I'm not writing them off, that's specifically the point at the end, that solar in particular is a wonderful tool for *decentralized & local* energy production, but is a terrible solution for broad, scalable energy production.
ie. that's why I suggested we need to understand their realities and know their place in the overall picture.
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Solar at scale is a horrific idea. But small scale its epic. We are 100% solar with a battery - which i think of as simply paying for your electricity upfront in bulk - and i cannot tell you how good it os for your nervous system to not have to think about it.
My wife msgd me while i was traveling to CR and we lost power around in our area, so a friend was coming over to our place because we were unaffected.
That's awesome, how many panels do you have? I've been figuring out ways to supplement, but completely replacing my reliance on the grid seems to not be feasible. Would love to find out I'm wrong about that!
We have an electric coop where I live and they just put in large scale solar backups.
It lowers our costs and it's amazing to have it as a back up source.
It is feasible to do it personally too. It is now at least.
Grid attached solar doesn't make sense.
But being offgrid the last 5 years has been awesome in my case. It's a hedge against future energy prices, and when you consider the base amount needed to just have an account on the grid it's already a lot cheaper in some ways. If you aren't already attached to the grid, it's substantially cheaper than attaching. And like others have mentioned it's a lot more stable, at least in my neck of the woods.
\m/ offgrid-regenerative-routing \m/
Here's some live stats of the current system https://hab.bolverker.com/
