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1. It’s not your resource to allocate. 2. The grid mostly doesn’t care how far the battery is from the panel. 3. Lithium ion is an incredibly inefficient mean
by _3u10 3y ago
1. It’s not your resource to allocate.
2. The grid mostly doesn’t care how far the battery is from the panel.
3. Lithium ion is an incredibly inefficient means of storing power that doesn’t have to be portable. Grid storage doesn’t use Li ion because it isn’t cost effective.
In summary the major misallocation of resources is using lithium batteries to store grid power at all. At home solar is the next Great Leap Forward for humanity. It's about as logical as making steel at home.
In case you didn't get the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
- steppi 3y agoI’m with you on the inefficiency of wide-scale at home solar and your three list items but don’t understand the connection to the Great Leap Forward unless you’re just saying they’re both bad and involved (or would likely involve) ill-calculated intervention and mis-allocation. If anything I think the right analogy is that home solar is to small scale private farming as large solar farms are to large scale agriculture. I think a modern Great Leap Forward more worthy of the name would be an aggressive failed attempt to build massive solar farms and dismantle home solar systems through forced labor after home solar had already achieved ubiquity.
- _3u10 3y agoChances are your house is not the ideal location for a solar panel.