Biking (e-bikes are great if you can afford one and greatly increase range and decrease effort in many environments)
Installing solar (I’m currently renting but my state is debating a new law which seems likely to pass modeled on the Utah law - and others which started in Europe - which allows small solar systems to be plugged directly into a home outlet to supplement energy needs with minimal cost)
Beyond the direct plug-in kind of solar. There’s now solar generators. Basically a portable battery pack that accepts solar energy and has its own outlets, no change in laws needed.
Anker Solix is having a sale this weekend.
Absolutely. They do tend to be quite a bit more expensive per watt though. From my research you can get cheap panels and just plug them into a LiPo4 battery or even lead acid batteries as well. It’s just that batteries (even though they’ve gotten a lot cheaper) are still expensive enough to nearly double the cost of the system in many cases so the plug-in option with 400 watts of panels etc gives you the best bang for the buck for sure. But it’s not legal or possible in many US states (though that is changing fast)
I’m already practically speaking living free of fossil fuels -
- For transportation, I only really bike and take transit
- The heating in my apartment is district heating
- The electricity grid in Sweden is all but entirely free of fossil fuels
So there’s not really that much more to be done.
You can always be an advocate and teacher about how you live, speak loudly and always share what you know to be true. There are many people who are completely ignorant to how successful and progressive Sweden’s electricity is.
Where I live the grid is 100% renewables and we have an EV, problem solved IG
Ok, all personal efforts are good to take, but we will never emphasize enough that the energy transition is not and cannot work solely at individual or households level.
In our current world, we use oil to make fertilizer to grow food, we use extensive gas-powered machinery for everything in the fields and for cattles. Then we need gas-powered trucks to transport food to the supermarkets, themselves dependent on transportation of an army of low wages jobs: the ones who will struggle more with rising costs of transportations.
In winter, a lot of food is growed in greenhouses heated by burning gas.
Almost all of complex devices around us are heavily dependent on globlalization, so cheap transportation of goods thanks to oil.
Even after the war, damages on natural gas infra already made will have repercussions for years.
And even beyond that, we know that the conventional oil reserve worldwide is depleting, and non-conventional will get more and more expensive as the most accessible deposit will also deplete.
We urgently need ambitious public policies.
I agree, but that starts with the individual. If no one gives a shit, nothing changes. Give a shit, speak up, and others will feel more comfortable taking part alongside you.
Have an ecar and ebikes, solar panels on the roof to charge them.
I also Vote Green here in Australia to try and change things at the government policy level
We’ve been leasing an EV for a few years and have saved quite a bit. Even better currently. The only problem I have with it is unsolicited opinions from others about how shit EVs are, like I haven’t been driving petrol or diesel for 20 fucking years .
I like when others give their negative opinions about EVs, gives me something to laugh at.
It’s like the Simpsons clip, ‘brought to you by the oil companies of the US’, where they intentionally rip on EVs. The number of idiots who miss the satire is staggering.
I fucking wish.
I live in the suburbs where if you need to get to the city(which you do, often) your only option is a highway with no sidewalk or bike lanes. Public Transit is a fucking joke that is also unreasonably priced.
I looked to buy an ev, but where I live EVs are still expensive and the second hand market is small, so I just couldn’t find anything even near my price range.
At some point I decided that it is fucked up to have a 1000 kg piece of metal carrying a 70kg human ,as I drive alone 99% of the time. I decided to switch to a motorcycle for the environment and convenience. The motorcycle ev market is even less developed so literally nothing that I could find.
Honestly, the whole idea that we should all own cars is fucked up and unreasonable. Public transit + short range small vehicles(scooters, ebikes, etc) should be the default.
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Six years of driving an EV
Haven’t thought about the cost of moving from A to B in 5 years, it’s a rounding error pretty much.
I have an uh…single portable solar cell. So I guess my plan is to overheat my tablet for warmth during winter.
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Note to all, Harbor Freight sells solar panels. If they can make it profitable for them, I think telling yourself that it’s just too expensive isn’t exactly as valid anymore lol.
Though I know there’s more to it than that…
The panels are cheap. The interconnect isn’t too bad and the controller is another chunk, but it’s the install that keeps me from a cheap DIY. I really don’t want to mess up my roof.
Already bike to commute, to groceries and to school to drop the kids but we have a decent infra.
When buying I sometimes choose organic products to cut on fertilizers, buy local products, and vote for people that encourage “green” policies as all others don’t seems prone to look for alternatives.
I’ve been getting rid of gasoline power tools, I have electric versions of all lawn and garden tools. I may trade a vehicle or two for an EV in the next few years.
Working from home more is my plan if it keeps getting worse.
My electricity comes from hydro, wind, solar and nuclear. I do have a petrol engine car but luckily its a Peugeot so the engine is broken and I have no plans of fixing it. My city has excellent public transportation. I have a bicycle. Also my grocery shop is 2 minute walk away.
I’m pretty lucky.
I was thinking to switch my hot water heater to run on biofuel. I’ve got quite a few annoying neighbours.
Just make sure it knows how to find and harvest fuel on it’s own, it can be so pesky when you run out of hot water!
