Let's do this.

[baloouriza@social.tulsa.ok.us]

@pfriedma That's what I'm saying,you'd need to have a cutover interlock at the breaker box, AND you can't just plug panels into any random outlet (since you would be bypassing circuit protection). I know that much from living someplace where my neighbor generated all the power for like 3 households and dealing with that, and still have capacity left over and still had a cutover to sell back power to the electric co-op.

Or is this just explaining modular solar badly?

@f4grx @balkonsolar

[boydstephensmithjr@hachyderm.io]

@almino @TechConnectify I wish it was easy enough to upload to a PeerTube instance that Alec would choose to do so, for people that don't want to suffer YT ads.

But, the combination of so little reach and no (or even negative) revenue makes it hard to justify much, if any, effort.

[mausmalone@mastodon.social]

@TechConnectify ❤️ and thank you.

[boydstephensmithjr@hachyderm.io]

@utf_7 @TechConnectify

renewables > burning fuel

building capital > operating

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community > fascism

[mrcopilot@mstdn.social]

@TechConnectify

[dragonbard@dice.camp]

@TechConnectify you are awesome.

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@mattesilver @TechConnectify usually the warranty is that after 25 years the panels will still produce at least 80%, these days often even more, and that's the *minimum*, if one is lucky¹ it could easily be more.

¹ or lives in an area with cooler summers, and/or has bought more expensive panels with a better warranty

[mattesilver@101010.pl]

@valhalla @TechConnectify

thank you, I got it from the other answers.

Somehow no one mentions longevity of batteries...

Another thing is that it's all stupid-"smart". I have a PV installation, and it all requires connection to some 3rd party SaaS. Once the company goes belly-up, as they often do, it's all an expensive paperweight.

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@mattesilver @TechConnectify batteries were mentioned in the video, in the context of how car batteries have been exceeding the longevity expectations by a lot

as for the smart, our installation is smarter than I'd like, requires a connection and sends data to a 3rd party, but when (not if) internet is not available it's still producing energy, storing it in the batteries and using it locally; I'm not sure about reselling it to the grid, but I think that would also be working. The part that will disappear if the company dies is just the data logging and reporting, and losing that would be bad, but not as bad as losing everything else.

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

us, yesterday evening “we've just spent the day looking at conference video, we're tired, but the laptop is already connected to the big(-ish) screen in front of the couch, let's watch something lightweight, like @TechConnectify preaching to the choir¹ about how cool solar panels are”

us, yesterday evening, a bit more than one hour later: “ouch”

but it was the good kind of “ouch”, because those things needed to be said, thanks for doing so

¹ at least in our case