How to Build a Small Solar Power System - #lowtechmagazine just released an extensive, accessible, beginner friendly guide on solar system, small scale!

Happy to have contributed illlustrations, pictures and feedback to this new article. It will be a great base for upcoming workshops and prototypes.

#lowtech #solar #solarpunk #tutorial

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/12/how-to-build-a-small-solar-power-system/

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: https://xkcd.com/2863/

#Astronomy #Meme #Mastodon

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Between the #solar panels and the battery, I've enough electricity to run the #airfryer for my lunch.

Is this #SolarPunk?

#solar vagabond. My posts are now outdated http://hamishcampbell.com/?s=solar+laptop the issue you need is a panel with a "real USB-C PD" rather than just normal USB with a C socket and no PD, then you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.

#solarpunk

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
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=table_1_01