A marathon session spread out over 6 months trying to get past the comedic lack of experience, knowledge, and soft skills, but overabundance of apathy and dysfunction.
If you see this company being touted by your solar contractor, don't walk, run away as fast as you can and don't talk to that contractor again.
The panels themselves need to be installed, and that requires labor, and there are resources consumed in their construction. But after the panel has been installed, it produces #electricity all on its own whenever the Sun shines on it. What's being consumed is hydrogen atoms in the core of the Sun, and that would happen whether or not there was a panel harvesting the light. The panel, of course, isn't going to spend the money you pay for solar energy.
"It's getting cheaper" just means that capitalists are exploiting us less. They're still forcing us to pay for something that exists for free. #Climate solutions are already here, the technology already exists and is being rolled out, and #capitalism still gets in the way for profit.
I would like to get #solar panels - my house is just about perfect for them - but total cost will be like £10,000 (UK) and I won't break even for around 7 years, by which time I will have hopefully long-since moved on from this house.
So… is it worth it (to me financially)? Do solar panels increase the actual value of your property?
12 GW solar-to-hydrogen facility to be built in Mozambique, SA to follow suit
Once up and running, it's expected that 4,000 tonnes of hydrogen will be produced at this facility, satisfying the ever-increasing need for green energy.
Happy Monday readers! Today read about the potential to end #AIDS by 2030, the possibility of California’s new high speed train being powered entirely by #solarenergy, #Bristol using savings from donated furniture to reinvest in its schools, and more!
Looking back at our #solarenergy production in June: it was the best month so far, 1.26 MWh produced, 0.6 MWh sold to the grid, we managed to cover 94% of our consumption. In fact we never had lack of our own energy, the 5-6% are "technical overflows" you cannot avoid if you run your inverter in the hybrid mode.
I expect us to break even (more energy produced than consumed this year) in 10 days. Not bad for a house that runs entirely on electricity.
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Since installing a solar system (the electricity production kind) on the roof of our house in late April 2022, here is what our monthly kWh energy production looks like. This one system has saved 9785 lbs of CO2 in a little over a year. Plus our energy bills have decreased significantly. Pretty good for a place with a lot of cloudy, rainy days.
I'm looking for a COTS or MOTS option here. I can do some soldering if need be.
I am looking for a DC input charge control board for some #LiFePO4 batteries. Ideally 12, 24, or 48 volts, and at least 100 Watts. 2 stage constant current/constant voltage, of course.
I have searched high and low and everything available is an AC/DC converter. I specifically want a DC input.
Anyone know if #solar mttp chargers are acceptable to use with DC voltage generators?
We didn't quite make it on the last bill. We were 30p short of generating more electricity than we import. The last few days of May were poor otherwise I think we would have made it. @Edent
Solar power helps keep Europe's grid reliable in historic heat (www.popsci.com)
In the midst of unprecedented heatwaves, Sicily's solar power reserves provided over half of the excess demand on July 24.