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rdyoung

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  • Well I think I'm gonna use straw from now on in my garden

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  • Where is that coming from because I've always known mulch as the wood chips and plastic sheeting as something else.

    Plus, please go have a drink and a smoke because you are nit picking where there are no nits nor need to be this pedantic. Also, are you incapable of having a conversation without having to be "right" all the time?

  • Well I think I'm gonna use straw from now on in my garden

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  • I wouldn't say it's a form of mulch. Mulch tends to be thicker and heavier and is more likely to smother plants. You can put straw down too heavy but it's easier with mulch.

  • Well I think I'm gonna use straw from now on in my garden

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  • It simultaneously protects the seeds from birds or other jerks and keeps the soil moist longer

  • Solar modules deployed in France in 1992 still provide 75.9% of original output power

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  • I love seeing stuff like this. Iirc, panels are given a 25 year lifespan. If most panels will last this long and longer, it would only make sense to replace/upgrade when they actually break or there is a significant enough increase in efficiency to make it worth the investment. Not unlike the batteries in evs lasting longer than even the original engineers estimated.

  • Gay Republican candidate melts down when he figured out that his party is homophobic

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  • I question his fitness for office if he had no clue, they aren't shy about these beliefs and they have gotten less shy post trump.

  • 'Democrats have a plan': Marjorie Taylor Greene unleashes new election conspiracy theory

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  • Shhh, you're exposing our top secret plan.

  • Ikea is hiring UK workers for its new store in Roblox

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  • You had respect for ikea? There stuff is cheap and shitty, it's great for a dorm room or first apartment but it's not really made to last.

  • Thousands of Americans without power due to severe weather

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  • I'm in Duke energy territory and the past few years they have been really getting their act together. It doesn't make it better than a coop model but they have been extremely proactive about clearing trees and anything else that would interfere with the lines as well as adding new capacity to the existing lines, adding/upgrading/replacing poles that are holding more weight than they should, etc.

    I meant to mention in another comment that I was utility locate tech for a couple of years so in addition to my standard geek creds, I have a deeper understanding of this and see it from a different angle than the average citizen.

    Personally we are planning on getting some solar panels installed hopefully this year or early next year, that along with a large enough battery and a v2h adapter (when it becomes an option for my car) will make us virtually immune to outages.

  • Thousands of Americans without power due to severe weather

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  • That isn't over construction, that's under production of electricity. My city has a literal fuck ton of manufacturing all over and we have no rolling black outs and very little outages even with most of the lines above ground. We do get our power from a nuclear plant so that definitely helps.

    A lot of these energy issues are hyper local. Texas for example is the worst in the country for maintenance, price, outages, etc and it's not solely because of the weather.

  • Thousands of Americans without power due to severe weather

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  • It is extremely expensive and arduous to bury lines that have been aerial for decades. The cost to bury existing lines is exponentially greater than the cost to keep fixing them as needed for decades. New lines are sometimes buried depending on whether it's an upgrade to existing infrastructure, power going to a new neighborhood, etc.

    Do yourself a favor and look into exactly what it would take just to get approval from the city, county, etc and right of way from the various owners of land where you want to bury them. Not to mention the hell that would cause for traffic when you have to shut down roads to go under them or worst case tear them up and replace them.

    I am not giving the utility companies a pass here but it's not as easy as some people seem to think it is.

  • Floating Island Garden

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  • Did this get downvoted for the bondage bit? Bunch of vanilla fuddy duddies round these parts it seems.

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  • You are correct but I think hemp is similar to clover in that there is some symbiotic relationship with other organisms that help rejuvenate the soil even if you don't mulch it back it in. I could be wrong here but I know that plenty of farmers grow hemp between other crops and likely don't "waste" it by mulching it back in.

    If you are looking to pull bad stuff out of water, I'd think that growing anything that would hold onto the bad stuff as it falls to the bottom of the river or lake and stores it there would be a solution as well as harvesting and transporting it elsewhere.

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  • Yep, hemp has been long known to rejuvenate soil. It's been used for decades (or more) as a rotation crop to restore soil after something like corn or wheat sucks up all of the nutrients.

  • Being courteous [Off the Mark]

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  • This one is actually good.

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    Biden on halting weapons to Middle East: ‘We’re not walking away from Israel’s security’

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    Biden on halting weapons to Middle East: ‘We’re not walking away from Israel’s security’

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