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> I know plenty of people in Texas who will be buying solar panels and batteries after last winter. I will be doing the same. I have actually been in the posit
by filleduchaos 5y ago
> I know plenty of people in Texas who will be buying solar panels and batteries after last winter. I will be doing the same.
I have actually been in the position of having to rely on non-mains power all my life.
It bloody sucks.
- pengaru 5y agoHow long is "all my life?" Because it seems like a relatively recent development that off-grid solar power solutions have become affordable and mature enough to not suck on average.
- narism 5y agoAround 40% of the population of Nigeria (a country of 200+ million) does not have access to electricity. The per capita electricity consumption of Nigeria is _two orders of magnitude lower_ than the US.
- pengaru 5y ago> Around 40% of the population of Nigeria (a country of 200+ million) does not have access to electricity. The per capita electricity consumption of Nigeria is _two orders of magnitude lower_ than the US. ... And how is this relevant?
- filleduchaos 5y agoBecause that is where I live?
- pengaru 5y ago> Because that is where I live? ... And how is this relevant?
- filleduchaos 5y agoYou asked how long "all my life" I've spent only partially reliant on the power grid is, and someone else has provided you some context (that I actually mean all my life, which you can probably infer to be longer than two decades at least). As to the second half of your original question, solar power is not the only kind of backup power that exists.