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The radioactivity at ground zero can easily kill you within the first hours to days. Puking you guts out and ankle deep in bloody diarrhea, what a great way to go.

Do you have a pointer to such DIY home solar? I was planning to build my next system from Victron components, but this could be an interesting alternative.

Renewable power generation is not dispatchable, so large fraction of it in generation make grid stabilization interventions more frequent.

Unless your state has a sane generation strategy you should plan for more rather than less power outage events in future. Fortunately commercial home solutions for that exist and are getting cheaper.

Yes, you can use that as an emergency solution, if you have a battery-buffered solar system with a ups functionality. Most existing balcony solar systems don’t have that.

The grid-tied inverters need to have a grid voltage and frequency to be in a certain defined range orelse they switch off (this behaviour can be changed via firmware for some inverters). In theory you could use a pure sinus UPS for that, but in practice it is not designed to receive power on the outlet side and will overload/burn out.

There are specific battery/diesel backed solar grid-tied inverter solutions which can smoothly separate and reconnect from the grid during outages while providing power to the consumers. These are far more expensive than simple grid-tied solar inverters.

Sure, if you happen to have dynamic electricity tariffs, you’re going to change your consumption pattern.

Yeah, you can run a few systems on a circuit that way, but most of the ups-like storage inverters are not integrated into your solar PV system, so don’t try to minimize feed-in into the grid and maximize locally generated power consumption.

My point is that with this basic setup (I run 2 kWp) is that you still lose power when the grid goes down, so your relationship to the grid is not totally changed. The only thing you notice are smaller bills.

The disadvantage is compared to a a insular/black start capable setup which is more expensive/complicated (and needs a licensed electrician to be legal) but lets you run on battery when the grid goes down.

The disadvantage is that you still lose power when the grid goes down, even if you have storage. Unless you run parallel circuits, and your system is island/black start capable.

Can’t even watch it with my always on VPN.

I would go with a refurbished Lenovo TinyPC with a quad/hexacore and some 16 GB RAM. These used to go for 200-300 EUR, but this might have changed recently. I run an AMD Fujitsu thin client as my opnsense firewall.

Plot twist: it will be 100% biofuels. In the area currently called the US.

Much more interesting than peak power at a certain moment is energy generation over a meaningful period.

Obviously, you host your own hypervisor on own or rented bare metal.

Linux has been fine as a desktop since i386 days.