As with everything climate and environment related - as soon as the slightest inconvenience might occur, all hard fought for regulation goes out the window.

The end result will be lots of billable hours for consulting companies and half a cargo coil of 5mm lead sheet, probably.

I think with the Nazi AfD government coming up in 2029 all of the progress will come to a screeching halt with the then renewed relationship with Russia pushing cheap fossil fuels into the market. I’ve pretty much given up at this point.

After a few years of homeownership you usually have everything for stuff around the house in the tool room.

I’m just noticing that having a tool room sounds unusual, seeing it written down.

Yep. There were like 15 years of half assed trying and as soon as the smallest bit off difficulty occurs, everybody just gives up. Climate protection is over, fuck the future.

That’s because the average IT auditor is a bunch of if then statements wrapped in human skin.

Yes, the ton of elaborate Excel macros alone that keep small and medium business running at all tells me: not going to happen.

I’m somewhat hopeful, in the last ten years, new and renovated country roads have been getting dedicated bike lanes behind the guardrails. Miles away from the excellent, completely separate infrastructure the dutch have, but its a start.

Living in the boonies, I’m never going to get a bus going by every ten minutes so a solid market for good EVs is still what I root for.

Eh, ID7 and A6 are getting there. BMW i4 ain’t bad either.

Yep. I archive channels I like locally.

I have never understood the concept of paying loads of money to go somewhere chock full of other people on my precious spare time. So, they want no tourists? Alright then, I’ll support their cause by continuing with my policy of spending my vacations around home.

The only low nose electric station wagon you can buy today is a Porsche Taycan

No, id7? MG5?

I’d assume that’s exactly what he meant. Europe comes with a set of ideals and it seems that Canada by and large aligns with those closer than ex Soviet block countries, even after all the years.

If you just want a local network with DHCP and WPA to do whatever, no uplink is necessary.

“Rapid” in Germany would mean “planned for finishing within 10 years, actually done in 20 for double the price and with half of the capacity”.

Dude found something he could put a price on and announced it. Now he’ll wait for offers.

…and require electricians to not think of themselves as IT experts that should have any say in configuring anything beyond maybe actual modbus on two wires.

On some level, water would work the same way. If you were to collect water from somewhere, feed it into a pump and hook that up to your kitchen faucet, as soon as you increased pressure a little above that of the public water pipe, water would flow backwards from your faucet through the pipes in the house into the public water supply and your water meter might run backwards, depending on its construction.

disclaimer: Unlike freshly harvested AC electricity from a solar inverter, home collected water does not meet the hygiene standards for public supply. Absolutely do not do that either.

Huh, the wiring just supports power spontaneously coming from an exit point rather than an entry? Is that commonplace?

Why wouldn’t it? Electrical wiring isn’t a one way road, electricity (this is an extreme oversimplification, especially when it comes to AC) will always flow from points of high voltage to points of lower voltage. That’s how solar inverters feed into the grid. Raise their voltage a tad bit higher than the grid and match the frequency and phase of the grid until the outflow matches their maximum available power.

Is that commonplace?

That is a hard question, because this isn’t a feature, it’s how things are. Only thing one needs to take care of is that the solar inverter doesn’t deliver so much power that the circuit can consume beyond the circuit breakers capacity, otherwise the breaker would be rendered useless. That’s why these small plug inverters are limited to 800W in Germany, that puts the entire possible load on a 16A circuit into the general upper limit that is still within the safety margin fro 16A circuits.

EDIT: Now before someone gets the bright idea to connect their diesel generator to the grid this way: Don’t. It will not be in sync or phase and that will make something spectacular happen, but it will not supply the grid. Either have an expensive generator that is able to sync to the grid or have a grid disconnect and switchover in front of your generator plugin socket.

EDITEDIT: Also please never connect an island capable solar inverter to a plug. The ones described above are safe that way, because they wait for grid voltage to be available before they do anything, so there will never be high voltage on the open plug. An island capable solar inverter does by definition not do that. There will be high voltage on the plug and it will kill you and it will hurt like a fucker the entire time you’re dying.