{"id":1047,"date":"2006-01-28T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2006-01-28T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-28T03:11:00","slug":"weekend-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1047","title":{"rendered":"Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off, I am so ahead of the game:  Extruded a new essay on <a href=\"http:\/\/cdwan.org:8080\/essays\/2006%2004%20-%20AI.pdf\">AI<\/a> on the train yesterday.  The growing list of these things is <a href=\"http:\/\/cdwan.org:8080\/essays\">here<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/_earthshine_.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">_earthshine_<\/a>, this one&#8217;s for you.<\/p>\n<p>On to the plan for the weekend.  I can already tell that today will be driven by the rhythm (ever notice how that word has no vowels?  weird) of the dishwasher.  I need to clean about 100 bottles in order to finish the beer we started two weeks ago.  I&#8217;m also planning to use up about 18 pounds of red malt extract in a highly experimental batch, testing the limits of malt character available to the homebrewer.  We&#8217;ll see what happens.  I&#8217;m aiming for original gravities in the 1.02 range.  <\/p>\n<p>Did some reading on solar panels for the house.  I&#8217;m totally bummed by what I found.  It occurred to me that since I spend about $1000 per year on electricity, it might be possible to buy a solar system that produces enough power to take me off the grid, or perhaps even sell power back to the utility.  Turns out that the system I would need to cover my average 900kW\/h per month consumption costs about $40,000.  Plus installation.  Now, there&#8217;s a tax credit of 15% of the first $15,000 of that &#8230; but still.  Damn.  It&#8217;ll pay for itself sometime *after* the mortgage runs out.  <\/p>\n<p>For new construction, though, I&#8217;m aiming for &#8220;off the grid.&#8221;  I want a well, wind, solar, geothermal, etc.  The only solution is to build my fortress atop an active volcano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, I am so ahead of the game: Extruded a new essay on AI on the train yesterday. The growing list of these things is here. _earthshine_, this one&#8217;s for you.<\/p>\n<p>On to the plan for the weekend. I can already tell that today will be driven by the rhythm (ever notice how that <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1047\">Weekend<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}