New blog! I wanted to understand the optimal quantities of solar overbuild and battery backup for loads of arbitrary capex ($/kW) and utilization. Summary plots below. Unsurprisingly, there are two stable attractors: cheap loads, intermittent operation, no batteries, and expensive loads,... See more

Green, sustainable infrastructure as a form of resistance. Technical systems decoupled from the ‘authoritarian technics’ that Mumford warns us about. The embracing of the natural and the technical. This idea is where the solarpunk vision really comes into its own.

Thanks to a low-tech web design, we managed to decrease the average page size of the blog by a factor of five compared to the old design – all while making the website visually more attractive (and mobile-friendly). Secondly, our new website runs 100% on solar power, not just in words, but in reality: it has its own energy storage and will go... See more