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perchie.girl said:
deb (who had been working on a necklace)
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Hope you'll share a picture of your necklace when you're done! How did you learn to do the wire wrapping?
sharron said:
morning everyone:frow
auction morning, will be leaving shortly, going to try it since i don't have to do anything but raise my hand to bid, might end up coming home early but hey, what the heck
have a good day
thanks for the well wishes
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Are you feeling better this morning Sharron? Enjoy the auction

sourland said:
Good mornig, all. No solar power this morning. :barnie Not quite sure what the sun looks like anymore - poor short term.
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Maybe this will remind you Sour
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Morning all. Feeling quite awful this morning. Bad migraine and slightly nauseous from it. Had it last night, figured sleep would help but apparently not. Didn't really sleep well either. Went to sleep around 12:30, woke up around 6:30, fell back asleep until a little after 8 then couldn't go back to sleep. Have to do the dog today at 11:30 too. Ugh. Thinking I will take an Excedrin to try to deal but sometimes that upsets my stomach because of the caffeine but I don't really have a choice because Advil basically does nothing lately and Pamprin does nothing for headaches and I think we're out of Tylenol. So if I gotta go, I gotta go but at least I won't be suffering quite as much. Gotta find something to eat it with though so I don't tear up my stomach even more, don't have much in the house atm. Also my sinuses/ears have been bugging me lately so I'm not sure if it's related or not.
 
N F C said:
Sorry your day is starting off like that Kelsey...hope you're feeling better soon!
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Thanks Debby! It does stink but maybe with some food and the walk I will feel better. One can hope anyway.

sourland said:
Good morning, Kelsey, sorry that you have that headache. Excedrin worked for me, but seriously tore up my stomach. Have you considered talking to your doctor and getting some prescription meds ? Worked for me.
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Thank you Sour. Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of. It usually does the same to me. But I guess it's better than the pain. And I haven't yet but I probably should because I do get them fairly often. I think I'm going to go soon for the sinuses though and try antibiotics cause I've possibly had an infection for like a month but wasn't sure, off and on, then if the antibiotics don't work I was thinking of going to an ENT or something because I've had off and on issues with it for a while. But I also think I may have some jaw issue going in causing the headaches. But not sure. Could be lots of stuff.
 
bruceha2000 said:
No deals here, you get the power company that serves your area. Would you still have options up north where you are looking to move?


Our power company has a thing where the put in a 7 kWh Powerwall and lease it to you for $15/month for 10 years (then they take it out). It does NOT run your house except in the event of a power outage though. They own the batteries and use them to smooth out the load on the grid but promise not to drop them below 30%. But with those batteries and your own solar, you have power even if the grid goes down which is not the case without battery backup.

I have no idea how much it would cost to get it installed though. I imagine it could be pretty pricey depending on your current service panel setup. At minimum I think you need a subpanel for the things you need to run during an outage.
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There is a proposal to use a bunch of lithium ion batteries as grid storage here in California. It will be very expensive but is likely less expensive than the pumping water up a hill to then run back down through turbines method of energy storage.

Some energy storage method is needed for both solar and wind energy.
 
N F C said:
Hope you'll share a picture of your necklace when you're done! How did you learn to do the wire wrapping?
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got to take pictures... today.

The way I learned it... Well .. Online through Youtube... Been doing it about a year with time off of about three months for illness.

My back ground Is a scattered mix of Artistic . Drawing and sketching, sculpting, Welding (art sculpture), Beading (loom and earrings), Macrame, Leather tooling, and silver casting ....etc. IN the casting class I learned how to solder jump rings.

The wire for making jewelry started out with making beads for a bracelet. Found the beautiful art pieces on YouTube in the process... Oh there are some absolutely stunning take your breath beautiful things people create.... From Setting stones to working in silver.... I want to eventually work in silver.... But I have to get working in Copper and Jewelers bronze down first. My workshop is incomplete.

I need to be able to temper the work (tumble) Age the wire and Polish it to a shine again... I want to be able to solder and take the temper out if need be... Working the wire hardens it. All will take equipment that is noisy and Dust producing.

The engineer in me knows what needs to happen... but really it IS a hands on process that may make me reach my set point.

deb
 
ronott1 said:
There is a proposal to use a bunch of lithium ion batteries as grid storage here in California. It will be very expensive but is likely less expensive than the pumping water up a hill to then run back down through turbines method of energy storage.

Some energy storage method is needed for both solar and wind energy.
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My Grandpas son in law Was a PE for PG&E on the project for the lake and Turbine method of energy storage. Among other things for PG&E...

The Chinese have extensive experience running battery farms alng with Solar and wind arrays.... I was reading on them just recently... One of those batteries can supply a grid of homes...

One of the things we in the US need to consider is going DC.... AC is awsom for transmitting long distance... but DC is more efficent for home use... there has to be a compromise in there somewhere... Because conversion between the two is very inefficient.

deb
 

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