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Protons for Breakfast
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Protons for Breakfast is a personal blog at protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com about science. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog for physics-based explanations of energy topics, including solar and battery electricity pricing, heat pump sizing, and a mortality and body-weight post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Evolving this line of thought further, if you do not want to disconnect from the grid, there's also an option to participate in the electricity market. Someone with a battery can buy up cheap electricity at night or whenever their electricity supplier deems it off-peak and thus cheap, so a battery can heavily influence the average price of energy as calculated here by Michael de Podesta: https://protonsforbreakfast.…
Comment linking /2025/02/16/the-most-expensive-month-of-the-year/
on “Understanding Solar Energy”Submitted Amazing Dice: Rediscovering surprise as a story · 59 points
HN discussionObesity yes, but being merely overweight isn't actually particularly bad for your health. http://www.iub.edu/~k536/images/patho/bmimortality.jpg Edit: this also looks relevant http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/tag/mortality/
Comment linking /tag/mortality/
on “U.S. Women Are Dying Younger Than Their Mothers, and No One Knows Why”Submitted Another reason to stop using gas as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYou need to size the heat pump based on the gas consumption over a year, not the instant supply. Here is a very good explanation: https://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2022/04/05/what-si...
Comment linking /2022/04/05/what-size-heat-pump-do-i-need-a-rule-of-thumb/
on “Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold”