So awesome to see someone experience true joy and wonder

Awesome man 🤙🏽. Welcome

Welcome 🤙🏽

So glad I left that woke-ass province 13 years ago.

Good job!

I miss carbs. Time for a cheat day. This looks amazing.

Familial monarchies appear to be the only system that have incentives aimed at the enduring good of a nation. Monarchs are incentivized to leave a legacy of relative peace and prosperity to their heirs. But this system too eventually falls victim to overreach, greed and corruption. I don’t think there is any way out of the anacyclosis of a nation’s constitution, postulated by Plebius. Humanity will always be messy and history will always be on a sine wave.

Awesome! I’m stoked. I’m going to play thunderstruck and air guitar on my kitchen counter when I get it 🤙🏽

GM 😂

After shitcoining.

There’s a good community around it too for custom content, like additional scenery, airports and aircraft. And the flight modeling and instruments are amazingly real. It’s a professional sim. You can even get into advanced things like ILS approaches and landings if the aircraft you are using is so equipped. I learned how to do hands-off ILS approaches and landings which was pretty cool. Near the end of my sim days, my favourite plane was an F-22. It taught me more about my local area than I would have ever imagined. My fav route was south from Kelowna YLW to the Columbia River, west to the Pacific Ocean along the river, then north along the Oregon and Washington coast to YVR in Vancouver.

If you select a plane in the sim that is similar to your trainer aircraft in terms of instrument layout, get a decent stick, and rudder pedals (optional but cool), and set up your keyboard so that the location of the controls is pretty close to the physical layout on your screen, it’s pretty immersive. I started noticing that in real life flight I was starting to develop some muscle memory for where to reach for flap and throttle and radio nav settings.

One word of caution about this sim is that it is really deep. And if you want to, you can easily spend a lot of money on hardware peripherals and time messing around with settings. Some guys I talked with on forums had complete cockpits built in their garages with all the bells and whistles.

If you just keep it simple and get a basic stick and keyboard setup, you can really enhance your training without burning a bunch of time. In this regard I am kind of glad I started with MS Flight. X-Plane is a beast of a program used for real pilot training. MS Flight is a little less technical.

In the sim, go to the airport you call home, and actually go through your preflight checklist and fuel check in your mind. Call ATIS for your airport’s current met report and active runway info. Set the wind, cloud and visibility in the sim to match. Pretend to speak to the tower for permission to taxi, take off (and re-enter the circuit later) using your real life aircraft ID. Just like you will in real life training flights. Then drill your flights while looking at the same scenery and geographic landmarks you will be using in RL.

Don’t let the sim take you away from real life flying. But find the sweet spot where it is saving you on dual instruction time and buying fuel.

Most of all, enjoy your new found skills. Fly. Keep your eyes outside of the cockpit. Always be scanning for aircraft while regularly doing your instrument scans. Maintain awareness of your fuel selector switch and remaining fuel. And don’t fly into clouds. (You will get into instrument flying later).

I’m excited for you! I hope you find a great instructor.

My kingdom for one person in my life that “gets it”. We are so early. #btc

So many of the hnw people I know need to fire their financial advisors and crack a book every once in a while. #btc #investing #endfiat

Give ‘er buddy. If there’s one thing I can say, emulate what nostr:npub1vwymuey3u7mf860ndrkw3r7dz30s0srg6tqmhtjzg7umtm6rn5eq2qzugd is doing for listener engagement with great boost reads, being a good shit and engaging his listeners on here, and bringing great content and interesting takes on the “Bitcoin and...” Podcast.

The guys on High Hash Rate #highhashrate and Ungovernable Misfits #ungovernablemisfits also have something cool and unique going on, with their comedy and the sincerity that comes through in their episodes.

And nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u is really doing it right with The Bitcoin Podcast’s great guests and content. (In addition to his modern-day-70’s-porn-star appeal and great broadcasting voice lol).

