This is just notes for now, will turn into the real deal soon enough.
Update 2:
http://www.solarpowerrocks.com/washington/
(long winded and annoying, but has info on incentives)
http://solardat.uoregon.edu/NorthwestSolarResourceMaps.html
(PNW solar potential)
http://www.gaisma.com/en/location/lacey-washington.html
(Solar path diagram- they’re kinda hard to read, but that’s basically the path the sun follows across the sky from equinox to equinox.)
Update 1:
http://www.windsun.com/ChargeControls/ChargeCont.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmb5MB9_TaM
Sun tracking solar panel w/ arduino
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATnnMFO60y8
Arduino solar Tracker
http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1224541956/9
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/partone-13.htm
http://www.discovercircuits.com/B/batt-chrg2.htm
Links:
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Posted 04 January 2010
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Just south of Amanda Park, dude in 20+ foot RV gets into fast lane (left lane) going up hill. I decide to pass on the right since this guy can’t read signs. “Slow moving vehicles stay right”. Big 4×4 Dodge truck in front of me passes him, I’m about 50% of the way past and [...]
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Posted 16 June 2009
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I’m taking my niece to a kids fishing event this weekend. They cram a small pond full of trout and let the kids go crazy. If it’s anything like the derbies in Forks I went to growing up then it will be a cluster F of sharp/barbed & weighted objects.
I’ll be wearing long pants and [...]
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Posted 17 April 2009
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This is wicked cool, saw it on a TED talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJxA8eIWQUc about Phone+Internet (Phoneternet).
Text 46645 (googl) instead of 411 and only pay txt messaging fees. In addition the number and whatever else you get back is already on your phone so you can refer to it again later.
Example usage here: http://www.google.ca/mobile/sms/index.html
Another option is the free [...]
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Posted 25 March 2009
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No matter how many times I downvote Jack Johnson it keeps coming back up.
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Posted 04 March 2009
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Went out for steelhead a few times over Thanksgiving break. I caught 2 tiny hatchery fish, steelhead jacks I guess, both about 20″ long missing an adipose. Calawah was low and really clear, I never do well when the river looks like that.
Also hooked what looked like a sockeye in the dickey although it would [...]
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Posted 30 November 2008
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Fantastic Contraption is a simple physics game where you try to get a wheel/ball thing into a goal.
Lots of levels and the forums are great. There are so many unique solutions to every level. I tend to go pretty simple but some of the things people come up with are mind boggling.
Here are a few [...]
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Posted 02 October 2008
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Finally got around to attempting a little beach fishing after some advice from the gamefishin forums. I set out on Saturday a little later than I wanted but hit the beach around 2pm. I figured I’d give it a shot for a few hours hitting the slack low-tide. High tide would of been better but [...]
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Posted 08 September 2008
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