My provider allows third party modems. Absent a conspiracy between manufacturers and providers, there is no way they can force updates on my equipment.
You are correct about the fine print, though. They reserve the right to update their software on my equipment (including computers). The simple solution there is not installing their software in the first place.
Repeater access depends on location. There are no ham repeaters within range of the best backcountry skiing in CO (nor at my ski resort of choice, for that matter). Still, I use a 2m HT (Handy Talkie, a.k.a. walkie talkie) with a high degree of success to communicate with friends when skiing in the backcountry. Reaching a base camp after crossing a couple of ridges is not something I have tested. If you want to get an idea of effectiveness, grab a pair of cheap FRS radios and try them next time you are out. If they give decent performance, get you ham license and you can get better, more powerful equipment, and can also modify it to transmit on local sheriff/SAR frequencies in case of emergency.
I also hold an Extra class license, but only for bragging rights.
We have a lot more than a few photographs supporting this. The worldwide retreat of glaciers is well established and is know to acutely affect the Himalayas, potentially threatening water supplies for millions of people.
Also, can you provide some sort of reference for your claim that the photos were taken in different seasons? I find this unlikely, since the regularity of the Monsoon storms and lengthy acclimatization process tend to force Everest climbers to focus their efforts during the same season each year. There are exceptions, but it is unlikely that Breashears would have intentionally chosen to retrace the old expeditions steps for documentary purposes off season.
Finally, why focus on the erroneous report, when the correct prediction suggests dire consequences for millions of people who rely on the rivers fed by those glaciers. "Several hundred years" might seem like a long time, but it is a geological blink of an eye. We should be very concerned.
You are assuming most of the new paper made from virgin fiber remains intact. In fact, most of it will be disposed of: Either incinerated or stored in a landfill. Landfill storage turns out to be problematic: "Quantification of methane emissions from landfilled paper is still imprecise, but if it is included, at the least, the yield, measured in terms of CO2 equivalents, will be increased by a factor of 2.5 compared with the CO2 emitted during complete incineration." [Wood in Our Future: The Role of Life-Cycle Analysis: Proceedings of a Symposium (1997) ]
Either way, paper is a net contributor of greenhouse gasses. Also note the original reference I chose was from a "green" paper company. Estimates from environmental groups, such as the Environmental Defense Fund Paper Calculator, indicate far higher net CO2-equivalent impact - 5882 lb CO2 equivalent per ton of copy paper according to the EDF, a ton more than Verso's estimate.
...environmentalists are just too stupid to recognize that paper is a carbon dioxide SINK
Redo.
Read this analysis of the lifecycle carbon cost of paper by a paper company. The bottom line is is an estimated cost of 1.81 tons CO2-equivalent impact per ton of paper (see paper for details).
Paper appears to be the opposite of a carbon sink.
Research supports parent, suggesting ads, rather than the TV programs, are responsible for obesity.
My own theory is the effectiveness of those ads can be greatly reduced by parents who watch TV with their children and discuss how the ads are trying to manipulate them. Even little kids will understand that Mt. Dew won't make you a better skateboarder when you explain it to them. They'll still ask for soft drinks at every opportunity. When my 7yo son asks for junk food, I sometimes reply with the question: "what would a good father say?". He always chooses the healthy option when I do this. Sometimes I say yes, because the forbidden fruit is always the sweetest.
Regeneration might recover 30% of the energy with there is no loss of efficiency. That's because at 20 mph, 190lbs of bicycle+rider has 3,500 joules of kinetic energy, but it costs 12,000 joules to travel 1/4 mile. 30% is pretty good, but not so good as a charged battery offering several times the specific energy.
Even with electric motors, regeneration current loses to more efficient geared drives on ebikes.
My source suggests otherwise: "Comparing to the data given for rechargeable batteries, this makes the advanced fiber-reinforced bottle example comparable to the lead-acid battery in terms of energy density and advanced battery systems are several times better. Batteries also provide nearly constant voltage over their entire charge level, whereas the pressure of compressed air storage varies greatly with charge level. It is technically challenging to design air engines to maintain high efficiency and sufficient power over such a wide range of pressures."
This `\<\(\w+\) \1\>' regexp matches identical word pairs using word related capabilities built into emacs' regexps (and relative to the local syntax table).
