Garlic mustard; you ain’t getting any garlic bulbs out of that!
Fills out the understory pretty effectively there.
Edit: I didn’t look at the flowers or leaves or really anything up close and lept to a conclusion. It’s wild garlic as OP pointed out below, just an amount I’m not accustomed to seeing.
There’s no issue with running two charge controllers in parallel to the same battery bank.
That’s good to know, and definitely helpful, thank you! Somewhat obvious in retrospect. Just need to find the equipment…
Didn’t really occur to me that they exist; everything seems so focused on solar these days. But I’ll do some searching around.
I also am pretty stuck on grid tie at the moment, and grid tie AIO inverters are pretty cheap compared to piecemeal solutions. But perhaps that’s the flaw in my planning.
Honestly, a composting toilet ain’t bad. I have experience with a few composting toilets and the absolute key is making sure the ventilation is tip top shape. That could be installing a decent sized fan to continuously vent it, or making sure the exhaust stack is well into the breeze. It’s the same principle as a chimney.
If you’re not talking about a gas powered incinerator, it’s 1-2kw per poop. And if you poop and your partner poops 20 min later, it restarts the cycle.
With the right battery and inverters and enough generation anything is possible. The thing is that heating and cooling simply is a heavy load. Cooling is easier. If you are at all able, a water source heat pump is much more efficient than air source.
Metals and glass are highly recyclable but you’re right to question coatings. Dyes in the glass make it a challenge as well; green, clear, and brown glass are relatively common and sortable. Some areas sort their glass this way. The unpredictability of the chemical composition of the glass means it’s not made into the “same thing”, but moves down a grade. Like paper - the brown paper towels are a downgrade from the original product that was recycled to make them.
Aluminium cans are highly recyclable but if they’re shrink wrapped or have a label it can make it not worthwhile. https://www.aluminum.org/news/aluminum-container-design-guide-outlines-four-keys-circular-recycling
Metals like steel are also recyclable but the value does drop off because it’s not really possible to ascertain the grade or alloy or type of metal with high degree of certainty. Fortunately there’s plenty of applications for metals in that category.
Lead from car batteries is almost entirely recoverable.
There’s a lot of talk about how taxing share grants and stock options potentially harms innovation, as it impacts startup employees. Startup doesn’t have enough cash to attract top tier employees, so they’re offered stock grants as part of compensation which is fair enough. But if they’re taxed, and the stocks are illiquid (pre IPO), the employee is going to end up paying a whole bunch of tax on something that might, in the future, be worth a certain amount.
Collecting the taxes in-kind is a simple and incredibly obvious solution now that I see it.
Yeah you’re right, I didn’t zoom in. Flowers are entirely different for a start.