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ok so, even if we assume that you NEED to do this, which is an errant assumption on the basis of "you can just not have that problem through over provisioning" you could use that extra generated power for other things, selling to industry, energy storage, a community center whatever, there are literally endless things you could do with free power, most often you just dump it into heating since it's cheap, and storing it is fairly trivial in something like water.

At worst possible case scenario, your required grid imports are still going to be less than they currently are, which means less external grid maintenance, and less strain.

Granted it's not going to be used year round, unless of course, you over provision production and consume in the winter, and produce in the summer, where now you're getting effectively double the usage, if not more. You probably won't reach peak micro grid infrastructure, but the flexibility providing by something like solar is worth the consideration. A really good example of this is actually the texas power grid, although that is a pretty large power grid, i never said you should island micro generation, just that it's likely going to be beneficial.

i was not ready for the furry posting, but here i am

it really is so true.

you install linux on one machine, and then suddenly every other machine you own has linux on it, ssh, and you use shit like rsync to manage shit over the network. Before you know it you're running a snapcast server to manage multiroom audio automatically configured into your smart home network. (i haven't gotten this far yet, but it's eventually going to happen lol)

The pipeline is real.

lmao yeah it is 2025 now, still stuck in last years shit i guess lol.

Anyway.

and the inability to hide things has apparently just made it more blatant when we decide to ignore genocide.

yeah, you would think with how easy it would be to expose and report genocide, that if genocide were happening everybody would immediately know about it and be worried about, and move to do things to prevent it.

not very much, especially during the winter, the best way to optimize panel production is by pointing it towards the sun most effectively, the farther north, or south, of the equator the less effective it is, the less directly it points towards the sun in general, the less power you make.

It might still produce a decent amount of power overall, through a reasonable period of time, but it's probably WELL below what you could be making with an optimized install, especially one with solar tracking, granted some solar power is still better than no solar power, so you do get tradeoffs at the end of the day.

as another commenter said, there are solar power calculators out there, if you're looking for rough figures, use them.

how very on-brand for a nation that dismantled nuclear plants to cozy up with Putin’s pipelines.

classic german meme, to be fair, they do actually have some pretty decent renewable production, they just really shot themselves in the foot while hiking up a mountain with that move.

it's not actually that bad, unless you live next to a gen 1, or maybe gen 2 plant. Unless you're next to one of like, three existing operational RBMK plants.

By the time you needed to evacuate from that area due to a nuclear disaster, you would be well informed, and probably gone already. Even if you didn't the radiation exposure is likely to be incredibly minimal. Probably under the regulated limits.

microgeneration purely in DC only really makes sense in stuff like campers and RV's where you're going to be using primarily nearby, low power consumption devices.

AC is still better, plus modern switching technology while still fairly expensive, is considerably more efficient now. If you're doing AC you also get a number of other benefits, notably, literally every existing appliance and device uses and works with AC voltages, the entire standard around electricity and home wiring is based on AC mains, all of the accessible hardware is also produced for AC mains, not that you can't use it for something else, it's just not intended for that.

Certain appliances will use induction motors, and similar other tech (clocks for example, often use the frequency of the power grid to keep time) based directly on the AC sinewave. You could still run them on DC, it's just significantly sillier. Plus transmission efficiency is a BIG loss in DC (even now with modern solid state switching components, it's still just, not ideal), granted thats less of a problem on a micro grid scale, it's still a concern and potential restriction, nothing beats the simplicity and reliability of a simple wire wound iron core transformer. There are a handful of other technical benefits, and drawbacks as well, but fairly minor.

Having a dedicated DC supply side might be nice for a home environment, but the question is what do you standardize on? DC/DC voltage conversion is fairly efficient as it is already. Converting from AC/DC is incredibly easy and not particularly inefficient at lower power consumption, it's more of a problem with higher draw devices. But you can easily get around that by using a higher voltage to convert down from.

a mix of both is good, there's arguments for doing local co-generation. Where you essentially turn a community into it's own power plant, and when you're talking about things like micro inverters, the cost doesnt really change.

Is it more efficient to do it at a utility grid scale? Yes, does that make it overall better? Not really, you still have to deal with grid inefficiencies, and maintenance, and well, you still have to deal with installations, so the cost isn't that significant at the end of the day.

Solar is one of very few renewable energy sources that you can actually locally build and maintain on a small scale, no sense in removing that utility from it, that's part of the reason it's so popular.

i mean, it'll work. You should probably just collectively work together to install a solar array on the roof of the apartment instead, assuming it doesn't already have one.

Granted this is in the EU, so ideal solar tracking is kinda just, fucked. It matters more closer to the equator, because you can get significantly more power from pointing them correctly, and tracking, if you decide to use that.

well tbf, the standard coming from computing is doubling the bits until it stops being a problem, or with ipv6 practically having more IPs than there are atoms in the entire planet of earth (i think i did the calculation a while ago, and it was like, most of the atoms in earth, so like, not quite, but for all intents and purposes, might as well be)

to be fair, the israeli palestine conflict is significantly longer running than anything that the germans managed, and so far, hasn't killed 6 million people, so there's that.

Part of the problem is that it's really really difficult to see the magnitude of the issue until the dust has settled, part of the reason we know how many people died in the holocaust is due to the work of various jewish archivists/historians that have spent decades crawling through information trying to piece together what they can, paired with the reasonably meticulous documentation that the germans were known for. (though i can't confirm that one)

Up until we practically landed boots IN germany, we didn't really have any idea what was going on, that's part of why it took so long for anything to be done.

Thankfully it's 2024 and we have modern technology, so you can't exactly just "hide" things like genocide anymore, it's a lot more apparent.

look that's not my problem, you want to continue being glued to your screen and wasting your time on shit that's trivial and unimportant, be my guest, but i can more than assure anybody in the world that literally nothing will happen if you stop using social media. Just try it. It's literally free.

that is still one second longer so.

the problem with this is that A LOT of people needs to do it.

yeah, and they should, it's worth the time investment, or in this case, time gain.

it really is funny. furries have the best image board for the worst content. (or not, depending on how you see it i suppose)

furries stay winning, what can i say.

true, but that's not as funny.

it requires effort for sure, but even if you don't want to permanently do it, just spend like a week, without using tiktok or something.

It's worth it. At least let yourself understand both worlds fully.

i mean, if the moon is up there, the light first has to bounce off of the moon, and then back to earth, so yes, it would most definitely take longer...