You are in an extreme heat wave. There is no power. You see your neighbors struggling due to the heat. You have the ability to invite them over cool down. Doing so would cost virtually $0.
You instead post a meme on lemmy making fun of them.
Even if you don't get along with them, doing something like this would be a huge way to mend fences.
EDIT:
So I the Houston Chronicle has a Texas power outage tracker. According to them, there are like 2k customers without power in the entire state.
Also, Texas doesn't have power outages related to grid capacity in the summer that often. The major power outages this year were caused by storms knocking down lines. The huge one a couple of years ago was related to cold weather.
While the Texas grid does have issues related heat waves, it's not alone in that regard. Basically every southwestern state does, including California. Someone in Texas would probably know this and understand it's ridiculous to act like this problem is unique to Texas.
So I this entire thing, like everything these days, is made up to push a narrative.
While the Texas grid does have issues related heat waves, it's not alone in that regard. Basically every southwestern state does, including California.
There are stark differences between 49 other states and Texas.
Texas power grid has been systematically gutted
regulation and inspections are defunded, as Texas refuses the inspections required to join the nations power exchange as a peer.
And the big one
now they're not exchanging power, they have to buy from their rich constituents, at a premium, and they gut the bank accounts of your tax money
They're set up for failure and occasionally they succeed.
So I this entire thing, like everything these days, is made up to push a narrative.
But you're the one who brought up Texas and laid out the narrative that their isolated grid doesn't have any issues that the rest of the country doesn't have as well. Who's pushing the narrative here?
"Hey neighbor. I'll totally help you out during this heat wave, but only if you have the same political opinions as me. You'd better make that apparent quick, because your gas tank will only last for so long".
On some level you have to realize that's a toxic attitude, right?
LMAO alright Texas, we all believe you. We'll send you federal aid next time your shitty power grid goes out and people start freezing to death in their homes.
You might try to not be an asshole to them and invite them in. You'd probably be able to get them more on biased with solar. But then you'd have to give up the opportunity to be a snarky troll.
It's also nice to be on good terms with your neighbors, you never know when you could use their help or what they might offer you I'm the future. My neighbors wife asked for a cup of flour and we gave her an extra bag. Next day my wife is outside and they hand her an ounce of weed... what a trade
do NOT let them sleep in their car, there's a real risk they could die if from asphyxiation. Here in Mexico there were blackouts from the record heat and there was a family who slept in their car for the ac. They unfortunately all died
Assuming they're sleeping in the car with the AC running, my car never seems to let me keep it on recirculation for more than like 10 minutes. I noticed this while I was driving through a bunch of forest fire smoke I was trying to keep out, and I had to keep turning it back on.
Maybe that's just a safety feature my car has, but not all cars? Or am I misunderstanding and it's an issue with exhaust fumes? That would definitely be an issue in a garage.
This is one of the huge overlooked advantages of electric cars, provided that the manufacturer added the feature (it's insane that some don't) you can straight up power your house for DAYS on the car battery.
if we assume the lowest capacity tesla model S and a beefy AC that consumes 5 kWh/h, that's still 15 hours of non-stop balls to the wall AC usage.
Also, provided that you live close enough to a charger that is functonal, you have the ability to drive there, charge your car, and use the energy at home. That's probably less efficient and definitely more of a hassle than just having a backup generator and some dunks of fuel, but hey it's nice to have extra options.
Yea I think that's just the Lightning. Cool idea but I don't see all the F150 owners switching to electric until they're forced to, at least here in the US.
I’ve had solar panels and a battery for almost four years. Other than cleaning the panel surfaces once or twice a year they have been fully maintenance free.
I freaking live in the desert so i know I'd have solar 16h a day for like 9 months but i also know that solar panels optimal temp is 25°. In here, it's a least 35, almost always above 40, often 45++ in the summer. Heck, there's days and days of consecutive 49° and somehow never reach 50° making me believe that if it reach 50° the government is required by international laws to not allow citizens out or something.
That temp doesn't keep them from working though, they will still produce a lot of power in that much sun. It's entirely worth it to have them if you can afford to.
doesn't it degrade their capacity too much ? I thought at such temps they be like -80% capacity or something. 25m² at 400w would shrink my electric bill by a lot.
Who h is why social programs to aid cover the costs of the installs would be a good thing but given that the state they live in is resorting to rolling blackouts instead of investing in infrastructure, that doesn't seem like it'll happen.
Sure I mean I suppose it is possible that op lives in a very mixed income area where you have single family homes with $40k worth of solar infrastructure on their roof, right next to starving single mothers. But let's be honest here. There's a pretty high chance that the people in question are exactly the kind of selfish assholes who vote for policies which make sure single mothers have no option but to shoplift food, and are also exactly the kind of people the "no idling vehicles" laws are intended to target.
But I guess holding a pitchfork in the air is easier than critical thinking.
Mine lasts about 8 hours with AC on constantly if there was no sun. This was during the day, so the battery was charging faster than it was discharging. If the power goes out at night, I just turn up the thermostat so the AC is only on some of the time, and it will last long enough for the sun to come back up.
WOW you can tell wich model and what type of solar panels he's using. You can even predict the amount of sun his' house is receiving and at what angle.
I installed 5kwh grid feed on my house and professionally have installed enough systems for communications towers to know the requirements. So ya I take it with a grain of salt when people suggest they can get any significant time from a battery backup system.
Also 99 percent of the home systems are grid tie and do not have a 'whole house' battery backup. Thus I am suspicious to begin when they say they get these long battery backup times and hands their AC tired in. And to make me more suspicious, nearly all grid tie systems shut completely down if the grid fails even if your in full sunlight. This is for safety reasons. A few people might have power wall type of systems but for ten thousand your only getting a few hours out of that and only on specific circuits in your house. Something that requires a bit of complexity in your electrical panel wiring.
And before you all find the 1 percent of systems that are fully backed up with battery, and they do exist, these systems to be viable have to be so overbuilt that they can cost hundred thousand dollars.