Neither carrot nor stick makes it cost-effective for me, yet.
Maybe for larger homes/systems, and those with electric vehicles out during the day.
For most people, energy-self-sufficiency is a pipe dream. Even if you have panels and batteries, thereâs going to be down times when you need to tap into the grid, unless youâre overbuilding storage to a truly ludicrous and incredibly expensive degree. Renewable generation IS inconsistent locally, having a grid connection as well as a personal battery means you can smooth that downtime risk across space as well as time.
I donât mind being connected to the grid. I donât mind feeding my excess solar power into the grid. I DO mind if some scumbag power company pays me an utterly token pittance for that power, then stashes it in a battery and turns around and sell it on at a thousand percent markup.
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AI.
In Australia, around 2% of the population (approximately 500,000 people) live in remote areas without connection to the electricity grid.
If they can do itâŚ
Newer technology will continually help us, and the planet. The technology already exists to manage your power usage, and sell power back to the grid when the price spikes and fully charge up when prices are low. White goods are getting more efficient every day i.e. heat pumps for heating and cooling, washing and drying etc.
Solar panels and batteries are constantly being upgraded and becoming more efficient.
If they build it, people (in Australia) will come.
Finally looking at getting off the last gas appliance of the hot water unit and going to a heat pump.
So much content online about rebates for replacing gas hot water but not sure what is accurate or good advice.
Anyone here that has gone through this can advise on the rebate process?
TIA
I really struggled to get my head around the Victorian state government rebate system. Sorry, that one left me stumped.
Thereâs a website, but I think the system was more geared for giving installers the rebate. Might have to talk to an installer to get that guidance.
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Thanks for replying.
Might be just me but tradies are just above car salesmen and politicians on my trust meter which is why I asked.
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Iâm also keen to know. Share the pain.
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THIS.
Plus increasing their âsupply chargeâ regularly. Thieving â â â â â â .
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My take from this is that the Spanish grid manager undercooked the spinning reserve needed to maintain grid stability. Basically, those spinning turbines have moving mass that resists changes the magnetic field caused by shifts in frequency and voltage in the network. (*not an electrical engineer)
Thermal power plants are big single sources of failure to the grid and they arenât overly fast to spin up when you need them, as Spain found out. Where things are moving towards is grid scale batteries that provide frequency and voltage stabilisation. As they are many, itâs almost impossible for enough to fail at once to leave the grid vulnerable and they respond instantly when called upon.
Of course you wouldnât have such problems if Boofhead Kennet and the Libs hadnât privatised the SEC. Now all these companies have to focus on not doing what is best for the people and the State but how to rip us off so they can make big profits to pay their CEOs etc
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Instead they would still be maximising profits as it would be treated as a cash cow to pay off the interest on the state debt.
Harsh but accurate! Is that why so many people get their own corpses burnt these days?
The only sign of life in Springvale used to be the smoke rising from the crematorium.
Your cataclysm of the week. A brand new climate change feedback loop to accelerate the starvation of your children. Turns out that turning the worldâs heat ecology upside down might have ⌠who knew? ⌠unforeseen side effects.
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Since 2010, Antarctic ice mass has been increasing. The effect of what you mention, increased sea water salinity, could be limiting the growth of ice mass, or its effects have not noticeably kicked in as yet.
Arctic ice mass is being obliterated. As is glacier ice mass in Northern European and Canada.
https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/cryo/data/current-state-sea-ice-cover
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Tell me they didnât bulldoze native vegetation to house that.
Of course they did.
Deploying BESS, solar panels, wind turbines and transmission lines requires it.
Better than the alternative.
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Yikes.
Summary:
[This time period] âŚhas been attributed to a period of volcanic activity in a region known as the Siberian Traps, which released huge amounts of carbon and other planet-heating gases into the atmosphere, causing intense global warming.
[The result? The collapse of tropical forests].
The results confirmed their hypothesis, showing that the loss of vegetation during the mass extinction event significantly reduced the planetâs ability to store carbon, meaning very high levels remained in the atmosphere.
It highlights âa threshold effect,â he added, where the loss of forests becomes âirreversible on ecological time scales.â
The article doesnât say why the rainforests died unless Iâm mistaken.
Most mass extinction events, like volcanoes or asteroids, put a lot of matter into the atmosphere.
Asteroid impact cause an initial increase in temperature due to the release of energy, but the temperature, but a lack of sunlight / heat passing to the lower atmosphere and a dramatic drop in temperature at sea level and not an increase.
This also follows the accepted view of a nuclear winter resulting as a result of the excess of sun blocking particles in the upper atmosphere.
Iâm confused.