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Unfortunately it is not fully solar - it is as far as it can go, but then it is connected to a home router connected to mains etc.

johnchristopher 5y ago
If you want to nitpick go all the way. It's fully solar because a long time ago the sun got hot and the solar system got put together and that combination resulted in life and then later some sample of that life built a website with materials extracted from what the sun did to the original mess.
- robocat 5y ago
  Nitpick++: A fair percentage of electricity in the world is powered by other stars, because Uranium didn’t come from our star.
  - johnchristopher 5y ago
    Ah, coool. But it's still fair to say it's solar powered, right ? Just not our sun ?
    - robocat 5y ago
      Not really. The transuranics are believed to be mostly created during supernovas (core-collapse supernova nucleosynthesis) and neutron star mergers. Those events are not particularly similar to our sun's normal solar radiation. I think you are grasping at straws (although I'll be honest I don't know what that literally means). And I think the word solar really only applies to our own sun.
      - johnchristopher 5y ago
        Thanks for the explanation :). > I think you are grasping at straws (although I'll be honest I don't know what that literally means). Yup, I tried all I could ^^. > And I think the word solar really only applies to our own sun. So be it then. In scifi they always talked about sol-3 anyway and caspix-9, etc..
madaxe_again 5y ago
I do have a fully solar powered VPN gateway/LTE router/web server/Wi-Fi relay - in my case, it’s out of necessity, as I live in a deep valley, and the only way I could get internet access here was to stick a mast on top of a hill with an IP67 box of goodies and a solar panel and battery, and an LPDA and yagi antenna for LTE and 802.11n respectively. The web server isn’t public, but fulfils a few important functions for me.
- jhoechtl 5y ago
  Cool. Do you have a writeup of what you made and how?
- falcolas 5y ago
  Sounds like our local ham relay station. On the top of the mountain, solar and deep cycle batteries, and a radio relay. All housed in a cheap little shack. I was last up there around '98 to help top off the batteries with water, but it's still running strong today.
  - headass 5y ago
    this sounds really cool
    - falcolas 5y ago
      Some more info: https://gallatinhamradio.com/repeaters/BozemanAreaRepeaters.pdf https://gallatinhamradio.com/repeaters/BozemanAreaRepeaters.... <- The Bridger Ridge one the one I went to. Some of those repeaters will let you patch into the phone system. It's slick stuff, but I haven't worked with it for a few decades now.

johnchristopher 5y ago

If you want to nitpick go all the way. It's fully solar because a long time ago the sun got hot and the solar system got put together and that combination resulted in life and then later some sample of that life built a website with materials extracted from what the sun did to the original mess.

robocat 5y ago
Nitpick++: A fair percentage of electricity in the world is powered by other stars, because Uranium didn’t come from our star.
- johnchristopher 5y ago
  Ah, coool. But it's still fair to say it's solar powered, right ? Just not our sun ?
  - robocat 5y ago
    Not really. The transuranics are believed to be mostly created during supernovas (core-collapse supernova nucleosynthesis) and neutron star mergers. Those events are not particularly similar to our sun's normal solar radiation. I think you are grasping at straws (although I'll be honest I don't know what that literally means). And I think the word solar really only applies to our own sun.
    - johnchristopher 5y ago
      Thanks for the explanation :). > I think you are grasping at straws (although I'll be honest I don't know what that literally means). Yup, I tried all I could ^^. > And I think the word solar really only applies to our own sun. So be it then. In scifi they always talked about sol-3 anyway and caspix-9, etc..

madaxe_again 5y ago

I do have a fully solar powered VPN gateway/LTE router/web server/Wi-Fi relay - in my case, it’s out of necessity, as I live in a deep valley, and the only way I could get internet access here was to stick a mast on top of a hill with an IP67 box of goodies and a solar panel and battery, and an LPDA and yagi antenna for LTE and 802.11n respectively. The web server isn’t public, but fulfils a few important functions for me.

jhoechtl 5y ago
Cool. Do you have a writeup of what you made and how?
falcolas 5y ago
Sounds like our local ham relay station. On the top of the mountain, solar and deep cycle batteries, and a radio relay. All housed in a cheap little shack. I was last up there around '98 to help top off the batteries with water, but it's still running strong today.
- headass 5y ago
  this sounds really cool
  - falcolas 5y ago
    Some more info: https://gallatinhamradio.com/repeaters/BozemanAreaRepeaters.pdf https://gallatinhamradio.com/repeaters/BozemanAreaRepeaters.... <- The Bridger Ridge one the one I went to. Some of those repeaters will let you patch into the phone system. It's slick stuff, but I haven't worked with it for a few decades now.