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Re: We are now Solar Powered

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Post by diggan »

This effort seems to be hosted in Australia, there is another similar project (albeit a magazine rather than personal website) that is run from Barcelona: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

It would interesting to see similar efforts but from locations where the sun is less prominent, although I don't know how feasible that would actually be, guess it would depend on the size of the battery installation to avoid the fluctuations. Also projects powered by alternative means (wind and hydro comes to mind) would be awesome to see.

Re: We are now Solar Powered

#4

Post by adriangrigore »

diggan wrote: post #3

This effort seems to be hosted in Australia, there is another similar project (albeit a magazine rather than personal website) that is run from Barcelona: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ It would interesting to see similar efforts but from locations where the sun is less prominent, although I don't know how feasible that would actually be, guess it would depend on the size of the battery installation to avoid the…

He says he was inspired by https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/.

Re: We are now Solar Powered

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

From the site:

> I'm fairly familiar with CSS3 and all the new whizz bang CSS things that I could very well use to make this fancy looking, but I decided to go the simplest route. [...] Also it's basically mobile responsive out of the box.

But then I notice some column layout : https://www.andrewjvpowell.com/#about

How is that responsive? Well, "inpect" reveals flexbox, which is very much modern css.

Still minimalist though.

Re: We are now Solar Powered

#8

Post by Aachen »

atvatar12 wrote: post #5

A webpage, hosted on a Raspberry Pie, still reachable after mentioned on HN #4. Quite impressive, why do we need CDN again?

I also had a site running on a server of a few Watts and didn't have trouble with the HN homepage at #1. And it wasn't static files, it needed multiple mysql queries to build each response. And ran apache and php that, yesterday, some people here were surprised is still in use - yup it's fine and plenty fast. Just don't use wordpress or similar without converting it to static pages (e.g. through caching).

I should also look into solar panels. I don't live where I host anymore (living in Germany now, good uplinks at home are usually impossible or at minimum expensive) so it's a bit more complicated but posts like these are inspiring.

Re: We are now Solar Powered

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Post by numair »

> An Optus AC800s 4G/LTE modem (actually a Netgear device, just branded by the carrier), connected to two MiMO Yagi antennas,

I have a feeling that the best case / worst case scenario on what powers that remote 4G tower will disappoint a lot of people hoping this is a zero carbon footprint endeavor...

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