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🔥 Hot ▲ 31.4k r/OddSatisfying+6 crossposts

Changing a truck tire on the go

Probably not even his first time doing this.

u/EngineurEngi — 12 days ago
▲ 11 r/Bluegrass

2025 Telluride Bluegrass Festival lineup (audio only)

u/road_runner321 — 14 days ago
▲ 2.2k r/solarpunk+2 crossposts

Sun Oven Sourdough - Trial run!

We’re going on an extended camping trip soon and there was no way I’m giving up sourdough while off grid! The gas oven in the rv is only 4” high so while I can do some baking in it, it’s not big enough for anything other than Pullman loaves.

100g rye starter
500 g KA organic bread flour
350g water
12g salt

Mixed together, 3 sets of stretch and folds and about 8 hours of bf, then shaped in to a banneton. In the fridge for overnight cold proof.

Set up the sun oven the next morning, and it got to about 350f in about 20 minutes. Watched it for another 20 to see how the temp would do and it was hovering at that same temp.

Put a few ice cubes around the parchment, and then lid on and in to the sun oven.

Kept the lid on in there for an hour.

Removed the lid and baked another half hour.

Let it rest overnight and cut in to it this morning.

Came out way better than I expected!

Next time I’ll bake for another 15ish as it seems just slightly underbaked at the bottom of the loaf, but overall perfectly edible!!

u/Haven — 1 month ago
▲ 43 r/solar

I think my power company is stealing. My net metering seems to abruptly cut off during peak demand hours when the sun is still high in the sky and my batteries are discharging.

I have a 6.5 kW system.

The red circles are 2-6pm, the peak hours during summer. I don't run my AC during peak times. I have my system set to charge from 10-2pm and discharge the batteries afterward. You can see the net metering of my solar up until 10am when it all gets diverted to the batteries.

Even on very sunny days the net export during peak hours is recorded as zero when I KNOW that I'm producing more than the house is using because the AC is off, the batteries are outputting ~500 watts, and the panels are still producing upwards of 4 kW.

Where is that 4 kW going if not to the batteries? To the grid, I'll bet, and my power company just decides to ignore it.

edit: Found out that this might be an error on the part of the utility where the graph won't show the recovered power at certain times but it will be properly deducted from the bill. Wait and see, I guess.

u/road_runner321 — 2 months ago
▲ 21 r/solarpunk

The Witness is a puzzle game that has a very solarpunk feel - nature intertwined with technology in an aesthetic and symbiotic way. I'll sometimes just wander around because it's so pretty and calm.

u/road_runner321 — 2 months ago
▲ 9 r/Victron

Two Multiplus-II in split-phase - Why is L1 feeding such a large load back to the grid while L2 is drawing a similar load from the grid?

How do I stop my inverters from doing this unnecessary extra work?

edit: I've figured it out! Thanks, u/Flames15. L2 wasn't running ESS so it was trying to charge the battery while L1 was drawing from the battery trying to keep the grid at the setpoint, so they just ended up running the same 2000W in a loop.

u/road_runner321 — 3 months ago
▲ 11 r/movies

Not sure if a movie, from a TV show, or something I dreamed. Been in my brain for 30+ years.

This was way back in the 80s or early 90s.

The scene is a wasteland with a group of people huddled together, wind blowing, dark sky, desolation.

The leader of the group (I though he was played by Deep Roy?) calls out to Mother Nature, who appears in a window in the sky. She asks what's wrong and the man asks why the world has changed so much. She tries to lie and reassure them that everything will be alright, but then she starts to look sick, begins coughing, and starts to fade away with the man calling "Mother? Mother!"

The scene seems like a short conservation cautionary tale that would run on a kid's show, but it seems a little harsh for Sesame Street. It might've just been a dream, but it left an impression that's lasted decades.

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u/road_runner321 — 3 months ago