For OP: The key sequence you are looking for is:
<C-M\>s\<\(\w+\) \1\>
Did you read my comment? I won't bother repeating myself, but I will tell you I can't get my Pocket POD (guitar effects processor) to output anything even vaguely resembling a square wave (viewed on my Tek TDS1002). The biggest difference in our observations is that my POD simulates an amp and cabinet in addition to the effects like overdrive, generating the sort of signal you might actually hear on a recording.
I still take issue with your insistance that distorted guitar sound is "essentially a square wave". That statement might be OK for the output of your distortion+ (though you'll see a good deal of frequency domain variation if you look at an FFT), but does not come close to describing what goes on in a tube amplifier + speaker cabinet. For one thing, it falls flat trying to explain the strong second harmonic I see in many of the distored waveforms (even if the second harmonic was present in the signal from the pickup).
A guitar's waveform is complex, so you won't get evenly timed transitions even with infinite overdrive and perfect clipping. Second, infinite overdrive sounds harsh so few guitarists use it (thus the continuing popularity vacuum tube amplifiers). Finally, the sound of electric guitars is also influenced by a speaker cabinet (or simulation thereof) with essentially no treble response.
I used to play with 555 timers for making noise as a kid. The sound has a brain numbing clickety quality. Here is an example at approximately two octaves above middle C (the eighth fret on a guitar's high E string).
Well the word is out on bump keys, which are an easier method of entry in most cases, yet burglaries are down. I don't see key photos as a particularly meaningful threat to most of us.
Someone (possibly Thom Hartmann during his radio show) talked about a conversation he had with disenfranchised Ron Paul supporters. Unhappy with both McCain and Obama, they would have supported Dennis Kucinich! Paul and Kucinich seem in many ways polar opposites, but they share honesty and the willingness to speak truth to power.
I don't blame them. Bringing back accountability, ethics, and good old fashioned non-felonious conduct is a top priority in my book. For what its worth, I don't trust Palin to move us in that direction.
I don't know if that was meant to be serious or snide, but I'm all for using bicycles for transportation. For the environment, for the health benefits, and because it is much more enjoyable to commute on a bicycle than fight the traffic inside a car.
Unfortunately, I simply can't use a bicycle for all of my trips around town. I don't have the fitness. Even when I was young and healthy, cycling every day took a serious toll on my knees. So hybrid it is. My electric assist will provide more than enough oomph to tow a trailer full of groceries, uphill, using $0.17 of electricity every 30+ miles.
"Fun to drive" doesn't have to mean fast. I drive a 4 cylinder convertible with great road feel and handling, and also forgiving enough to make anyone feel they are a great driver. Trying to keep up with a typical SUV is a losing proposition, but driving canyon roads to the mountains with the top down is a sublime experience.
If you don't get that (or feel you have to suffer for the environment) that's fine. Our goals don't have to be the same.
My convertible gets 33 actual highway MPG - not too bad as far as I am concerned. If that won't help my green Karma, I have a 2000 MPG (equivalent) human-electric power hybrid vehicle on order.
Europe has the beginnings of a DC grid for long haul transmission of electric power (over very long distances AC losses add up). Looks like Edison was right, after all!
This consideration makes the prospect of upgrading America's power grid even more daunting, but I'd venture to say we'll be better off making the changes sooner rather than later.
Your kids can certainly take up those hobbies, so what is stopping their enjoyment?
I bought a model rocket to fly with my son when he was 5 (and was then given a bunch of rocket kits). He's not ready to build models yet, so I saved the simplest kit for later and built the others to fly together with him. He loves launching them and has great respect for safety protocols. Also, though he is not ready to fly RC airplanes, he loves crashing them in a simulator. I hope I am providing a base to help him pursue creative hobbies as he grows up.
Regarding model airplanes, the options have only expanded. If you dont think free flight kits are readily available, you could start by looking here (those are rubber band power models, you can also find electric, CO2, jet, and glow fuel power, plus gliders).
I can understand that not all kids will choose this sort of hobby, but the opportunity is certainly there.
Don't be a closed minded fool and rule out alternative therapies, like I did for too long.
I developed debilitating (and somewhat unusual) asthma that went undiagnosed for too many years. I wound up taking drugs (two corticosteroids and a beta agonist) prescribed by a good pulmonologist. The drugs reduced my asthma to a mere annoyance. Believe me when I tell you that I don't miss the smell of blood when I cough. You might be tempted to call that treatment a success of modern medicine.
