Me living in a state that doesn’t have rolling blackouts…
For now.
The us has 3 energy grids: east coast, west coast, and texas. As long as don’t live in Texas, you shouldn’t have issues with electricity.
It’s not that simple, there are local grids that can only take so much. California had rolling blackouts as recent as 2020 https://abcn.ws/3er0Y8i
And completely unrelated, but due to the wildfires and the lawsuits against the power companies, they have also started cutting power when the lines are in areas of high wind. https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/psps/
Me living where it’s 60-75 all year.
What country is that?
With that kind of consistency without being consistently super hot, I’d say it’s somewhere close to the equator but high elevation.
I’d mention a couple examples I know of, but I wouldn’t want to risk semi-doxxing them by narrowing it down further 😄
They use farenheit so I imagine that narrows it down quite a bit
True, unless they converted from Celsius for the convenience of Americans and inhabitants of certain Caribbean islands 🤷
And Myanmar
Non-americans don’t care about the convenience for americans
Not true lol, I often convert stuff for that exact reason
California central coast. Daytime highs. Fahrenheit.
California central coast
Portugal central coast is similar.
Okay so just to be clear.
You are in an extreme heat wave. There is no power. You see your neighbors struggling due to the heat. You have the ability to invite them over cool down. Doing so would cost virtually $0.
You instead post a meme on lemmy making fun of them.
Even if you don’t get along with them, doing something like this would be a huge way to mend fences.
EDIT:
So I the Houston Chronicle has a Texas power outage tracker. According to them, there are like 2k customers without power in the entire state.
Also, Texas doesn’t have power outages related to grid capacity in the summer that often. The major power outages this year were caused by storms knocking down lines. The huge one a couple of years ago was related to cold weather.
While the Texas grid does have issues related heat waves, it’s not alone in that regard. Basically every southwestern state does, including California. Someone in Texas would probably know this and understand it’s ridiculous to act like this problem is unique to Texas.
So I this entire thing, like everything these days, is made up to push a narrative.
Ask them how they feel about climate change first!
“Hey neighbor. I’ll totally help you out during this heat wave, but only if you have the same political opinions as me. You’d better make that apparent quick, because your gas tank will only last for so long”.
On some level you have to realize that’s a toxic attitude, right?
If you actually believe in trying to help combat climate change, you’d get them out of their car just so they’d stop burning gasoline.
As soon as there’s a good Lemmy mobile client I’m gonna hop of the main instances. It already has most of the toxic aspects of reddit.
Well at some point we need to stop letting people believe that climate change denial is a reasonable stance to have. Letting folks stew in the consequences of their choices is effective.
Being friendly is far more effective than trying to punish people to make them agree with you. Especially when there’s no immediate and obvious consequence of their individual actions.
So you know the state of the power of my house better than me? Want me to send the logs of my solar app that keeps track of my outages?
My power was out yesterday while it was 103°F. I’m sorry it wasn’t published on the internet.
Goddamn libs with their goddamn sun power
where’s the diesel generators?? Fucking commies haven’t figured out that something has to explode first to get anywhere!!!
/s
Buy a spare ac and extension cord and run it in the front lawn just to mess with em!
Ok, even discounting how extremely wasteful it would be, that’s TOO cruel! 😂
Yikes…
This is one of the huge overlooked advantages of electric cars, provided that the manufacturer added the feature (it’s insane that some don’t) you can straight up power your house for DAYS on the car battery.
I don’t think you can power a home air conditioner for days on a teslas battery bank. It’s the most energy draining system by far.
if we assume the lowest capacity tesla model S and a beefy AC that consumes 5 kWh/h, that’s still 15 hours of non-stop balls to the wall AC usage.
Also, provided that you live close enough to a charger that is functonal, you have the ability to drive there, charge your car, and use the energy at home. That’s probably less efficient and definitely more of a hassle than just having a backup generator and some dunks of fuel, but hey it’s nice to have extra options.
Yea I think that’s just the Lightning. Cool idea but I don’t see all the F150 owners switching to electric until they’re forced to, at least here in the US.
Yeah, neither one of our electric cars will do that.
