I was wondering if their might be some local groups that help people do this? Things like knowing rules around grid connection, payments for energy put back to the grid, etc.
13.08.2025 17:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@techbroligarch.bsky.social
American Ex-pat in Scotland, girl-dad, UK Denizen, medium-old guy. Renewable energy and retrofit expert. Moonlights as a pitch black nightmare deep sea creature.
I was wondering if their might be some local groups that help people do this? Things like knowing rules around grid connection, payments for energy put back to the grid, etc.
13.08.2025 17:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Nae worries mate! Happy to help!
13.08.2025 17:30 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0DM me and I'll give you a hand if you want.
13.08.2025 16:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0You hate to see anyone get deported that shouldn't be but this is an easy medal stand contender for the "Leopards ate my face" Olympics.
09.08.2025 09:22 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Sounds deeply annoying. For a little while, I might enjoy schooling these chumps, but then they don't take in new info anyway, do they? Sigh. Just get your solar and EV and then laugh at them when they tell you how much it costs to fill up their Ford F250 each week.
13.08.2025 11:20 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I don't get the conservative thing against solar. It's taking responsibility for your own needs and making money at the same time. It's totally a conservative value set.
13.08.2025 11:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Good luck and DM me when you get a quote(s). Happy to help look em over.
13.08.2025 11:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How did you find reliable solar? I live in the middle of the US and all the solar dealers and places seem to be extremely shady. I would gladly get it installed if I could.
13.08.2025 10:45 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Look for trade associations with reputable installers signed up and checked. Look on Google reviews and Trustpilot too.
13.08.2025 10:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I'm in Scotland & literally work for a charity that vetted installation companies for our service. Also, I used to run one so I was able to sort the wheat from the chaff. Do you have a good electrician you work with? Ask them. Also look for your nearest BNI chapter & see if there are any installers.
13.08.2025 10:50 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0and Rush Limbaugh.
13.08.2025 10:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm rettrofitting my house & life w/ green tech that was not available/unaffordable 5 years ago. I have solar and battery tech as well as electrified heating systems that mean I am actually getting paid since the install in March not the other was around. Next stop an EV! FU oil companies!
13.08.2025 10:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Once you've had my veggie chilli or my veggie lasagna, you'd understand. No one else can make those for me, so I'm motivated.
12.08.2025 21:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The entire history of the Catholic church and not a few protestant sects would disagree with that statement.
12.08.2025 19:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Stock buybacks are corporate theft. They are the result of surplus value not being given back to labor. They should be illegal. #Econsky
11.08.2025 19:53 β π 497 π 180 π¬ 22 π 9As we watch Keir Starmer and his team expand NHS privatisation, please remember that he was elected to become Labour leader saying specifically that he would remove NHS private outsourcing. He then quietly dropped this pledge in Summer 2022.
This isnβt OK π¨
Close, intelligent, in some cases near lifelong friends are starting to talk casually about the use of ChatGPT in their lives or in some cases are clearly getting paid/perks to promote its use and itβs like watching your social circle slowly, and with a big smile on their face, all join Scientology.
11.08.2025 16:46 β π 2389 π 525 π¬ 13 π 0We have a taxation problem, not a spending problem.
12.08.2025 05:34 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I knew Keir Starmer was going to be a bad Prime Minister, but 'so incompetent I accidentally banned wikipedia' was not even in the realm of possibilities I had considered.
Amazing that I can still be surprised after all this time.
And they want to try this in Chicago?
Taking a sub to the chest is nothing compared to catching a 60-pound deep dish pizza.
There's going to be a lot of feds with giant circles punched clean through their stomachs, standing there all confused like Wile E. Coyote.
Crime is downβ¦heβs testing the waters. Wants to see how we will react to the militarization in DC.
11.08.2025 14:07 β π 5531 π 1542 π¬ 387 π 95Looking forward to the federal takeover of Tusla, Oklahoma's police department.
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12 August 1941 | A French Jewish girl, Annie Nakache, was born in Constantine (Algeria). She lived in Toulouse. A daughter of a swimmer Alfred Nakache.
In January 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her parents. She was murdered in a gas chamber with her mother Paule.
American corporations are on pace to spend $1.1 trillion on stock buybacks in 2025, an all-time high.
Buybacks don't create more jobs, increase wages, or grow the economy β but they do help juice CEO pay that's often tied to stock performance.
Nothing trickles down to workers.
GOP: We will bury you!!!
DEMS: We look forward to finding ways we can work with our friends across the aisle to achieve the burying.
I just canβt believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.
11.08.2025 21:51 β π 12400 π 2507 π¬ 405 π 211Just utterly out of words to describe what weβre seeing.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
DC statehood is now an imperative. No more dicking around. Next Dem majority, get it done immediately.
11.08.2025 15:18 β π 28002 π 5266 π¬ 776 π 285That is obvious in this situation. Stop being deliberately obtuse. If you have something to say. Say it.
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