Diverter update Jan.
€2.50 in the kitty!
from 5.25kWp Solar.
4 x ground mounts + 1 x vehicle mount.
12.7kWh available for use in an expensive battery that owes the installation money.
Expecting a generous 80% RTE on such a system. That'd be 10kWh I could have extracted from a battery
if it had accepted it
and didn't have a solar freakin' battery heater
and an inarguably impossible zero quiescent load. 2.75kWh I could have used to heat water instead of electronic heat sinks or donated it to the betterment of mankind if I wasn't trying to be
selfish green teal.
Let's see how I could not use 10kWh
in a day instead of 28days.
Going to the shop for take out: 30kWh of petro-chemicals + CO
2.
Closing the curtains: ~15kWh thermal energy.
Working in the daytime for passive light and space heating: ~22kWh
Using a clothes line instead of a drier (two loads):~ 12kWh
Induction cooking (one week): ~10kWh
Filling a 4" draft hole in the house: ~1kWh per day
Shutting the doors between the atmosphere and the interior: varies say 5kWh day.
Heat water I was going to heat anyway: parity+20% at lower legacy cost.
Not running ludicrous test loads like normal, all day at work: 75kWh
New spark plugs: +2MPG = 60Wh per mile
Opportunity loads....like use the washing machines at noon instead of dawn/night: parity + 20%.
No Xmas lights: 1ish kWh per day.
Better insulation...currently I can recuperate about 6kWh in heat losses per €100 invested...because it's so shyte.
Driving
like a normal (half-asleep) person ecologically...5MPG? ~150Wh less energy per mile.
Wheel alignment...Mine's perfect...but you'd be amazed how quickly a mm will cost you in rolling resistance and tyres..
Why do I keep picking on the ICE and building heating? Because it's easy! Utility power is cheap!
Is a new EV better for environmental emission reduction than 20yo running scrap? Nope!
