@makdaam @TechConnectify The journey from affordability of solar panels to the poem on the Statue of Liberty may seem surprising to some, but Alec really presented it in a way that highlighted the obviousness of their Connection.

@TechConnectify I still think it's absolutely crazy how cheap solar panels are

I got my 500w panels, new and unused, for 50-60 a piece, without buying in bulk.

That's cheaper than standard plywood. It's literally CHEAPER to build a house out of SOLAR PANELS than it is to build out of low grade PLYWOOD.

They've gone up a little bit in price since but not much, you can still get 500w panels for around 70 euros a piece, example here: https://www.solar-outlet.nl/zonnepanelen/

@BalooUriza @balkonsolar a grid tie inverter is synchronized to the grid and has to stop if the grid goes down, because otherwise it would loose sync and suddenly supply 100% of the load.

These imverters are designed to inject current in your home mains by using a voltage slightly higher than the grid, so it is consumed first.

@TechConnectify Just happened onto this on YT, had no idea you're here.

Making great points throughout the entire video there and it's nice to see people active in ostensibly far-removed fields to find such clear words.

@vogelchr @TechConnectify hallo from your neighborhood country (Tschechien), i hope that by "us" you mean whole Europe, that's what is getting weaker, because you have bot much to complain . It started in Hungary and we have now ultra-populists party leading too in CZ - this time with two true fascist parties in coalition. Germany is far more stable and better!

@mattesilver @TechConnectify it's still better than single use fuel.

@drsbaitso @TechConnectify We need to reclaim “conservative”, because frugality used to be a byword, and even a synonym.

“Stitch in time saves nine” is a whole ethic and way of life

A “Conserve” movement would target the radical conservatism — radical rebellionists in a conservative constitutionalist trenchcoat

@TechConnectify Fuck. Yes.

@TechConnectify Thank you.

@drsbaitso @TechConnectify

> But I really think the Overestimate Short Term & Underestimate Long Term problem does a lot more heavy lifting in that regard. Humans in survival mode (as so many of us have been for the past 10-40 years) need to focus on the short term, and thinking about the long term is an unaffordable luxury.

Really feeling this. Looking after your sustainability is totally a thing. But having had some major wins, politically, this decade in Australia, it gives light to the maxim “you underestimate what you can do in a decade”.

We replaced a string of the safest conservative House of Reps politicians with pro-environment pro-integrity conservatives, really rattling the establishment and rejecting post-truth, putting civility back on the floor of the house. It’s the sort of thing 12-year-olds on a school tour can actually watch without cringing (and dying) inside.