FreedomAdvocate

Although getting under 16s off social media wasn’t really the point, getting close to the digital id was - so in that regard yes, it is a success unfortunately.

Yeah I’ve got a 42kWh battery and even with Amber I couldn’t make enough from feed-in to cancel out the subscription and daily connection fee. The average feed in rate I got over a month was a smidge over 6c/kWh. Not terrible but far below what some people make out that you’ll get.

Not to mention Amber’s “smartshift” “AI” is garbage, regularly leaving me with not enough battery to comfortable make it through the night, and then having to buy from the grid for hours.

I’ve switched to GloBird and their plan seems much better for me. I can fill the battery almost from empty to full in the 3 hours of free electricity, then they pay me $1/day for every day I don’t draw from the grid between 6-8pm, and pay 6c/kWh feed in (more if you can get on their VPP which I can’t). So now I set it up to charge for 3 goes every day, and export 7kWh every day, which covers their $1.42 daily supply fee. $0 bills here I come.

As an aside - how on earth can someone only use 7-9kWh a day? My pool filter/pump uses that much alone.

Whoever made that website needs to never design another thing in their life.

and switch to smaller hybrids and/or EVs.

The result of that would be significantly more strain on the grid, and even more increases in power prices. Yay.

I love EV's and my next car will be one, but we need to get our power grid shitshow sorted before any significant percentage of people get EVs or we'll be up a creek without a paddle.

IMO it feels like her way of getting out and getting paid. Claiming to feel “unsafe” because of something that was said at the workplace is setting up for a lawsuit.

Fwiw a 50 kWh system is insanely excessive for most people.

Nah, the 50kWh is borderline the smallest any family of 2+ should go. My household uses about 15-20kWh minimum between sun down and sun up, and we do all our washing etc during the day. We've got a 42kWh battery and it's not even close to being enough for 2 days with no solar generation. Unless the battery is over 50% by sun down I'm not confident in it lasting until solar kicks in the next day without being careful with our usage.

10kWh can be less than an hour of ducted AC. It can be cooking dinner on the stove/oven for an hour with the tv and fans on. 10kWh isn't close to enough for a family, and it would be hard to make it financially worth it. Would take 10 years to pay itself off, then it's out of warranty with diminished capacity before it starts to provide any return on investment.

So being encrypted before transmission and at rest isn't enough simply because someone at backblaze can send the encrypted files out to you on a HDD........

lol

500kWh......that's it? That's only 10x my home battery, and it's supposed to help a whole community? This would give 50 houses 10kWh each, so about 2 hours of power if they have their air-conditioning on lol. Less if they're using it for heating.

Sorry but a 500kWh battery is borderline pointless for a community battery.

A significant portion of the people of this town genuinely thought that this battery was going to catch fire

You are aware that this is a risk with batteries like this, right? Right?

and as the number of refugees rises

But I've been repeatedly told that increasing demand by importing over a thousand people a day doesn't have any effect on house prices?

That's a very biased way of saying that he freed Venezuela from their communist fascist dictator, and is in the process of freeing Iran from their fascist dictatorship. Also don't usually hear killing the leader of a mexican drug cartel be spoken about in a bad way.....

You’ve got to be kidding lol. World is a bunch of far left Hamas supporters.