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NPeople are overdoing it going straight for whole-house solar when the problem is actually just working during loadshedding and maybe...
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NUncle dropped R400k to have his system. 2x 5KVA Victron inverters 3x MPPTs 24x 550W Panels 7x 100Ah LiFePo4 batteries Generates a bit...
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Nnewby_investor reacted to Jean Claude Vaaldamme's post in the thread Why solar is such a f_ckup. with
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Lead acid batteries will work fine, you'll just need a lot of them. They're very easily damaged by mis-use and dis-charging too far...
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NI am fortunate to be 7 kilos from the office, if I know I have extended LS I just take a drive there. There is always power + a lekker...
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Nnewby_investor reacted to nulkoel's post in the thread What book are you reading at the moment ? with Like.
Finally getting to Permanent Record by Edward Snowden after reading and really liking No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the...
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Nnewby_investor replied to the thread Ramaphosa reaffirms friendship with Chinese Communist Party whose ‘foreign policy posture’ ANC admires.The West has the advantage that there are certain things like freedom of speech, and at least we pretend to have a concept like...
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NSome inverters have connectors that you can set parameters for ie if battery is full close this loop and use that for instance on a...
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Nnewby_investor replied to the thread Ramaphosa reaffirms friendship with Chinese Communist Party whose ‘foreign policy posture’ ANC admires.Depends on which forum members you survey I guess. You're not wrong, but my general view is this: the West at least aspires to (or...
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Nnewby_investor reacted to ToxicBunny's post in the thread Ramaphosa reaffirms friendship with Chinese Communist Party whose ‘foreign policy posture’ ANC admires with Like.
Oh without a doubt its not a uniquely Chinese MO, but its something that the Chinese do seem to do in Africa more than anyone else...
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Nnewby_investor replied to the thread Ramaphosa reaffirms friendship with Chinese Communist Party whose ‘foreign policy posture’ ANC admires.Yeah, something like that. I forget the specifics but it's my general impression that this kind of thing can happen. I can totally see...
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Nnewby_investor replied to the thread VW unveils €25,000 electric concept car.What I wrote was more in response to your comment of "with a full on ICE ban, anyone not middleclass and up won't be able to afford...
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Nnewby_investor replied to the thread Ramaphosa reaffirms friendship with Chinese Communist Party whose ‘foreign policy posture’ ANC admires.I mean there is a history of China doing things like building airports and stuff in African countries. It ... usually hasn't been an...
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Nnewby_investor replied to the thread VW unveils €25,000 electric concept car.Well the EV Mini costs around R750k. If you compare what it costs in EUR then one could probably make a conversion factor and apply it...
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Nnewby_investor replied to the thread VW unveils €25,000 electric concept car.This wouldn't be as much of a no-no in the EU as it would be here. Not in cities anyway. Rural areas, different story I guess. But most...