- cross-posted to:
- usa@lemmy.ml
- usa@midwest.social
- cross-posted to:
- usa@lemmy.ml
- usa@midwest.social
If only we had elected the man who told us he was the only one who could stop inflation and end the wars and all that jazz. Oh wait, that happened and he made everything worse. Ha, silly me.
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I have an electricity bill of $0/month during the summer months after getting solar panels about 3 years ago. It was expensive to buy the system outright, but every year the electricity rates go up, the panels become more valuable. While I’m very happy with my personal results, I became immediately aware that those at the lower end of economic spectrum would benefit even more from this.
A friend and I started to see if we could to solar panel installations for free for those that were most at-risk financially. While we came up with a workable modest hardware system we could install, we found charity solar installation would be extremely risky for us to undertake. With rooftop installations it would mean taking on the liability of interacting with people’s roofs which means falls for people doing work, but also poorly maintained roofs including roof penetrations for fasteners and water leak liability. Even going “ground mount” didn’t remove the risks because we’d have to be interacting with the homeowners electrical systems with possible fire risks from aging or unlicensed modifications from prior owners. This ignores the risks of copper theft from easily accessible ground mount systems. In the end we had to abandon the idea of giving others what we could afford for ourselves simply because it was took risky to us trying to do good.
I have an electricity bill of $0/month during the summer months after getting solar panels about 3 years ago.
Zero? My electricity bill is negative. I’m selling my over-production to the electric company.
Yes, I too get credit for over production with true 1:1 net metering (inside the month, and 1:1 for generation portion beyond the month) for juice I send back to the grid beyond just having a $0 bill/month. I also have a second deductive meter where I don’t pay distribution fees for EV charging in the overnight hours. So in effect, I get paid by the electric company for EV charging between midnight and 4AM. I also generate enough electricity to have a large offset my winter heating bill by permanently turning off the natural gas service and and replacing the gas fired furnace with a heat pump. I also removed my standard electric water heater and put in a hybrid heat pump water heater for even more savings.
I didn’t include any of that info in my first post because none of that was important to my point about solar panels being worth it to me and that I believe those that can’t afford to do what I did should be able to get some of the same benefit I do. In fact, they need it more than I do, and I couldn’t figure out a way to give it to them and that sucks.
Sounds like the system is working as intended
Only if the intended system is: “It is very expensive to be poor”.
Yes. That’s certainly an intended feature.
Dont vote based on appearance and personality. Vote based on the plan they have.
I think that campaigning should be completely banned. Give voters their platform and voting history, and that’s it.
But he had concepts of a plan!
He had a plan called “Project 2025” and he’s followed it to the letter.
Please remind me… Who was in office when Qadaffi’s gouvernement was overthrown, and which US admin fomented that civil war?
Assad?
Who was president during the Bosnia - Serbia conflict?
You know what, take a look at this:
https://www.warcosts.org/us-wars-list
The United States is a terrorist state, under any political party. And they’ve been coming for us since founding, too. It’s just noticeable, now.
What point are you making in relation to the comment you responded to?
The point is, politicians look out for business interests, not regular people’s interest.
But your comment said nothing about business interests only spoke of wars. Not even a mention of how those wars could benefit those business interests. I must assume you are either a bot or lost. Not that i necessarily disagree with you, you just seem to be having the wrong argument for the topic at hand. Even if we were to say all choices made by the US are for business interests, youre still not making the connection.
If they murder brown kids for rotten dino bodies, murder you for insurance profits, they will absolutely murder you for power company profits. It’s not that large of a leap.
Are you the same guy who is super active on lemmygrad.ml?
Yes. And?
It just helps me curating my user tags / block lists. May help others as well, idk. Thanks for your cooperation!
Whatever you do, listen to the business interests, who own media, factories, and politicians. Never, ever apply critical reading, thinking*, or discussion in good faith. It’s… Unpatriotic, or something.
Thanks for misgendering me, as well.
Nice try Putin
I thought it was an outline of the concept?
I reduced my electric bill by being really hot all summer. Sweating my ass off turned out to be a real game changer.
If you are somewhere arid and you don’t need to bring the temperature down too far, evaporative coolers use a lot less electricity than air conditioners.
Evaporative coolers require larger amounts of cheap water though, and some of those arid places are also facing extreme water shortages.
As long as the humidity is low.
If you’re a hairy person, trimming your body hair might help. The upper limit of my comfort zone increased by like 10°F when I started. Now I can keep the house at 80F during the day and be fine.
Probably about exposure, but I feel like my beard keeps my face cooler. The sweat evaporation on all them little hairs makes a difference.
Feels warmer in winter and cooler in summer.
Power companies hate this one trick!
$600 of the $1373 is a deposit to mitigate risk of future missed payments… The electricity itself is really high, but it’s not that high.
This is also Tulsa in the summer.
It’s normal to have a $773 electric bill?
It is now, unfortunately.
