I was watching Matt Spears latest video on YT, and noticed someone had identified another beautiful trestle in Montana on this subreddit. I am just curious what relatively well preserved railway this is.
Somewhere in Washinton state, perhaps?
With SB 868 passing the Senate and moving through the CA assembly this session, hopefully this will move out of the “grey area” and into the “normal stuff you can buy at Home Depot in a couple years.
I’ve been told by some that 1200W of “balcony” solar is too small to matter, but it’s actually crazy some of the stats on a small permitless system like this.
- $1400 for 1200W installed, just plug in to 110V and weigh down the panels so they don’t blow over.
- about 4kwh a day in winter and 8 kWh a day in summer in CA
- 5kWh a day is enough for 10 (!) showers with a heat pump water heater, or 20 miles a day for a typical EV
- 4 cents a kWh amortized over 20 years. Merely 10X less than what PG&E charges.
We gotta get the word out that solar just isn’t for rich people anymore. It’s the cheapest form of energy you can get and every homeless person and sub Saharan African dweller already knew that.
