Another unfortunate truth is that the Dildo of Consequence rarely comes lubed.

174k on that plug would be pretty good going. I’ve seen them under 150k where the negative has worn down to the bend.

I know you’re right, but if it wasn’t for Apple dropping iOS support the X is still a perfectly good phone. I’m seriously considering waiting another year and hoping my banking apps continue to work.

Ironically I did think about getting the Apple Watch X for the first time, but they all require a minimum of the iPhone Xs

On the X and wondering if the Max is too much of a jump for me. Although it’s another year where I’m not really seeing a big reason to upgrade.

Big fan BTW, your lounge chairs are cool AF.

Holding on to my X, hoping the app support for iOS 16 continues.

In my local area, and large portions of the country our gas lines have been upgraded to be “hydrogen ready”.

Tesla was able to install superchargers all over the world and work with governments to increase power infrastructure and develop a rapid charging network.

If governments were willing to upgrade gas pipelines why didn’t Toyota invest in a hydrogen fuelling network? As hydrogen is mostly extracted from crude oil using a massive amount of electricity, I’m sure the fossil fuel lobby would have helped too!

That who killed the hydrogen car? documentary is not required, the answer is physics and economics.

A car salesman tried to tell me last month that EVs are a dead technology, and I should get a hybrid until Hydrogen cars take over in a couple of years.

It’s the equivalent of $16.50 a month where I live and that is not an insignificant proportion of my monthly income. The adverts are constantly repeating and often for products and services that are actual scams. I firmly believe as soon as enough people pay… we’ll have to pay more or they will show us a smaller number of “specially selected” ads.

No problem, I remember researching the available panels at the time and selecting the most efficient and playing panel Tetris to get the most possible on the roof.

In the end the installer did a last minute switch, but although the panels were not the best available they were pretty close. The most annoying thing was that the panels were slightly different dimensions and the installer insisted in wider margins around the panels so I ended up with several fewer panels overall, ruining my carefully planned layout.

I have never felt so personally attacked by a SpongeBob meme.

In 2011 in my Region of the world (Europe) there were no commercially available panels to buy that could hit anywhere near 20%

I’ve not read this paper fully but I suspect it’s referring to lab testing, or panels produced in small numbers and 10x the cost of all other panels. Mine were REC240PE for reference.

Edit: that chart is titled “Best Research-Cell Efficiencies” so this is lab testing and it’s exactly the point of this thread… “35% Efficiency, Why is this not in stock at Costco!?!”

And I completely agree with you, it’s always going to take a while.

I just remember years ago when it was promising a 50% increase in efficiency, but then regular panels caught up and achieved that anyway. This game of cat and mouse has been running for Elon Musk’s Full Self Driving level timelines.

I believed the hype and in ~2020 decided to wait to add a 2nd array until perovskite panels were released “early next year”, and I’m still waiting 3 years later. I hear they will be produced early next year, so that’s something to look forward to.

I just looked it up and it’s actually rated at 14% peak, but no it’s just the 2010/2011 series of Polycrystalline cells, it was a premium panel when I bought them.

My panels are 12 years old and approx. 12% efficient, treble the power from the same roof space would be a very tempting upgrade, as long as the price does not go up too much.

To put it into perspective, perovskite solar cells have had multiple headlines a month as a “breakthrough“ and “just around the corner” for more than ten years. I think those that follow this tech are just getting a little disappointment fatigue. Awesome tech though - I just hope they can make it stable enough to last in real world conditions soon.

Reading the replies with interest, partner moved in with me to a 4 bed house. 1 room is now a closet with 4 wardrobes 3 chests of drawers, and two giant bookcases full of shoes, and no floor space left. 2nd room is full of boxes of clothes, and she on at me to build a new quad wardrobe in there. Then we have my office which is storing all the non-clothes items from all the other rooms, and our bedroom with 6 wardrobes and two chests of drawers all full to bursting. Clothes and shoes count is easily in the 1000s. I have one pair of jeans and 10 t-shirts on rotation. She keeps buying me stuff too that I never wear. She keeps saying people need clothes but I’m just here to say OP, it could be worse.