Tyler Burns

InfoSec - Cypherpunk - Vegan Ⓥ 🌱 - Animal Rights - Bitcoin - Privacy Proponent - Frugality>Consumption

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npub1d30mhvhd0sagmu83wdm26wqk00heptfn05xvgmfx7r9xscstnfcs7xynp3

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relay.mostr.pub

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2026-06-02 12:31:34 UTC

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You missed the point. I'm not giving my PII to relays nor do I relay on any single relay and can/have switched many times. The critique wasn't about third-parties in general. It was about your specific use of a third-party here.

2026-05-06 20:15:19 UTC

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Awesome! That's great to hear. Congratulations! I'm looking forward to reading about your journey. 🎉

2026-04-16 14:23:02 UTC

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To put it simply, you're wrong here. They're referring to how much of the sunlight is absorbed by the panel, not how efficient they are at turning that sunlight into electricity. Those are two very different things.
Most of the sunlight that is absorbed by the panel is radiated off as heat. A small percentage is reflected back and an even smaller percentage (usually longer wavelengths) actually make it all the way through the material.
But solar panels do absorb 90-95% of sunlight that hits them. The efficiency of the panel is how much of that 90-95% they absorb is the percentage of what was absorbed they turn into electricity (20-40% depending on the type of panel). Again, the rest is radiated off as heat.
The reason your house stays cooler with solar panels on the roof is because the heat being radiated off the panels that sit above the roof is being radiated back out into the atmosphere around your house rather than the roof radiating that heat back down into your home.