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VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 1 week agoLuckily, both solar panels and batteries are lasting far longer than initially expected, making their already superb economics even better. They were already expected to pay off within their assumed lifetimes, to be clear, so any additional years you are able to wring out of them are pure profit.
kudra@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
maybe I should have only mentioned total cost of build-out then. It is good to know that they are generally lasting much longer than their warranty, and of course we keep seeing increase in efficiencies so that older panels really are only a trickle compared to new anyway. What is truly worrying is Jevons Paradox.
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
clutch them pearls girl. theres plenty of sunlight to go around.
Tobberone@feddit.nu 6 days ago
This is not the application im worried about in regards to Jerome Paradox. There are other power guzzling techs that will eat any and all energy that can be produced while paying more per kwh than any of us can afford. Those technologies are my primary concern…
kudra@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
definitely a large concern.