Jealous. I recently redid my roof and removed a sloped window in the attic to make room for more solar. The removed window frame and glass sat in the attic all summer and I was imagining using it for something like that. What was stopping me was the fact that it was relatively small and not very deep. … But I waited too long and it was cleared out with the rest of the construction debris. My winter salad would be doing better right now.
This, from the project I use to deploy my server, could be a starting point
https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy?tab=readme-ov-file#bridges
Thanks, that’s what I had found. I will set up prosody somewhere and try…
Do you run any bridge (I forget the XMPP nomenclature). One of the reasons I run matrix (synapse) myself is to have a single interface for many instant-message platforms. I’ve been looking into migrating to XMPP (im sure my matrix deployment can be slimmed down but for now it’s a behemoth taking 4 GB of RAM…) but I’ve been somewhat discouraged by the process
A heat pump is also in my future, but the funds need to recover from this round of energy efficiency interventions first.
But even before then, having resistive heating might not be the best (or the cheapest) but I love to be able to measure all my house energy needs in kWh without conversions (sure if you have gas you can count cubic meters, but it’s a lot of approximations).
I’ll tell you when I have seasons behind me! It’s a new installation :)
10 kWp but ~45% of it on the northside. We’re in south Germany, 49ish degrees north. We redid the roof (bought a house with resistive heating and almost no roof insulation… Picked up a bit of a project here) and covering 60% of the south side with panels is required by law (at least to get some subsidy), but we would have done anyway. Don’t use this day do evaluate the project :)
I don’t like walking upside down, so I stick to the top of the sphere :D
I took the screenshot then and I was too lazy to do it again before posting :) Also, sometimes the integration that does the prediction becomes more realistic and the difference would have been less strong. But it looks like it didn’t re-evaluate the prediction, and the second half of the day was even worse :)
You are correct of course, generation happens without direct sunlight. In fact, today it was raining and I never saw the sun (until literally 5 minutes before sunset, go figure). It’s actually awesome to get what I get on a rainy day, jokes aside.
I can confidently say that there was no direct sunlight involved today because I have panels on the northwest side, that doesn’t get any direct sunlight these days, and they behaved just like the south. Even pale sun makes the south take off way past whatever the north string can do. Didn’t happen today
Once in my shared apartment, while I was in university, a guest of a roommate was dumping a lot of rubbish in the bin, and I pointed out we had baskets for recycling. “Yeah, but it takes time to separate the parts. Do you think [CEO of a huge fossil fuel industry in my country] does that?”
I didn’t know how to answer that.
The CEO went to jail a few years later.
Edit: nope, it sounded too good to be true. He didn’t serve time. He is still a CEO of something else. FML.
It should be configurable to limit draw and depending of SoC, and it should be compensated. But it should be possible.
If you are connected to the grid you participate in the grid. You shouldn’t be allowed to avoid it, unless you go off the grid entirely.
“Based on data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, one advanced nuclear plant (2 x AP1000) produces 33.17 MW per acre, while one offshore wind farm produces approximately 0.006 MW/acre, which is approximately 5,500 times less efficient than one nuclear plant,” Interior said.
Yeah, wasted space, they should build a nuclear power plant over that… check notes… ocean.
I didn’t know Maybe, but I take the opportunity to suggest Actual, which took an opposite path (born as a closed SaaS solution, and upon commercial unviability was turned FOSS, and, boy, am I grateful for that).
The link to “green energy push” in the title is pernicious. There are laws, laws are broken while mining, green energy per se should be left out of the title.
After how many half-lives, if any, can those materials be declared “cool”?
Clearly a mistake to focus con electrification where we don’t control the supply chain. Better to keep pumping oil where we… * checks notes *… Yeah, well, end of the press conference, nothing to see here.
I don’t say that biofuels don’t have a reason to exist but I have a feeling they are mentioned just to say something “alternative” to electrification
Buzz is a number divisible by 5 if you’re a programmer in an interview :)
But I agree, the numbers have to make sense. The problem is that there is not just one dimension (size would be the obvious one, but there can be SUV big (boo) and minibus big)
The engineering solution would be to simply make the number multidimensional when needed:
5 = sedan
6 = crossover
7s = bigger than crossover, but for SUV losers
7v = bigger than crossover, but towards being a van/minibus
Not as clean but better than VW Thingamajig Sport Edition. I don’t know a lot about car classifications, I would hope those names are kind-of maybe standardized
You can share energy through the grid. You already do if you have a grid following inverter, and that’s the way to do it. Local production and distribution, but no single point of failure and everybody contributes to thr maintenance of the grid. Perhaps giant improvements in solar panels and storage will make microgrids feasible everywhere, but until then the grid is the best thing we have to provide both reliability and allow for local distribution.
The energy-sharing community-laws starting around Europe are not about running cables between neighbors, but allowing the accounting and billing of energy recognizing the already existing local distribution that the grid allows.