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islander

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Location: Seattle
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Posted: Jan 26, 2024 - 5:54pm

 haresfur wrote:

How's your water supply, Islander? I like our evaporative cooler for the house except on rare humid days. Well, except that it died and needs to be replaced. It's one of the main reasons we get by with a 1.5 kW solar system and haven't paid an electric bill in about 10 years.



It depends. We are working on getting municipal water, but it's not here yet. We have an ejido (this is community well water) hookup, but it is pretty seasonal (and needs to be pre-filtered). Otherwise we use water trucks. The trucks are easy to get, and the system works well enough (we have a 10,000 liter cistern), but the cost has gone up and is pretty variable.  I've looked into condensors - the environmentals are pretty good here and we have spare power now, but the yield isn't really enough for a whole house supply, and they are spendy.  

haresfur

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Location: The Golden Triangle
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Posted: Jan 26, 2024 - 5:37pm

How's your water supply, Islander? I like our evaporative cooler for the house except on rare humid days. Well, except that it died and needs to be replaced. It's one of the main reasons we get by with a 1.5 kW solar system and haven't paid an electric bill in about 10 years.
islander

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Location: Seattle
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Posted: Jan 26, 2024 - 5:14pm

 ColdMiser wrote:

This must be very exciting for you getting off the grid. Keep us updated on how it's going. Enjoy that cup of coffee 



well it was pretty late when we energized it. But we did get some input:

first day yield
Red is consumption, yellow is solar yield. The pool pump shut down just before 5, so that let the yield be enough to put a few amps back into the batteries. Plenty still to make the overnight, so we'll just let it ride until tomorrow morning and see what it does.

ColdMiser

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Location: On the Trail
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Posted: Jan 26, 2024 - 1:22pm

 islander wrote:

So I've been working on/planning this for a while. Power at our southern outpost is sketchy at best and expensive. We have a pool pump that runs most of the day and sucks a lot of power. When there are storms the power goes out, when too many gringos turn on the AC in August, the power goes out, when the water truck hits the power line down the street.... the power goes out. Basically the power isn't really reliable.  Generators are expensive and noisy, and I sell Victron (batteries,inverters,power equipment) gear for a living, so this just sort of make sense. Our ROI on this setup is going to be about 2 years, but I got some deals and my labor is cheap when I'm the customer. Normally it would be closer to 5 years.  But it also qualifies as emergency / standby power.  I may eventually put a small generator on it for additional backup, but it doesn't really need it - the quattros have a second power input and internal transfer switch, so it's simple to do. 

This is a pair of 5KVA Victron Quattros. They are set up to run split phase, so all of our 240V appliances will work. The middle bit there is an autotransformer - it balances the loads and let's the quattros work together in perfect balance.  Lithium batteries are below, a pair of big solar controllers are on the right wall. 

20240109_181827

This is the solar array out back: 
This is the solar array, it is just over 6.5KW. This is overamped a little bit for our setup, but that just lets it start making more power earlier in the day (and later too, and will be a little better when we get clouds and such).  This is enough to run the pool pump and all the normal household stuff and charge up the batteries for overnight as well. You can even run the air conditioning on it to cool the place down. Right now we don't have enough battery to run air conditioning overnight, but that's a near future upgrade that just involves plugging in more batteries. 

We can monitor and control most everything from afar, and it lets you do some really cool analysis and reporting.  

Right now we are waiting for the final hookups. I should have sun power for coffee tomorrow morning.


This must be very exciting for you getting off the grid. Keep us updated on how it's going. Enjoy that cup of coffee 
islander

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Location: Seattle
Gender: Male


Posted: Jan 26, 2024 - 12:50pm

So I've been working on/planning this for a while. Power at our southern outpost is sketchy at best and expensive. We have a pool pump that runs most of the day and sucks a lot of power. When there are storms the power goes out, when too many gringos turn on the AC in August, the power goes out, when the water truck hits the power line down the street.... the power goes out. Basically the power isn't really reliable.  Generators are expensive and noisy, and I sell Victron (batteries,inverters,power equipment) gear for a living, so this just sort of make sense. Our ROI on this setup is going to be about 2 years, but I got some deals and my labor is cheap when I'm the customer. Normally it would be closer to 5 years.  But it also qualifies as emergency / standby power.  I may eventually put a small generator on it for additional backup, but it doesn't really need it - the quattros have a second power input and internal transfer switch, so it's simple to do. 

