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My info is coming mainly from this book and I can't recommend it more. The author also does YouTube videos on the subject. However, I'm not an expert by any means (still building mine) so correct me, PLEASE, if I have it wrong.

On paper, the panels you have can provide 11,520Wh of power on an average sunny day, and your batteries can store 7200Wh. It seems like you could reduce your panels, or buy more batteries to account for the loss - it seems like this setup is wasting potential power, but if you live somewhere with lots of clouds or trees, I could understand the excess solar set up.

If you’re smart and handy, you can do it. And like u/Wetbiscut said: You need to know your rig.

Buy this:

Mobile Solar Power Made Easy!:... https://www.amazon.com/dp/1546567119?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

There's a book about an aspiring EE who grew up in Africa, built a wind powered generator and provided his village with electricity. It's highly inspirational.

It's quite rare for peer-reviewed papers to get something wrong by an order of magnitude ;) If you add the CAPEX and 50 times the yearly OPEX, you get 7.7+1.3x50=72.7€/kWh, which is in line with your range.

Some analysts like Ramez Naam and Tony Seba were much closer to the truth. The former has a whole paragraph about the IEA, which is more generous than my criticism. What I found shocking about the IEA is how they kept predicting a flat deployment of solar, while it clearly became exponential years ago. There's something fundamentally wrong with their analysis.

Other organizations like Shell, Exxon and the Australian government also have net-zero plans. They involve stuff like reforesting an area the equivalent of Brazil, and environmentalists don't take them seriously.

Order Will's book, it's only $5 right now in paperback format (it's a large paperback). I paid $15 for it last year, and it's $15 well spent. A total steal at $5.xx

It's got diagrams, and all kinds of great info. I watch his YT channel also, but it's great to have a hard copy of info that I need to reference.

Mobile Solar Power Made Easy!: Mobile 12 volt off grid solar system design and installation. RV's, Vans, Cars and boats! Do-it-yourself step by step instructions. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1546567119/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_2B4W60C72QP0WYW08WCC?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

The world is in the midst of a titanic realignment the likes of which were last seen after the invention of the printing press. The printing press got everything a little bit unstuck, so information and ideology could flow faster and more freely than the establishment was able to react to. This led to the Protestant Reformation, which entailed a lot of senseless violence including the Thirty Years War. The only way out of the mess was the settlement of the New World and the founding of America.

Over the past few centuries, the new establishment figured out a few good ideas (e.g. realizing it's a terrible idea to slaughter each other over our religious differences) and got itself settled into place, with the ability to control an information landscape that operated at the speed of the printing press and even the telegram. But in the process, it got corrupt and, even worse, complacent, and there's no way it can keep up with the internet. Although we have managed to kill God as the central figure in our philosophical understanding of the world, we haven't destroyed the religious impulse inherent to the human spirit, and since the twentieth century we have transferred this religious feeling onto political ideology. And just like in the Protestant Reformation, the old ideologies aren't working for everyone anymore. This has already led to unrest and I would be surprised if it didn't ultimately lead to war within the next century, but that's not the only parallel. Humanity is on the cusp of unlocking the ability to settle (or potentially construct) new worlds. It's going to be an interesting next couple of centuries, and we might see some generations of young men who are born into the war that they will die fighting, but all the while people will be building the future of humanity.

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set: The New Millennium Edition
$129.04

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Buy this:

Mobile Solar Power Made Easy!: Mobile 12 volt off grid solar system design and installation. RV's, Vans, Cars and boats! Do-it-yourself step by step instructions. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1546567119/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_CFS5E543V3562JB7A0GT

Will wrote a small book on solar systems too. It's very informative and he lays things out very well in the book. It's inexpensive on Amazon as well. I highly suggest picking up a copy.

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Buy this. Everything you need to know in an easy to understand book. 10/10

Mobile Solar Power Made Easy!: Mobile 12 volt off grid solar system design and installation. RV's, Vans, Cars and boats! Do-it-yourself step by step instructions. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1546567119/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_VABC3HNJ334EE2NW9WBE

Nach Tony Sebas Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation und wenn ich mich richtig erinnere kommt er auf rund 2$ pro kWh wenn man eben die Risiko-Versicherung für AKWs mit einbeziehen würde.

Here’s an LPT for you, look at it in other ‘locations!’ For example, I often order textbooks from Amazon UK and have it shipped air mail to me in the states for over a 50% discount, even with air mail delivery.

Here is the states it’s $14.

The High Frontier: Human Colonies In Space https://www.amazon.com/dp/1686872720/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabc_qDxWFbD37YKEE

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One, I'm not attacking anyone and particularly not the youngsters. I'm trying to speed their progress. I provided plenty of directions on what they should be reading. Go up to my initial comment here. I didn't dismiss Graham completely; instead I suggested people read Zhang first for some proper framework. In particular, his approach is compatible with efficient markets so the premiums are there to be earned by everyone. (More broadly I like to live with an abundance mindset. It's not always zero sum, mi amigo, especially since we are not talking about alpha here.)

You present yourself as a thinking man and professional, but sometimes I wonder if you have a reading comprehension problem or alternatively your reading ability is fine but you are so resistant to the viewpoints of others that you fail to understand them properly before you lash out. I'm no psychologist so I will leave that to your therapist.