Which manufacturers do add this feature?
i don’t know, i’m not a car guy i just got this info from technology connections on youtube.
There are models from Hyundai, Kia, Nissan, Ford and Mitsubishi that can do bidirectional charging. Here’s a video by the aforementioned Technology Connections on the Hyundai Ioniq 5: A 24-hour test run of the Hyundai Ioniq 5’s Vehicle-to-Load function - Technology Connextras
Tell me about your experience? I’ve been interested, but it’s admittedly daunting.
What do you want to know? Like my experience when shopping for panels? Or my experience having them on the house?
What’s it like to maintain them?
I have only had them for a couple of months, so I haven’t got that far yet. From some research I have done, I should hose them off once a year. The installer told me that I could probably just hose them off from the ground level, but I’ll probably hop up on the roof and hose them off. I’ll probably do it next spring for the first time.
Be aware to not hose them off when they have been exposed to sunlight for a certain amount of time. Solar panels become extremely hot and cold water will crack the glass panel.
Thanks for the reminder! The installer also warned me about this.
Yup, first thing I n the morning is usually best.
Water your panels like your garden
Never lived anywhere that can get cold water from a hose tap when it was hot outside. Rain water is always colder
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Wouldn’t rain rinse them at least once a year? Unless you live in the desert of course.
I’ve had mine for right at a year. Haven’t done anything, I’ll consider cleaning if I see efficiency taper off
I’ve had panels for 3 years now. There’s no maintenance needed. Performance is monitored via app and the company that installed them for me will contact me if something is wrong with them for the next 25 years.
I want to know if all your neighbors hate you for making fun of them instead of just inviting them inside.
Nah, there’s no way they saw me with how bright the sun was. Plus, the nearby neighbors know I have solar panels. They had to sign off on it for the HOA. If they knocked on my door and asked to come in, I would gladly let them in. But I’m not gonna go knocking on everyone’s door in the neighborhood and invite them in. I can’t save everyone.
I’ve had solar panels and a battery for almost four years. Other than cleaning the panel surfaces once or twice a year they have been fully maintenance free.
Where I am you can collect a bounty for reporting people who idle cars like this. It’s a massive contributor to smog.
Some one is trying to espacpe the heat and their only option is the ac on their car, and you’re looking to report them?
And I would do it again!
Report them so they can just die from heatstroke instead? Bet you call the cops on single mothers shoplifting food for their kids too, don’t you?
In my area there are public cooling stations you can go to instead, but most people prefer the luxury and privacy of their car.
You might try to not be an asshole to them and invite them in. You’d probably be able to get them more on biased with solar. But then you’d have to give up the opportunity to be a snarky troll.
I’ve tried Googling it and failed, where are you OP?
Lmao, take a guess. Where is it hot and has a constantly failing power grid? The answer is always Texas.
Set up a sign in your yard “These communist solar panels sure are keeping me cool.”
Well California has a lot of the same issues when it comes to heat waves. You know it’s Texas because OP mentions owning their home.
True, they do have lots of issues. I actually moved from California to Texas because I would never be able to buy a house out there.
Last time I visited my parents in CA, their power was out for the first 3 days of my trip. They got a hotel.
I freaking live in the desert so i know I’d have solar 16h a day for like 9 months but i also know that solar panels optimal temp is 25°. In here, it’s a least 35, almost always above 40, often 45++ in the summer. Heck, there’s days and days of consecutive 49° and somehow never reach 50° making me believe that if it reach 50° the government is required by international laws to not allow citizens out or something.
That temp doesn’t keep them from working though, they will still produce a lot of power in that much sun. It’s entirely worth it to have them if you can afford to.
Wow that’s a lot colder than i expected, i always thought solar panels worked best around 70° or so
Celcius :P
Ah americans…
Not everyone can afford the installation costs.
Who h is why social programs to aid cover the costs of the installs would be a good thing but given that the state they live in is resorting to rolling blackouts instead of investing in infrastructure, that doesn’t seem like it’ll happen.
That’s true, it’s not super cheap to install. But you might be able to get government grants to help with that, depending on where you live.
I want solar too, but I can’t afford it
