@TechConnectify thank you ️

@utf_7 @TechConnectify not too long. Take the time, please.

@TechConnectify The entire length is so good! It resonates with me so much and honestly it's amazing how much everything connects.

@BalooUriza @balkonsolar no, the panels have a built-in inverter that only works as long as it detects a healthy grid supply. This was specificly designed as a safety measure to prevent backfeeding of disabled circuits.

They are also limited in power to ensure that they can't defeat circuit breakers in detecting overcurrent through house wiring.

(This toot only applies to the situation in Germany)

@BalooUriza @ysbreker @TechConnectify no, thats Aging wheels, but they're friends. He made an appearance in the Brown video and Alec participated in a recent Aging Wheels (electric towing) video too.

@dontony @rexi @TechConnectify It's such an important video that I've downloaded it, ping me if you want the link tomorrow but I'm sleeping now.

@dontony @rexi @TechConnectify ffs

@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.