Second, go knock yourself out with his lectures (https://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Physics-boxed-set/dp/0465023827/) . Not a real test since you are smarter than the average /r/investing bear but give it an honest effort and report back in a month.

Old but good: The High Frontier, with the studies for orbital colonies from the 70s.

There's also the recent "update" The High Frontier: An Easier Way.

That's why I mentioned a mass driver. Crews and cargo delivered to the Moon would use spacecraft built for the purpose, with manned return using the same vehicles. Materials for construction or fuel would be launched with the mass driver and collected in lunar orbit.

Look into O'Neill's The High Frontier. I think you'll be interested.

This book I ordered a week ago. Young guy explains the solar basic concepts in detail and can be used as a step by step guide. He also has a YouTube channel.

You're thinking far too small. We don't need to leave the solar system to find other environments to live - we can easily (relatively speaking) create such places here in the solar system, almost anywhere we choose. If your conception is that we have to live on a planetary body, jettison it, and you'll find a lot more options open up. Within current engineering ability, we can build large, earthlike habitats that offer 1G.

It's not about saving a few thousand people, or about the very richest of humanity escaping. It's about using the resources of space in a big way to both enrich those on Earth, by providing lots of clean energy from space, and seeing millions of people living and working offworld. We have the ability to do it, and if we use it wisely, it will help us clean up Earth faster than expecting all our solutions to come from what we have on Earth itself.

For a more hopeful view of the future than what you see, I seriously recommend reading both of these books: The High Frontier and 2081. I think you'll find that there's a lot more to recommend to space travel and use than what the public has been exposed to through decades of government dominance.

I received his book ("The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind") as a gift last year and read it. Its a very captivating read, and he talks in detail of having to stop going to school, beginning to go to library to learn, and the ridicule he faced in his village for building his windmill out of junk he was able to salvage. It goes on about how reporters discovered him and how ended up speaking at a TED conference. A really inspirational read.

Do you have current sources for this? Would like to 2x check it, in light of market changes. Tony Seba is claiming Clean Disruption with video, and I'm not sure if they've factored this into the assertion. It was true before, but hard to say if it will hold out in say 5-10 years. (IMO)

I don't disagree on most of your points. I think Renewable Energy: Without the Hot Air and Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future are required reading for climate activists.

This is why I'm all for natural gas fracking, as fast ramping NG combined cycle turbines are an enabling technology for faster renewable rollout. Why I favor rollout of 5th generation nuclear plants. Why I favor revenue neutral carbon taxes over regulators choosing winners. It would benefit passive options like spraycrete, and conservation is half the the game.

What I think we all need to stay united against is duplicitous liars who pretend we're not facing a climate crisis this century, and for centuries to come. We need a Republican party that presents revenue neutral carbon taxes as the free-market alternative to subsidies and cap-and-trade. Until then, I'm compelled to vote for the party that acknowledges the science.

Hmm...good question. What is the market opportunity and risk long term? (because that's what most investors will be interested in after considering this short term...)

I've quoted Tony Seba's work a few times (especially this 1hr presentation) - can you refute any of his numbers or analysis? (and isn't it an exciting/scary/inspiring future!!)

> We can't consume our way out of climate change.

I don't want to be completely dismissive of your statement (I know your heart is in the right place), but there is a strong argument that, paradoxically, consumption is exactly how we're going to solve climate change, because the more solar and wind are bought, the more the price goes down and the more lithium ion batteries are bought, the more the price goes down.

The fossil fuel and ICE car industries are being disrupted by cheaper renewables and electric vehicles, and it could be happening much more rapidly than anyone thinks. Please see this book if interested, by a Stanford professor who has researched this subject very deeply:

www.amazon.com/Clean-Disruption-Energy-Transportation-Conventional/dp/0692210539/

By 2030, it's likely that almost all new vehicles sold will be electric. See http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Disruption-Energy-Transportation-Conventional/dp/0692210539

EDIT: I guess ExxonMobil and the Koch brothers pay people to downvote things in the environment forum lol

Power Hungry is a decent book on it. The author isn't the best/most consistent writer. But the fundamentals of what he says are correct and easily to confirm. Our best hope is to let natural gas replace coal, while we build a fleet of nuclear plants (these take forever to build).

I recommend the Feynman Lectures on Physics, they are very clear and reaches up to quantum theory. If you feel that you don't know enough mathematics then you can read Schaum's Outline series on Calculus, and whatever other topic you feel is stopping you.

Here's a link to a book about William.

There's a great book about this called The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
I read it years ago but I remember one year that there was a drought the people thought that the windmill was creating "Black Magic" and attempted to destroy it to appease the witch doctors.

Also the witch doctors supposedly kidnap children to play Soccer with their heads.

I've read his book, it is one of my favorites. Truly inspiring, I'll read it again for sure, someday. There are several parts of the book that are really thrilling. Link to his book -> http://www.amazon.com/The-Boy-Who-Harnessed-Wind/dp/0061730335

go to your public library, and talk to the people who work there - guaranteed they will be very nice and will have some great recommendations to get you started. I'm lucky because my mom is a librarian so she always is able to tell me what I should be reading. I'll just provide two recommendations, one fiction and one nonfiction. Nonfiction - <em>The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind</em>-all redditors should read this book! Fiction - <em>A Prayer for Owen Meany</em>