This is a pair of 5KVA Victron Quattros. They are set up to run split phase, so all of our 240V appliances will work. The middle bit there is an autotransformer - it balances the loads and let's the quattros work together in perfect balance.  Lithium batteries are below, a pair of big solar controllers are on the right wall. 
20240109_181827

This is the solar array out back: 
This is the solar array, it is just over 6.5KW. This is overamped a little bit for our setup, but that just lets it start making more power earlier in the day (and later too, and will be a little better when we get clouds and such).  This is enough to run the pool pump and all the normal household stuff and charge up the batteries for overnight as well. You can even run the air conditioning on it to cool the place down. Right now we don't have enough battery to run air conditioning overnight, but that's a near future upgrade that just involves plugging in more batteries. 

We can monitor and control most everything from afar, and it lets you do some really cool analysis and reporting.  

Right now we are waiting for the final hookups. I should have sun power for coffee tomorrow morning.

R_P

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Posted: Jan 12, 2024 - 2:27pm

 oldviolin wrote:
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NoEnzLefttoSplit

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Posted: Jan 12, 2024 - 2:18pm

 oldviolin wrote:

Still-shot-apple-off-head

Can't remember the last time I had a bow movement.

oldviolin

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Posted: Jan 12, 2024 - 2:11pm

 R_P wrote:
 
Still-shot-apple-off-head
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Posted: Jan 12, 2024 - 1:49pm


GeneP59

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Posted: Oct 2, 2022 - 8:07pm

 Red_Dragon wrote:
Yup looked at the info and all I saw was CG images and a fake flyover.  

Coaxial

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Location: Comfortably numb in So Texas
Gender: Male


Posted: Oct 2, 2022 - 6:47pm

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Obviously fake news, sir, how could you be deceived?{#Snooty}
Red_Dragon

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Location: Dumbf*ckistan


Posted: Oct 2, 2022 - 2:00pm

This 100% solar community endured Hurricane Ian with no loss of power and minimal damage
Red_Dragon

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Location: Dumbf*ckistan


Posted: Apr 19, 2022 - 5:47pm

Energy shift creates opening for ‘world’s largest batteries’
miamizsun

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Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP)
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 19, 2021 - 7:39am

 ColdMiser wrote:

Seems the good ole US of A is behind the 8 ball when it comes to implementing renewable infrastructure. I seem to recall Dutch companies being the lead on some of the wind farm projects underway off the North East Coast.



i'm in the dark about wind and geothermal
swanson's law is probably positioning solar to make more economic sense
renewables are going to help but they have reliability, storage and scale challenge
as more intelligent people explore the needed transition, nuclear (SMRs) seem to make more sense for the base energy need
i think the US has declining CO2 emissions but we should incentivize and accelerate production of better "green" tech
globally there's a large population that are going to need much more energy as they modernize
solar will help, especially in certain areas with copious sunshine



miamizsun

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Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP)
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 19, 2021 - 6:57am

 R_P wrote:

Genocidal/homicidal Israelis are A-OK though...


it's a solar energy project
i'm not sure but i feel you might be trying to say something here and probably not about renewables
can you elaborate?
ColdMiser

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Location: On the Trail
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 19, 2021 - 6:52am

 miamizsun wrote:

and now this?

