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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

And just to emphasize the point, we don’t use our car lightly.
We have gone on numerous road trips including from the Pacific to the Atlantic cross Canada in 2022. We have a hitch on the Kona that I use to pull a trailer for everthing from camping, to road trips, to hauling a yard of soil or rock.

We have certainly had some maintenance costs for the Kona. Some regular (brakes, after 150,000), checkups, 12V battery twice, etc. and some self inflicted (alignment and back shocks due to trailering). Visits to the dealer are your standard $500 to $2000 affair once a year. We have a second set of rims for the winter tires. We have bought 2 new sets of tires, one winter, one all season. The all seasons will be replaced after this summer.

The main battery was replaced under recall in February 2022 (before our road trip) at about 50,000km so we have a slightly newer battery than the car but not significantly, and we have not noticed any degradation in charge life.

On this day in 2022 we were visiting Wanuskewin, Saskatchewan just outside Saskatoon on our way back. We stopped to charge in Saskatoon, North Battleford, Lloydminster and Vegreville on the way to the West Edmonton Mall that day :)
#EV #ElectricCar #cost #electricity #bchydro #bcpoli #endfossilfuels

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

EV Charging Cost by the Numbers.

I charge my car at home almost nightly wirh a Level 2 Flo 30A/240V charger.

I noticed today that they have added an "estimated rate" for my address based on my utility (BC Hydro) charge so that it can estimate the cost of the charging.

Their estimate is $0.11400/kWh. I drive alot. 160km a day when I am commuting to work and then 50-100km in the evening 4-5 days a week Dashing. Thanks to dashing I have a solid record of odometer readings.

We have both tiered and time of day pricing so it's complicated to do this manually. I do most of my charging during the lowest rate overnight. I have the Flo charger set to only charge at full 30A power between 11PM and 7AM to match the overnight rate, then 15A in "off peak" (standard rate) and to turn off completely during on-peak 4PM to 9PM times.

I think their estimate is quite accurate considering the overnight rate is usually $0.14 - $0.05/kWh. Ill include my latest electrical bill. (we are billed monthly)

Here are the numbers.
A "full tank" of battery is 65kWh

Monthly: eg. March (full time commuting plus dashing) 4668km
30 charging sessions
853.4kWh
$97 ($2.07/100km)

Last 12 months: 56,107km
8793kWh
$1,002 ($1.78/100km)

There are a few free charges at work in there (15 in the year?) but any saving is eaten up by $6/day parking cost.

As a comparison if I drove our 2014 Prius C hybrid 56,000km at its general fuel mileage of 5L/100km and an average price of $1.60/L that would be $2,800. So I am saving by more than half, and probably more than that, compared to one of the best mileage hybrids out there.

It makes less and less sense to buy a gas car.

(We have 222,607km on the 2019 Hyundai Kona and about 250,000 on the Prius)

#EV#ElectricCar#cost
💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Hurricane Science Was Great While It Lasted
The U.S. is hacking away at support for state-of-the-art forecasting.
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theatlantic.com/science/archiv <-- shared media article
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ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/ <-- shared NOAA SSMIS page
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earthdata.nasa.gov/data/instru <-- shared NASA SSMIS home page
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

New Research Aims To Better Predict And Understand Cascading Land Surface Hazards
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phys.org/news/2025-06-aims-cas <-- shared technical article
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doi.org/10.1126/science.adp955 <-- shared paper
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#interconnected #geology #engineeringgeology #landcover #landsurface #GIS #spatial #mapping #landcover #hydrology #water #geomorphology # geomiorphmetry #risk #hazard #extremeweather #climatechange #cascading #cascadinghazards #debrisflow #wildfire #massmovement #landslides #flood #flooding #mudflow #susceptibility #chainreaction #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #prediction #management #planning #mitigation #multifactor #sediment #erosion #fluvial #earthquake #fault #faulting #hazardassessment #riskassessment #volcano #vulcanism #sealevelchange #cryosphere #ice #snow #GLOF #humanimpacts #urban #infrastructure #cost #economics #loss #damage #earthobservation #remotesensing #LiDAR #UAV

Gea-Suan Lin

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使用 OpenAI 的語音轉文字 API 的省錢方法：加速語音

Gea-Suan Lin's BLOG · 使用 OpenAI 的語音轉文字 API 的省錢方法：加速語音OpenAI 的語音轉文字 API 是照語音的長度算錢的，然後昨天還是前天在 Lobsters 上看到的省法，把語音的部分加速就可以了：「OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter」。 作者測試發現跑 2x 或是 3x 都還 OK，但 4x 就不行了，然後也有提到這跟原始的語速有關 (很容易推論)： More helpfully, I didn’t compare word-for-word, but spot checks on the 2x and 3x vers...
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