What would it take for our home to be Solar Self-Sufficient?
Work in progress, but I think I have the answer.
🏠 I live in an ordinary house in suburban London.
☀️ Our solar panels generate 3,800kWh per year.
🔌 We use the same amount of electricity per year.
After crunching the numbers:
🔋 Capturing all our solar excess needs a 1 MegaWatt-hour battery.
It does feel like #China is probably gonna be the lynchpin of a #solarpunk #future in many of the poorest parts of the world #Africa#Asia#SouthAmerica
The veritable flood of #solar and #batteries and #EV along with cheap #communication #technology is laying the foundation of all the cool things #solarpunk usually dreams about.
With the https://storySeedLibrary.org/ at over 108 #creativeCommons #solarpunk #illustration from 20 awesome artists in 5 languages:
What else would you like to see there?
What themes, topics, artists could help us imagine a #sustainable #climate #future ?
Do you know about any #art whose author could consider donating it? Anyone open for #commissions who could be a good fit?
#sustainability #library #futurism #climateChange #imagination #anarchy #technology#socialJustice #socialism#mastoArt
It does feel like #China is probably gonna be the lynchpin of a #solarpunk #future in many of the poorest parts of the world #Africa#Asia#SouthAmerica
The veritable flood of #solar and #batteries and #EV along with cheap #communication #technology is laying the foundation of all the cool things #solarpunk usually dreams about.
What would it take for our home to be Solar Self-Sufficient?
Work in progress, but I think I have the answer.
🏠 I live in an ordinary house in suburban London.
☀️ Our solar panels generate 3,800kWh per year.
🔌 We use the same amount of electricity per year.
After crunching the numbers:
🔋 Capturing all our solar excess needs a 1 MegaWatt-hour battery.
With the https://storySeedLibrary.org/ at over 108 #creativeCommons #solarpunk #illustration from 20 awesome artists in 5 languages:
What else would you like to see there?
What themes, topics, artists could help us imagine a #sustainable #climate #future ?
Do you know about any #art whose author could consider donating it? Anyone open for #commissions who could be a good fit?
#sustainability #library #futurism #climateChange #imagination #anarchy #technology#socialJustice #socialism#mastoArt
The local library is doing the Repair Cafe!!! This is an initial event. Im hoping we can do something like this monthly once we get it going!!!
Repair Cafes are community events where people bring things to get fixed and maintained for free. Volunteers come to hang out, talk shop, and work on folks' items.
This is a mutual-aid event - So folks might be good at fixing bicycles but arent as good at mending jeans. So they might bring their jeans to get patched and then help tune a bicycle!
While my library has asked if I can help with desktop support (which I'm more than willing to do), I actually really like working on bicycles! So I let them know I could do that, too.
I'm at my bandwidth with creating and organizing things with the Free Fridges and Food Rescue, but I absolutely can join an volunteer on the days of if all I have to do is show up, hang out, and tinker on some repairs!
THIS IS SO EXCITING!!!
#solarPunk#repairCafe#rightToRepair#mutualAid #libraries #library #librarians
The local library is doing the Repair Cafe!!! This is an initial event. Im hoping we can do something like this monthly once we get it going!!!
Repair Cafes are community events where people bring things to get fixed and maintained for free. Volunteers come to hang out, talk shop, and work on folks' items.
This is a mutual-aid event - So folks might be good at fixing bicycles but arent as good at mending jeans. So they might bring their jeans to get patched and then help tune a bicycle!
While my library has asked if I can help with desktop support (which I'm more than willing to do), I actually really like working on bicycles! So I let them know I could do that, too.
I'm at my bandwidth with creating and organizing things with the Free Fridges and Food Rescue, but I absolutely can join an volunteer on the days of if all I have to do is show up, hang out, and tinker on some repairs!
THIS IS SO EXCITING!!!
#solarPunk#repairCafe#rightToRepair#mutualAid #libraries #library #librarians
Check out these awesome stickers from my friend @stetstudio.bsky.social! I also have one that says "solar-powered punk" on my laptop. LOVE IT.
You can find their stuff here: https://www.stetstudio.com/store
Check out these awesome stickers from my friend @stetstudio.bsky.social! I also have one that says "solar-powered punk" on my laptop. LOVE IT.
You can find their stuff here: https://www.stetstudio.com/store
We are seeing the first Solar Panels, made from Recycled Solar Panels,
in factories powered by Solar Panels.
These are early steps in a closed loop system which should power humanity for centuries to come with minimal environmental impacts and with doubtless more improvements to come. #SolarPunk
https://www.trinasolar.com/us/resources/newsroom/Worlds-First-Fully-Recycled-c-Si-Module
We are seeing the first Solar Panels, made from Recycled Solar Panels,
in factories powered by Solar Panels.
These are early steps in a closed loop system which should power humanity for centuries to come with minimal environmental impacts and with doubtless more improvements to come. #SolarPunk
https://www.trinasolar.com/us/resources/newsroom/Worlds-First-Fully-Recycled-c-Si-Module
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