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Its really disturbing how whiney Europeans (I assume you are) are with their superiority complexes.

I don't even know why I'm replying to you, but here we go

So I should ditch all this and rely on cloud services I guess. Cloud services are hosted in magic land where they don't use any power, right? If you use any cloud services, you are just as bad as me.

I have 17kw of solar on the roof. As we type this, I'm exporting 10kw of power back to the grid. I generate enough solar to completely cover all of my electricity usage, and during the night when I'm pulling from the grid, my power plan is sourced 100% from wind or solar.

All of this is my hobby, but also helps me learn skills for my job. That job is 100% work from home, which means I don't drive pretty much at all. I'm sorry my F150 offends you, which has less than 10,000 miles on the clock despite being 5 years old. That same F150 also gets better miles per gallon than a lot of regular cars on the road. My wifes Ford Escape (A compact "SUV" if you can call it that" gets worse milage than my truck. But I'm sure if you saw a Ford Escape, you'd be fine with it right?

Where in the post did I say how much power all this uses? You said "power... so much power" yet you don't even know how much power it uses...

I won't even go into detail how I've removed over 1000sqft of concrete on my property, how I've planted an 800sqft native wildflower meadow, have a bat house, use rainwater for plants, etc etc. But no I'm just such a terrible American. Grow up.

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archon810|2 years ago

I'm 100% with you. Would love to see photos of those meadow and bat house, they sound lovely.

monstermunch|2 years ago

Here are some images of the meadow: https://files.networkprofile.org/s/86FzBHYfNwHyXTY

Its not quite as green as that right now, since we have a pretty bad drought here in Houston, but it will come back.

I had to make the small fence as it just kept trying to spread out. The fence is made from scrap 2x4's ripped down the middle to make 2x2's, and the rails are old scrap cedar pickets pressure washed and ripped down

This is the seed mix: https://www.dkseeds.com/shop/flkbee-website-king-s-feed-the-...

I'll have to take some pictures of the bat house, maybe I should just make a post on all this, maybe that will please them