🐔 A farm that cuts its electricity bill by 74% AND gives its chickens shade from summer heat?
Handsome Brook Farms, an organic pasture-raised egg producer in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky, just finished 9 ground-mounted solar projects totaling 579.7 kW across its farms. One farmer saw a 74.23% drop in his annual electric bill with 100% uptime since day one.
The ground-mounted panels pull double duty: clean power on top, shade for the hens below. The chickens roam between the arrays and the barn, staying cooler during intense summer heat.
The economics are real too. With federal tax credits, accelerated depreciation, and a USDA REAP grant, the payback is about 3 years. After that, power is basically free for the 25-year warranty period.
It offsets about 668 metric tons of CO2 annually. Not bad for a bunch of chickens and some panels.
Yeah we'll have to see, I have another Pi 400 running as my Jellyfin server and a couple other tiny, low-end services. (That one I opened up and stuffed an SSD inside)
@yapka Oh, Inkwell! Yes, that’s our new RSS reader that essentially syncs feeds with the Micro.blog platform and uses the same sign-in. It integrates replies to posts too where possible. I’m sure there will be more features shared between Micro.blog and Inkwell in the future.
Overshoot Day 2026, le risorse della terra esaurite il 30 luglio
Mancano ancora cinque mesi alla fine dell’anno, ma nel “calendario ecologico” restano solo tre giorni. Il 30 luglio cade l’Earth Overshoot Day 2026, la data in cui l’umanità avrà consumato le risorse naturali e avrà richiesto più risorse e servizi ecosistemici di quanti la Terra sia in grado di rigenerare in un anno.
And there we go! Vibe Coded #Podcast 21 🔗 https://vibe.coded.show/21
“How is it that we've arrived at episode 21, and I've never actually done an episode about what Vibe Coding is exactly? Or what the opposite of Vibe Coding is for that matter? Today, we rectify this odd scenario, and I also have an exciting announcement to make: We write code by hand. 🙌”
The all-hands event is done. Some minor glitches, but considering there was zero opportunity given for a dry-run, I think it turned out okay. It's funny to hear conversations around me now that I'm back at my desk. Everyone has an opinion. I'm making a list of the haters so I can recommend they do the job next time.
Là dove c’erano i cinefili oggi ci sono gli IMAXxer
Un formato nato per l'intrattenimento di massa è diventato l'ossessione di tutti coloro che si definiscono "veri" appassionati di cinema. C'entrano Nolan e Odissea, ma anche e soprattutto il modo in cui sta cambiando il nostro rapporto con i film e con la sala.
i've discovered that the Steam Machine CPU is actually 25-30% faster than my desktop's in single core performance, and very close in multi core despite my desktop having more cores & threads (Ryzen 7 5700X).
this is with the caveat of running my CPU in Eco Mode, so it's limited to, i think, 48W TDP...but then, that's versus the Machine's mere 30W TDP
