Australian town goes off the grid ditching power companies
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Australia may be wedded to coal, but one town in the country’s east wants to carve out its own future, no fossil fuels in sight.
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Now imagine the entire world adapt this system
Careful this might catch on
Carbon neutral? Honestly there may be some good reasons for all these things but do we have to treat people like three year olds?
Australia is awesome. Cheers frm USA .
I’d like to move there. At least it’s a step forward.
They’re trying… Props to them 🙌
I wonder what they do with the batteries that have expired and are filled with poisonous chemicals that cannot be recycled. There is always a catch to these type of things
Does carbon neutral include all pollutants created to make the solar panels
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Why don’t they just fully use all roofs? It looks like the don’t have many solar panels per roof.
So they ruin that beautiful paddock.
How much power do they use currently?
My town, founded in the very late 1800s, strung their own lines and used to run a generator from 8am to 8pm through the 1930s. The big companies were not interested in doing the power to such villages. The generator was paid for through deed taxes or property single tax (old idea of running towns). After REA ran big lines intro rural areas, these small town could buy power wholesale and sell it back to the residents.
My town has held on to its own lines and distribution, while most towns just sold their wires decades ago to the big power companies. We’ve kept it as an asset and pay power bills, but the profits go to the city fund. We were able to have no sales tax for a century…
HOWEVER around 1999 the big power company started trying to !muscle in and force a change. The Mayor officially runs the Power, Water and Gas city company. We elect the mayor. So in 2000 the power companies started sending in “new residents” and they would quickly run for office. They tried every disruptive trick to force an electric grid sale, because they knew we would eventually go with big solar farms and cut them off even as wholesalers. Luckily it hasn’t worked yet.
So, since we kept the power company this past century, we can do this if the solar and storage prices drop BELOW the wholesale purchase price.
Fingers crossed 👍 Even if some people don’t care about carbon they should worry about peak oil etc The more we focus on alternatives the later the peak will come.
Cow manure can make methane gas, probably can contribute for methane powered generator. I would love to see that powering up a portion of the town
Nothing in here is about going off the grid. It’s still going to be coal powering their loads over night no matter how much solar they install. A true off grid community scale energy storage and distribution scheme would be really interesting.
Enjoy your night lights that run for half the night and your rationed warm water. Solar power is a lie. Solar is so inefficient that if it were oil it would be outlawed.
Typical Greenwashing. got to blow everything out of proportion and make out it’s something it’s not.
Looks like I have more panels on my roof than they seem to have in this town but I’m not claiming i’m going off grid, carbon neutral or anything else. I just have a heap of panels to try and reduce my power bill.
WHEN this town ( or a single house in it) IS actually off grid, Do a story then and show us how they did it and overcame the problems with that feel good ideal that is a lot easier to say ( as in this vid) than it is to do.
I see nothing more in this clip than what I can find in my own street, people with panels.
Puerto Rico would be a perfect candidate for this. Since their power grid has been destroyed.
i bet no one considered how many pollution was made during production of all the panels, electronics and batteries they using !
independents — yes
carbon neutral — f**k no !
SOLAR POWERED BIKES ??? HOW LAZY CAN PEOPLE GET ??? NEXT THEY’LL WANT THEIR BIKES TO BE DRIVERLESS !!! BUT YEAH KUDOS FOR GOING OFF-GRID !!! 🙂
More small towns everywhere should start doing this and get away from smart meter kill grids.
What’s going to happen when 5G is everywhere?
the height of aussie shitposting
Without a liberal government this wouldn’t be nessersary.
So no companies are benefiting out of this apart from instalation???
And get rid of wireless devices including mobile phones, it affects the body.……Research “The truth about 5G”.
Good on them there having a bloody go it’s not perfect but at least there trying and putting there money (very little) were there mouth is.
Very impressive..we can help them out with Hybrid system design adding 2MWH battery and 1mw solar farm.
You will be 100% self sufficient no need for generator anymore.
If you research this further, they are going to run into Political madness — wish this was a reality but with any government in, they don’t want this.….
The bikes fork let’s the same magnetic pole from the bike spokes move in a same direction
If your hydro — electric — washing — machine can turn the right counter balance to feed the household electric energy needs your clean clothes took you off the grid
If your lawn mower pushes a electric generator and is fully electric with no emissions and is self-recharging ? do you need a lawnmower for each room in the house only as a circuit breaker board making each room in the off the grid home self-supportive never again will our house worry about a power supply _ we the people United States
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At least right now we need a grid to make off-grid technologies. I am waiting for the first solar-powered factory that produces solar panels and batteries.