• BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    Houses in Europe are connected to the grid too.

    These systems are approved in Europe by utilities because they have failsafes implemented to prevent back feeding electricity in the grid.

    The fact that these systems are still illegal in the US is a political issue, not a technical one.

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      3 months ago

      [European utilities] have failsafes implemented to prevent back feeding electricity in the grid

      Yeah but imagine if you could save money by not doing that? What are the odds that there’s going to be cheap(er) personal mass power generation in the next few decades.

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      3 months ago

      These systems are approved in Europe by utilities because they have failsafes implemented to prevent back feeding electricity in the grid.

      Sounds like Big Government Regulation of my God Damned Rights to do something on my house as I see fit! Europe’s full o’ damn communists and their stupid sun grabbin’ electro-gibbits. That’s why they’ll never be the Greatest Bestest Country on da face a dis here Earf.

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      3 months ago

      While it seems like they’d have to, the article makes no mention of such a fail safe. What does it do and how could it work?

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      3 months ago

      From what it sounds like, the safety is in the device not the grid. In case you haven’t noticed, there is a far lesser sense of personal responsibility to those around you in the US than Europe and I don’t know that I’d trust that nobody over here would fudge some bypass to power their house in an outage