I like your thoughts on runtime and recharge time.

That four hour limit really outs things into perspective for someone just starting out. Most people don’t understand the constraints at first.

I believe mailbox.org is all renewable, and I’m pretty sure it’s solar.

But you need a massive battery bank to run stuff, batteries have a limited lifespan (especially the crap used in a UPS).

It’s not cheap, you generally want to overbuild everything, and there are ongoing costs (hardware failures, batteries, etc).

But it can be done. Just have to do the math for your max power draw, then how much uptime you need determines the size of your battery bank and number of panels (which is influenced by how much sun you get/how consistent it is). You need enough panels to run your system and charge batteries, given the limitations of sun availability.

Which “white people” are you talking about?

Irish? Scottish? Italians? How about Sicilian? Are Roma white to you? Greek?

See, that’s the problem with pre-judging someone just on immutable characteristics that you believe mean a certain thing.

Throughout time groups of people have been biased against other groups, for all sorts of reasons, largely just “out group”.

Assuming that only goes one way, and assuming based on skin color alone (again, exactly which color, is there a Pantone code for “white people”?) that everyone in that assumed group have the same experience is just nonsense. Or bias, prejudice, bigotry. Pick whichever you like.

I disagree.

If you’re an asshole, people don’t want to work with you, and will actively avoid you.

I’m the IT guru in my family and extended circle. Of the probably 100+ people I advise, none will ever use Graphene now.

They alienate people with their hubris and condescension. Rather than help people understand their perspective, they act like it’s “the only answer”.

That’s never a solution. Discussing pros and cons of different approaches moves us forward, not the Graphene “us VS them” mentality.