Ugh, a 47m deep cave with no special technical diving equipment is reckless to say the least.

Hijacking your own thread is new, I give you that 🤷

It is not a bad series by all means, but imagine the robot being a golem and nothing else changed… it really is more of a fantasy book IMHO.

I wonder if she plans to get back into writing “real” Sci-fi some more. The Monk and Robot series is nice, but IMHO the Wayfarer series was better. Maybe something based on earth in the not that far far future would be cool as well?

My favorite book of hers is “Record of a Spaceborn Few” 👍

It depends if they are linked in series or in row, but yes, typically it is better to have them all with the same open-circut voltage.

I guess most will have an overload protection, but with these cheap ones I would stay on the safe side and not add so many panels that an overload can easily happen.

Panels can have different voltages, so you can’t just randomly mix them. And those mini-inverters have maximum capacity you can’t exceed (typically 800W).

With the existing 100W panel you have it isn’t really worth it, but there are relatively cheap mini systems these days that are sold under the term “balcony solar” that can plug into a regular outlet and feed power into your home network.

No, he only says that it is affordable to a medium sized budget.

My educated guess is that it costs around 25,000€ to build this. The ePropulsion engine and battery you can see in the video is about 10,000€ of that.

Except that the risk of a 35 foot catamaran flipping over is very significantly lower in the first place.

This specific design maybe not, but similar light plywood-epoxy catamarans based on designs by James Wharram are well regarded and proven open-ocean sailboats.

Old article from 2015, but it has some valid points.

The original source says it is a solarpanel and that they carefully avoided crossing the photovoltaic elements with the string that holds it down would support that fact. It does look quite unusual though, but expensive flexible hiking solar panels like that might exist.

Forest is not the same as tree plantations.

I think in existing hospitals the biggest potential for small Solarpunk efforts is around visitors (family members etc.). Another topic could be food preparation for patients.

I am sure they would be happy to have your contributions, and line-art like that can also be nice for printing in flyers and zines.

That highly depends of the terrain and whats on top of it. Urban tunnels are much more expensive indeed.

Hence me specifying roof-top parks. You know, with lots of waterlogged soil and trees. The static load of that is significantly higher, but of course heavy trucks cause lots of dynamic load, which is another difficult issue.

Building a large bridge like that, with the added complication of holding lots of protentially water soaked heavy soil and trees roots that try to break through the bottom isn’t cheap. More or less the same reason why roof-top parks are prohibitively expensive in most cases.

What I find a bit surprising is that they didn’t go for a tunnel for the cars, which is typically cheaper to do.

From time to time there are calls for submissions that I see under the #solarpunk hashtag on the microblogging fediverse. I usually try to repost them here on the !writing@slrpnk.net community. Maybe browse a bit in the older entries there and see if there is some follow up or so.