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@StudoesAmerica
Remember the 2017 bitcoin bubble?

https://twitter.com/studoesamerica/status/1362483434678067200?s=21

Actually I remember very clearly the 2014 one.  My family and I were camping on a crystal clear lake for Thanksgiving (a holiday in the country that I grew up in before it was destroyed) and my poor fam had to listen to me going on about how this would not be the end of what bitcoin did... for the whole time.  Of course bitcoin died shortly thereafter.

[eddie13]

@StudoesAmerica
Remember the 2017 bitcoin bubble?

https://twitter.com/studoesamerica/status/1362483434678067200?s=21

Actually I remember very clearly the 2014 one.  My family and I were camping on a crystal clear lake for Thanksgiving (a holiday in the country that I grew up in before it was destroyed) and my poor fam had to listen to me going on about how this would not be the end of what bitcoin did... for the whole time.  Of course bitcoin died shortly thereafter.

I first found out about crypto and got in like right above the 1 in 2014..
Saw the crash to under $200 live, and survived that great bear market thereafter..
Always believed soon after learning..

[smartcomet]

first picture from NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1362507436611956736

[Biodom]

They will surely missed it and they're the one who's been fooled. Who's next?

Motley and fools got separated, then reacquainted.

[d_eddie]

Motley and fools got separated, then reacquainted.

The Motley Fool really sound like a bunch of fools. Most of what they do is mentioning Buffett in their clickbait titles. Boring reading, with very little useful info. Now they saw the light about bitcoin. Oh, let's throw a party for them!

I liked the piece by Arthur Hayes I just linked a couple of posts above. There's always been little complacency in what he writes. Even less now that he got fucked by the government big time.

[BobLawblaw]

Number.

Stop going down.

Reverse direction pls.

[HairyMaclairy]

That's why my plans after taking profit near the peak of this cycle includes an autonomous photovoltaic power supply for the house., maybe coupled with wind energy.

What about a propane or diesel home generator? Wouldn't that be an easier/cheaper solution?

Well, i was thinking about that too, but the neighbors would likely kill me for having this thing running for days (they use firewood) and i just can't sleep in noisy environments. It's a nightmare on intercontinental flights. As soon as i recognize the noise cancellation of the ears at the moment i'm falling asleep, i wake up because the absence of turbine noise is raising some kind of alert. Maybe i shouldn't have tried to forcefully stay awake for quite some time, in an episode of my past life. IDK  

Sorry, drifting off topic a little...
The big plus of the PV cells is that you feed the unused power into the supply network, which saves and sometimes even generates some good amount of money.
It just has to be big enough to run the house on a semi-clouded day. A dry, floating room (room in a room), dug into the ground for a tank and generator that could run for days would cost much more, but this would be the minimum.

Can recommend. Make sure you have it configured to run when the grid is out as your installer may not think that through.  

[Lambie Slayer]

As the Golden Bull Run progresses, more and more Billionaires show they want my coins.

Everyday I Hodl my precious ever more tightly.

[Richy_T]

Can recommend. Make sure you have it configured to run when the grid is out as your installer may not think that through.  

I recall some noise a while back about PV systems having to power down when the grid was down if they were connected to the grid. I don't recall if there was some kind of exception if you had the correct isolation or not though.

Edit: https://thirdsunsolar.com/residential/does-solar-work-in-a-blackout-third-sun-solar/

[lightfoot]

first picture from NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1362507436611956736

Glad it wasn't the skycrane landing on it. Good to see they got it down in one piece.

[Wekkel]

One of my favourite blogs on Wall Street mechanics and nefarious global finance stuff. This time about GameStop and the workings of stock markets: http://www.deepthroatipo.com/the-gamestop-narrative-and-post-mortem-vs-hypothetical-reality/

[lightfoot]

Can recommend. Make sure you have it configured to run when the grid is out as your installer may not think that through.  

I recall some noise a while back about PV systems having to power down when the grid was down if they were connected to the grid. I don't recall if there was some kind of exception if you had the correct isolation or not though.

Edit: https://thirdsunsolar.com/residential/does-solar-work-in-a-blackout-third-sun-solar/

Quick summary: A normal grid tie system cannot function without the grid to act as a storage system and modulator. The 60 cycle AC sync signal is provided by the grid, and the inverter syncs to that.

However you can buy a more expensive inverter that can provide its' own 60 cycle reference signal and use a battery pack as a storage/modulator. The "Sunny Island" from SMA is an example of this. When grid power goes down they switch to the batteries and run a portion of your house like a large UPS.

[donut]

Can recommend. Make sure you have it configured to run when the grid is out as your installer may not think that through. 

I recall some noise a while back about PV systems having to power down when the grid was down if they were connected to the grid. I don't recall if there was some kind of exception if you had the correct isolation or not though.

Edit: https://thirdsunsolar.com/residential/does-solar-work-in-a-blackout-third-sun-solar/

Quick summary: A normal grid tie system cannot function without the grid to act as a storage system and modulator. The 60 cycle AC sync signal is provided by the grid, and the inverter syncs to that.

However you can buy a more expensive inverter that can provide its' own 60 cycle reference signal and use a battery pack as a storage/modulator. The "Sunny Island" from SMA is an example of this. When grid power goes down they switch to the batteries and run a portion of your house like a large UPS.

I've got 4 powerwalls and a 16kW array, and I lived the entirety of September 2020 off-grid. This was right after installation and before energy company inspection, so I had to either shut off the grid or shut off the solar.

No issues.

[lightfoot]

Hm. Now you have me thinking about a powerwall. At 8k for a single unit, that's pretty inexpensive. Well, it's inexpensive now.....

Hm.....

[Phil_S]

[Hueristic]

Did we win yet?

[jojo69]

[BobLawblaw]

HIV != Winning

[Phil_S]

What rocket was it that put Perseverance on Mars?

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/launch/

Perseverance launched on an Atlas V-541 rocket from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The Atlas V is one of the largest rockets available for interplanetary flight. This is the same type of rocket that launched the InSight and Curiosity to Mars. The launch vehicle was provided by United Launch Alliance, Centennial Colorado.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V

Atlas V is an expendable launch system and the fifth major version in the Atlas rocket family. It was originally designed by Lockheed Martin, now being operated by United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing.

Each Atlas V rocket consists of two main stages. The first stage is powered by a Russian RD-180 engine manufactured by RD Amross and burning kerosene and liquid oxygen. The Centaur upper stage is powered by one or two United States RL10 engine(s) manufactured by Aerojet Rocketdyne and burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. AJ-60A strap-on solid rocket boosters (SRBs) are used in some configurations and will be replaced by GEM-63 SRBs in the near future. The standard payload fairings are 4.2 or 5.4 m (14 or 18 ft) in diameter with various lengths.

The rocket had a streak of 76 consecutive successful launches between 11 October 2007 and 13 November 2020.

[Lambie Slayer]

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&geo=US&q=bitcoin,coronavirus

People paying more attention to Bitcoin than the Rona hysteria.

Bitcoin > snakebites