5 August

I like sharing this stuff, not because I’m some middle-aged hobbyist but because it shows the brilliant things that are available for us to use today, if we can escape lives enslaved to social conformity. High school culture. These are some of the settings on the home battery. Rather than try to figure out how much energy to store in the battery, whether to get it from the sun or from the grid, to maximise savings, the battery does all of that for me. I give it the details of my energy plan. It then studies how the home uses energy from day-to-day, and combines that with things like weather forecasts to work out the optimum pattern for charging and discharging, every day, using both solar and the grid.