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The point that the owner is openly looking to "buy a Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck" in order to drive around and battery pump the individual houses just ma

The point that the owner is openly looking to "buy a Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck" in order to drive around and battery pump the individual houses just makes the whole thing mega awful for me - at that point surely the proper green option would be to have a little wood-stove in each house which would easily be offset by the natural bio-sequestering in large surrounding woods!!??

dsfyu404ed 4y ago
>at that point surely the proper green option would be to have a little wood-stove in each house which would easily be offset by the natural bio-sequestering in large surrounding woods!!?? Even if you lived on a plot of forest that provided enough timber sustainably satisfy your energy needs (obviously everybody can't but why not let those who can/want to do so?) you'd still have every idiot coming out of the woodwork to complain about local air quality. It's easier just fractionally poison some watersheds half a world away building batteries and then charge up those batteries with grid electricity of mixed provenance giving you a veneer of plausible deniability than deal with the idiots next door who have a small but easy to quantify gripe.
avianlyric 4y ago
They use LPG for heating and cooling already. The battery isn’t needed for that, so a wood stove wouldn’t change anything. Their primary issue is that there just isn’t much sun light in the winter. Not only is the duration very short, maybe 7 hours total per day, but the angle of incident is extremely low (sun doesn’t rise very far), making shading a serious issue. Conversely electricity consumption will be higher because lights need to be on longer, due to the reduced daylight hours. To top it all of, be so far north also means the intensity of sunlight is lower, so the energy delivered by a each sq meter of solar panel is lower compared to a similar panel near the equator. Put that all together, and collecting enough energy for functional illumination, and pumping water can become a real challenge.

dsfyu404ed 4y ago

>at that point surely the proper green option would be to have a little wood-stove in each house which would easily be offset by the natural bio-sequestering in large surrounding woods!!?? Even if you lived on a plot of forest that provided enough timber sustainably satisfy your energy needs (obviously everybody can't but why not let those who can/want to do so?) you'd still have every idiot coming out of the woodwork to complain about local air quality. It's easier just fractionally poison some watersheds half a world away building batteries and then charge up those batteries with grid electricity of mixed provenance giving you a veneer of plausible deniability than deal with the idiots next door who have a small but easy to quantify gripe.

avianlyric 4y ago

They use LPG for heating and cooling already. The battery isn’t needed for that, so a wood stove wouldn’t change anything. Their primary issue is that there just isn’t much sun light in the winter. Not only is the duration very short, maybe 7 hours total per day, but the angle of incident is extremely low (sun doesn’t rise very far), making shading a serious issue. Conversely electricity consumption will be higher because lights need to be on longer, due to the reduced daylight hours. To top it all of, be so far north also means the intensity of sunlight is lower, so the energy delivered by a each sq meter of solar panel is lower compared to a similar panel near the equator. Put that all together, and collecting enough energy for functional illumination, and pumping water can become a real challenge.