l literally did this a few hours ago

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Me living in a state that doesn't have rolling blackouts...
- For now.
  
  The us has 3 energy grids: east coast, west coast, and texas. As long as don't live in Texas, you shouldn't have issues with electricity.
- Me living where it’s 60-75 all year.
  
  What country is that?

Okay so just to be clear.
You are in an extreme heat wave. There is no power. You see your neighbors struggling due to the heat. You have the ability to invite them over cool down. Doing so would cost virtually $0.
You instead post a meme on lemmy making fun of them.
Even if you don't get along with them, doing something like this would be a huge way to mend fences.
- While the Texas grid does have issues related heat waves, it's not alone in that regard. Basically every southwestern state does, including California.
  There are stark differences between 49 other states and Texas.
  Texas power grid has been systematically gutted
  regulation and inspections are defunded, as Texas refuses the inspections required to join the nations power exchange as a peer.
  And the big one
  now they're not exchanging power, they have to buy from their rich constituents, at a premium, and they gut the bank accounts of your tax money
  They're set up for failure and occasionally they succeed.
- So I this entire thing, like everything these days, is made up to push a narrative.
  But you're the one who brought up Texas and laid out the narrative that their isolated grid doesn't have any issues that the rest of the country doesn't have as well. Who's pushing the narrative here?
  
  I assumed it's the one who used the phrase "these days" regarding a social issue like it's unique to now.
- LMAO alright Texas, we all believe you. We'll send you federal aid next time your shitty power grid goes out and people start freezing to death in their homes.
- Ask them how they feel about climate change first!
  
  "Hey neighbor. I'll totally help you out during this heat wave, but only if you have the same political opinions as me. You'd better make that apparent quick, because your gas tank will only last for so long".
  On some level you have to realize that's a toxic attitude, right?
- So you know the state of the power of my house better than me? Want me to send the logs of my solar app that keeps track of my outages?
  My power was out yesterday while it was 103°F. I'm sorry it wasn't published on the internet.
  
  Okay so your either lying or you laughed as your neighbors desperately attempted to escape dangerous temperatures.
  Neither of those possibilities made you look good.

You might try to not be an asshole to them and invite them in. You'd probably be able to get them more on biased with solar. But then you'd have to give up the opportunity to be a snarky troll.
- It's also nice to be on good terms with your neighbors, you never know when you could use their help or what they might offer you I'm the future. My neighbors wife asked for a cup of flour and we gave her an extra bag. Next day my wife is outside and they hand her an ounce of weed... what a trade
  
  I had to stop smoking weed for medical brain damage reasons, and ended up gifting 4 grams of concentrate and all my glassware to a cool neighbor.
  Multiple hundred dollar bongs and a $300 Opal set in a dab rig.
  Back on opiates for pain, but he was a cool kilt wearing bastard.
- I would not want any of my neighbors up in my house.
- Soon as I see the 'literally' I usually predict how it's going to go.

Goddamn libs with their goddamn sun power
where’s the diesel generators?? Fucking commies haven’t figured out that something has to explode first to get anywhere!!!
/s
- The car IS the gas generator haha

do NOT let them sleep in their car, there's a real risk they could die if from asphyxiation. Here in Mexico there were blackouts from the record heat and there was a family who slept in their car for the ac. They unfortunately all died
- Assuming they're sleeping in the car with the AC running, my car never seems to let me keep it on recirculation for more than like 10 minutes. I noticed this while I was driving through a bunch of forest fire smoke I was trying to keep out, and I had to keep turning it back on.
  Maybe that's just a safety feature my car has, but not all cars? Or am I misunderstanding and it's an issue with exhaust fumes? That would definitely be an issue in a garage.
  
  For my car I have to pump the air all the way down to cold for recirculation to stay on.
- Yep, there's been a few cases of it happening at festivals like Bonnaroo, also.
- You just got OP rock hard.
- That's really sad to hear. Luckily the power wasn't out for too long here.

Buy a spare ac and extension cord and run it in the front lawn just to mess with em!
- Ok, even discounting how extremely wasteful it would be, that's TOO cruel! 😂
- Yikes...

This is one of the huge overlooked advantages of electric cars, provided that the manufacturer added the feature (it's insane that some don't) you can straight up power your house for DAYS on the car battery.
- I don't think you can power a home air conditioner for days on a teslas battery bank. It's the most energy draining system by far.
  
  if we assume the lowest capacity tesla model S and a beefy AC that consumes 5 kWh/h, that's still 15 hours of non-stop balls to the wall AC usage.
  Also, provided that you live close enough to a charger that is functonal, you have the ability to drive there, charge your car, and use the energy at home. That's probably less efficient and definitely more of a hassle than just having a backup generator and some dunks of fuel, but hey it's nice to have extra options.
- Yeah, neither one of our electric cars will do that.
- Yea I think that's just the Lightning. Cool idea but I don't see all the F150 owners switching to electric until they're forced to, at least here in the US.
- Which manufacturers do add this feature?
  
  i don't know, i'm not a car guy i just got this info from technology connections on youtube.
  
