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Just to put this in perspective, for $169 you can get a 1200Wh deep cycle battery on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Universal-UB121000-45978-100AH-Cycle-...

however, you will only get 300 cycles before the battery performance degrades to unacceptable levels.

If you wanted to use this deep cycle battery for 5 years (300X5, 1500 cycles), you would only be able to discharge 20%, meaning you would need 5 of them.

So given that you can buy a $169/1200Wh battery right now, and get 300 cycles Or you can consider it a $845 (5 X $169) / 1200Wh given the above explanation regarding cycles.

So for $900 you can get a 100 AH 12v lithium battery, which gives you near 1200Wh, $900/1200Wh to give further understanding about the title of the article. The lithium battery should give you the same amount of cycles as the 5 deep cycles. However they are relatively new in this size and unverified, they will probably perform at this level.


The 5 lead acid deep cycle's will weight approx 320 lbs, the 100 Ah Lithium Ion is 29lb...


I can't read the article, there is no room to see the text. To many pop-ups,pop-downs,spam headers. Whatever the article says, I can't see it.


I though this was basically the main business plan on flippa, like an open secret. And I have even heard that some books on "new york times best seller list" are just books moving between warehouses to generate invoices.


> And I have even heard that some books on "new york times best seller list" are just books moving between warehouses to generate invoices.

This probably doesn‘t help. The “The New York Times Best Sellers“ is a curated list. High sales don’t guarantee a placing on the list.

This is not even a secret: When William Blatty sued the New York Times because The Exorcist had only been on the list, he lost the case. The defense was that “the list did not purport to be an objective compilation of information but instead was an editorial product.“ [1]

[1] https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_11409822?guccounter=1


>The Exorcist had only been on the list

Think you meant "had not been". p.s. Enlightening article, thanks.


I thought he sued because he was on the list only for a very short time when sales numbers justified a longer time. This is wrong and I should have written "had not been". Thanks for the hint.


Many newspapers do this to inflate subscriber numbers and sell ads.


I love their emails

"Dog diaper changing article site making 70 billion dollars a month! Only 12k$!" Uh huh, sssssuuuurrrreeee.


This is literally the plot to the 1971 George Lucas sci-fi film THX 1138, down to the detail: "set in a dystopian future in which the populace is controlled through android police ... ."


Quack here. I've been saying this, and backing it with scientific support, since at least 2003 and being dismissed. Got my mom to reduce her insulin by cutting out all the carbs (took several years), now she thanks me. I think we should be more open to more "outlandish" claims from people. There are some serious problems with modern medicine. SSRIs being out performed by pasebo or just turmeric, Potassium Bromide in bread causing cancer, Blood Thinners actually causing heart attacks, Titanium Dioxide, aluminum sulfate causing breast cancer and "race for the cure" not spending any money on actual research, no real antibiotic resistance with first responding antibiotics (simple amox, doxy, penn ) and reducing their use causes more harm, the need to ban glysophophate and do multi-generation claw back damages lawsuit. Anyway just thought I chime in. All of these are backed by research.


there's an extremely efficient diesel engine called the Lister CS that became popular in the 1920s. It's claim to fame is that it can run 30-45 years without major maintenance and produce 1kwH per .125 gallons of diesel. That's 8kwh per gallon. It was banned in 2009 by the Obama administration because it was considered fuel inefficient by bureaucrats who didn't understand the design. There was a movement to try and de-list it from the ban. My dream has been trying to find one and draft it into freecad so people could 3d print cast iron molds and re-manufacture them. https://youtu.be/NhAD8D3sM2A?t=98


From what I can tell, the Lister was banned because of carbon particulate emissions, not due to efficiency. However, very slow turning engines like the Lister tend to have a more complete combustion and lower emissions.


>>can run 30-45 years without major maintenance

I think it would be better to list the number of miles it can run before maintenance is needed. Just stating the time does not provide a complete picture.


would an ignition coil from a lawnmower work? I googled "F150 ignition coil" and it is rated at 40kV


this happens to me. Also I would get "phantom calls" right before my phone was about to ring. Sometimes I had leg twitches when I kept my phone in my pocket, that I thought was just a pinched nerve, but my phone would then begin to ring. I no longer store my phone in my pocket and have not had phantom calls/leg twitches. Placing my phone near a speaker I could correlate that the frequency of the twitches matched whatever frequency the phone pinged the tower. Not proof but very suspicious.

Interesting enough I have been disabling my wifi at home at night because I was challenged to see if I felt a better deeper sleep. I did, but I have not ruled out placebo effect. I want to randomize this somehow and record which days I think it is off (depending on my sleep) vs days it is on, to rule this out. I am horrified that EMF could be affecting me like this if it is true. I live in an area without other wifi, 3g, or 4g. I do not own a frequency counter, but that would help me eliminate other interference for better test results.


