Mods are AWOL. Is this collapse?
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Mods are busy. Not that we have much traffic anyway.
The opposite. I just appointed you as a mod, you can drop it if you don’t want it. Cheers.
It’s incredibly hot in my region for this time of year; basically summer temperatures in October. It’s a bit trippy when the leaves are all changing or fallen and I can’t split wood without pouring sweat and overheating after ten minutes.
Location: Southern Germany. Anomalous heat season broken, first night frost. Firewood even more expensive this year, now up to 160 EUR/m^3 . Natural gas and electricity will jump higher sooner than expected due to tax breaks ending, probably by end of the year. Economy is in recession, particularly any energy intensive industry. Lots of migrants, which are taxing municipalities’ finances. Worst: absolutely no improvement in sight.
On the positive side, 400 Wp photovoltaics modules are down to 100 EUR, kWh scale storage batteries also much cheaper and inverters also somewhat. 80+% autarky for off-grid is no longer prohibitively expensive.
Wind power doesn’t scale for domestic size installations. My solar PV is at 2 kWp at the moment, and I’m planning to add some 10 kWh battery storage in a year or two. Grid-tied but insular capable, it would flatten the PV production peak and be an insurance against potential load shedding events.
