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Added 25 miles of range to my car's battery today on solar power. Gonna be able to stop using public fast chargers except on road trips.

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(in december, when maybe I'll want a little more power)

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this is not the end of my solar install.. it's the end of the beginning. I have 20 more panels and the solar fence was designed to also be the backbone power distribution system for my ballasted ground mount arrays

so much wheelbarrowing gravel up a hill lies ahead

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Completed connecting all wires for my fence, which took 6 hours today.

I've only turned on 4 solar panels so far but already getting this interesting graph.

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finished 3 days of pulling wire for solar array

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wire pulling day to array.

successfully pulled four 6 AWG guage wires thru a 1" PVC conduit with 2 sharp 45s (oops) and some other 90 degree sweeps

with quite a lot of difficulty, and help

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my tasks for the day include reviewing some long machine-translated contracts, and fighting with tree roots inside a trench

which first? decisions, decisions

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"A large, bright, white ball in the sky is providing warm rays of
light"

-- beginning of my current NWS forecast sums it up pretty well

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Wired up the panels on the fence up to the combiner boxes. And a little wire management.

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Unfortunately before conduit comes more trench digging, since I am also running a power line to the woodshed to charge my EV, and its trench will fork off from the solar array.

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Hung the last panels on the fence yesterday. Conduit next.

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My dad in South Carolina just got power back after Helene knocked it out.

5 days without power, and so without running water because they have a well.

I imagine it was especially grating that he had a 6 kw solar array sitting idle the whole time. Probably time to improve that so it can run offgrid.

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First article I've seen on the flooding that mentions the catastrophic floods in eastern Kentucky in 2022. archive.is/5gSB0

I live halfway in between the epicenter of those of these climate change boosted floods and it's very hard to not imagine it happening here.

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Bonus: Spot the nuclear fuel decommissioning site in the upper-right of the photo.

Ringing endorsements on google maps for it include: "Good employer, meets or exceeds National regulations concerning discharges into the nearby river."

If you wonder why they put that IN A FLOOD PLAIN, well lots of environmentalists in this area have been wondering the same for years.

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Here's the destroyed bridge plus still good bridge for context.

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TNDOT did suggest, in their news conference yesterday, that this is a major priority, and that they are doing some unusual things with contracting out the work to get it started very quickly.

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This is interstate 26 in Erwin south of the destroyed bridge. TNDOT has not publically said how they plan to get 26 open again to , but this work clearing a frontage road, plus the still usable bridge in the background suggests to me they'll detour it thru Erwin, over that bridge, and reconnect back to 26 just before it ascends into the mountains.

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finished trench for solar array conduit

combiner boxes installed

getting real

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been doing the low battery limbo with Helene's weather system

finally seeing blue sky this evening and hoping for some more tomorrow

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heard from family in Asheville, they're ok

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Damascus, Boone, Elizabethton, and Roan Mountain (not on the mountain) are all towns I like to visit that have been seriously flooded.

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Some of the flooding around here. This road to Asheville in Ewrin TN will be closed for some time.

Still waiting to hear from family in Asheville.

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books
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: Joey
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/10/30
shelves: currently-reading
review:

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Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles, #2)
Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles, #2)
author: Frank Herbert
name: Joey
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1969
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/10/22
shelves: currently-reading, re-read-in-2021
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Edges (Inverted Frontier #1)
Edges (Inverted Frontier #1)
author: Linda Nagata
name: Joey
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2019
rating: 3
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date added: 2021/10/03
shelves: currently-reading
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Egan did the general extropian voyage better, but the murder ships are an interesting metaphor for Facebook.
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Helgoland: The World of Quantum Theory
Helgoland: The World of Quantum Theory
author: Carlo Rovelli
name: Joey
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/09/18
shelves: currently-reading
review:

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author: Rian Hughes
name: Joey
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/09/10
shelves: currently-reading
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Appleseed
Appleseed
author: Matt Bell
name: Joey
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/08/29
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The Blackwing War (Deep Witches #1)
The Blackwing War (Deep Witches #1)
author: K.B. Spangler
name: Joey
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/03/25
shelves: currently-reading
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A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
author: Arkady Martine
name: Joey
average rating: 4.53
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/03/18
shelves: currently-reading
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Situation Normal
Situation Normal
author: Leonard Richardson
name: Joey
average rating: 3.91
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/01/23
shelves: currently-reading
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The Vanished Birds
The Vanished Birds
author: Simon Jimenez
name: Joey
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/05/19
shelves: currently-reading
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
This Is How You Lose the Time War
author: Amal El-Mohtar
name: Joey
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/07/24
shelves: currently-reading
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Exhalation: Stories
Exhalation: Stories
author: Ted Chiang
name: Joey
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/06/15
shelves: currently-reading
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Red Moon
Red Moon
author: Kim Stanley Robinson
name: Joey
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2018
rating: 3
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date added: 2018/11/02
shelves: currently-reading
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I Still Dream
I Still Dream
author: James Smythe
name: Joey
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/09/29
shelves: currently-reading
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Lavinia
Lavinia
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Joey
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/07/29
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Autonomous
Autonomous
author: Annalee Newitz
name: Joey
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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date added: 2018/03/23
shelves: currently-reading
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Always Human
Always Human
author: Ari Walkingnorth
name: Joey
average rating: 4.59
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rating: 0
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date added: 2018/03/14
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The Will to Battle (Terra Ignota, #3)
The Will to Battle (Terra Ignota, #3)
author: Ada Palmer
name: Joey
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/12/27
shelves: currently-reading
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Exit West
Exit West
author: Mohsin Hamid
name: Joey
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/10/06
shelves: currently-reading
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The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
author: N.K. Jemisin
name: Joey
average rating: 4.53
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/09/02
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Vacuum Flowers
Vacuum Flowers
author: Michael Swanwick
name: Joey
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1987
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/08/06
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Vacuum Flowers
Vacuum Flowers
author: Michael Swanwick
name: Joey
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1987
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/08/06
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New York 2140
New York 2140
author: Kim Stanley Robinson
name: Joey
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/03/29
shelves: currently-reading
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Dirt: Back to the Land in Poetry
Dirt: Back to the Land in Poetry
author: Errol Hess
name: Joey
average rating: 0.0
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rating: 0
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date added: 2016/11/01
shelves: currently-reading
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