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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • They can be distributed though. I Install solar, most of the systems we install with batteries end up selling back a significant portion of their charge to the grid (iirc our system wide average is 40% nightly resale)

    So not only is each house with a battery not using grid power at night, its powering almost half of an equivalently sized house.

    Granted, batteries are still on the expensive side, so these systems aren’t coming enough ( I think we’re at ~10% of our systems have a battery)










  • From what I understand, they’ve been using the ‘normal’ system for most legal things since the 60s, and that was just how they socially talked about age, until it was abandoned in 2023.

    The old system also added a year on New years, not on your birthday. Meaning a baby born 2 days ago would be 2 years old if they were born on December 31. Apparently, laws do still keep that standard for some age based regulations, like school, drinking age, voting age, and draft. Which kind of makes sense; everyone born in X year gains those things at the same time. A less arbitrary cut off date for schools, no awkward math whe checking IDs, just born in ‘04, you’re good.’

    Still seems confusing having 3 ages in different contexts though.