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Solar PV (maybe with wind too) in London, UK | 12 comments (12 topical, editorial)

Re: Solar PV (maybe with wind too) in London, UK (3.00 / 0) (#8)
by DamonHD (d@hd.org) on Mon Jun 25th, 2007 at 12:33:32 PM MST
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For the new laptop? The guy I'm buying it from (Adam of Xephi.co.uk) is still experimenting for me, but I think we'll probably end up with Ubuntu (ie a 'Debian' Linux). It's important to have an up-to-date version of Linux with the 'laptop-tools' with lots of power-saving measures.

I'm aiming to boot the machine and run it most of the time off a memory card so that I need not even spin up the hard disc very often... And the screen will be off. And unless the sun is shining I'll do only the minimum processing necessary...

I'll get this all working as well as I can on mains power before lashing out on extra PV and batteries, since every W saved may knock the equivalent of as much as USD100 off the final PV system cost...

(Currently I use all Solaris at home, on third-hand machines, some 10Y+ old, and a mixture of Solaris and Linux hosted elsewhere in the world.)

Rgds

Damon

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Solar PV (maybe with wind too) in London, UK | 12 comments (12 topical, 0 editorial)

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