Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2795 from 2006/3/21
From: Northern Calif...
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Jim wrote:
I'm hoping to install a solar array to my home soon and virtually negate the electricity use argument for most of my appliances.
In the meanwhile, that minor increase in use buys back the cpu power I feel I'd be wasting using a MorphOS system to display video.
But I really hope we will see some solution like the one you have been advocating.
In the meanwhile, with some adjustments in what its used for, every system I've had running MorphOS over the last several years, from my 933 MHz Quicksilver to my 2.7 GHz G5 still seem like valid, useful platforms.
I just attended the tail end of a local Solar Electric meeting for the neighbors around me, a few weeks ago. There is one of my neighbors who is a salesman for a Solar Electric panel manufacture, and they also sell the rest of the components needed for homeowners to DIY a solar system for their home. I thought that only licensed electrical contractors could install solar electric panels on a home, but the salesman said NO, and that I could do all the work myself. I think he is misleading me, and the rest of the people at the meeting, and that a licensed contractor must supervise, or do the work, to connect any electrical equipment to the meter panel. I also think that the electric service provider must be notified, and approve the installation of any equipment that is capable of feeding excess electrical power back into the "Electric Grid", or Power System.
Like you, I am also interested in installing a solar electric panel system to my home, to offset some, or all of my electrical needs, and a DIY type system is most interesting to me, instead of paying some company or a contractor to do all of the work. Keep me updated on your plans to add solar electric panels to your house, and I will do the same. Perhaps we can save each other some money, by sharing information.
MorphOS - The best Next Gen Amiga choice.
