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Foil Hatter (foil_hatter@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 10:45:15 JST 
Foil Hatter
PS: and you'd be no better than them, if listening til the end for you is such a sin. Don't become what you hate - that'll help nobody. -
Foil Hatter (foil_hatter@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 10:45:10 JST
Foil Hatter
It's still not right in my book, but I have no valid argument in this case. Maybe there are times and places the wrong way is right after all. I'll leave it at that. -
Foil Hatter (foil_hatter@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 10:35:35 JST
Foil Hatter
True. I agree with you there completely. Take their belongings away and throw them to wild boars. But make it a court order.
It's just that one law should apply to everyone so if you start making shortcuts, you're on a dangerous road. One wrong turn and you have another dictatorship on your hands and the snake ate it's own tail. -
Foil Hatter (foil_hatter@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 10:25:38 JST
Foil Hatter
Just to be a contrarian - what if you work at factory for whole life to buy that mansion (house) and your bum neighbor tattles some made up BS on you to govt so he can get your house? Not like that never happened. Plenty of non-Russian people went to Siberia just for that. So I'd not cheer for banishment as official punishment and out-of-court justice. Even if ruler is benevolent, there will always be the some Judas waiting for opportunity as well. -
Foil Hatter (foil_hatter@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 02:56:07 JST
Foil Hatter
Small hydro is either very inefficient, low yields, or it's quite high tech and needs as expensive maintenance as for small wind though. Also, small water will not work when (if) river is frozen or water level is low.
Simplest and most reliable in terms of maintenance is solar. For under 10k investment you get 2 to 4k return in electric bill. That's with grid-tied system I have and with rather high electricity costs throughout past year. We're talking about ~22 .. 24 full size 2m by 1m panels saturating at 11kW on inverter.
For batteries, I recommend getting one salvaged from crashed EV together with it's BMS and charger. Use SimpBSM open source board to get it to charge and report the stats. It's much better than lead acid stack and it will serve longer if you do not over-heat or freeze it. Lead acid is a bitch to take care of and it will not last forever anyway. Also, as Eiregoat said, you will need to mess with Sulfuric acid and distilled water to top them up and they lose that solution by vaporizing it at charge time. So you will have slightly acidic atmosphere all over the place - not large concentrations, but still a catalyst for rust.
Simplest way of charging EV battery module from sun is by using hybrid inverter with lead-acid charge mode with manual voltage set-point. If you have EV's pack with BMS integrated, you just use SimpBMS to signal charge on / charge off to inverter and in inverter itself you set the max charge voltage. That's it. If I am not mistaken, Fronius has this mode. And bonus with hybrid inverter is that you can still be grid tied when / if you want to and you have your AC output for your in-house infrastructure otherwise.
From my own experience you get shit all yield at winter though. 3 darkest months are practically zero. IMHO the best way is to combine solar, wind and water, if you have means, real estate and location allowing for that. But large battery pack _ solar is fine too if you are in a country or state that is rich of sun and you can get enough of it in wintertime too. Australia, Spain, IDK what you have there, Amerimuts -Arzona? The important thing is how high the sun gets in sky in winter, so closer you are to Equator, better yields you get.
Bottom line - battery will save you at nights and rainy fays, but not through the winter with solar. Combinations of sources are best. -
Foil Hatter (foil_hatter@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 02:56:02 JST
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"sticks"? What's that? Another work of the day for me.
Well, if by "local resources" you mean scavenging, then it has to be based on car / truck alternator, because I don't think you can get anything more suited. But then you have to stick with 12V/24V loads because both scavenging for inverters would not be that easy as well as quite complex system. Essentially you are talking about small power stations that can charge or/and run some data relays, LED lights, radio. Not AC or heating or stove-top.
If by "local resources" you mean build it from scratch, from ore and fire in furnace.. No. It's not viable.
Back to alternators - they are very nice as you have lots of them available everywhere, but the biggest issue there is the RPM ratio. You can have high enough RPM form wind, but in water, you'll need transmission. Some way to put 2-3-4k RPM in that alternator, as at below 2k it is sub-optimal and below 1k it will produce shit all.
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