Unfortunately, from my perspective it was a failure. The side effects I experienced included insomnia and anxiety severe enough to affect my life nearly as much as the asthma did. Think the afternoon after flunking a test you stayed up all night studying for. Well, not quite that bad, but you get the idea. Drugs to treat those conditions were either highly addictive and sedating or made matters worse (e.g. ambien resulted in nightmarish daytime anxiety).
Eventually, I took the advice of a friend and saw a practitioner of traditional chinese medicine. Though skeptical, I figured I had nothing to lose and went in for treatment with an open mind. The guy prescribed medicinal tea (roots, bark, fruit, dried worms, insect shells, etc.) and performed acupuncture weekly. Three months later, I feel much, much better, having eliminated two of the drugs and greatly lowered the dose of the third. I sleep at night. I can breath. Life is good. This after years of trying to cope.
Now I'll be the first in line to agree with you that personal testimonials are notoriously unreliable. And I don't recommend that anyone cite my story as proof positive of anything. But I'll tell you that I am personally convinced of two things: First, that the drug companies effectively mislead doctors and patients to underestimate side effects of their wares; and second, that something in this alternative therapy is working, and working dramatically well.
If indeed my recovery is due to the placebo effect - which I strongly doubt because I have a far stronger belief in conventional medicine - it has been worth every penny.
P.S. I still don't believe that sticking needles into my skin has anything to do with curing my asthma, but I put up with it rather than challenging either my beliefs or the chinese medical approach that seems to be working. For what its worth, my primary care physician (medical doctor) seems to beileve somewhat strongly in the effectiveness of acupuncture for some things.
It doesn't look like morse code to me. First because the glyphs on the left side are not aligned, but more because I can't find likely patterns of English language words. In particular, the trigram "the" occurs only once, which, although possible, is less than I would expect.
If it helps, here is a list of words matching the Morse code interpretation of the third ("binary") portion of the message, arranged in sets preceding and following each gap:
- eureka scent skit scar eer skin vain vex i
- intern ice ear it in i
i - arent altar end are a
i - trente kicked kink kike trek kite kick cent keen cart kit ted kin car ten
it a - rectal aint reck exec rent aft a
eer in - ticked nectar ticket necked tint tick teen neck tear turn tic tee tea tin net
a - intent earn ink ear it in i
ear ten - entente arctic ark arc art a
tee ice ted end are i - tent tart tar ten
skit tea kit vex net it a - entente ark arc art a
teen kite keen skin vain tin kin in - tented ketene tent tart tar ten
arent scent aint tint trek rent cent aft a - eked art a
trente intern scar kike tear tic ear car ten - tenter tent tara talc tend talk tar ten
eureka tent kink cart ink art a - arent altar end are a
altar exec earn turn tar ten - centare trente cental carted kink kike trek kite kick cent keen cart kit ted kin car ten
intent tent tart reck tick neck kick ark art a - rental retard aint reck exec rent aft a
entente tar arc ten - turtle tinkle tint tick teen neck tear turn tic tee tea tin net
ticket tent tart ark art a - intents intent intend earn ink ear it in i
entente nectar tar arc ten - entente ark arc art a
ticked tented rectal ketene necked kicked eked tend tee ted end are i - tented ketene kendal tent tart tar ten
tara tea kit net it a - entree arnica ardent eked arts art a
tenter teen kite keen tin kin in - tentie tenner talent tents tent tend tale tar ten
arent aint tint trek rent cent talk aft a - etas area ale end are a
trente arctic talc kike tear tic ear car ten - tenured treece tenure curled cults tasted cured taste curl cued cult cite task tree cure true cue ted ten
tent kink cart ink art a - reenter reeker reared rind reek rear rite eden lent rice lend real rue air ask let as a
altar exec earn turn tar ten - detainer detainee darlene dentine decreet decreed neared detain dentin decree detre dent dare near nice den tee nit tie tv
intent tent tart reck tick neck kick ark art a - screened stainer staffed screed screen staff scene skit skid eer skin vain vex i
entente tar arc ten - intine iced earl ice ear it in i
centare tented rental ketene cental carted retard intend eked tend tee ted end are i - enterer arenite arlene end are a
intents turtle tinkle tentie entree tents etas arts tale tree ale tie as i - tenets tedded keener cavite caster travel trail creed kits cede kite cave keen cast kit ted kin kid ten
area nit let tv it a - austere retired austin retied ravine raster retire ravel rets rave aide rail red aid a
tenner taste eer rite eden cite true rue den cue air in - tineau teruel teener nave tide teen nets nail tell tee tea tin net
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Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you're entering the country.
