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8:53:18
beach
Monday mornings are chaotic around here, but the pruners are here again today, so that triples the chaos. Everything should be more orderly starting this afternoon, though.
8:58:46
beach
Well, this was a 5-day pruning job, but they were absent Friday. It's 300m² minus the house itself which takes 70 or so.
8:59:30
beach
It's that we have lots of trees, and with climate change, the storms are going to be more frequent and stronger, so I want to keep the trees not too tall.
9:12:02
frodef
Thanks, I'd love to! We went (drove) for summer vacation to northwestern france in 2019, and were planning to go in 2020.
9:13:33
frodef
I think maybe you met our eldest son as a baby back in the day.. he just turned 16 :)
9:26:02
frodef
(append (make-syscall :write 1 ''text-label (length text)) (make-syscall :exit 0) `(text-label (:% :format ,text)))
10:40:10
beach
So obviously our ordinary heating system on the ground floor broke down almost two weeks ago. Luckily, we have a backup system in the form of a reversible AC system. But the floor is cold. :)
10:40:39
beach
And I just called them back after the vacation, and the first available date is February 5.
10:41:20
no-defun-allowed
If you could make a wormhole from here to your house, hopefully it would even out. Maybe that's a terrible idea for weather patterns though.
10:41:26
Colleen
Weather in Melbourne: Overcast at 31°C, 25% humidity, 4km/h wind, 1007hPa pressure.
10:42:55
beach
So, we in fact have 4 independent heating systems, all heat pumps (we are carbon neutral).
11:07:39
beach
When I buy, I pay 5 or 10 cents per kWh (depending on the time of day). When I sell, I get paid 50 cents.
11:10:26
beach
The deal was better when we installed them, because panels were more expensive then. Now, the prices is significantly lower.
11:10:58
no-defun-allowed
Every so often, scammers (or maybe telemarketers) ring us about solar panel installation, but they don't know that we can't install them for whatever reason.
11:12:12
beach
frodef: And we have 5 cents 02:00--08:00 and 13:30--15:30. Half our consumption is at that rate.
11:13:40
frodef
beach: our power is quite cheap, but the fee for having the power supplied to your house (i.e. using the power lines) is not.
11:13:42
no-defun-allowed
Not a clue. Our neighbours (who have shared structure and our houses are connected) have solar panels though. Apparently we just can't.
11:14:55
no-defun-allowed
"I don't get why they charge so much for the electricity, we give all the electrons back quickly..."
11:15:15
splittist
"Well I call it a roof - more like tarpaulin, really". "Tarpualin? You're lucky."...
11:16:17
no-defun-allowed
It's 50, the voltage cycles from positive to negative and back every cycle.
11:17:45
frodef
in principle the electrons (well, some other, fairly similar ones) are pushed back instantly..
11:18:30
no-defun-allowed
(I think it came up in #lisp before, we say voltage, current and power here. Well, I say those, and we used them in electronics classes, but I've probably heard worse.)
11:18:34
beach
So the independent structure that manages the grid charges us for transporting our produced electricity, but in fact, we contribute to decreasing the load on the grid.
11:21:13
no-defun-allowed
I think my father referred to the "ohmage" of a guitar amplifier speaker a few days ago. And the "wattage" of light bulbs is quite common.