• Sunschein@lemmy.world
    582·
    4 days ago

    Sorry, but I prefer this to winter days where I don’t see the sun at all because it’s only up while I’m at work.

      • chad@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        3 days ago

        Yea, here in New Orleans the sun is setting around 7:30. Elsewhere in the post people are talking about the sung going down at 9:00 in Germany. So I looked it up and apparently New Orleans is further south than Cairo.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    4 days ago

    X-Files in Alaska:

    Fox: “Why is the school closed on a weekday?”

    Mulder: “It’s 10PM Fox.”

  • Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 days ago

    As someone who’s house is entirely powered by solar, I love the long days! I also do a lot of outside work so the extra hours of daylight really help me there too

    During winter it was so overcast and cloudy that I had to run a generator almost the entirety of the season

      • Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        It can be pretty great, but you really do need to treat it differently than you would on the grid!

        For example: at night, making sure you don’t leave lights on, not running heavy loads like the microwave for very long, etc.

        The good news is that as the old expensive equipment gets phased out, it gets easier and cheaper to DIY your off grid (or emergency backup) system!

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      If it weren’t for having to run the heat pump, I’d have 10X what I need right now. But 3 or 4 hours of usable sunlight in the winter makes it hard to keep up.

      • Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        For real, I have wood stoves (and propane heaters a supplemental) for winter heat so luckily a little less load on my system! This past winter was so cold here I had to get a subzero sleeping bag and put a living heater (my dog) inside of it because even the wood stoves couldn’t keep up

        I have mini splits but because of the sun situation I couldn’t run them on heat without burning through my power/spending hundreds of dollars on gas for the generator!

        • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          I have woodstoves as well, but I’ll run the furnace fan to distribute the heat, so there’s a bit of use, and it’ll kick propane in if the fire burns down, or the heat pump if it’s above -15 outside and I have capacity. I tend to be around 10KW of usage but 23KW of panels struggles some days. After about 5 days of poor sun I’ll be out of reserve, and I fire up the genny for 5 hours to top them back up.

          I’ve considered building a woodgas source for the genny, that would take me pretty much completely off the teat. I’d love to get a groundsource heat pump but those are mucho dinero.

          I’ve also considered melting urea for a cooling source, since we farm and need N for the sprayer. It’s amazing how much heat the endothermic reaction takes, and using a sprayer for topdressing is much more precise than spreading dry fert.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    122·
    4 days ago

    I love it, for real. Short winter days suck, especially after going back to standard time. Having light in the evening is wonderful.

  • untorquer@lemmy.world
    101·
    4 days ago

    But more evening sun means better light for evening events. I don’t know of too many early morning events other than work/commute and fuck the boss’ extra 5% productivity from the average person, I’d rather drive in the dark.

  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
    133·
    4 days ago

    Yeah summer is terrible, with how you have to put on five layers to stay cool in the sunshine and then go shovel out all the sunshine in your driveway and/or scrape all the sunshine off your car before you drive ten mph all the way to work while fellow commuters slip & slide all over the sunshine covered roads…