Don’t forget to take notes from my fellow Canadian nostr:npub103m96sra82w4agghew9cdxtzs4s8sl7qsjsvw6h653yml0gjrkzqefd3h5 and his channels. It’s cool to see what sincerity and grinding can do to grow a podcast and soon to be an empire with the new branding and business model for the #projectpotential Bitcoin fund. And nostr:npub17snmt4rhg4jelyjj33tt6d5rtcuyusfqrgy0th9vesr2552j4fxsdy2jmy the shepherd is cute.

It’s what I really love about this space. The people that were meant to be here are all rising. nostr:note1r648km3q39n5a7cslf78tmq6s8egtcx52428098mecqqj8v4t5wsjuj6ut

I’ll check it out. Are you going to use zap.stream or Fountain?

#bitcoinmining #mining #hashpower #offgrid #grownostr nostr:note1uaaatyzny069u4qhxxcfwusjm9j9vneeyn2ve7yptyre2cg8mx2q8h9ztc

If I had to pee, I’d dump the can out, pee in it, and drink that. It would still be sparkling, cause I’m just that awesome. Lol.

I love the car analogy. Can’t say how many times I’ve tromped on my brake pedal thinking I was about to roll forward into the building I was parked in front of 😂

This is the Revolution from ElectroMotion Energy. It has a propane, natural gas or diesel powered generator, an internal battery and charging circuit, a large thermal battery, and a sealed water tank. It connects to your home’s main electrical panel and your site’s water supply and internal hot water plumbing.

During peak electrical demand times on the grid, or during a power outage, a timer or the transfer switch starts the generator and begins generating electricity.

The heat from the generator is harvested to charge the heat storage medium in the thermal battery, heating the water in the water tank and making it available during the hours of peak demand for hot water, which also corresponds to the hours of peak electrical demand in the home.

Deployed at a ratio of 1 in 3 homes, this unit generates enough electricity to basically flatline the demand spike in a residential neighborhood during peak demand, massively reducing buildout costs for the local utility.

In a single home situation, the unit outputs enough electricity to effectively turn your meter backwards during peak demand times, further augmenting grid capacity and lowering the user’s power bill.

Since neighborhoods’ natural gas service (or an onsite propane or diesel tank) is way less prone to interruption than the electrical grid, this technology is particularly useful in parts of the country that experience sub freezing temperatures.

I did some fundraising and early prototype building assistance for my friend who started this business.

When we were testing early prototypes, the power would go out in the neighbourhood fairly frequently because of the frailty of the local grid during storms and peak demand times. My buddy’s house would be the only one on the block with the lights on. And the server racks for his web hosting business wouldn’t miss a beat.

Since my buddy knows I am into Bitcoin, I have been asked recently to do a feasibility study on integrating asic miners into the design to augment the heat generation and further offset the energy cost for the sites it is deployed at using subsidies from hashing.

Another thing I think is interesting is that in a distributed interconnected model, a thousand of these units could have a pretty big effect on mining decentralization and network support for the blockchain.

I have been running Bitcoin and messing with Lightning for a handful of years, but I am just short of getting my feet wet on mining. I know the basic software and the mechanics of connecting to pools vs solo, I just haven’t bought the hardware yet. I’m dying to get a little rig setup going. Maybe Santa will bring me a BitAxe this year lol.

If anyone with some mining and electrical engineering experience reads this and has some thoughts, I would love to connect. I’m a little out of my depth on the mining side of things and analyzing the economics of power and hardware costs versus mining income, but I feel like there is a good fit between this technology and Bitcoin mining. It’s all about the heat.

I’m thinking about the impact to the economic model of the unit by immersion harvesting the heat from a couple last gen cheap S19’s in particular.

PS this picture is an older prototype. The first residential install we ever did. The unit is now egg shaped and the backlit logo inset is blue. I’d like to turn it orange for a few hours each day : )