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Cake day: October 12th, 2024

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  • Schwager hat mit ein paar Leuten aus dem Dorf eine Genossenschaft gegründet, paar lokale Banken an Bord geholt, drei Windräder aufgestellt, nen zig Kubikmeter-Bottich mit Heizstab und nen Container mit dicken Akkus draußen aufs Feld und Fernwärme ins Dorf gelegt. Wenn die Fernwärme nicht gebraucht wird, dann vergolden die sich ihren Strom aus den Akkus als Milikesekunden-schnelle Regelenergie.

    Klingt geil, oder? Genau. Hat ihn ungefähr zehn Jahre Spießrutenlaufen gekostet, zweimal die Scheibe im Büro eingeschmissen, alle sowat. Bis dann Ukraine kam. Dann wollte jeder Huber-Schorsch mit seiner Ökövibratiostrulla auf einmal auch Fernwärme ausm Vogelschredder. Und als sie die Abrechnungen von der Genossenschaft gesehen haben, da wollten der Schorsch und soi Alde auf einmal auf Energie in den Milanhäcksler investieren, da waren die Kopfschmerzen wegen dem Infraschall auf einmal nur noch halb so schlimm. Oder lagen halt doch am Schorsch. Wer weiß.

    Menschen ey.







  • Sell me a properly, >22cm ground clearance station wagon with 1.8 tons of towing in fully electric and I’ll buy it. And no, I have decided, I am not going back to a used ICE car.

    We had that kind of cars, they have gone the way of the dodo.

    So, it’s either some dumb electric SUV with no ground clearance at all or the electric Audi SUV that I have now with at least the airride that I can lift going offroad.

    Apart from that: This right here is a glaringly visible example, but all over their lives, people make decisions based on tribal closeness. Everybody using something from China accepts slave labour or at least extremly unfavorable working conditions for some unknown people. Everybody wearing brand sneakers (and offbrand sneakers) accepts some kids manufacturing them instead of going to school. Every chicken nugget from a fast food chain includes extremely bad living condictions for the contents of the nugget before being puréed and fried.

    Imho, all of this should be questioned from time to time and usually not having/eating/experiencing something is the honest answer that everybody has to work out for themselves. Feeling extremely superior because one’s own answers differ from the the next person’s answers is not something I can see anything good coming out of, for the entire society.





  • Yep, neutral is blue, ground is green/yellow striped. The latter everywhere, e.g. in a server cabinet you’ll mostly find the strap between body and door in yellow/green.

    Phases, L1 to 3 are brown, black, grey. Or you may use numbered cables for rail interconnects if necessary. You can see me getting a bit sloppy with all brown 16mm² for L1 to 3 leaving the meter slots, but they are numbered then.

    Every outlet gets ground, neutral and one phase, so usually I’d enter a room with 5x1.5 NYM and then connect the phases alternatingly to the outlets while forming a chain throughout the room, so phases get loaded equally in daily use.


  • Whenever I look at US domestic electric installations, it all looks so… temporary. Seems like there are no standards regarding cable colors, cable configuration, central distribution of N and PE, segregation of the panels contens, suddenly there’s a length of uninsulated copper in the middle of it all and a yellow isolation - I mean, you guys don’t die more often than we do, so I guess it works all out and is probably a lot cheaper.

    I have no good counterexamples, but I snapped a few pictures when I redid the main distribution in the basement

    …and that’s what the sub-panels per floor look like: