Rick Sheaffer

@jake4206969420 @teslavangelist That can be 1/3 of the panel capacity.

@rickmakes @teslavangelist Dude max you need is a 20 amp breaker which most houses can support without an upgrade

has anyone had an electrician install a 240v charger for less than $500? mine cost maybe $1500 I think to install, although for mine I needed like 30' of copper cabling which was like $500 or so itself.

@clearSNR @mackatoshi @teslavangelist An electric AC, dryer and oven can eat up that capacity pretty quick. You can probably charge on 100amp but you have to be judicious about how you are allocating your capacity. Aluminum wire was also used extensively in 1976. I wouldn’t run a continuous load on that.

@rickmakes @mackatoshi @teslavangelist 100 amps in 1976 is still 100 amps in 2026.

@JordyPooooo @PluginHyBrad It the people who make money when your car breaks.

@PluginHyBrad Who?

Fuck it, I’m going to say it. Cash For Clunkers was good policy, and saved the U.S. auto industry. It had near-zero effect on the affordability of anything, and doesn’t affect the used car market today even a little bit. You just want to justify your racism against Obama.

@courtneyknill RO filter with remineralization. On sale for under $200. amazon.com/iSpring-RCC7AK…

okay, so like. tap water is bad. but not all of us live on a well. plastic bottled water is also bad. what should we do to get good tasting water with no chemicals or plastic without spending a million dollars?

@mackatoshi @teslavangelist A house built in 1900 with 100amp service will have probably had at least one upgrade if not more.

@rickmakes @teslavangelist My house was built in 1900

@fluffy542 @teslavangelist You definitely don’t but I wouldn’t even run a 12 amp continuous load on any random outlet I find in the garage of an old house. In the same regard, I wouldn’t run a space heater or window AC. A good number of people are going to need to spend some money to safely charge at home.

@rickmakes @teslavangelist you don't need 48 amps for a tesla charger, they can be limited to much lower amps. all the way down to 12 amps.

@teslavangelist Many older houses have 60-100amp with old wiring. 200amp is the common upgrade path from those. 150 isn’t as common and upgrading to 200 would only cost a little more as the labor would be the same.

@rickmakes why 200 amp? I think I only have 150 amp and we've been fine with two chargers. The max we pull between the two is about 18-19 kW, and almost always at night

@TechOperator @Rolando_tillit Not $10,000 for everyone but many older houses are wired with 60-100 amp service. Upgrading the panel plus running something like a 30 amp circuit across a house could cost a lot of money. Even if it had a 15 amp wall outlet, it wouldn't likely be safe for EV charging.

@Rolando_tillit $10,000 to get home charger 🤣

According to the gas station trade group, it takes an average of 4.5 minutes to fill up and pay for a tank of gas. That's excluding the drive there. Assuming one tank per week over three years of ownership, that's 11.7 hours saved simply by owning a Tesla EV with home charging.

@BuenoForMiami @SenWarren Government at all levels has spent billions with Amazon. Why are they giving Bezos money if they are just going to ask for it back later?

@SenWarren How much would the government have to spend on its citizens if it actually spent money on its citizens? How about you cut the fraud, waste, and abuse first before you try to steal more out of people’s pockets?

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

@factory1821 @CyberRacheal Solar is definitely not an option there for a number of reasons.

@CyberRacheal Yes, that’s right, but they also need a huge huge huge amount of energy... (electricity). off topic: now there is a choice for 'elite' or government or banks -> : electricity for Ai or for people.

You have a point and it’s a fun one. Antarctica is basically a giant, natural refrigerator right? While it seems like a perfect match for overheating servers, the reason we don’t have massive data centers down there mostly comes down to logistics and connectivity. Building in Antarctica is incredibly expensive because there are no existing roads, power grids, or fiber-optic lines. Everything from the steel beams to the technicians would have to be flown or shipped in, and if a single part breaks in the middle of a six-month winter storm, there’s no ‘next-day delivery’ to fix it.  Even if we solved the building part, there’s the issue of latency, which is the delay in how fast data travels. The internet works best when the servers are close to the people using them. If you’re in New York and your data has to travel all the way to the South Pole and back, you’d notice a massive lag in everything from gaming to basic web searches. Plus, Antarctica is actually too dry and cold for standard equipment; servers like to be kept at a steady, cool temperature, but the extreme negative 50-degree Arctic air can actually cause parts to become brittle or snap. For now, companies find a middle ground by building in places like Sweden, Finland, or Iceland, where they get the ‘free cooling’ from the climate but can still plug into a reliable power grid and high-speed cables.

@T4man1603 @LouAZMerrijul They don’t say “Do not eat” on them. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@rickmakes @LouAZMerrijul My parents had one in their house and my father died of cancer 50 years later. I mean, he smoked but I'm pretty sure it was the thermostat.

Batteries just died in the thermostat. Can’t find one that are good to power it back up. You know what thermostat never died? 👇🏻

@eevblog I often see digital goods priced more than physical. It’s weird.

E-books are the biggest long game bait and switch scam ever. Spend a decade getting people addicted to cheap e-books and the convenience of their Kindle, then slowly jack the prices up to near the print version. Just slow enough that the frog doesn't complain it's being boiled.

@benheck @TheDemocrats It was crazy that they were blaming Trump for subverting democracy while they skipped having a primary. Did they not realize how dumb that looked?

@TheDemocrats Next time hold a primary.

$1.5 trillion for bombs, but nothing for health care.

@tmuxvim @LouAZMerrijul @T4man1603 Just don’t break it and you should be fine.

@rickmakes @LouAZMerrijul @T4man1603 fuck i have one of these in my bedroom

@onlybeefsupreme @LouAZMerrijul They didn’t say if it was smart. Batteries in a WiFi thermostat is dumb. If it’s just a regular programmable model, batteries can last from 6 months to a few years. That’s not so bad.

lack of a C-wire (24 volt) is the most common problem with older system installs. There are virtual C-wire kits that recreate it even when the thermostat wire doesn't have enough conductors. That's always the better choice. I can't imagine running a smart thermostat on just batteries, you'd be replacing them every month or so. Wifi takes a lot, and AA just doesn't have that much power

@LouAZMerrijul They suck to set the temperature on.

@LouAZMerrijul @T4man1603 They contained mercury.

@T4man1603 😲 Or did they just say that?

@onlybeefsupreme @LouAZMerrijul Over houses and/or systems don’t always have power run to the thermostat.

@LouAZMerrijul Why are you putting batteries in your thermostat? That's full retard. They literally have low voltage wires going to the thermostat location that can power many smart thermostats. You sure you didn't trip the hvac breaker? Or maybe your overflow pan sensor shut it all down?

@benheck I saw someone post about the contributions of NASA and it reminded me of Bell Labs. Bell Labs was next level. They gave us the transistor, solar cells, lasers (kinda), Unix and CCDs to name a few.

#NASA is the best part of our government. They have a pretty amazing success rate, as opposed to our military which gets a trillion dollars a year yet hasn't won a war since 1945.