As they should be able to. Any sovereign nation has the right to control who and what enters the country.
Not according to the Fourth Amendment to the US constitution: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated...
This amendment exists to protect citizens from a government that may object to the content they create or possess. Maybe someone can explain why the act of entering the country nullifies my constitutional rights.
[second try- why is "submit" so close to "preview"!]
This is a common mistake and is only good for very low power stuff. In picking a wire size people often think going from 120 volts to 12 volts only involves the math of supplying a wire 10X larger to handle the current without overheating. In a 120 volt application, you are permitted a 5% voltage drop. This isn't much as 5% of 120 volts is only about 6 volts. No big deal when running a 1200 watt portable hair dryer. If you simply size the wire to now do the same thing on 12 volts, you no longer have a 5% voltage drop. At the same current you still have a 6 volt drop with the 10X larger wire but you now lost 50% of your power in the wire. Take a hint from the pro.. Use an inverter. The 10% the inverter lost is made up by the 45% not lost in the wire. Do the math. Engineer the project.
Using wire 10x the size would work fine because its resistance would be one 1/10 that of the original line. The resulting drop in power would still be 5%. The problem will be running cables as thick as your thumb and making the connections. There's also the cost (something like $10/foot for the cable and who know what for 150 amp connectors).
There are practical reasons for using higher voltages for high power appliances, but you can reduce power loss by using enough wire.
By the way, a small scale solution could be to run specific circuits off lead acid batteries (e.g. 12V lighting or a computer with a 12V input power supply), primarily charged by by the renewable source, with a backup from the grid triggered when the battery drops below a set value. I'd ask around at RV suppliers who sell small scale solar systems to see what they have.
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You are correct about the fine print, though. They reserve the right to update their software on my equipment (including computers). The simple solution there is not installing their software in the first place.
I also hold an Extra class license, but only for bragging rights.
If you don't believe Breashears' photos in this news blurb, try the videos from the Extreme Ice Survey. Or the conclusion based on data from NASA's GRACE satellites that the rate of glacier thinning in the Himalayas is 22 cm per annum. Or visit a glacier and see the signs of retreat for yourself.
You are correct that someone is misinformed here. Alas, my friend, it is not me.
Soot may be to blame.
We have a lot more than a few photographs supporting this. The worldwide retreat of glaciers is well established and is know to acutely affect the Himalayas, potentially threatening water supplies for millions of people.
Also, can you provide some sort of reference for your claim that the photos were taken in different seasons? I find this unlikely, since the regularity of the Monsoon storms and lengthy acclimatization process tend to force Everest climbers to focus their efforts during the same season each year. There are exceptions, but it is unlikely that Breashears would have intentionally chosen to retrace the old expeditions steps for documentary purposes off season.
Finally, why focus on the erroneous report, when the correct prediction suggests dire consequences for millions of people who rely on the rivers fed by those glaciers. "Several hundred years" might seem like a long time, but it is a geological blink of an eye. We should be very concerned.
You are assuming most of the new paper made from virgin fiber remains intact. In fact, most of it will be disposed of: Either incinerated or stored in a landfill. Landfill storage turns out to be problematic: "Quantification of methane emissions from landfilled paper is still imprecise, but if it is included, at the least, the yield, measured in terms of CO2 equivalents, will be increased by a factor of 2.5 compared with the CO2 emitted during complete incineration." [Wood in Our Future: The Role of Life-Cycle Analysis: Proceedings of a Symposium (1997) ]
Either way, paper is a net contributor of greenhouse gasses. Also note the original reference I chose was from a "green" paper company. Estimates from environmental groups, such as the Environmental Defense Fund Paper Calculator, indicate far higher net CO2-equivalent impact - 5882 lb CO2 equivalent per ton of copy paper according to the EDF, a ton more than Verso's estimate.
