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Thread: Real Estate Crash thread
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07-27-2021, 12:55 PM #16676
Back when I lived in CA it was reported that ag eats up 85% of the states water usage and residential was 15%. Not sure how accurate that is/was.
I figured ag was grown in CA because you can get more crops year round than in the midwestern states with their seasonality?
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07-27-2021, 01:15 PM #16677Registered User
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07-27-2021, 01:16 PM #16678
The discussion at hand is about domestic consumption in the east versus the west. I'm quite confident that I know far more about water use in the west than you do. I've written extensively about agricultural vs. domestic water use previously (see the California's Dry thread).
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07-27-2021, 01:16 PM #16679
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07-27-2021, 01:25 PM #16680
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07-27-2021, 01:26 PM #16681
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07-27-2021, 01:29 PM #16682
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07-27-2021, 01:34 PM #16683
What if your whole roof is solar and it is blazing sun all day? I understand batteries have limited capacity to power AC for very long, but what about during daylight hours. I thought solar could hang then, turning off an night?
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07-27-2021, 01:37 PM #16684
Seattle's ‘urban village’ strategy for growth not enough to keep housing affordable says new study. Need more housing types outside the urban villages instead of just single family houses.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...w-report-says/
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07-27-2021, 01:49 PM #16685
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07-27-2021, 01:53 PM #16686
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07-27-2021, 01:55 PM #16687
Why don’t we build solar power generation plants right on the border to power desalination plants, staff with imported daily labor, and tax them? Solve a few things at once.
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07-27-2021, 01:56 PM #16688Registered User
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I guess I don't understand how it works either. I thought that part of the promise of solar was to relieve peak AC load, which comes in the afternoon / early evening, so that rather then selling back to the grid at those times, you'd be using the power on-site. That's not the deal?
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07-27-2021, 01:59 PM #16689
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07-27-2021, 02:02 PM #16690
Ok, great. So then why get all pissy about residential usage when the overwhelming majority of the problem lies with agriculture?
Not saying that we can't all play our parts with reducing water usage (first thing I did at my house was xeriscape and rip out like 1/2 my grass sq footage), BUT the statement you made, and I quote, "you can pretty easily solve the shortage with the stroke of a pen." is patently idiotic if it completely fails to address big Ag.
So, no. As much as you may know about water usage in the West, gonna have to call BS on shortages "easily" being solved by going after the residential users. How about commercial usage as well? Industrial? Some HUDGE water wasters there too.
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07-27-2021, 02:05 PM #16691
That is how it works. Any excess is sold to the grid, but if the power goes out in the afternoon, your panels keep the power going in your home until the sun sets. Then you fire up the generator. Fuck batteries.
https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/...verter-mb1494/
When the Delta E5 hybrid inverter loses grid connection, it goes into “Stand Alone” mode. The ATS (Automatic Transfer Switch) inside the inverter cuts any energy exports to the grid and only supplies the critical load circuit. Once a load is applied, the CT (Current Transformer) inside the inverter recognises the load requirements, converts the DC from the solar panels to AC and supplies exactly what is needed to the appliance/s. The E5 has a built-in CT clamp measuring the loads as they rise and fall.
Keep up 4matic
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07-27-2021, 02:06 PM #16692
No. It might be viable at times but without something to smooth the power transition it doesn’t work. Can’t work. Home solar panels sell power back to the utility or supply a battery back. That’s why battery packs are a questionable investment but a nice luxury. Solar panels are routed through a transfer switch that only feeds generated power back to the grid. That’s why in some states it doesn’t make much sense because the buyback rate is so low. Nevada for example but that recently changed I believe.
California mandates that power is credited at the market rate
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07-27-2021, 02:09 PM #16693
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07-27-2021, 02:09 PM #16694
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In any power critical environment you have three sources of power: utility, battery, and backup with a transfer switch in between.
Even the grid has battery backup.
https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroo..._420_megawatts
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07-27-2021, 02:11 PM #16695
You know much of the central valley used to be a big marshland, right? We drained it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare_Lake
I'm surprised Madison park isn't one of the designated villages, I figured that explained why it has some of the only tall buildings on the lake.
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07-27-2021, 02:15 PM #16696
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07-27-2021, 02:25 PM #16697
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07-27-2021, 02:27 PM #16698
the problems for ag globally are largely the same - not enough water in the places stuff is grown; the 4th largest lake in the world (aral sea) has disappeared because of irrigation diversions. Droughts in many of the worlds productive ag locations. Like risk water need doesn’t disappear, it’s just transferred
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07-27-2021, 02:42 PM #16699
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I guarantee you not a single solar installer in California will install that system. It’s dangerous and a liability. Every time a cloud goes by you’d drop power eventually blowing out your devices.
“Therefore, utility rules mandate that in the event of a power outage, solar arrays must automatically shut down. Solar systems have detectors that sense whether power is coming across the grid, and whenever grid power is down, they automatically shut down too, to protect utility workers.”
The only way the E5 would be legal to operate without battery is an off grid system. Further, even if you could run that system in a grid powered location you would have to specify a single circuit, like refrigerator, with a known max current requirement. It’s not like you just transfer the whole house without power conditioning.Last edited by 4matic; 07-27-2021 at 03:08 PM.
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07-27-2021, 02:46 PM #16700Banned
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Depends where you live I believe. Blue states likely, red ones? Not.
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