Re: Diversity - good or bad ?

On 11/01/2025 23:44, D wrote:

  On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

 You REALLY hate solar, don't you ?

 I personally am a huge fan of solar for my offgrid fortress of solitude during
8-9 months of the year.
 

That is fine. If youtr usage is low and there is plenty of sun - My sister oin Cape Town relies on it to keep the house going during the planed powercuts that characterise an ANC destroyed power grid.
Bit it doesnt work very well in wintertime, and the batteries are expsenive

For the rest of the time, I wonder if small 2-3 meter wind turbines might be a
thing?
 

Absolutely not.  You might get a few hundred watts at best If you build it talle ebough

For heating I would use a wood stove or a pellets burner.
 

How not very green of you!

Last time I was trying to calculate the cost of battery storage for a 100% solar
it came out at 600k USD or so, that is... madness.
>

Now multiply it by the whole of california...
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