Are there portable wind turbines and/or solar panels I can put up in my very bright dusty back yard?
You don’t want to install anything permanent since you’ll have to remove them when you move out. You can get portable solar panels + those big Anker portable batteries that can run full sized appliances. But a more meaningful way to help the environmenf is to do composting. Up to 80% of the weight of your household waste is compostable material. Simply composting them drastically reduces the amount of waste from your house to the landfill. Plus no more smelly watery garbage bags and now you can plant veges.
evilgiraffe666@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
You probably can’t get anything that properly powers your house because that would need to connect to the grid, but there are small solar arrays you can get for stuff like camping or boats which could probably power some devices. Might have to be via a battery as I suspect the output is variable.
spasm01@lemmywinks.com 1 year ago
So a camping set up moving to a battery that I can charge smaller things like phones off of?
natflow@apollo.town 1 year ago
Check out “solar generators”. They take input power from something variable like a solar panel, recharge their internal battery, and then provide lots of different outlets to power or recharge various devices. So, mostly “just” a battery, but very well set up for exactly this kind of thing.
lwuy9v5@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You can have a switch such that you use “Shore Power” / the grid when your batteries are low and your batteries when they are full.
For anyone interested: I absolutely do not recommend as a DIY project, hire an electrician. You will kill yourself by stopping your heart or burn your house down. Or both. At the same time.
evilgiraffe666@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
I’ve heard this described as an island switch (making your home an island, cut off from the rest of the grid). I don’t think it’s appropriate for renting though, you’d surely need to make permanent alterations to the house’s electrical circuits.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bah just run everything offa extension cords like we do with the generator when the power goes out sure it’s more hassle than it’s worth but you get to stick it to the man