The point of my solar is to have power when the grid fails. It's a bonus if I become less dependent on the man along the way.
One of my neighbors asked about my solar panels, and when I explained it was mostly for a backup he asked, "how long for that to pay for itself?" And I asked how long...
I would buy an EV work truck to replace my 2011 Ford Ranger with vinyl seats, crank windows and a 5 speed. What I won't buy is an $80,000 F150 Lightning with 4 doors, leather seats, a big screen TV in the dash, a 5 foot bed, and a 200 mile range.
As soon as it was discovered something inside was miswired, they should have shipped out a new battery and a return label. You can ship the bad one back in the new box.
Pure BS. Some EVs can already get to 80% charge in 20 minutes on high speed chargers.
But, the truth is, most car drivers park their car in a garage every night and go to a gas station once or twice a week. If 20 minutes at a charger is too inconvenient, plug the car in at home.
My entire house is wood, including the floors. Can I put the batteries on the floor?
Would it really matter if the batteries are on a wood shelf or a metal shelf if the house is on fire?
I bought a small inverter generator just to not have to throw out everything in my refrigerator after an overnight power outage. Then I starting experimenting with what else it could run. That lead to not wanting to drag out the generator and not deal with running extension cords all over the...
I haven't updated this in a while. Over time I have added, replaced, moved, and removed a few things in our setup, and my wiring is getting a little bit messy. The mess doesn't affect the way anything runs so I don't feel any urgency to shut things down to straighten it out, yet, but it is...
I don't ask many questions, and I try to be helpful, but many questions are specific to equipment and circumstances I have no experience with.
I wish more people ignored questions about things they don't have experience with.
Nope, fully on grid. I've just been through a few storms and the ensuing power outages. When you have eaten melted ice cream and cereal for breakfast, and cooked a freezer full of groceries and brought the food to neighbors (whose houses are all electric) instead of throwing it out, you start...
I volunteer at a science museum. We are working with a company that casts and mounts all manner of prehistoric fossils. Our next exibit is fossil mammals found in Louisiana.
The morons who own gas stations just need to put in a few car chargers. Nothing about their business model has to change ... i.e. sell gas or electrons at mostly break-even prices and keep making a killing on the convenience store items and bad food they already sell.