It’s not self-sustaining. Corentin’s effort in the Baja California was closer, but the couple’s naive attitude is off-putting.

As someone who’s stuck with doing the automation, it definitely doesn’t make my life easier. Or faster. It’s just stressful, full of boring complexity and annoying. First world problems, I know.

An idiotic idea which will go nowhere just the one about putting PV modules on road surfaces was.

And this is why we’re doomed.

I am talking about simple plug-in Balkonkraftwerk. Larger PV installations are a different regulation framework, and need to be signed off on by licensed professionals. Much more expensive, mich longer ROI.

You can safely feed in a lot more than 800 W if you know what you’re doing, but it’s illegal.

There are now small scale storage systems available to flatten the curve of production and increasenlocal consumption.