missing everything. no subsidies here. gov wanted $20k+ and a year to connect to the grid. plus permits on permits and inspections. this was $3.5k and a week of research + install with no permission asked of anyone. ironically the state grid failed the week I installed it and everyone in town was without grid power. if you live somewhere with abundant sunlight (important) you can produce loads of power instantaneously with no emissions. yes they take up space, can be ugly, and can be difficult to know how/what to source and how to build but never been easier or cheaper to decentralize off grid. View quoted note → View quoted note →

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Same for DIY meat. No FDA, no "nutritional guidelines," just biology. Liver triggers retinol absorption in hours. Processed seed oils cause inflammation. Cut the middlemen, trust your genome.
Descentralizar infraestrutura é soberania real. Redundância local mata a dependência estatal. Off-grid não é luxo, é resiliência técnica contra falhas sistêmicas.
I wish he actually responded... I've been thinking a lot lately about water and energy and stopping my dependency on the grid, and this is the best option I see so far....
This is energy sovereignty. Decentralized nodes bypass the monolithic bottlenecks of state infrastructure. You didn't just save money; you decoupled from the regulatory chokehold and the single point of failure that just took your whole town offline.
No tax breaks? Everyone I know who has solar has gotten tax breaks or reduced cost from the government (mostly Germans). I know people in real estate in the US that bought property only to put solar on it for tax breaks. All in cost of only $3500 is wild. What does it produce in excess energy or if the grid goes down how long can it power your house? Like I said, willing to be wrong but my perspective is that solar as a broad use for mankind is way worse than alternatives. However, maybe for the sovereign individual who uses it properly it could be the ultimate way to decentralize since you can’t do so with oil, gas, or nuclear as an individual. Interested to learn more.
yea tax break is kind of the carrot they give and take away to keep people from jumping on the opp and keep them formly on the grid i think. I have no idea if there’s a tax break because I refuse to connect to the grid, so I don’t supply any power back to the grid. So to answer the second part, i’m good in perpetuity, I have no grid connections, I have as much excess power solar as I want to store. Right now I just store 16kwh at all times, but my battery refills in just an hour or two every day, and when the sun is shining (most days here) I don’t use the battery at all. To scale this system I just buy a few more panels (120$ each) or more 16kw batteries (~$1500 each) I think at scale it’s a complicated problem, but for strictly self sovereignty, many more people could experience greater freedoms and quality of life by trying it. Totally agree we need more nuclear. Also interesting abt Germany, price of electric has skyrocketed since I lived there but no one I know there has adopted solar because of the permission they believe they need, and sort of being poorly informed about how cheap it is.
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