It's obviously a hyperbole. But if we once were to use these SCs to transport energy from solar farms in Sahara, it might have to operate in that temperature range.
Five meters down in the desert you're under 25 degrees year round. It's the average that matters for soil temps, not the peaks. You can approximate this by taking the average air temperature and defining the surface as the top five meters. Below the 10 meter mark the day/night cycle influence is pretty much negligible (but that would be more costly).
I've seen a clever setup with the sensors in a dry container above the water tank. There is a hole in the bottom.
Before testing, a pump fills the container up with the tank water, flooding the sensor probes. When the pump stops, the water drains back out into the tank.
You’d need to wash the sensors and return their caps with protective fluids. It would be totally possible to automate, but perhaps the same overall cost as buying industrial grade sensors which can handle long term submersion.
You’d also need to ensure the caps contained enough storage solution at the right concentration. Over time the probes would introduce drops of nutrient solution (unless you rinsed them with distilled water, in which case you’d dilute the storage solution), and you’d need to replenish it.
Clearly. But the person asking is a programmer and is asking for ideas that they can pass onto their partner. I’d say they figure it’s no risk seeing if they can unearth something new, or to be in a better position to support the endeavour.
I still won't use it for the project, though. Anything that involves trying to get my personal info is an automatic "no". There's just no point me wasting my time. There's no end of programming languages out there, I'm not going to mess around with this one.
disclaimer: I'm not a shill for Fastmail, just a happy (family plan) user after Gmail did me the favor of changing pricing and having me look around for alternatives.
$10/month is surprisingly high for temp-mail.org's service. Fastmail is $3-5/month paying monthly, and that includes full regular email service plus (at the $5/month level) your own domains, and on top of that they offer the disposable email address service. It seems like temp-mail's only extra feature is accepting cryptocurrency.
