Over half of all humans as of 2020 live in cities.

Cities on average (at least in the US) have 5-15% green space compared to their built environment.

Sustainability considers not only environment and health, but also the welfare of the birds themselves.

Free range is thought to be the highest standard of welfare for bird raising. The USDA doesn't have a definition for how much acreage is the bare minimum to reach this status, but the EU defines this as 1 bird per 43 sq ft. This is compared to many plants that require 36 sq ft or less to grow.

All of this is to say that the majority of people don't have good access to sufficient land to raise their own chickens, let alone other animals for consumption or even vegetables as with community gardens.

If we want to be more sustainable with our food production, we need to look at how how our food systems work and how we can better integrate them with the places we live in via zoning and urban design. That mentality lends itself better to plant-based farming, which is more sustainable overall compared to the convention.

So no one in the (non-residential) industry cleans their modules, except if you're in the Southwest.

The phenomenon of panels getting dirty is called soiling loss, and its defined either by how many solid particulates (e.g. soil, dirt, sand, agricultural dusts from nearby harvests, chemical particulates from nearby factories, etc.) or snow accumulates. I make that distinction because there's different models that the industry uses for predicting these things: the Kimber model for non-snow, and the Townsend model for snow.

The reason the (non-residential) industry doesn't really care about washing their panels is because:

• 1. rain washes any solids away, and
• 2. panels generate heat if converting photons to electrons

The Kimber model assumes that solids accumulate as a line function which restarts once it rains more than a certain amount. Weather data provided by NOAA in the States for instance can be fed into the model to calculate what percentage losses your panels will experience over their lifespan. Usually solar engineers over design their systems so they reach the energy amount across the entire system's lifespan.

For snow its the same, except when it snows a crazy amount like in the Northeast US and so much accumulates, all of the panel's cells are blocked from direct sun and this delays the self-heating effect as the modules are essentially fully shaded. In those cases, depending on how bad the snowfall was or how frequently it falls, companies may elect to brush off the snow once or twice in a winter season.

You'll notice that I left out residential solar, which is what you most likely care about.

Since residential solar is so finely tuned to meet the greater degree of constraints with working with a smaller array than community or utility scale arrays, more attention does need to be paid to cleaning the modules.

Whoever is designing your system though should be able to build in a certain amount of soiling losses, and that will help dictate the final array design. If your developer or installer doesn't know what this number is (should range from 0.5-4% loss compared to perfect world conditions), then I'd try to dig more for that or switch developers/installers if they don't want to give that information up.

It's not worth it for homeowners or developers or installers to clean such small arrays unless it's their prerogative to do so I guess. But I guess I'm a lazy engineer making that call so who am I!

As someone in the solar industry, yes

Democrats lost 6 millions voters in 2024 compared to 2020.

Republicans gained 3 million voters in 2024 compared to 2020.

Third parties stayed the same between 2024 and 2020 at 3 million total voters.

9 million people chose to abstain from voting in 2024 compared to 2020.

Even if you add up the some ~1 million uncommitted voters that voted Green or PSL in 2024, this pails in comparison to the amount of people that either switched parties or didn't vote at all.

Democrats did this to themselves. Kamala ran towards the Republicans instead of rallying to the Democrats' traditional strengths as well as making a coalition with progressives and leftists.

The more you blame Palestinian voters instead of Democratic party leadership, the more you wish for the destruction of all minority rights in this country.

Good luck! Stay safe

I understand where you're coming from, but you're not offering any solutions. Makes you look like a troll that acts in bad faith.

If you care enough to want people to listen to you, perhaps change your approach.

He rolled over and let the DNC fuck him

How so?

Skateparkge

I know the person you're replying to won't care to read these materials, but it sure helps for others reading through the comments with where to start educating themselves. Thanks!

You calling the person above a tankie just shows how ignorant you are.

They took the time, with references and without name-calling (something you immediately jumped to), to refute your claim about the Chinese government.

Why can't we have honest, intellectual discussions on the internet?

Your behavior reflects how most people think about socialists.

I'll go ahead and recommend HappyCow for anyone looking for plant-based options outside of their home community.

They have a map where people can suggest places that have vegetarian or vegan options but are mostly omnivorous, or full on vegetarian or vegan restaurants, cafes, grocery stores, food trucks, you name it. I think HappyCow the company also verifies the places people upload so it's somewhat vetted.

I find that starting with HappyCow and then cross-referencing with Google Maps or OSM gives me the best results.

Forager Project has a nice oatmilk. I like it better than Oatly.

T-Mobile supports these bands:

• 5G: n2/41/71/258/260/261
• 5G,ER: n25
• 4GLTE: B4/5/12/71
• 4GLTE,ER: B25/66
• 2G,GSM: B2

Fairphone 5 supports these bands:

• 5G: n1/2/3/5/7/8/20/28/38/41/48/71/77/78
• 5G,ER: n66
• 4GLTE: B1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/20/28/32/38/40/41/42/48/71
• 4GLTE,ER: B66

It looks like the Fairphone 5 covers T-Mobile's 5G Frequency Band 1 frequencies (bold), but Frequency Band 2 is not covered (italic).

Regarding 4G, the Fairphone 5 covers all LTE networks (bold) except for extended range band B25 (italics).

it doesn't support US bands for TMobile

It covers some, but not all.

another embarrassing false narrative by the Dems.

Rittenhouse got due process, as much as I and many others regret the jury's verdict.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia got no due process, so no judge nor jury got to cast a verdict on the Trump Administration's claims. Instead, Trump acted as judge, jury, and executioner by sending Garcia to El Salvador when we knew he obtained a withholding of removal specifically for that country in 2019.

Even if the narratives were false, in Garcia's case, Trump is removing your rights. That alone should be enough to pay attention and disapprove of Trump's actions.

he was MS13

He was not. He immigrated to the US without proper documentation in 2011 at the age of 16 to escape gangs in El Salvador. Why would you try to escape gangs if you were part of one?

a duel citizen

He was not a dual citizen. Garcia has citizenship in El Salvador, but received a withholding of removal status in the US, an alternative to asylum. He was a legal resident of the US, and a legal citizen of El Salvador.

he was not MS13

This is true.

that doesn’t disprove he was MS13

No evidence was presented in immigration court that Garcia was part of MS-13. Instead, hearsay from a police officer (who later was found to supply confidential information to an escort, breaking his oath as a cop) and a anonymous informant (who said Garcia was in a NYC MS-13 gang, when Garcia lived in Maryland, not NYC) were deemed good enough for the immigration court. Neither the police officer nor informant were allowed to be cross-examined at the time, so we have no idea if these are lies or not. The judge didn't allow it.

it is on the judge to show sufficient evidence for their ruling.

Do you mean it is on the lawyers accusing Garcia to show sufficient evidence? The judge doesn't show evidence in a trial... They rule on the evidence...

does call into question the rest of his judgement about him being MS13

As it should. The entire thing was a sham.

no person would apply only to US citizens?

This sentence does not make any sense.

Kilmar being a duel citizen

Again, Garcia was not a dual citizen. He was a legal resident of the US as afforded by a withholding of removal verdict, and a legal citizen of El Salvador.

Please for the love of Truth educate yourself before speaking nonsense on the internet. You literally have Chrome or Firefox at your fingertips.

Do nothing, win!

I agree. Maybe immigrating Europe or emigrating the US, but that does seem odd.

This is already common usage and I don't see the need for any prefixes to the word.

As we've already seen in this thread, sometimes prefixes are needed to help establish the arrow of causation when people do migrate. Did they come to or leave from this or that country? Etc.

not the current english word.

Good thing language can change over time :)

What do you think it means for capitalism to win?

I mean, you're right that Republicans taking away people's rights should be news. It should be the topmost article on a newspaper.

Right under that though should be the news about how the supposed opposition party caved in to the Republicans by agreeing and voting in favor, thereby increasing the Republicans' effective party size in the House.

Democratic representatives not representing their constituents should be news, but of course that news is as old as printing itself, much longer.

The claim and exercise of a Constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime.

Irrelevant to this conversation.

Persons faced with an unconstitutional licensing law which purports to require a license as a prerequisite to exercise of right… may ignore the law and engage with impunity in exercise of such right.

By this logic, voter registration isn't in the constitution, so you might be able to make the argument that it violates the 14th, 15th, 19th, and 24th amendments. Again, by this logic, regardless of if people have proper voting registration or any voting registration at all, they should still be able to vote anyways. The 4 Democrats mentioned in the above article pass a law against the above.

The state cannot diminish the rights of the people.

Tell that to the Republicans that introduced the above bill.

there can be no sanction or penalty imposed upon one because of his exercise of constitutional rights

What about the right to protest of UCLA students last April being violated because of false claims of anti-semitism, or the right to protest of Columbia students last March because of similar false claims? Did the US care about imposing sanctions or penalties on those people, or did they just detain and deport them instead?

a person cannot be compelled “to purchase, through a license fee or a license tax, the privilege freely granted by the constitution.”

Again, tell that to Republicans that introduced the above bill.