I know a family w solar panels on their roof. 100% of their home’s power comes from solar, 24/7. Energy generated in the daytime stores up in the battery to be used at night. It actually generates a ton of excess energy they don’t need, which gets distributed to the local electric grid to help power other homes in the neighborhood, which they gets compensated for
side rant Solar is so rare in the US that Amerikans seem to just assume the dumbest shit about it… like people really think it’s completely useless whenever there’s a couple clouds? Sure it’s most efficient on sunny days, but there’s still quintillions of photons even when it’s cloudy, enough that a lot of solar-powered homes rarely even need to dip into the battery for power on cloudy days. 80% of UV wavelengths (light that’s invisible to us) actually easily penetrates thru clouds… this shit is 5th grade knowledge!
Just fucking battery and wind at night or something.
I know a family w solar panels on their roof. 100% of their home’s power comes from solar, 24/7. Energy generated in the daytime stores up in the battery to be used at night. It actually generates a ton of excess energy they don’t need, which gets distributed to the local electric grid to help power other homes in the neighborhood, which they gets compensated for
side rant Solar is so rare in the US that Amerikans seem to just assume the dumbest shit about it… like people really think it’s completely useless whenever there’s a couple clouds? Sure it’s most efficient on sunny days, but there’s still quintillions of photons even when it’s cloudy, enough that a lot of solar-powered homes rarely even need to dip into the battery for power on cloudy days. 80% of UV wavelengths (light that’s invisible to us) actually easily penetrates thru clouds… this shit is 5th grade knowledge!