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A number of US states and territories have full or partial reciprocal driver’s license agreements with Germany, allowing a US license to be ...

When traveling overseas a debit card from Charles Schwab is quite useful: no fees for use of overseas ATMs refunds fees charged by th...

Our house has 8 kilowatts of solar generation and 27 kilowatt-hours of battery storage, and is on a time-of-day electricity plan where pow...

We are on a Time-of-Day electricity plan, the PG&E EV2 plan . Our cost for electricity is:     Summer Winter Off-Peak 12am - 3pm...

The phrase "too cheap to meter" entered the energy discourse in the 20th century, referring to the potential of nuclear power. T...

This is the second post in a series about conducting genealogical research in Germany. The earlier post is " German Genealogical Resear...

We have a 2016 Kia Soul EV. It uses a 27kWh battery pack, quite small compared to other electric vehicles which commonly have 50+ kilowatt...

I'd like to talk about genealogy for a bit. In the process of gradually becoming my father, who was very much interested in family histo...

We had a Mitsubishi mini-split heat pump system installed in 2019, to replace a pair of gas furnaces. We love the system, but finding an i...

California invested heavily in solar and wind starting more than a decade ago. So far in 2024 renewable sources have met 100% of the state&#...