Pretty damn good these days.
Bo7a
joined 1 year ago
I did it myself. But I cheated... The main storage unit is a bluetti unit. That runs about 80% of our needs. The other 20% comes from a DIY solution. I built in a couple of Rubbermaid tubs with six volt golf cart, batteries in series and an inverter.
I am not judging the neighbour at all. He is a great guy with a ton of smarts. My 'house' is 420sqft, and his is over 2800. And he doesn't enjoy the roughing it parts of life as much as I do. I work in tech so to me things like bringing water up from the creek, or cutting my own firewood, are like therapy. But when he comes out here, he wants all the comforts of his city house. And he deserves that.
And as a bonus - I get to see him test different configs and products before I even have to think about them :)
We ran for almost 16 months on 4kwh of storage and 4 350w panels. We don't use it for heat since we live in a forest and burn our own wood in a woodstove, but for everything else we needed it was grand. Total cost was about $4500CAD
Having said that - When the power company offered to extend the grid out here, we took them up on it. So now the 4kwh is more than enough to run the garage and a few outbuildings, while the main tinyhouse is tied to the grid.
Conversely - Our neighbour who has big 2800sqft house spent about 25k to be able to run as if they are in the city.
Not saying any of this to bolster any argument. I just like talking about it :p
No. I routinely turn down offers of 80% increase to go work for companies like Palantir, Raytheon, etc... Fuck that noise.
I'll bite. How do downvotes prove you are right in any way?
All Hail Eris.
All Hail Discordia.
I started saying 'thank ya kindly' in the same ironic way in work meetings. And now it is my default phrase for saying thank you...
Well, personally I'm voting for a fall off of something that lasts long enough for him to be terrified and feel helplessness before he hits the ground.
But a team of ravenous wolverines would be ok too.
Perhaps it is just me. But I thumbs up requests to review stuff all the time. It has never meant "I reviewed that and agree"
I consider it as assent to do the thing they asked me to do. Which seems like it was 'review this'.
I guess it is time to change. Maybe an alias from ":thumbs up:" to "I will take a look!" is in order.
I've played world of Warcraft on Linux for at least 8 years now.