At age 74, my Dad passed at 84 and Mom at 98, time marches on. But I was faced with a bucket of TSLA stock that pays no dividends. Its value comes only from selling. Because time becomes short, I want to enjoy what remains and that means keeping the house value for who ever gets it later, and reducing my monthly bills while on this side of the grass. "Cost avoidance" pays for my libertine lifestyle. Bob Wilson
"libertine lifestyle" There are dictionaries that connect that to lack of morality. Use one of the other ones.
A brief news clip in Syria included part of a roof top, solar panel. So I used Google Earth to find: Three roof top solar panels in Homs Syria What clued me were seeing a line of refugees carrying all their belongings and one had a solar panel. Then Syrian rebels: So carry a gas generator to combat or folded solar panels ... which would you choose? Bob Wilson
Nu? They are just digging the hole in a different direction. I am just impressed how home and survival solar is showing up for those living closest to the edge. There is a lesson to be learned. Bob Wilson
We had a Pakistani post doc here. Before he went home he was very interested in learning about and buying PV things. I knew enough (red vs. black; 12 vs. 24) to teach. Inverters and power-point controllers and similar are cheap here. But they are also 'cheap' so we are hoping for the best...
A FoaF was telling me not long ago about a head-scratcher she had struggled with when adding a panel on her boat, until she realized the panel had been manufactured with the red and black wires swapped.
Site visit last week, waiting on final design. I've emphasized speed and don't let my questions hold up the project. But I have figured out how to reduce the solar battery size by scheduling EV charging. I have two EVs whose charge rates can be reduced to 8 A, 1.8 kW. By staggering their charge intervals during the day, the solar power can be stuffed into their batteries: BMW i3-REx urban car - it gets the earlier starting and longer charge interval because it does most of the EV miles. Tesla Model 3 cross country car - it is driven fewer miles so daily charging defers to the BMW. If I need to run an errand and the BMW does not have enough charge, I'll plug it back in and take the Tesla. Regardless, most of my urban driving miles will be solar. Bob Wilson