...environmentalists are just too stupid to recognize that paper is a carbon dioxide SINK
Redo.
Read this analysis of the lifecycle carbon cost of paper by a paper company. The bottom line is is an estimated cost of 1.81 tons CO2-equivalent impact per ton of paper (see paper for details).
Paper appears to be the opposite of a carbon sink.
Research supports parent, suggesting ads, rather than the TV programs, are responsible for obesity.
My own theory is the effectiveness of those ads can be greatly reduced by parents who watch TV with their children and discuss how the ads are trying to manipulate them. Even little kids will understand that Mt. Dew won't make you a better skateboarder when you explain it to them. They'll still ask for soft drinks at every opportunity. When my 7yo son asks for junk food, I sometimes reply with the question: "what would a good father say?". He always chooses the healthy option when I do this. Sometimes I say yes, because the forbidden fruit is always the sweetest.
More importantly, doodling may actually improve focus.
Regeneration might recover 30% of the energy with there is no loss of efficiency. That's because at 20 mph, 190lbs of bicycle+rider has 3,500 joules of kinetic energy, but it costs 12,000 joules to travel 1/4 mile. 30% is pretty good, but not so good as a charged battery offering several times the specific energy. Even with electric motors, regeneration current loses to more efficient geared drives on ebikes.
References?
My source suggests otherwise: "Comparing to the data given for rechargeable batteries, this makes the advanced fiber-reinforced bottle example comparable to the lead-acid battery in terms of energy density and advanced battery systems are several times better. Batteries also provide nearly constant voltage over their entire charge level, whereas the pressure of compressed air storage varies greatly with charge level. It is technically challenging to design air engines to maintain high efficiency and sufficient power over such a wide range of pressures."
For OP: The key sequence you are looking for is:
<C-M\>s\<\(\w+\) \1\>
Did you read my comment? I won't bother repeating myself, but I will tell you I can't get my Pocket POD (guitar effects processor) to output anything even vaguely resembling a square wave (viewed on my Tek TDS1002). The biggest difference in our observations is that my POD simulates an amp and cabinet in addition to the effects like overdrive, generating the sort of signal you might actually hear on a recording.
I still take issue with your insistance that distorted guitar sound is "essentially a square wave". That statement might be OK for the output of your distortion+ (though you'll see a good deal of frequency domain variation if you look at an FFT), but does not come close to describing what goes on in a tube amplifier + speaker cabinet. For one thing, it falls flat trying to explain the strong second harmonic I see in many of the distored waveforms (even if the second harmonic was present in the signal from the pickup).
Distortion guitar is essentially a square wave.
Not really.
A guitar's waveform is complex, so you won't get evenly timed transitions even with infinite overdrive and perfect clipping. Second, infinite overdrive sounds harsh so few guitarists use it (thus the continuing popularity vacuum tube amplifiers). Finally, the sound of electric guitars is also influenced by a speaker cabinet (or simulation thereof) with essentially no treble response.
I used to play with 555 timers for making noise as a kid. The sound has a brain numbing clickety quality. Here is an example at approximately two octaves above middle C (the eighth fret on a guitar's high E string).
Well the word is out on bump keys, which are an easier method of entry in most cases, yet burglaries are down. I don't see key photos as a particularly meaningful threat to most of us.
half the energy density compared to normal Lithium Ions.
Indeed. The SCIB pack used in Schwinn bicycles has an energy density of about 50 watt-hours/kg. My lithium ion (cobalt) pack: 125.
Someone (possibly Thom Hartmann during his radio show) talked about a conversation he had with disenfranchised Ron Paul supporters. Unhappy with both McCain and Obama, they would have supported Dennis Kucinich! Paul and Kucinich seem in many ways polar opposites, but they share honesty and the willingness to speak truth to power.
I don't blame them. Bringing back accountability, ethics, and good old fashioned non-felonious conduct is a top priority in my book. For what its worth, I don't trust Palin to move us in that direction.
I don't know if that was meant to be serious or snide, but I'm all for using bicycles for transportation. For the environment, for the health benefits, and because it is much more enjoyable to commute on a bicycle than fight the traffic inside a car.
