Posted on 03/18/2023 5:31:45 AM PDT by spirited irish
I hope to go solar someday so I can go off-grid
I was thinking the same thing.
I’ve been hesitant about installing solar, due to he fact that solar panels are very toxic and are hard to dispose of when they’re at the end of their usefulness.
But reading this, I’m thinking that my backup generator isn’t going to help much when the electric grid collapses.
Any Freepers have suggestions as to a reputable company that installs solar?
The thing these billionaires are missing is their money is about to become worthless.
The problem with solar cells, is they have a half life ranging between 10 and 20 years. That means their output drops 50% every 10 or 20 years.
However, they will last longer than the 200 gallons of LPG powering my standby generator.
The other problem is that they are composed in part from gallium arsenide, a nasty toxin, so disposal is problematic.
There is no easy solution. The best solution is going Amish, because they rely the least on technology.
For those of us who are older, that’s not going to happen.
The outlook, especially for seniors and city dwellers, is very gloomy.
Biden (a euphemism for whoever controls things) is sabotaging everything.
There are some home made solar experts right here at freerepublic. What they have taught me so far is solar is not ready made to allow one to exit the grid worry free.
It is a great supplement to reduce dependency on the grid but wind, weather, location, and size of your system dictate how much dependency on the grid you may have.
Our whole focus should be on keeping the grid and making it fool proof. A point that has become extremely serious the more environmental idiots have the ear of grid regulating agencies.
Find out where your supplier sits in the grid mess. Are they a producer of power or merely a buyer and provider of electric energy. Producers are the ones most impacted by injurious rules dedicated to destroying what at one time was a very reliable power grid.
The USA is at this moment not in pursuit of reliability in my opinion, having shut down gigawatts of coal fired power plants due to environmental activism with very little if any replacement with something at least as reliable as coal.
My own electric coop is whining about the loss of available energy should there be events that place stress on the grid, and there are always events that place stress on the grid.
Lastly, but not leastly, I’m meeting with the President of the coop to more fully understand what he and the coop are up against. They are not producers, and like you and me are subject to the whims of available production. Production that has been seriously reduced in the last few years by plant shutdowns with minimal replacement.
The grid is in jeopardy and going solar doesn’t solve the problem, and solar is more than likely viewed much like the power grid in the eyes of environmental idiots. Progress is not part of their focus.
Problem is storage if you do it by legal codes. Unless your state and local codes allow you to use batteries to store power for back up, then “grid tie” solar systems will also go down and are useless when the grid goes down.
Create a crisis. Create several crises. Declare a state of emergency. Make your opponents disappear. Right, whoever is behind Joe?
Basically everything producing enough energy for civilization will eventually have to have civilization to keep it going.
I’d say move to like minded communities where people can work together on the maintenance of a modern lifestyle.
Thats very good information.
I will have to check with my local township.
I’m back in the woods a bit so I might get lucky.
Yeah it can be a screwy setup depending on where you are. While grid tie solar will reduce your power bill, many states and areas make you hook it all up in way that it also goes down when the grid goes down.
Ca is that way. They promote solar, but they will not allow battery storage or a way to use it independently when the grid is down. You can bet the power companies had a hand in these hook up codes.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.” “But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.” “For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.” “He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.” “A murderer is less to fear..”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
Well, America over the years had built some very good & interesting ICE vehicles until about the time Barack Obama & Joe Biden came along & since they managed to screwup everything else......there’s no reason not to believe that the EV trend & it’s resulting related problems is not just another manifestation of their ideas.
And all this destruction is to no lasting or even transitory social benefit.
Europe in the Middle Ages could at least look to rampant diseases and incessant warfare for the relative de-civilization of most of Northern Europe, when the skills and capabilities of an educated class were crushed and and lawless behavior was largely well rewarded. The same pattern that traced the fall of Rome is being repeated today, and the outcome may be even more devastating.
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China, which is a major threat to America.
Biden and his stooge crew are doing their part to help them.
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The EU attempts at green energy conversion were a complete disaster from an industrial energy perspective.
There were energy shortages, power spikes and brown outs that destroyed both the components of the power transmission equipment and the electronic and electrical components of industrial machinery.
The EU had to upgrade it's systems to cope. We will have to go through the same process.
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