It's not even true when it's windy and sunny. Repair costs for those fucking eyesore windmills is so high, that the liberal retards ignore it to try and make wind look cheaper. In real terms wind is by far the worst possible means of power generation, even if you choose to ignore the unreliability.
We'd be better off burning wood than using windmills.
From what I recall from reading about domestic installations, the issue is the inverter, to flip the DC voltage from the panels over to mains AC. Solar might be economical for a while, but once the inverter needs replacement you're basically look at most of the cost of the system all over again.
Windmills could at least potentially use an AC generator, but I presume there's other electronics in there, as otherwise you're looking at some weird mechanical system to force a windmill generator to run at 50Hz, matching phase to the grid. So again, expensive electronics boxes.
And that's before we get to the issue that windmills are basically impossible to recycle. Those massive aerofoil blades are tough, to the point that while it's theoretically possible to recycle them, hardly anybody bothers.
I have a little solar setup on an outbuilding on my property and it made me think how at the very least it would be nice for a lot of things in my house. I can run any lighting, charging, 12V DC devices as much as I reasonably want all on a system that set me back less than $500 and has been operating a number of years with zero maintenance. It worked so well I've tapped into it for some of that 12V landscape lighting as well, just because the power was available and all I needed was a simple timer to make it work.
If I ever get bored enough, I might set up something similar to run always-on network devices in the house. When you take out the high powered stuff and focus on low current DC, solar is much more realistic.
Now if I ever could figure out HVAC, because that's probably 90% of my electricity anyway.
Stick a couple deep cycle batteries and a sufficiently large inverter somewhere in the power network and you can run appliances and power tools with it too. A 2000 watt modified sine wave inverter (good enough for light power tools, battery charging, etc) would run you like $160-180 and a pure sine wave inverter that you could use for computers and sensitive electronics is like $300.
That's awesome to hear. I am looking to put a well on my property and figure I could run the pump through solar, rather than digging up my garden to run a line. And like MLGS mentioned I was going to put a deep cycle marine battery in and use solar to keep it charged. As of now my only plans are to run radios during power outrages and the pump but it seems like I can really expand on that.
Window AC units have gotten pretty robust and remarkably low-power. Friend of mine had to cool his entire house when his main AC unit went out with just a single window unit, and it worked pretty well.
Gotta make sure you insulate the fuck out of your house, though. That's the real secret to minimizing power usage.
It's not even true when it's windy and sunny. Repair costs for those fucking eyesore windmills is so high, that the liberal retards ignore it to try and make wind look cheaper. In real terms wind is by far the worst possible means of power generation, even if you choose to ignore the unreliability.
We'd be better off burning wood than using windmills.
From what I recall from reading about domestic installations, the issue is the inverter, to flip the DC voltage from the panels over to mains AC. Solar might be economical for a while, but once the inverter needs replacement you're basically look at most of the cost of the system all over again.
Windmills could at least potentially use an AC generator, but I presume there's other electronics in there, as otherwise you're looking at some weird mechanical system to force a windmill generator to run at 50Hz, matching phase to the grid. So again, expensive electronics boxes.
And that's before we get to the issue that windmills are basically impossible to recycle. Those massive aerofoil blades are tough, to the point that while it's theoretically possible to recycle them, hardly anybody bothers.
I have a little solar setup on an outbuilding on my property and it made me think how at the very least it would be nice for a lot of things in my house. I can run any lighting, charging, 12V DC devices as much as I reasonably want all on a system that set me back less than $500 and has been operating a number of years with zero maintenance. It worked so well I've tapped into it for some of that 12V landscape lighting as well, just because the power was available and all I needed was a simple timer to make it work.
If I ever get bored enough, I might set up something similar to run always-on network devices in the house. When you take out the high powered stuff and focus on low current DC, solar is much more realistic.
Now if I ever could figure out HVAC, because that's probably 90% of my electricity anyway.
Stick a couple deep cycle batteries and a sufficiently large inverter somewhere in the power network and you can run appliances and power tools with it too. A 2000 watt modified sine wave inverter (good enough for light power tools, battery charging, etc) would run you like $160-180 and a pure sine wave inverter that you could use for computers and sensitive electronics is like $300.
That's awesome to hear. I am looking to put a well on my property and figure I could run the pump through solar, rather than digging up my garden to run a line. And like MLGS mentioned I was going to put a deep cycle marine battery in and use solar to keep it charged. As of now my only plans are to run radios during power outrages and the pump but it seems like I can really expand on that.
Window AC units have gotten pretty robust and remarkably low-power. Friend of mine had to cool his entire house when his main AC unit went out with just a single window unit, and it worked pretty well.
Gotta make sure you insulate the fuck out of your house, though. That's the real secret to minimizing power usage.