I think you entirelly missed the point then
Comment on A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power
eyekaytee@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This was cool 5 years ago, now you can get solar panels and a home battery big enough to power this thing 24x7 without an issue, even if the sun was fully blacked out for a week
son_of_darkness@lemmy.world 3 days ago
morto@piefed.social 3 days ago
Now they can get better hardware, but should they? They take seriously the low tech part, and part of being low tech is fighting against consumerism culture and keeping with what they have, which is wotking fine
Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 days ago
A 40Kwh battery is like 10 grand, I’m not sure why you brought that up. I’d be more likely to invest in a second battery and solar panel. It’s been up for over 23 weeks right now, I’d guess a second solar panel and battery could keeping it up nearly 100% of the time, and it’d cost under $100.
sqw@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
the chemical battery is often the most expensive and least eco part of the scheme.
Gekkonen@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
There’s a lot of articles about supply based usage vs demand based energy production on that website. The idea that it turns off every now and then is sort of part of the authors’ intention of showing “we can live with some outages”.
This article in particular is a good one: …lowtechmagazine.com/…/how-not-to-run-a-modern-so…