Right but he’s not serious, he’s just doing a “in theory, what would it look like?”
tal@olio.cafe 15 hours ago
I mean, I think that you probably don't want to try to go fully off-grid, but if you were honestly want to try it and you're in the UK, I'd think that you're probably rather better off adding a wind turbine, since some of the time that the sun isn't shining, the wind is blowing.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/322789/quarterly-wind-speed-average-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/
Wind speed averages in the United Kingdom are generally highest in the first and fourth quarters of each calendar year – the winter months.
The UK is one of the worst places in the world in terms of solar potential:
But it's one of the best in terms of wind potential:
pstils@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Small wind turbines are really, really poor. You need to go high to access the good air-streams and wide to get useful efficiency out of the turbine. Any wind turbine you put on your roof will vastly under-perform for the cost spent on it.
tal@olio.cafe 14 hours ago
I'd be pretty comfortable saying that buying enough battery storage to power-shift a year of power is more expensive.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
O, absolutely. The reality is the most economic way to do off-grid is with solar, battery, and a diesel or propane generator for the times the solar isn’t cutting it.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
There is another option. Reduce your energy usage so much that you barely need anything. Cabin in the woods with wifi?
Buffalox@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Not true, a wind turbine is dirt cheap for the power it can generate compared to solar panels.
Here the problem is regulation that makes it impossible if you have neighbors within 500 m.
If it wasn’t for regulation a wind turbine would be a clearly better investment than solar panels.
A huge advantage with turbines is also that it tend to generate power when you need it the most for heating your house.freebee@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
That’s because they are big mechanical whirring machines. Solar panels are dead quiet and don’t throw intermittent shade and have a very low risk of causing damage in the surrounding. There’s good reasons they are forbidden for the average household to put on top of the chimney…
echodot@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
I could probably get away with putting solar panels on my roof but I think my neighbours would have something to say about a wind turbine. They’re pretty loud.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Ugh! Just tell your neighbors to shut up or at least keep it down.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
WHAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF MY NEW WIND TURBINE. YOU SHOULD SEE MY ELECTRIC BILL!