Congrats!

It does!

I don’t know, sorry.

If you wire the panels in series then the total voltage will be the sum of all the panels’ voltages. The final amps will be the amps of the weakest panel.

If you wire the panels in parallel then the max voltage will be the voltage of the weakest panel but the amps will be the sum of all the panels’ amps.

So it depends what your charge controller can handle. High volts or high amps. Also series and parallel react differently to partial shade. I can’t remember the details, only that parallel seems to cope much better.

High voltage (24v or higher, ideally 48v) is good for longer distances as transmitting electricity at 12v suffers losses after a few meters unless you have extremely thick wires. If your panels are < 4 meters from your plug/controller then parallel panels (with it’s lower voltage) will be ok.

Don’t skimp on fuses. If anything goes wrong you want the panels to be cut off, not pumping electrons into the fire.

Don’t spend half your holiday on a train or driving a campervan - the moving-around part of travel is really not great.

In the city, with wind funneling between tall buildings, the wind can be extremely variable and gusty. I doubt the practicality of that a lot of the time. It certainly caught my attention though.

Check out the photo in this article - https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/586113/wellington-s-sewage-diverted-away-from-shore-out-to-cook-strait

Bleak how they used an AI-generated image to promote this article.

Very helpful

Every situation is so different that you really need professional advice.

I probably should have phrased it as “have less children” :)

My list was based on the book “How Bad Are Bananas” which goes into depth about the carbon emissions from various things, including children.

I’m not 100% sure that attributing the emissions of a child to their parents is correct ‘accounting’. Maybe only their emissions until age 18? Still, all the emissions caused by that child and it’s descendants would not have happened if it wasn’t for the decision their parents made to create it. Accounted for this way, there is no doubt this is the most impactful decision someone in a developed country can make (that was the framing the OP used so I went with that) but it is not the most likely to happen, most practical or most moral option.

• Don’t have children
• Don’t build a house with concrete (incl foundation)
• Public transport and cycling
• No beef and minimize dairy products

Any domain that ends in .news is full of A-grade bullshit. Just something I’ve noticed.

uses 210 Ah sodium-ion battery cells that can be charged to 90 percent in 12 minutes

Very fast!

Good article, although long. The main part is towards the end so I recommend skipping to this bit:

Degrowthers consistently misdiagnose the core problem of capitalism as “growth” when in fact it is the lack of social control over production and investment decisions. When we attain such control, we may indeed choose to grow many socially useful forms of production (and degrow others).