Don’t leave us hanging, tell us more about your vision for the place, if you don’t mind. Is it a work in progress? What’s next on your to do list for it?

I make my own garam masala

Whatś in yours? I’ve seen quite a few different recipes, so just curious about yours

Did you only read the summary or the full report on Tesla? I linked 2 different pages so you can have your facts straight

I beg to differ, see Mozilla’s “Privacy Nightmare on Wheels” report for Tesla

In short: currently all options suck

I’d like to push back a little on your second paragraph, as most of the listed things mentioned can be remediated with appropriate planning/actions. Of course every case is a different one, this always depends on the local context, but as a general rule:

Trees are expensive to maintain

If you plant native trees, that usually isn’t a big problem, as they have been adapting themselves to those conditions for thousands of years

in addition to cracking sidewalks and roads

You can always select appropriate trees species that don’t have such aggressive root system that tends to crack them

they need water

Once again, native trees are your best bet, in conjunction with water harvesting techniques, I don’t think it will be a problem. I always recommend Brand Lancaster and Andrew Millison work on this subject. See Harvesting Rain Water for more details

If you prefer video format:
“Free water was illegal… He changed that…” [19m15s]
YT link, non YT link

the leaves need to be cleaned up

I always find this a weird obsession, why do we have to clean them up? In a forest, it usually lies on the floor and becomes nutrients, habitat, reduces water evaporation from the soil, protects the soil from erosion, etc

they need to be trimmed

This one depends a lot on the context, but at least around here, trimming usually means butchering trees and making them completely unbalanced, which makes the population even more upset as your point below becomes the likely scenario

they pose a liability risk so need to be covered by insurance

Healthy trees are not likely to cause problems. Again this one depends on how the city deals with it, but routine check ups should be more common

Considering all the benefits greenery has in our lives, I still think we come out way ahead with it in the long term, even if we were only looking at it from an economic perspective

Sounds cool. Did you DIY? Do you have to move often?

I don’t think pitch is a problem as those plants cling to trees at 90° and the layers are glued, but I understand it is not a solution that can be installed anywhere :)

I’ve seen green roofs on bus stops and favelas in Rio, Brazil, where their roofs have terrible infrastructure. From what I understood, they basically partnered with a local university to try to reduce the heat island effect in favelas, as most of them had no greenery at all

They came up with a cheap solution involving a plastic liner, similar (perhaps the same) to those used in ponds; a geotextile layer of bidim, which is a lightweight material; and plants that don’t need soil to grow, like those found growing on rocks or trunk of trees. Which means it is super light and still provide the same benefits as a green roof with soil in it

My house being a dome lacks a traditional roof for solar panels,

Can you solder? You could probably go that route if you don’t mind losing your round(?) dome aesthetics. I’ve seen some adaptations where regular rails were put in place and then additional supports soldered into the structure to lift it up and fit into irregular areas

Do it, and post updates to let us know how it goes :)

Come and join us at c/patientgamers

You can always prune them back too

Damn, that first zombie map on Old World was tough on hard. I almost gave up. Great game

S04E12 :)

For the curious:

The article actually gives 3 options:

The only ways to make the deletion stick are to disable Chrome’s AI features through chrome://flags or enterprise policy tooling that home users do not generally have, or to uninstall Chrome entirely

1. It can probably be reverted at their whim at any time
2. You probably don’t have access to it
3. It is the most realistic option, just use another non chromium browser

Uninstall chrome

Why do our hospitals look so bleak? We could have greener hospitals like Khoo Teck Puat or Ng Teng Fong, both in Singapore

Khoo Teck Puat hospital as an example:

Designed to be ‘forest-like’, water features with aquatic species, and plants that attract birds and butterflies were introduced. Greenery extended from the central courtyard to upper levels of the buildings and down into the open-to-sky basement, creating the impression of architecture deeply enmeshed in a garden. At the upper levels, balconies with scented plants bring the experience to the patient’s bedside.

Total surface area of horizontal and vertical greenery is almost four times the size of the land that the hospital sits on. In addition, 18% of the hospital’s floor area account for blue-green spaces and 40% of all such spaces are publicly accessible

[…] Common areas such as the main lobby and public corridors were specially designed for optimal natural ventilation thereby reducing the need for mechanical ventilation and energy consumption. By orientating the subsidized ward tower to ‘capture’ the prevailing North and South East winds, an optimal wind speed is achieved which would provide adequate thermal comfort for the patients.

[…] It is also a serves as a tranquil communal node where the local community can attend public lectures, exhibitions or participate in educational programs organized by the hospital.²

The energy-efficient design reduces energy costs by 50% and provides 40% of the floor area with the potential for natural ventilation.³

Video format about it for those that prefer it:
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Jw1b_SviPyU&t=275s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw1b_SviPyU&t=275s

You probably won’t be able to redesign/retrofit everything, but perhaps just a little bit more green instead of only concrete?

whatś HA? as in “HA magic”

You can’t say that and let us curious, which one in particular? I just started watching it and I got hooked. Looking forward to reading theories once I finish my binge watch

how it handles the load exceeding capacity

As in what happens if you plug too much stuff that it exceeds your solar production?

I’ll use mine as an example, but it might be different with different models and configurations:

Inverter can handle up to 10kw
If solar production is at 5kw, and home is demanding 7kw, in my case, I have it set up as to draw the remaining 2kw from the battery, if battery is depleted, it will draw 2kw from the utility company

If home demands more than 10kw that the inverter can handle, it will trip the internal inverter protection or a circuit breaker leading to it

We already have hybrid inverters that does that automatically, you don’t even need a different circuit or special outlets. It can manage all the grid ties, off grid and battery parameters on the fly