  There are models from Hyundai, Kia, Nissan, Ford and Mitsubishi that can do bidirectional charging. Here's a video by the aforementioned Technology Connections on the Hyundai Ioniq 5: A 24-hour test run of the Hyundai Ioniq 5's Vehicle-to-Load function - Technology Connextras

Tell me about your experience? I've been interested, but it's admittedly daunting.
- What do you want to know? Like my experience when shopping for panels? Or my experience having them on the house?
  
  What's it like to maintain them?
  
  I want to know if all your neighbors hate you for making fun of them instead of just inviting them inside.
- I’ve had solar panels and a battery for almost four years. Other than cleaning the panel surfaces once or twice a year they have been fully maintenance free.

I freaking live in the desert so i know I'd have solar 16h a day for like 9 months but i also know that solar panels optimal temp is 25°. In here, it's a least 35, almost always above 40, often 45++ in the summer. Heck, there's days and days of consecutive 49° and somehow never reach 50° making me believe that if it reach 50° the government is required by international laws to not allow citizens out or something.
- That temp doesn't keep them from working though, they will still produce a lot of power in that much sun. It's entirely worth it to have them if you can afford to.
  
  doesn't it degrade their capacity too much ? I thought at such temps they be like -80% capacity or something. 25m² at 400w would shrink my electric bill by a lot.
- Wow that's a lot colder than i expected, i always thought solar panels worked best around 70° or so
  
  Celcius :P
  
  Ah americans...
  
  In your defense, the commenter should have specified that it was Celsius.

"hyah hyah hyah. Molly my dear, come look at the poors with me! What a riot, look at how hot they are!"
If Gilligan's island were real, they'd have eaten Thurston Howell first. Just sayin'.

I've tried Googling it and failed, where are you OP?
- Lmao, take a guess. Where is it hot and has a constantly failing power grid? The answer is always Texas.
  
  Set up a sign in your yard "These communist solar panels sure are keeping me cool."

Where I am you can collect a bounty for reporting people who idle cars like this. It's a massive contributor to smog.
- Some one is trying to espacpe the heat and their only option is the ac on their car, and you're looking to report them?
  
  And I would do it again!
  
  Bro I don't make the laws believe it or not.
- Report them so they can just die from heatstroke instead? Bet you call the cops on single mothers shoplifting food for their kids too, don't you?
  
  In my area there are public cooling stations you can go to instead, but most people prefer the luxury and privacy of their car.
  
  Sure I mean I suppose it is possible that op lives in a very mixed income area where you have single family homes with $40k worth of solar infrastructure on their roof, right next to starving single mothers. But let's be honest here. There's a pretty high chance that the people in question are exactly the kind of selfish assholes who vote for policies which make sure single mothers have no option but to shoplift food, and are also exactly the kind of people the "no idling vehicles" laws are intended to target.
  But I guess holding a pitchfork in the air is easier than critical thinking.

Not everyone can afford the installation costs.
- Who h is why social programs to aid cover the costs of the installs would be a good thing but given that the state they live in is resorting to rolling blackouts instead of investing in infrastructure, that doesn't seem like it'll happen.
- That's true, it's not super cheap to install. But you might be able to get government grants to help with that, depending on where you live.
  
  True, but I imagine the grants only cover a portion of it and it'd still end up costing the person(s) at least hundreds of dollars if not thousands.
  Some persons' budgets are that tight (mine is).

Lol this thread. So many entitled people out there.

I want solar too, but I can't afford it

Fuck you OP

Battery backup likely last 2 hours on AC. Good luck with that.
- Mine lasts about 8 hours with AC on constantly if there was no sun. This was during the day, so the battery was charging faster than it was discharging. If the power goes out at night, I just turn up the thermostat so the AC is only on some of the time, and it will last long enough for the sun to come back up.
  
  What is the size of your battery pack and model of you know. Also what is the size of your AC unit? What you pay for the battery pack alone?
  I have a 5kwh grid feed system on one of my houses and install solar for remote locations that power low watt towers.
- WOW you can tell wich model and what type of solar panels he's using. You can even predict the amount of sun his' house is receiving and at what angle.
  You must be a genius!!!(or the opposite)
  
  I installed 5kwh grid feed on my house and professionally have installed enough systems for communications towers to know the requirements. So ya I take it with a grain of salt when people suggest they can get any significant time from a battery backup system.
  Also 99 percent of the home systems are grid tie and do not have a 'whole house' battery backup. Thus I am suspicious to begin when they say they get these long battery backup times and hands their AC tired in. And to make me more suspicious, nearly all grid tie systems shut completely down if the grid fails even if your in full sunlight. This is for safety reasons. A few people might have power wall type of systems but for ten thousand your only getting a few hours out of that and only on specific circuits in your house. Something that requires a bit of complexity in your electrical panel wiring.
  And before you all find the 1 percent of systems that are fully backed up with battery, and they do exist, these systems to be viable have to be so overbuilt that they can cost hundred thousand dollars.

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