Deltasierra is a name I use almost everywhere else. I’ve almost tried to log in here with that name.
Yup, high point in the week, it’s all downhill from here. May as well go home.
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Whereas I am post-Texan and totally OK with that. I lasted two years before I said screw that and scampered back to CA.
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Aaawww… shucks. 
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Pretoria, Gauteng (aka Guptastan), South Africa
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Maybe I’m the only South African on this forum…
Pretty sure that’s a “yup.”
We used to have a couple of Scandinavians… Swedish, if I remember right.
Australia, for me.
Land of heat, dust, rain, bushfires, 21 of the 25 deadliest snakes, giant spiders, sharks, box jellyfish, blue-ringed octopus, and politicians who think coal is the energy source of the future.
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Only because they are afraid of nukes. Any nation serious about global warming should be building next gen nuke plants like nobody’s business.
Solar, wind, and battery tech aren’t ready for prime time. Wind farms are hideous eyesores, and solar farms heat sinks. Old nuke plants are disasters that haven’t happened yet. Even though coal plants are more radioactive than nukes normally.
US: Delaware (though it might be US: Montana before too much longer)
The huge “propeller” wind farms can be an eyesore, but the upright “blender” ones are a lot smaller (and apparently a lot more efficient, too).
Ooops… getting off-topic here.
Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you!
Amen!
This here’s the wattle,
The emblem of our land,
You can stick it in a bottle,
You can hold it in your hand!
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When not lounging in the pleasure bunker deep below Mare Crisium on the lunar surface, or sorting out the nightmare politics of the tiny Euro nation of my native Rizakistan, I spend a lot of time in the mountains of Eastern Ontario, Canada in a tiny little hamlet called Ottawa.
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Yes, but those don’t get government subsidies like the giant ugly ones do because the subsidies mention equipment, and sometimes manufacturers by name. They aren’t even efficient enough to make money without the subsidy, the companies putting them up are making a killing on the installation, collecting the $ per watt, and then not doing maintenance and letting the farm die while preparing their golden parachutes as they are sold to another company who will just collect the subsidies until everything breaks down.
Most of the land leases don’t include anything on removal or or care of the windmill.
If they had given that money to research grants we’d have the better solution now, but why work on a better solution when you can game some cash right now?
The Nestle Plant by my town put in a little one or two acre solar farm right by the highway, where the green space used to be around their sign. I’m sure it might power the sign and maybe some of the lights in the parking lot. There appear to be two different sets of lights out there, I’d guess it powers the ones at the ends of the parking rows that are smaller and use those bluish halogen or LED lights.
Diverse lot all of us, all over the world 
Nice to meet all of you guys
Solar + LED lights = WIN
I’ve found that you get more from the battery if you use 12v LED’s (or LED’s the same voltage as the battery) so as to avoid any inverters, because that’s where most of your power loss is going.