A Solar Farm the Size of 1,000 Football Stadiums Is Going Up in Indiana


Israeli energy company Doral Renewables is spearheading the project, and will sell the power that’s generated at Mammoth to Columbus, Ohio-based American Electric Power. Doral is the owner-operator of over 400 energy facilities globally, and has three other projects underway in the US right now


Seems the good ole US of A is behind the 8 ball when it comes to implementing renewable infrastructure. I seem to recall Dutch companies being the lead on some of the wind farm projects underway off the North East Coast.

R_P

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Posted: Nov 18, 2021 - 2:09pm

 miamizsun wrote:

and now this?


Genocidal/homicidal Israelis are A-OK though...

Red_Dragon

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Location: Dumbf*ckistan


Posted: Nov 18, 2021 - 2:01pm

 miamizsun wrote:

and now this?

A Solar Farm the Size of 1,000 Football Stadiums Is Going Up in Indiana

The transition away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy sources is underway, with solar and wind farms popping up everywhere from the UK to China. A new project in the central US will pile on some significant green energy capacity, as the country’s biggest solar farm starts construction.

The Mammoth Solar farm, as it’s been appropriately dubbed, will be built in a rural area of Indiana about 80 miles south-east of Chicago. Once it’s complete, the farm will occupy 13,000 acres—that’s equivalent to about 1,000 football stadiums. Distributed throughout that space will be 2,850,000 solar panels, which will generate 1.65 gigawatts of electricity.

How big is that, exactly? Let’s do some comparisons. The biggest solar farm in the world is Bhadla Solar Park in India; it spans 14,000 acres and has a capacity of 2.25 GW. The biggest operational farm in the US is Solar Star in California, which cranks out 579 megawatts (0.58 GW). Mammoth falls somewhere in the middle, but will be almost three time as big as the California farm.

Israeli energy company Doral Renewables is spearheading the project, and will sell the power that’s generated at Mammoth to Columbus, Ohio-based American Electric Power. Doral is the owner-operator of over 400 energy facilities globally, and has three other projects underway in the US right now: Goonies Solar in Pennsylvania (so named because of the rocks that litter the piece of land where this farm is going up), Deere Acres Solar in Delaware, and Anthracite Ridge Wind, also in Pennsylvania.



This story would also fit well in this thread.
miamizsun

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Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP)
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 18, 2021 - 1:48pm

and now this?

A Solar Farm the Size of 1,000 Football Stadiums Is Going Up in Indiana

The transition away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy sources is underway, with solar and wind farms popping up everywhere from the UK to China. A new project in the central US will pile on some significant green energy capacity, as the country’s biggest solar farm starts construction.

The Mammoth Solar farm, as it’s been appropriately dubbed, will be built in a rural area of Indiana about 80 miles south-east of Chicago. Once it’s complete, the farm will occupy 13,000 acres—that’s equivalent to about 1,000 football stadiums. Distributed throughout that space will be 2,850,000 solar panels, which will generate 1.65 gigawatts of electricity.

How big is that, exactly? Let’s do some comparisons. The biggest solar farm in the world is Bhadla Solar Park in India; it spans 14,000 acres and has a capacity of 2.25 GW. The biggest operational farm in the US is Solar Star in California, which cranks out 579 megawatts (0.58 GW). Mammoth falls somewhere in the middle, but will be almost three time as big as the California farm.

Israeli energy company Doral Renewables is spearheading the project, and will sell the power that’s generated at Mammoth to Columbus, Ohio-based American Electric Power. Doral is the owner-operator of over 400 energy facilities globally, and has three other projects underway in the US right now: Goonies Solar in Pennsylvania (so named because of the rocks that litter the piece of land where this farm is going up), Deere Acres Solar in Delaware, and Anthracite Ridge Wind, also in Pennsylvania.

miamizsun

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Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP)
Gender: Male


Posted: Oct 27, 2021 - 4:43am

 black321 wrote:
few months old but...Kerry just said it may take another 5-10 years to transition production out of china.

China uses Uyghur forced labour to make solar panels, says report

 
 

"black321, you are now self-banned in china!"
*click*
"you don't exist anymore!"

-ccp
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