Well that’s a software update. Software defined means more changes - like a software defined radio, it will change from being a Bluetooth device to a WiFi device. Can’t see how that will benefit a car. “Small” features, yes. My car suddenly a dump truck, no thanks.

It’s coming. With my solar, and more importantly battery, installation, I have signed up to be part of a VPP (virtual power plant). This means that some times the batteries will charge of the grid and sometimes discharge to the grid. This is controlled by “something” (don’t exactly know how it works) central that will make the VPP balance the grid - if there’s too much energy it will charge the batteries and not enough it will discharge. A few companies already got this going and you will be paired more than what you could sell to the grid (apparently). It’s not super often (apparently) that the VPP goes into action.

I’m in Denmark but would guess other countries are doing similar. It’s called Netbalance (Net Balance) and not sure what other countries call it.

I will invest my time elsewhere. Boring is good, Debian Stable all the way.

Haha, you sound like my boss… it only takes 10 minutes. If you want to really try it out and not just, more or less, boot it, then it takes more time. And right now in my life, 10 minutes is a lot and does not include getting ready to spent 10 minutes.

So fa, I have had big differences between running in a VM and on actual hardware.

The wind itself isn’t converted into electricity. The turbine extracts kinetic energy from the moving air and converts a portion of that energy into electrical energy. As a result, the air leaving the turbine is moving more slowly than the air entering it.

That’s what I said, just without mentioning all the stuff in between - I’m sure that there’s cables and other boring details involved as well ;-)

Just to add a little anecdotal story, our solar panels were quite good at getting rid of snow. It took a little while after the sun come up but once a little bit of the panels were exposed, it started to go fast.

Try slapping a nuclear plant on the side of a dam :) Solar can be installed so many places but of cause, needs help (like batteries, wind turbines, other power generation) to deliver power when the sun is not around.

Some of the wind is converted into electricity, so the wind is reduced. Might not be a lot, but it could have some kind of an impact.

From the celebration’s web page:

Rebild National Park Society is the first Danish-American friendship association and has existed for more than 100 years. Through our community and voluntary work, we demonstrate the value of freedom, friendship, and unity between Denmark and the US.

So, it’s been going on for a long time apparently largest celebration outside the US. And not just a celebration of 4th of July but the ties between Denmark and USA. Not something that you just want to shut down because of a (hopefully) temporary “relationship issue”.

Yep, you have to go to Word settings and change the default save format.