

2. Battery capacity built into the Cuba table http://canopyrising.com/#cuba allows power arbitrage, buying power at the lowest price during off-peak hours to charge up, then drawing from batteries during peak pricing on the grid. In NYC, Conedison sells power for 7-19 cents during the day, but from midnight until 8a, it costs just over a penny. Voluntary time of use programs are common across the country, but few products exist to leverage them. http://www.coned.com/customercentral/energyresvoluntary.asp

There is an interesting symbiosis developing between NYC Mesh and my startup Canopy: the data mesh wants power, the power mesh wants data. Both want the other to be more resilient and less expensive.

In the pic at the top of the article, taken on my rooftop, you can see a white, round thing. This is a ubiquiti nanobeam wifi radio. Just below it you can see a solar panel. It belongs to an off-grid solar power unit called Ra http://canopyrising.com/#ra. The nanobeam is now bolted directly onto the solar power unit Ra enabling the node to support the local data mesh during a blackout.

On the roof and inside Ra, a beaglebone black runs the http://sunpress.co network of websites directly on off-grid solar power.

Ra also delivers solar power for lighting and usb charging in the form of the Canopy Cuba table http://canopyrising.com/#cuba , a bedside table that stores days worth of power and is found in the http://tremolino.co guest rooms 1 floor down.

Canopy aims to create a marketplace where neighbors who invest in the products to generate solar power trade with those who invest in capacity to store it.

Unlike traditional solar and storage, which is limited to property owners as it requires financing, design, permitting, and installation; Canopy is accessible renters and owners as it is low cost and requires no financing, no design, no permitting, and no install.

"solar radiometry" is two words, mon ami.

I found your first round of criticism about temperature valid and removed some of the copy.

Regarding the conceit, see above comment.

If we get to the point where it's relevant to discuss the dangers of a runaway drop in temperature, that would be refreshing.

As for the conceit again, point taken, again.

Sometimes when I explain a problem to someone, the solution becomes evident. That's my goal here.

I hope you found some value in the time spent reading and discussing.

Thx for the feedback.

One word or more, water science is well represented in many languages, no doubt about that.

Temperatures like inflammation and congestion may serve a purpose to a point, beyond which they are counter productive and destructive.

Data does not show our planet temperature in a state of balance nor entering an ice age.

Fair enough. It also falls under heliophysics. I would argue that we need something more specific.

That is wicked. Nice work.

Can I push to a beagle bone black?

Reason I ask is last I checked Docker is only for 64 bit processors, and beagle bone black runs a 32 bit processor.