This type of uncontrolled self-experimentation is extremely fraught with bias and is not a reliable way to reach a conclusion at all. For example, you discount all the times you get a leg twitch and your phone doesn't ring. You probably don't even register it. Your muscles most definitely are not activated by 1-3GHz radio waves broadcast at less than one watt. Otherwise you'd be dancing like a marionette 24/7.

And the sleep experiment is even worse. How do you quantify "better deeper sleep?" Please don't spread this kind of anecdotal pseudoscience, it just makes the rest of the world more uninformed. The more confidence you have in your objectivity and expertise on the subject, the worse your bias gets. People who work with tech have to be doubly sure to control for bias.


if you have a blood parasite, the virus will hide inside the parasite and re-infect you, and it won't matter if you are on a drug that kills the virus (unless the drug can get into the parasite and kill it as well). Even worse the virus could theoretically hide in your DNA or immune system as instructions-to-run-later, and your system could screw up and accidentally re-create it -- I am not sure how exactly that would work but it is worth exploring the possibility. If it was easy to kill, it'd be dead by now.


I apologize -- I think I'm missing the question...

The working hypothesis now is that if the root cause is pathogenic, then suppressing the pathogen(s) should delay or even prevent onset of the disorder by warding off collateral damage from the innate immune response. Applied: An indefinite (Val)acyclovir supplement should suppress recurring outbreaks of latent Herpes-class viruses, thereby avoiding the immune response which is speculated to eventually lead to Alzheimer's and Dementia-class disorders. All the other ancillary links (e.g. cortisol -> increase in risk, sleep deprivation -> increase in risk) may be explained through the same vehicle (e.g. cortisol -> increase in Herpes-class virus reactivation, sleep deprivation -> impairment in processes used to flush the brain, hastening onset of collateral damage from immune byproducts e.g. beta-amyloid), and it's the many different connections which may have thrown researchers off the scent.

If it took this long to potentially understand the connection, it would explain why "If it was easy to kill, it'd be dead by now" doesn't apply here.

Hopefully I answered your question, but I should restate that I don't quite understand what you asked :/


I eat pre-mixed Thai curry paste from this brand called "Mae Ploy" with coconut oil, powdered coconut milk, meat (either chicken or beef) and vegetables. There's about five different flavors and for $8 you get a 2 pound bucket of it I have never actually been able to finish one in less than a year.

Turns out I can eat an amazing very low carb meal for about $2 a day and 2-3 minutes of meal prep. It's currently my "meal for life".

If there is a Japanese pre-mixed curry for sale, let me know!


there are lots of premixed Japanese curry blends. Start off with Golden Curry roux blocks, and then you might want to branch out to other brands like Vermont Curry (tastes of apple and honey, its right there on the package!). Its actually even lazier dish than Mae Ploy because all you add it water. You dont even need to have coconut milk in the pantry.


Came here to shill roux blocks too. Learned about them just a month ago. Easy to prepare and great flavor!


https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=カレー%20ルー

They should be available at any shop that sells Japanese or Asian food


S&B Golden Curry


That sounds delicious, I love how much flavour is packed in Thai curry paste. But how can you make a fully cooked curry in 2-3 minutes?


I am embarrassed to admit this but I use a microwave-safe ceramic dish with lid for steaming vegetables. I put two to four tablespoons of coconut oil and 4 tablespoons of curry paste. I heat it up for 30 seconds and mix it and add coconut milk powder. Then I fill it with frozen vegetables and nuke it for 10-15 minutes.

The frozen chicken breasts are cooked in toaster oven for 45-75 minutes at 400f in a cast iron flat plate skillet. I usually start the microwave when this is done, because again I am very lazy and need to run another 20 amp circuit to that spot of the kitchen.

I cut up the cooked chicken and put it in the bowl when it is finished. I have it timed so everything is perfectly cooked. Probably the most offensive and lazy way of cooking this dish, quick and about $2.25 total including frozen chicken, frozen vegetables, paste, coconut oil, and milk. You could add $.13 for about 1kw for electricity to be fair.


Thai curry is cooked quickly, usually in a wok. Japanese curry, in contrast, is usually simmered for a long time. The latter is to thicken and soften the meat and vegetables. Thai curry’s consistency is managed by using more or less coconut milk vs the actual paste. And the meat and vegetable pieces are cut much smaller so they cook almost instantly.


Depends on the recipe a traditional Rogan Josh should be marinated for 24-48 Hours.

I also tend to do tika in a wok if I am doing a curry then simmer the cocked chicken in the wok to finish it off.


We were discussing Thai curry. There are some dishes cooked in Thailand that are marinated or slow cooked, but curries aren’t. Southern curries are cooked a little longer. But it’s common to get e.g., massaman curry in Thailand with undercooked potatoes.


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