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Design your off-grid solar system in minutes. Get compatible parts for RVs, vans, cabins, and home backup with cost estimates and performance scenarios.Tiny Solar Designer
This week's comic: The dangers of solar panels
Running on solar this afternoon. So glad to have to rooftop panels up!
I've noticed about a dozen other homes in my conservative rural Virginia neighborhood doing the same, and the town rec center recently got a large rooftop system as well. It gives me hope that some things are still moving in the right direction, even in these dark times.
Solar panels went up today
New house came with a SolarEdge inverter already installed. ☀️
Plot twist: I can't actually access the thing. SetApp login fails, and the WiFi credentials printed on the side? Totally useless.
Anyone dealt with taking over one of these as a new homeowner? Is there a reset procedure I'm missing, or am I just stuck pointing at it hoping it magically works?
PBS: Small plug-in solar panels gain traction as an affordable way to cut electricity bills
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#solar #cleanenergy #climateemergency
For years, solar power at home was mostly limited to people who owned their rooftops and could afford the steep upfront costs.Laura Klivans, KQED (PBS News)
Power surge: law changes could soon bring balcony solar to millions across US
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n…
Tweaks to state laws mean many Americans will be able to benefit from small, simple plug-in solar panelsOliver Milman (The Guardian)
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
theguardian.com/environment/20…
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel povertyStephen Burgen (The Guardian)
Something Positive Going on In CA
The 1.6-MW pilot system is among a growing number of initiatives to put solar over waterways. The approach could generate gigawatts of power nationwide.Canary Media
Somehow missed this:
Pakistan, home to more than 240 million people, is experiencing one of the most rapid #solar revolutions on the planet, even as it grapples with poverty and economic instability.
Suddenly about half the country’s electricity comes from solar. It’s not industrial solar farms or state-led: it’s a bottom-up revolution: households fed up with rising power costs and blackouts buying what are now ridiculously cheap solar panels.
cnn.com/2025/05/01/climate/pak…
If you or anybody you know in or near #Mayo #CoMayo that is interested in #solar #smallsolar #SmallWeb installs, please join this workshop
remote.wilderland.ie/events/pe…
To figure out what is needed for a solar install, and how to size it. I have a few examples of some mini wind turbines I'll put up as well, for kicks 
More workshops being announced soon! See remote.wilderland.ie
Data centers approved, solar farms rejected: What is going on in rural Virginia?
virginiamercury.com/2024/12/03…
Localities have continued to approve new data center proposals with little thought given to where and how they will get the power to serve them.Ivy Main (Virginia Mercury)
Wow, this @xkcd is really excellent.
#Space tip: if you’re ever lost in the inner #solar system, you can just type out the phrase “Optimistic #Aliens measure space typographically” in times new roman and use the dots as a #map
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from: xkcd.com/2863/
#solar vagabond. My posts are now outdated hamishcampbell.com/?s=solar+la… the issue you need is a panel with a "real USB-C PD" rather than just normal USB with a C socket and no PD, then you need to find a battery bank with "power pass-through" and 2 USB-C PD sockets - this is the hard part. And yes you can do it with normal 2amp 5v USB, but his will be battery assist more than power. It will work'ish but lead to premature battery wear all round.
in 2013, coal generated 175 times as much electricity as #solar power in the US. Within a decade, in 2022, coal was generating less than 5 times as much electricity (incl. estimated rooftop solar).
So far this year, coal has generated slightly more than twice as much electricity as all solar.
Coal is dying here but needs to die even faster.
#energy #climate #climateChange #ClimateCrisis
eia.gov/electricity/monthly/ep…
Utility-scale solar and wind provided over half of new US generating capacity added in the first half of 2023, according to new FERC data.Michelle Lewis (Electrek.co)
