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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah. I did quite some research and found Zoe to be the best price for range while not being a giant expensive suv. I think specially on european roads its pretty good choice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Though those are dirt cheap so as a second car to drive in low range (if you work close by or when need to do shopping etc) it's perfect.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Second hand Renault Zoe user here. I have the model from 2020 with 52kWh battery. Things are pretty ok I think as far as the interior and exterior, but we had major issue with the engine that had to be swapped (good the car was under warranty still in the dealership we bought it from). For the rest it's pretty smooth ride. The range of the car in spring/summer gets to about 350km so its pretty good. The SOH is 91.3%. Ranault's warranty on battery is still active until 2028 or 80 000km or when battery's SOH drops below 75% so for now I am not worried about this. I think once the battery gets low and outside of warranty there will most certainly be more developed infrastructure of third-party battery module maintenance so it should be possible to get the pack to it's original state for not gigantic sums of money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Ok. Npw Its definitely time to migrate my instance to something more powerful then my raspberry pi

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Me too. But like I said on the last meeting I can't listen to the videos about disroot. It's like hearing my own voice in the video, I just can't do it :D I do enjoy the non-disroot vids though and I'm sure disquest ones are cool too (just my mind doesn't let me watch it)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm a n00b. Looks like the moment you put an image the link changes to that image instead of the link provided to the post.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] nice one. Currently on mobile I use: k9 - mail monocles - xmpp nextcloud (and the nextcloud apps) - filesync, talk, notes, opentasks - tasks Davx5 - dav sync Voyager - lemmy Mangane (webapp) - akkoma

On desktop: gajim - xmpp thunderbird - mail Gnome Onlinea ccounts -file, calendar, contacts sync

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That youtuber is pretty much paid advertisement for startups. I would not take this guy serious. I have seen also number of videos about this type of turbine and also some debunks. Harmony turbine is project that has not yet shown results apart from lots of publicity. I will try to find a nice video I saw about it, but yeah I wouldnt put too much hope in that. Specially when something's featured on that youtube channel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Solarthermal is something I thought about but seeing how little is produced on the roof now I wonder how much impact it will have. I know the efficiency of solar collectors is about 80% while solar panels are 20-30%, but installation of solar collectors adds more complexity with plumbing and in summer you again have situation where you have nowhere to spend the heat on and need to either close the system (drain it) or cover the collector. Plus it's not that cheap. It's mainly reason why we went for solar panels as although solar panels require more space to provide eqiuvalent power, the low maintenance and the fact the energy can be spent on more stuff then just heating water. So I'm looking at diversifying the energy source. Thats why looking into wind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Thanks for the info and a link to the atlas. looks like in my area the result is: Data for 10% windiest areas 145 W/m² 4.81 m/s Height: 10m

Though not sure I understand the site so will need to read about it more. Thanks for the info about Piggott turbine. I will look into it. I rather DIY something the buy some cheap stuff that does not work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks a lot for the input. I live in NL (so pretty flat) and also have quite some open spaces around the house. This does provide quite some winds (usually north and south) so this is why i tought about it in the first place. As mentioned below, I plan to setup two weather stations in two potential places. I want to monitor it for the duration of the year to have good insight into what winds am I dealing with.

I was just wondering if such idea, of putting like 5-8 smaller wind turbines connected to inverter/microinverter and then to the grid (so autoconsuming or pushing to the grid when not enough consumption). I was wondering if this is something people do as I did not see much when searching the web. Most people use it to charge batteries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I know a neighbour two houses away is also looking into wind generation. I do like the idea of being self-sustainable and free to experiment. But yeah it is an option if other solutions won't work.

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