My solar-powered and self-hosted website
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#2Shame the solar panels can't do "self-healing".
I this this is cool, I know a couple folks who got homelabs on reddit who mainly use solar power due to the cost and want to go green.
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#3this is really neat.
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#4The solar-run site is at https://solar.dri.es/ in case everyone wants to check it out all at once ;)
Of course this got posted on a sunny, cool and breezy morning in Boston. Sneaky!
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#5The solar-run site is at https://solar.dri.es/ in case everyone wants to check it out all at once ;) Of course this got posted on a sunny, cool and breezy morning in Boston. Sneaky!
Is this the same page that had the background effect indicating level of the battery?
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#6Pretty cool. I use one of these small panels as a battery tender for a generator. It only is about 30w, but keeps a small 12v battery from dying over the months. It also has a charge controller built in - https://www.amazon.com/OYMSAE-Portable-maintainer-Cigarette-...
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#7The solar-run site is at https://solar.dri.es/ in case everyone wants to check it out all at once ;) Of course this got posted on a sunny, cool and breezy morning in Boston. Sneaky!
Is this the same page that had the background effect indicating level of the battery?
My guess is that you're thinking of https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
Re: My solar-powered and self-hosted website
#8The solar-run site is at https://solar.dri.es/ in case everyone wants to check it out all at once ;) Of course this got posted on a sunny, cool and breezy morning in Boston. Sneaky!
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#9Nicely done!
Now, Low Tech Magazine also has instructions to convert a stationary exercise bike into a human powered generator, which you could build to add power during the winter :-)
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#10Solar powered sites are cool and fun, but I find it ultimately lacking because so much of the rest of the networking infrastructure is reliant on the grid. It would be more energy efficient to just host the static site on cloudflare or whatever, and use the solar panel to charge some batteries, or something you would normally use the grid for. I suspect overall energy usage would be even lower if the site was hosted on a CDN, due to the CDN operators keeping their machines near full utilization, and fewer network hops required for an average request.