An Idea!
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An Idea!
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25 off 250W Perlight solar panels, installed 2014, with a 6kW PowerOne inverter, about 6,000kWh/year generated
6 off Pylontech US3000C batteries, with a Sofar ME3000SP inverter
6 off Pylontech US3000C batteries, with a Sofar ME3000SP inverter
Re: An Idea!
The only reading I know is public transport-zero.
Not a thread for me, but good luck!
Not a thread for me, but good luck!
Re: An Idea!
I think it's a very interesting idea. We can of course use carbon footprint calculators such as this one:
https://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx
It makes you ask some difficult questions, though. For example we need to account for the embedded carbon and other impacts of green measures we install (e.g. Heat pumps) and I'm not sure these calculators account for that adequately.
I think we'll all find that even those of us who have gone farthest in adopting green tech, insulation and lifestyle changes -still- have carbon emissions that are unsustainable! But interesting to know the difference.
And for me, my historic emissions are something I feel I can't ignore (but would have to be out of scope for this game).
https://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx
It makes you ask some difficult questions, though. For example we need to account for the embedded carbon and other impacts of green measures we install (e.g. Heat pumps) and I'm not sure these calculators account for that adequately.
I think we'll all find that even those of us who have gone farthest in adopting green tech, insulation and lifestyle changes -still- have carbon emissions that are unsustainable! But interesting to know the difference.
And for me, my historic emissions are something I feel I can't ignore (but would have to be out of scope for this game).
Re: An Idea!
Interesting. I did elude to something similar on one of the other threads - just posting total consumption/generation on the end of month solar data page is almost meaningless as there is no relation to other factors such as is the heating/cooking etc. electric or gas, how many live in the house etc.GarethC wrote: ↑Sun Dec 11, 2022 9:15 am I think it's a very interesting idea. We can of course use carbon footprint calculators such as this one:
https://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx
It makes you ask some difficult questions, though. For example we need to account for the embedded carbon and other impacts of green measures we install (e.g. Heat pumps) and I'm not sure these calculators account for that adequately.
I think we'll all find that even those of us who have gone farthest in adopting green tech, insulation and lifestyle changes -still- have carbon emissions that are unsustainable! But interesting to know the difference.
And for me, my historic emissions are something I feel I can't ignore (but would have to be out of scope for this game).
The first "house" section of the footprint calculator does go someway to addressing that and give an absolute CO2 figure per person for that household BUT would still give a "distorted" picture as it gives no ranking for type of property (e.g. modern flat in the south - should be quite low or old detached property on a Scottish island - almost inevitably higher). Having said that if there was a big enough dataset they could be grouped into areas/regions and property type. Trouble is it all gets complicated and will put people off participating.
What might be a fairer "metric" is % reduction of CO2e over say the last 10 years - has to be that long or even longer as many on here and elsewhere have be on the "path" for a long time