This is great idea - I have a huge tree in front yard that will either cost be $5-10k to come down or was going to rent lift and do it myself - A few particular branches scare me though in terms of how they will come down... Bonus points for where to tie things off.
I wish they would have been more concentrated with their approach versus this spray and pray route (ie test chick-fil-a from different parts of the country and done it 1000 times so customers could actually impact a change to the biggest offenders). Would happily pay to crowdsource a much bigger project here.
After seeing how many porta potties at playgrounds never have their hand sanitizer filled, I have come to grips with fecal matter being a part of the gig
Thank you.
Lots of them already using AI for all kinds of tasks.
I think it's just important to stay practical as lots of companies slap ''magic AI'' on everything, where it doesn't always makes any sense. Similar to a period when everyone was building everything on a ''blockchain'' because it was ''cool'' and could have given you funding, although the reason for your ''groundbreaking todo app'' to be built on blockchain was... none.
I have been looking for something like this. To clarify it doesn't show pedestrians or bikes hit by cars? ( I live near a stretch of road that I know has several white bike memorials but this does not see to not have them there..)
There's a pedestrian fatality on the map near me. Might be a problem with data gathering/consolidation - apparently data collection is done by individual states (and of course they're themselves distributing it out to a huge number of different counties/municipalities/PDs).
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Just as a heads up. Make sure you get a real pro to do the sizing on your unit.
I put in two Mitsubishi H2i systems last year and have had some pretty insane energy bills due to sizing them too large (A general overview of why here: https://carbonswitch.com/heat-pump-sizing-guide/)
Once I get my solar in place I won't feel too bad about this, but for now has been a bummer as was expecting a real efficient beast.
Around here (NE USA) oversizing is common with furnaces; the attitude is "better safe than sorry" where "sorry" means "contractor gets called because furnace struggles in mid-winter".
I replaced my old (95kBTU/hour output) forced-hot-water furnace and separate hot water heater with a condensing furnace about eight years ago. I got a heat loss calculation done, which concluded I only needed 59kBTU/hr of heat. It was a struggle to get a small-enough furnace installed; one contractor said he couldn't in good conscience sell me anything smaller than 120kBTU/hr.
My final system was 89kBTU/hr. A couple of weeks ago, in record -13°F/-25°C cold and high winds, it was burbling along at 60% power. Could have been even smaller.
We had an energy audit done a few years ago and the conclusion was that we needed about 40kBTU/h of furnace (upstate NY). We have an 80 (came with the house when we bought it). It’s actually quite hard to buy any gas furnace smaller than 60. But modulating gas furnaces seem to be becoming a thing now which is good and may make up for over sizing.
If you are oversized you may also run into problems of short cycling in warm weather, where you won't be able to dehumidify because it will be cooling too quickly. Who installed your system, they should be on the hook to fix it.
The article doesn’t make it seem like oversizing is a problem for efficiency —- it will just cause the units to turn off more frequently, leading to other issues.
