Many homes are also generating a lot of solar energy now. More than they can use during the day. It would be great to put that to good use, especially as home bandwidth with fibre is pretty massive and accessible to the masses.
With micro generation with solar, many folks are also getting battery storage at home.
I visited a friend near me and his new build came with 5kw solar array and 10kwh batteries. As both of these get cheaper, along with large scale renewables, energy costs are going to fall. Using the surplus for useful activities will become much more profitable.
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yeah donāt get your hopes up. In NL thereās a surplus of solar energy, and it disrupts the grid and the energy companies actually pay greenhouse operators to burn the excess energy in empty greenhouses so they donāt have to pay the much higher negative powerprices to dump the energy abroad when the sun shines. When the sun doesnāt shine they resort to importing coal energy from Germany. We do have the largest natural gas field in Europe, but the green mafia managed to close it.
Solar energy only benefits the receivers of the subsidies.
Yep
Also when node joins there will be some nodes that then make some of the chunks inactive since those chunks are help by 5 closer nodes. This is done so if a node leaves then some of those inactive chunks may need to be active again since the node is again in the close 5 nodes to those chunks.
What happens to those inactive chunks when a new chunk is to be stored, one inactive chunk will be deleted and the new chunk stored. The one chosen to be deleted is determined by algo that works out the least likely to be needed.
Itāll have to restart with new xor address and Iāve been told today that itāll churn any chunks it still has in case the network needs them. If needed that sent if not needed then just deleted.
Many times, almost every node will eventually have 6th or 7th or ā¦
These will be the inactive chunks not being deleted yet in case they need to become active again.
This saves a significant amount of traffic when a node leaves.
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Perhaps instead of heating empty greenhouses, they will run Autonomi nodes? Tbh, they would be better off mining crypto or creating e-fuels too, but maybe there is a lack of imagination on the part of the generators.
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And the insurance companiesā¦ the number of earthquakes in the Groenigen(sp?) region was quite frightening - and only likely to get worse as the reservoirs were emptied.
The earth quakes in Groningen are actually barely noticeable. The heaviest measured earthquake had a magnitude of 3.6, which in half the world is just an average tuesday.
The problem is that over time, all these tiny earthquakes cause damage to houses if theyāre not properly reinforced but with proper reinforcement thereās no problem except maybe 3 broken coffeecups per year for the whole region.
While the loudmouth politicians pretend that they stand up for the people in Groningen, they are nowhere to be found when it comes to reimbursing people for the damages to their property (which is the actual discussion they divert from). And ofcourse they made sure that no insurance has to pay earthquake damages.
This is about hard headed green activists without any sense of reality throwing tantrums to push their 1 dimensional climate agenda. Instead of our own natural gas, we now import US shalegas and have poluting biomass ovens where we burn the baltic and canadian forests. So much win for the environment.
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I didnt know that, thank you
Greens working on behalf of/manipulated by Big Insurance, whoda thunk it?
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Would you please give me more information? Iād like to test the testnet 
Iāll try!
Youāll need a computer with an internet connection. Just about anything will do to just test. It can be either Windows, Mac or Linux.
Follow the instructions at the top of this page:-
for the OS you are using.
Maybe start simple and just try to run a single node to start with.
If you have issues ask in the comments on that page and me or someone else will try to help!
At the moment youāll need to use a CLI to join as a node or a client but soon there will be a GUI which should be easier.
The network has a couple of issues at the moment and the faucet is broken so you wonāt be able to upload anything using the client. But if you get to the point where you have the client working me or someone else can send you a small amount of token and you can test an upload.
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