All the electricity you'll need for 40 years
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All the electricity you'll need for 40 years
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Re: All the electricity you'll need for 40 years
#2People forget that solar panels don't grow on the trees, battery packs especially have very large footprint and their manufacturing is resource intensive.
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#3This seems like a "green brag" without much substance. Great that this person is privileged enough to afford solar panels, I guess. Nothing to be learned here though: no wire diagrams, placement schematics, or BoM. Just someone telling everyone how green they are.
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#4TIL mud huts are "solarpunk" and "Pinterest worthy" so long as you're doing it in the US.
Re: All the electricity you'll need for 40 years
#5People forget that solar panels don't grow on the trees, battery packs especially have very large footprint and their manufacturing is resource intensive.
They should use potato’s as electricity source, they just need a couple hundred tone, as potato sort of grows on trees
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#6Solar allows one to prepay for power. Would be nice to see more efficient financing for it.
Using solar to heat and cool, heat water and run your dryer is quite a bit more. And generally doing the HVAC efficiently requires a large investment in insulation. Those non solar costs may dominate.
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#7TIL mud huts are "solarpunk" and "Pinterest worthy" so long as you're doing it in the US.
Honest question, why is this your reaction? Why are people on this forum so unwilling to be happy for others? I have noticed that this attitude is extremely prominent in tech. Everything is either perfect (according to the person making the judgement) or it’s utterly worthy of ridicule. I am growing very, very tired of seeing this throughout tech.
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#8It's nice to have solar panels, I have them too and while they do generate even more electricity than I need, they do so in around 6 to 7 months peaking in July. So in winter, it's grid power and in summer I might need to pay to feed in the surplus. This is in the Netherlands. It's kind of sad to see all that electricity unused in summer, and knowing I could have enough for all of the winter if only there was some way to store it, all of the 1MWh..
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#9$88 amortized over 15 years is only $16k. It’s really impressive they can get it done for that much, although I suspect labor has to be free at that cost.
I’d be curious what batteries they went with and how it’s organized (aka the more technical side)
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#10Looking at the posted pictures, it seems like they're living in heaven. Good to know the panels will be good for at least 40 years.
Still, I'm kind of left wondering, where will they be in 40 years. Can life really be so predictable?