Monthly solar generation

24.2MWh of electricity generated so far. I'm hoping to get a much better way of monitoring my electricity soon. I asked for a good monitor to be added to the system when it was built, then after it was done, then again a year later, but REC was appearently completely uninterested in selling me a monitoring system. So since then I've been trying to get ahold of the money and enough information to buy a monitoring system and just haven't managed it yet. I am determined that this spring I will have a good monitoring system though.

Envia Systems claims 400 watt hours-per-kilogram battery

They claim to have a 400 watt hours/kg battery that they have produced and is ready for production, or at least will be ready for production in a year and a half. So I'm guessing they already have the batteries built, but don't have a factory to produce them at industry numbers.

They say this more than doubles industry energy density and halves the cost, but I'm betting they really mean that doubling the energy density will halve the cost of the battery, not that it's a X4 gain. Still, that's a very significant jump forward and affects all kinds of things, not just EVs. You could use the same batteries to build your house sized UPS also.

http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/End_Use_Electric_Transportation/A-cheaper-EV-battery---for-a-300-mile-range-EV-4531.html

The emperors new security system

An excellent story of despair and horror. The despair and horror of our cyber security and how our government does a crap job of protecting it's citizens.

http://assassinsmace.squarespace.com/blog/2012/2/9/the-emperors-new-suit-the-us-response-to-cybercrime-cyberwar.html

Tesla Model X

"Musk says the standard version of the Model X crossover gets to 60 mph in 4.4 seconds. " 200 miles or so on a full charge with the big battery pack, seats 6 and accelerates like that? Now that's a true cross over vehicle.
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1072794_2014-tesla-model-x-unveiled-electric-luxury-crossover-with-wings

Damn that's a sweet ride. I wish I could afford a Tesla.

tor tests undetectable encrypted connections

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/02/10/as-iran-cracks-down-online-tor-tests-undetectable-encrypted-connections/

Now that would be a powerful tool indeed.

"Pazuzu's Girl"

If you like mythology based well written stories, go buy this book. In fact, go buy it anyway it's very good. https://rachelcoles.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/ya-indie-carnival-some-like-it-hot-and-new-book-release/

It's been a long time since I posted anything here. I no longer have the job that enticed me to start this, and I haven't yet started writing again just for fun. Hopefully I'll pick up use on this sometime soon, maybe with some new changes to my solar stuff. Hopefully with a new monitor with lots more data.

Speaking of solar, I've generated almost 24Mw now.

solar generation

Two Years of Solar Generation! 20.8MWhs total generation so far. That's up 500KWhs from last year so that's great, especially considering we had two really wet months meaning very little sunlight. My meter is down to under 600 and still going down, we'll see how high it has to run up during the winter. Hopefully next year I'll roll it backwards.