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@svetz I wholeheartedly agree that we should do more, I will go further and say we should have done more, but that is when we stray into politics and to my surprise I see a few Americans?, especially those who want to "make America great again", rooting for the US to fail in the renewable...

I would consider myself "woke" by the dictionary definition. Maybe you could articulate which equal rights you agree with and which ones you oppose? I would agree that Communism doesn't work, however, Socialism, too some extend does work. Roads are state owned, the factories that make the cars...

You could put your batteries, inverter and other parts in a separate shed. As an added bonus, this would remove the noise from the fans from the house at the same time.

And an observation, calling CO2 plant food is nonsense, plant growth is not generally limited by CO2, it is limited by all or some of the other elements and light. Adding CO2 to greenhouses is only beneficial when the growers add fertilizers, water and light. Those plant foods (fertilizers)...

Free market solutions? The free market has only one purpose and that is to make as much money as it possibly can. Negative externalities, like pollution, unless prohibited by law (and thus the voting public) is not a consideration. By making rules on what is and isn't allowed, the free market...

It looks like batteries will be too cheap for hydrogen fuel cells in cars to make sense. Fuel cells are still inefficient, but I do see a use for them in winter to heat the house and water with the waste product of generating electricity used to top up the house battery. To be fair I have not...

Calling CO2 plant food is simply irrelevant to the problem global warming due to massive amounts of greenhouse gases we pump into the atmosphere, as no one is arguing to remove CO2 from the atmosphere to pre-industrial levels. So what is the purpose of describing CO2 as plant food, if not an...

While I am truly happy that you love your truck, I just have no idea why people would love inanimate objects like vehicles, they are noisy, stink, are dangerous and are generally bad for our health. EV's are slightly better in that they don't spew fumes and are quieter. By the same token, I do...

To answer the question if solar and wind can fix everything with a battery break through we just have to look at price trends. The financial times reported "China, the dominant solar equipment supplier, doubled production capacity last year to more than 1tn watts and now produces nearly three...

Petrol is about 2 dollars a litre in Sweden (where 2 out of 3 new cars are electric) while electricity is 24 cents per kWh, a litre of gasoline contains about 9kWh of energy, and the internal combustion engine has an efficiency of about 33%, wile an electric car is about 90%. That means you'd...

In reality that is correct, should we call them regulated markets? (Which is something a few people here are aggressively against) I have a problem with corporations having so much influence on government. I hear that in the US they can donate money to the political campaigns of politicians...

I agree with you 100% when you wrote "I love change, hell implementing change is a major part of my career. I despise forced change driven by a corrupt agenda." And clearly the investments in solar and battery development are paying off, the problem I have is that this development was not done...

Sadly people are not always responsible, even with all the regulation, the US, with about 100 deaths a day, is rated as the sixth highest motor-vehicle deaths per 100 million vehicle miles compared to other countries, according to the US national safety council web site. What do you think would...

I agree with all of that. My guess is that fuel cells will still add extra weight, costs and complexity that could be covered more efficiently with batteries as they improve. To explain my motivation. I am not interested in driving more than 4 hours without having a break for food, toilet...

We don't have to "waste land for solar panels", if it is productive, it is not waste. For the most part the free market gets to decide where to put the solar panels and batteries. Governments do have role to play, the question is how do you reconcile that with this "evil government" narrative...

Sounds wonderful, now if I could work from this camper, I would seriously consider doing that full time and move with the seasons just use a virtual background , so the boss doesn't think I am on the beach in some tropical country. (I recently met some one in a hotel I was staying who did that...

Good video, but Eve's batteries are already 67 dollars per kWh on their Alibaba outlet and I am guessing that container loads can be had for far less. 100kWh in storage that would last an average American household about 3 days and an average European household a week would cost about 10,000...

@Daddy Tanuki, Why would anyone in the "make America great again" crowd be shamed by pointing out that China is winning the energy race due to opposition from the "make America great again" crowd here? And why do you feel the need to reply to a post that wasn't directed at you? @svetz, I will...

Last month the US added another 175 million jobs, Biden is doing well in that regard compared to Trump who has the worst job numbers with a net loss, since Herbert Hoover (1929 - 1933) The top four presidents in terms of cumulative job creation percentage are Clinton (D), Reagan (R), Carter...

In the US the decision who to vote FOR vote would be nearly impossible, the choices are a CONVICTED fraudster and Biden? Really, that are the best you guys can come up with? My choice would be somewhere between green and Libertarian, although I would have to look into their policies a lot...

Some here like tho whip themselves into a frenzy... Equal rights does not mean that we will have fewer rights (except maybe the legal right to discriminate), it generally means that every one has the same freedoms and in my books any win for freedom is worth celebrating. When you look into it...

I would guess that most people commenting here would feel confident enough to figure out different ways to mount the solar panels, people who have only just started thinking about solar would be shy to comment. Having said that I would be interested in an overview video with pro's and con's of...

I can understand why the top management and owners of fossil fuel companies are denying man made climate change, their incomes depend on it, shortsighted as they could easily change jobs even if their wages were reduced little. (after the fist couple of hundred thousand dollars per year, it...

Hi Kolek, Charging each battery individually will be slower because you'd have to switch each time from one battery to the other, you can't do that when you are sleeping. As shavermcspud pointed out, you will be transferring the same amount of energy in total. Now unless the batteries are...

Bigger cars are generally safer for the occupants of that car and more dangerous for every one else, that is in addition to being louder and dirtier. I am all for freedom, but with freedom comes responsibility and giving you the benefit of the doubt, sadly not every one is as responsible as...

It takes too long to debate how companies are run, the short version is that their only purpose is to make as much money for the shareholders as possible. While a successful economy is the basis for a functioning democracy there is a case to be made to restrict businesses from doing things that...

Hertz is ditching (some?) electric cars in part because companies like Tesla don't give volume discounts to Hertz. At to that that in China there is a price war going on between the 300+electric car manufactures and profits are dropping. IF other countries allow car imports from China, (under...

I will have to assume you resort to baseless accusations because you don't have any evidence of such a treaty, it only exists in your imaginary world. As a direct result to Russia invading Ukraine, NATO's border got a hell of a lot closer to Saint Petersburg and Moscow. It turns out that...

I like the rest of your post and it is quite possible that you are right, but if it costs me to send electicity to the grid, I won't be. There are modifications made to the hardware to take pricing into account. Having said that, grid connected inverters in combination with home routers gives...

I do understand and I also expect the judge at the rape trial to understand, the judge even went public to clear up any misunderstandings. My statement that he is a convicted fraudster (and rapist) holds true, which was questioned. I don't expect the wilfully bind to accept those facts. As...