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That statement was in a context of a paragraph about solar for wealthy people / upper middle class on a site with tech people who, coincidentally, near universa
by survirtual 4y ago
That statement was in a context of a paragraph about solar for wealthy people / upper middle class on a site with tech people who, coincidentally, near universally fall in that category.
If you have solar, you won’t ever go 3 days without some energy generation. The 3 days of battery is mainly a buffer for night time when solar is offline.
- anigbrowl 4y agoIt sounds like the people in this article could be snowed in for a week or more. Your experience and insights are interesting but you're kinda tripping over your own feet with generalities that are at odds with the article we're discussing.
- survirtual 4y agoI agree with you. I thought replying to the post I did and honing in on the statement about rural folks was enough to go on this tangent, but I will look towards being more focused on the root topic in the future. I just think, at the very least, getting people thinking about these topics and perhaps even convincing someone to make some lifestyle changes could be really helpful, and well, it just isn’t often words from internet strangers could have such a direct impact. Ultimately, my thinking is that I can’t help the people in that article here, but I can try and contribute to the readers in my small way.
- bombcar 4y agoI’m not sure where you might be, but there are parts of the world where storms can be thick enough to get nearly no solar power for more than three days - and some systems won’t produce anything useful unless they can get above a certain point.