Unfortunately, I simply can't use a bicycle for all of my trips around town. I don't have the fitness. Even when I was young and healthy, cycling every day took a serious toll on my knees. So hybrid it is. My electric assist will provide more than enough oomph to tow a trailer full of groceries, uphill, using $0.17 of electricity every 30+ miles.
"Fun to drive" doesn't have to mean fast. I drive a 4 cylinder convertible with great road feel and handling, and also forgiving enough to make anyone feel they are a great driver. Trying to keep up with a typical SUV is a losing proposition, but driving canyon roads to the mountains with the top down is a sublime experience.
If you don't get that (or feel you have to suffer for the environment) that's fine. Our goals don't have to be the same.
My convertible gets 33 actual highway MPG - not too bad as far as I am concerned. If that won't help my green Karma, I have a 2000 MPG (equivalent) human-electric power hybrid vehicle on order.
Europe has the beginnings of a DC grid for long haul transmission of electric power (over very long distances AC losses add up). Looks like Edison was right, after all!
This consideration makes the prospect of upgrading America's power grid even more daunting, but I'd venture to say we'll be better off making the changes sooner rather than later.
Your kids can certainly take up those hobbies, so what is stopping their enjoyment?
I bought a model rocket to fly with my son when he was 5 (and was then given a bunch of rocket kits). He's not ready to build models yet, so I saved the simplest kit for later and built the others to fly together with him. He loves launching them and has great respect for safety protocols. Also, though he is not ready to fly RC airplanes, he loves crashing them in a simulator. I hope I am providing a base to help him pursue creative hobbies as he grows up.
Regarding model airplanes, the options have only expanded. If you dont think free flight kits are readily available, you could start by looking here (those are rubber band power models, you can also find electric, CO2, jet, and glow fuel power, plus gliders).
I can understand that not all kids will choose this sort of hobby, but the opportunity is certainly there.
Don't be a closed minded fool and rule out alternative therapies, like I did for too long.
I developed debilitating (and somewhat unusual) asthma that went undiagnosed for too many years. I wound up taking drugs (two corticosteroids and a beta agonist) prescribed by a good pulmonologist. The drugs reduced my asthma to a mere annoyance. Believe me when I tell you that I don't miss the smell of blood when I cough. You might be tempted to call that treatment a success of modern medicine.
Unfortunately, from my perspective it was a failure. The side effects I experienced included insomnia and anxiety severe enough to affect my life nearly as much as the asthma did. Think the afternoon after flunking a test you stayed up all night studying for. Well, not quite that bad, but you get the idea. Drugs to treat those conditions were either highly addictive and sedating or made matters worse (e.g. ambien resulted in nightmarish daytime anxiety).
Eventually, I took the advice of a friend and saw a practitioner of traditional chinese medicine. Though skeptical, I figured I had nothing to lose and went in for treatment with an open mind. The guy prescribed medicinal tea (roots, bark, fruit, dried worms, insect shells, etc.) and performed acupuncture weekly. Three months later, I feel much, much better, having eliminated two of the drugs and greatly lowered the dose of the third. I sleep at night. I can breath. Life is good. This after years of trying to cope.
Now I'll be the first in line to agree with you that personal testimonials are notoriously unreliable. And I don't recommend that anyone cite my story as proof positive of anything. But I'll tell you that I am personally convinced of two things: First, that the drug companies effectively mislead doctors and patients to underestimate side effects of their wares; and second, that something in this alternative therapy is working, and working dramatically well.
If indeed my recovery is due to the placebo effect - which I strongly doubt because I have a far stronger belief in conventional medicine - it has been worth every penny.
P.S. I still don't believe that sticking needles into my skin has anything to do with curing my asthma, but I put up with it rather than challenging either my beliefs or the chinese medical approach that seems to be working. For what its worth, my primary care physician (medical doctor) seems to beileve somewhat strongly in the effectiveness of acupuncture for some things.
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This amendment exists to protect citizens from a government that may object to the content they create or possess. Maybe someone can explain why the act of entering the country nullifies my constitutional rights.
There are practical reasons for using higher voltages for high power appliances, but you can reduce power loss by using enough wire.
By the way, a small scale solution could be to run specific circuits off lead acid batteries (e.g. 12V lighting or a computer with a 12V input power supply), primarily charged by by the renewable source, with a backup from the grid triggered when the battery drops below a set value. I'd ask around at RV suppliers who sell small scale solar systems to see what they have.