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please report back in the future when it’s 1.21 jigawatts
This is so cool. I’ve got no place to put solar panels, but I invest in a solar cost sharing program with my local power company.
My city (San Francisco) has a program where you can elect to get 100% of your power from renewables which are primarily hydro, solar, and wind and it comes out cheaper every month than buying power from PG&E. It's pretty great.
What's the van look like?
Four wheels, a steering wheel, few windows and a some solar panels up top.
This is it at tonight's campsite, in Dryanara woodland national park, Western Australia.
Lemmy needs a vanlife community.
How long did that take?
Its a 400w array permanently mounted to the roof. Its been continually topping up my lithium batteries since 2018.
It probably would have hit 1MWh sooner, but the batteries are almost always full so there's nowhere to store the excess charge.
I've done a similar build out in my Northern Lite camper. 800w on the roof and 400ah of lithium. I want to convert the fridge to an electric compressor fridge and the stove over to induction next. I hate it when the batteries fill back up by 10am and I waste solar meanwhile I am still buying propane for the appliances.
the stove over to induction next. I hate it when the batteries fill back up by 10am and I waste solar meanwhile I am still buying propane for the appliances.
It's possible. For the 11 months I've been cooking from excess solar power (December is a little short). I still carry propane for heating and a few things that seem to work better over flame.
It's insane that your bottleneck is storage. Wow.
Aussie sun be doing its thing 😎