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@billiglarper @disorderlyf @quixoticgeek @edavies maybe, and probably and thanks for the link, but i dont want to read german regulations (very detailed and complicated lingo) until i have an overview, specially of hardware, tech stuff and installation possibilities.

@edavies @disorderlyf @quixoticgeek i actually never checked the real insolation in berlin for a fact. Never bothered becausevshort days in the winter and shitty cloudy weather in the summer. Will do now.

Edit: leave it here (global) for whoever needs.

Edit 2: expected much worse.

Global Solar Atlas

The Global Solar Atlas provides a summary of solar power potential and solar resources globally. It is provided by the World Bank Group as a free service to governments, developers and the general public, and allows users to quickly obtain data and carry out a simple electricity output calculation for any location covered by the solar resource database.

(globalsolaratlas.info)

@edavies @disorderlyf @quixoticgeek i used to do solar (cells research), literally 30 years ago, and things changed. For the better. The yields nowadays are.. unexpected better than predicted back then, and oil companies buying solar companies did not kill solar.

While i did research on solar, i know very little on the hardware around it and prices and brands.

I see the kw price tumbling down and many exciting posts like this one, probably still below the cut line for me: i live in a rented flat in germany (sun, what is that?) so without possibility to feed the network, only feeding computers, fridge, radios, or batteries. If anybody wants to point me to a "get started" thing to read on conventional panel instalation, costs and what to buy (inverter? batteries?)

There used to be also these polymer solar cells with low yield that were light, translucid and good looking and one could use as curtains. Are they still around?

@quixoticgeek @disorderlyf ...and probably they are counting on different weathers, latitudes and angles, as in not promising close to the optimum case.