It’s safe up to 800W power. Beyond that still safe - if you have new cables/ a newer house. Old houses typically have tiny cables built into the walls. That was the reason for the limitation.

Sure. Zendure, Ecoflow, Anker, Growatt are some brands. Take care not get stuck in this rabbit hole ;-)

They are somehow the same. I bought Zendure Solar Flow Pro as it can get connected through local wifi to my smart meter (Shelly 3EM) and you don’t need an app or cloud. It can run offline. With the smart meter I can control the Zendure when to send how much power and when to store it. If you aren‘t connected to a smart meter it will always feed into the home grid.

I recommend to buy a battery including an inverter as one device. You can attach up to 4 PV panels with 2kw at all (German laws). You plug it into your home power grid through a standard power plug. Same as you would plug a light but it feeds power.

Costs for 1,6kw battery with inverter, 2 panels with 900w, cables and fixturew are 700€. Altough prices increase slightly with spring ;) I produce around 1,20€ worth power each day. On average and including cloudy winter days, I assume 1€ a day = 365*1€ *2 years. Payback under 2 years

And half of this great story is a grassroot story. Private solar counts for a huge share of overall power. And currently most of installed battery storages.

For Non-Germans: Our utility companies try for ages to stop or at least slow the power generation transformation. It reduces their customers quite strongly and those companies are very intervened with politics unfortunately. However, the citizens grass root can‘t be stoped anymore.

The new chapter in this book is: Small Balcony PV‘s. It gives even rented appartments the opportunity to harvest sun energy and reduce the power bill. Great payback with under two years. I love mine.

Good point. I wonder what will happen when those robots drive towards a mirror.

Deserved to get fired.

He wrote about the danger of AI as well and the need to supervise/ check it. And did not do it himself!

I love it.

Just bought one two months ago and it’s pretty easy. Technical progress is fast and it’s cheap.

You best buy a combi: a battery including a microinverter. This allows you to feed in up to 2000W or 4 PV panels. However, here in Germany you can only feed 800W max into your house grid. All above will stored in the battery in given back slowly after sundown.

Technical setup: I have three current lines in my house (don’t know how in US it looks) and the system feeds power into just one of it - the one where the plug is plugged. I have a smart meter that tells me if this very current line has demand (oven, fridge,…) and I can open, adjust or close the power feed. This way I feed ZERO power into the grid out of my home as the system adjust the power amount to what I need in this moment.

I bought mine with 2 panels, 900W, 1,8kWh battery for 700€. Payback under 2 years.

That’s where a vicious cycle can form: increased capability leads to increased output, which leads to higher expectations, which then pressures further expansion

Same as The Digitalization promised. Instead of reducing work we receive and send even more emails, chats, and notifications.

That’s were I started to get a big friends base in my neighborhood. Visit friends, play some games together, and copy floppy disks.

I loved those starter pics and animations of the hacker groups.

They simply asked ChatGPT to create a company strategy for 2025

Good reading. Besides Nvidia and the AI money bubble, the link to Bitcoin is interesting.I‘ve read so many other articles about financial acrobatics with Bitcoin and how it collapses now, I‘m waiting to see it falling down to 50k.

Hail the new emperors - the big AI companies.

Sorry but this is a primary schools‘ view on money. I know this is how it been taught at school and this is entirely wrong.

I wonder how human societies survived without money, if this is so essential for the crap.

I wonder why people do crappy jobs for money? Is it because they need much money for things such as car, smartphone, playstation? For some food, you do not need much money. Actually you can grow it for yourself if you do not live in a big city.

Sure, if one got in this consumption trap, one needs a constant inflow of fresh money.

It does matter. How much worth is helping a friend? Or how much money for your neighbors for caring your pets while you‘re in holidays?

Don’t you think they will refuse to take money for this favor? Not everything in humankind can be paid for.

Same as ever…was that money wasn’t needed.

Do you need money within your neighborhood or your family? Do you pay people for giving a favor?