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The solar panels on top of my campervan have generated 1 megawatt hour of energy as of today
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this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2024
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Thats a little bit less than my solar house install has produced in the last year, and it was only up for half of it.
Just imagine how much fossil fuels we could save if everyone had solar on their roofs and if wind power would be more widespread as well.
It's still just too unaffordable for many people. It would cost us over $10,000 to get panels installed and that doesn't include the multiple trees that would have to come down because they are really old oak trees with huge branches that stretch over the house and sometimes fall on the roof.
There should be much bigger subsidies. That wouldn't help us, but it would help a lot of others.
Yes! Every bit helps.
The more people thay buy in, the more optimized the production and distribution becomes.
Thanks for helping in the way that you can.
Only if or when storage becomes cheap and widespread, otherwise even if you produced 100x the energy when the Sun shines you'd still need some other source of energy for the rest of the time. There are some glimmers of hope but they perpetually seem 4-5 years out.
I have 10kwh of storage, which helps a lot, and it wasnt that expensive, especially compared to a few years ago.
Now that sodium ion batteries are actually starting to become available we will see them taking over stationary storage, but for now LiFePo4 works pretty good.