Comment on The ‘Guerrilla Solar’ Era Has Arrived, and Here’s What to Know
spinne@sh.itjust.works 10 hours agoI hear that. Their concern trolling can look or sound right on the surface (“worker safety is our top priority!”) and still be disingenuous af.
They know just as well as we do that we have the knowledge and skills to make safe, cost effective, and accessible solar panels and batteries for homes. There are tons of real-world examples already that we can learn from, refine for our particulars, and use just by looking at Europe and Southeast Asia. There’s a safety standard/framework for plug-in solar that’s already been published for the US, UL 3700.
Any “discussions” about how to make plug-in solar safe for North American users are kvetch sessions for nervous executives clutching their pearls.
DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Just a small remark: In Germany, we had this discussion and all time-winning discussions already. We are through it.
It‘s safe. If you know some Germans, you might have an idea that we looked into and discussed every single screw and aspect of those systems.
Everybody buys those cool PV‘s. We even got a nationwide law that nobody (even not your landlord of your appartement) can stop you to plug it in your home grid.
Buy it. Install it. Love it.
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
No, you dont understand, we can’t just look elsewhere to find examples that have been shown to work well, we have to spend all our money on developing a completely parallel set of rules and regulations from the ground up because of … reasons.
It’s the same thing with bike lanes: every city spends the whole budget on doing “studies” of different designs rather that just building the exact designs that the Dutch have perfected.
In this case, the unfortunate thing is we can’t just buy German gear since the voltage and frequency of our grids are different.