bergie

I've seen plenty of solar in areas that get hit by hurricanes or tropical cyclones. If your panels get blown to bits, you just put up new panels once the storm is over (or you know, take them down when the storm is forecasted)

Solar panels cost less than $1/Watt. Then you need some brackets to hold them, some wiring, and likely an MPPT controller. The rest of that price is red tape specific to your locality.

They're so cheap that bars in Colombia had panels as their terasse awnings. Cheaper than cloth and makes power.

After all, it comes from the Star of America.

Wallabag

IoT did happen, too. You just won't notice it unless you work in specific industries. Just couple weeks ago I chatted with a dairy farmer who had crazy amount of telemetry from each of their cows.

Having your own solar can be "too cheap to meter", though it is definitely a feast and a famine kind of a thing.

We had batteries full and were spending electricity on all kinds of luxury things like whole-day internet and desalination for several weeks, and now that it has rained for over a week we're starting to turn non-critical systems off to keep the lights on.

What was the classic joke on this one?

"What happens if we train these people and they leave?" "What happens if you don't and they stay"

They've been helping Ukraine defend itself. Every Russian (and Ukrainian) death in this "special military operation" is on Putin.

That's basically Samsung DeX, or the other Android desktop systems that started appearing recently.

> Sadly, in CA, charging at home (minimum $0.26/kWh) isn't that much cheaper.

Just get some solar panels. We live on a sailboat and charge the electric outboard of our dinghy (kind of our "car", this is what we use to go to stores etc) with the surplus on sunny days.

Solar panels are ridiculously cheap now.