• ReverseThePolarity@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    There are also situations where there is no good option but you still need it. I live in Victoria. Most of our power comes from brown coal.
    I have solar panels but that only covers part of it. I can’t afford the $5-10k for batteries so I have no choice but to keep using grid power. Even if I did spend that, there is no guarantee that it will be better.

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      1 year ago

      You are why individual action matters. Replacing your power source will take years. I can eat 5 less cheeseburgers a year right now and start slowing demand for beef production almost immediately. If the whole world does this, we start slowing things down a bit and buy time for things like your grid situation to be fixed.