Obviously the point is to be off grid but many places restrict how much rain water can be collected, due to its impact on the ecosystem. One bin like this usually isn’t gonna cause a problem but rainwater runoff is vitally important for local flora and fauna, as well as the health and wellbeing of the rivers, lakes, and streams nearby.
Also definitely should boil the water, or at least filter it further if it’s to be used as potable water.
Circuit superstars is the only modern game that captured the fun feeling of top down racing that the original Generally had for me when I was growing up. Definitely a +1 recommendation!
Patched within 24h, for anyone not wanting to read beyond the headline. Not that it’s any excuse, but this exact flaw is fixed.
Just as people can get sunburns in overcast skies, solar still works as a net positive energy collection system when scaled correctly. This is why locations with more frequent inclement weather tend to have larger battery stores because even if you only get 0.5kwh from an overcast day, you’re still offsetting that much power use from the grid and over time, it adds up, while the good days help offset the bad days in terms of energy collection so long as you have the storage capabilities.
The primary problem with almost all power systems is how to reliably store as much of that energy as possible given a variable rate of load.
They forced us to buy expensive graphing calculators for geometry, trig, and pre-calc in high school but we never used them to actually graph anything in any of those years. Didn’t even teach us how to use them or why they’re useful. But because I liked tech and was curious, I did learn TI’s specific flavor of basic because I got one. Ended up writing a program that just stored and printed out the formula we were studying because I always had trouble remembering them offhand. Used the program for reference during tests but in the end I don’t think it was really that wrong, because I’d have to know which calculations to implement based on the questions anyways. I think I lucked out growing up in the time that I did lol.
Sweet, cheaper stocks this week.