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good luck. i have seen knotweed in my area, but not in my 'hood. but i do keep a close eye out for it. I hate the invasive crap. meanwhile, pretty much every beech tree in my 'hood is either dead or dying. sad, as I really like the look of beeches.

do you own the panels, or do you lease them form a solar company ?

Getting a good jump in temp here in the past half hour. 89.4/72

This is why you want to own the panels, and not lease them for a solar power company.

Not to mention the smell if you thought he left.

96/111 - absolutely disgusting

Yeah, I don't have an oil option here. Not sure what the comparison would be. Part of problem with oil is the carbon footprint. My aim after consult with the install engineer was that using power from solar... even if it still needs to be supplemented by the NGRID ( which I call Ngrip or nut grip.. ) would be 'doing what I can' ... and not purely dumping C02 into a system already force fed. So, together with lowering demand by a much more efficient compressor (mini splits) ..etc I'm not part of the meal, just crumbs.

95/75 at DCA is pretty brutal.

Yeah the "west fart" has been happening pretty consistently. Easterlies break down around 4-5pm and a quick spike follows. Easterlies broke down around 2:30 yesterday and KBOS spiked 6F in 5 mins. For enterprising folks looking to make a quick buck, this is a very gameable liquidity pattern on the prediction markets. Easterly winds tamp down temps, degenerate gamblers who don't know what they're doing pump money into this suddenly interesting looking bracket of lower temps (higher temp positions gain much better pricing at the same time), then the west wind rug pulls 'em at the buzzer. These easterly winds rarely hold through sundown... dollars are being sold for 70-80c

actually the water temperature in the harbor's up to 63 and change... and p-town out at the tip of the cape is 87 so - heh

The DP is 75 here and I'm wanting no part of it, 80+ is crazy!

LOL I was just looking at that. wtf chuck.

45 mins of E-SE now and still 32C

97/79/113

Yea that doesn't bode well for the next two days.

Just yesterday I had to chase off a wise mouth solar scum sales rep. I did ask him to leave the property twice but he persisted with the sales pitch..

We took a different path for solar. - Small house, at the bottom of a wooded hill with the southern exposure being shaded by trees. Neighbor's trees are part of the issue so even if we cut everything, it wouldn't be 100%. - Roof is set up with the biggest section facing north. - We have Eversuck (or Neversource) in New Hampshire so there were no state or utility rebates. The federal tax incentive definitely helped. - We went with Craftstrom, a company that sells what are essentially balcony solar / backyard solar panels. The inverters are set up so as to prevent back feeding into grid. Note: they try but our experience is that they are not quite ready for prime time. Whenever we have had an issue, they have worked to make it right. https://craftstrom.com/ - So no installation costs. We already had two phase in the garage for an EV. This drove down the costs substantially. - My partner is technically competent so when we needed new cables for a different position in the yard, he just built them. - Our house uses a lot of power (tech stuff) so we rarely make 100% of our power from solar but it does happen. - Looking at the current market rates for power https://www.energy.nh.gov/ENGYApps/CEPS/ResidentialCompare.aspx?choice=Eversource I expect that with higher rates than we have currently, we will move closer to breaking even. - We also put in mini-splits this fall and will do the math to determine whether power or oil is the best bet for winter heating. They're definitely more efficient on a/c.

And yet that clarity is bad. Mussels cleaning the waters of phytoplankton is harming the fish pops. The little ones depend on the plankton to survive. Just watched a YT vid on this issue. Sad story.

South wind can't be beat at DCA. They won't get the "goods" until the westerly component picks up tomorrow/Friday. Also when the atmosphere dries out a bit, yeesh.

111 heat index here currently. Absurd.

105 HI on the first day of a heat wave with a river wind is something else.

Logan's about to drop. They're around to the SE ... meager, only 10kts, but the Harbor being 59 F in the contact layer probably doesn't allow them to just sit at 90 with that wind direction. Question is, is the shed a few do they get 'em back around 6:15 with the late west city fart

Hey everyone, hope you all are doing well! I know I haven't been around much lately, just dealing with some changes. But anyway, came here to say that, yeah it's really hot. 99 already with a dewpoint of 76.

Temps are running on the low side of (the crazy) guidance but that is being overwhelmed by the DPs being higher.