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Cake day: November 21st, 2023

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  • Some areas have cheap reliable energy. For example, areas fed by the Hoover dam.

    Others have difficult regulations that don’t let you sell back to the grid, making the investment difficult.

    In the US we have half of the voting population convinced that solar and other “clean” energy will leave them in the dark, even as their own fossil fuel utilities fail around them (Texas, Florida).

    Just like we had to design gas stations every 50 miles apart, we’ll need to design around the disadvantages of solar. That might mean maintaining fossil fuel in a way that lets us have a diversified energy grid that’s resistant to the limitations of wind and solar.

    The only hope I cling onto is that most of the voting population that dislikes clean energy will die soon due to their average higher age.





  • If you’re in Utah you can make use of “balcony” solar.

    If you’re not and you rent then you can still make use of solar but you can’t feed it back to the grid. You do need access to the sun though.

    Something like an ecoflow solar generator can be placed between something that uses energy constantly like a refrigerator. Then run the solar cabling outside somehow to a solar panel. The solar will charge the battery up, and the fridge will draw from the device. Once the sun goes down it will drain the battery and then switch over to grid power.

    You can even simply charge a small ecoflow off solar only and use it to charge your phone/laptop/tablet overnight.