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Was waiting for this kind of prompt. A friend who has a lot of solar panels around his house and is looking for ways to spend that energy. ATProto.Solar could become a hub of such ideas.

Made an open collection for "Renewables". Let's coordinate 🍃

I made atproto.energy and reached out to a local renewable-energy developer here in Saxony to talk about it. Thanks for the nudge, @richferro.com — turns out the energy sector already runs on more open protocols than I expected (VDE-AR-N, IEC 61850, Redispatch 2.0...). atproto.energy/en/

this has been a dream of mine for a long time i hope it can happen

Have you looked into brown rice internet? I was looking over them recently they seem interesting/promising

oh wow i haven’t this looks cool. on pds end i was thinking something DIY would be really cool. but something like this could potentially be good for pckt or something

I've thought about it, but I'm in the UK. It would be a lot easier somewhere that isn't 51 degrees north with several months of overcast days per year.

If it runs on an energy-efficient setup and you get big enough panels, then I'm sure it'd be possible! Would also need batteries but they could help cope with the worse weather too.

Also depends how 'pure' it is - does it count if the setup is net carbon neutral (and pulls from the grid when needed) or does it have to be self-contained?

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Raspberry pi to a smaller anker solix might work well 👀. I have the power blink or turn off here a decent bit and have a few atproto projects and a dev pds that runs off of solar when that happens. Battery is always charged from solar. Runs the pis, and routers for a couple or hours..

If someone really is serious I can get a more accurate time and the model battery later this week. My biggest hangup has always been not wanting to commit and drill a hole through my outside wall for the cable 😅

The thing is that data centers have been wrestling with this problem for years, and they had solutions solar panels on the roof, wind pumping in water from the Central city, and then the heated water that comes out being used to heat streets and preheat water heaters because you don’t need to use

drinkable water, and in fact, the waste water could be used for civic services and had been there were even data centers that were built under the ocean because the amount of heat produced would not displace enough seawater to change temperatures The problem is

AI Bros don’t care about doing things right they care about doing things fast so they can get as much money off of the bubble before it burst. It’s the same thing with AI self AI itself isn’t a problem. It’s a tool. The mega companies are the problem.

feel like science climate community is doing this (talking about climate lol). noticed a lot of them when working on science feeds!