Okay so just to be clear.
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.
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.
And the big one
They're set up for failure and occasionally they succeed.
Ask them how they feel about climate change first!
"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?
If you actually believe in trying to help combat climate change, you'd get them out of their car just so they'd stop burning gasoline.
Well at some point we need to stop letting people believe that climate change denial is a reasonable stance to have. Letting folks stew in the consequences of their choices is effective.
Being friendly is far more effective than trying to punish people to make them agree with you. Especially when there's no immediate and obvious consequence of their individual actions.
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?
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.
Me living in a state that doesn't have rolling blackouts...
For now.
The us has 3 energy grids: east coast, west coast, and texas. As long as don't live in Texas, you shouldn't have issues with electricity.
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
I would not want any of my neighbors up in my house.
Goddamn libs with their goddamn sun power
where’s the diesel generators?? Fucking commies haven’t figured out that something has to explode first to get anywhere!!!
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Buy a spare ac and extension cord and run it in the front lawn just to mess with em!
Ok, even discounting how extremely wasteful it would be, that's TOO cruel! 😂
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
Where I am you can collect a bounty for reporting people who idle cars like this. It's a massive contributor to smog.
Some one is trying to espacpe the heat and their only option is the ac on their car, and you're looking to report them?
Report them so they can just die from heatstroke instead? Bet you call the cops on single mothers shoplifting food for their kids too, don't you?
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.
I don't think you can power a home air conditioner for days on a teslas battery bank. It's the most energy draining system by far.
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.
Wow that's a lot colder than i expected, i always thought solar panels worked best around 70° or so
Tell me about your experience? I've been interested, but it's admittedly daunting.
What do you want to know? Like my experience when shopping for panels? Or my experience having them on the house?
What's it like to maintain them?
I have only had them for a couple of months, so I haven't got that far yet. From some research I have done, I should hose them off once a year. The installer told me that I could probably just hose them off from the ground level, but I'll probably hop up on the roof and hose them off. I'll probably do it next spring for the first time.
Be aware to not hose them off when they have been exposed to sunlight for a certain amount of time. Solar panels become extremely hot and cold water will crack the glass panel.
Thanks for the reminder! The installer also warned me about this.
I’ve had mine for right at a year. Haven’t done anything, I’ll consider cleaning if I see efficiency taper off
"hyah hyah hyah. Molly my dear, come look at the poors with me! What a riot, look at how hot they are!"
If Gilligan's island were real, they'd have eaten Thurston Howell first. Just sayin'.
I've tried Googling it and failed, where are you OP?
Lmao, take a guess. Where is it hot and has a constantly failing power grid? The answer is always Texas.
I want solar too, but I can't afford it