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holy shit you can get batteries now (100kwh total) which are sodium ion and will last the next 30 years -- this is enough to power your whole house -- for less than $6000

there's almost no excuse to not install your own battery system now and get solar

@feld uh, you do realise a lot of people can't just spend $6,000 on a whim, right?

@lw that's what banks are for. Do you have a house? They'll give you the loan. Home equity loans are so easy to get. And your payments will be lower than your electric bill was.

@feld ??? no of course i don't own a house. no one owns a house. literally only incredibly rich people are able to own houses nowadays.

@lw a mortgage counts as "owning", and not only "rich" people own a house

we have these signs up everywhere in the USA

@feld i'm well aware of what a mortgage is. no one has a mortgage nowadays. literally, most people under 50 years of age cannot own a house, we do not have the money, we cannot afford it.

@feld maybe you missed this, i don't know. where i live, in the UK, there is a "crisis" of people only being able to rent homes, not own them, because we literally cannot afford to take out a mortgage to "buy" a home. so saying that "anyone who owns a house" can do X is frankly laughable.

@lw housing market is really bad in the USA in all the major metro markets. You can find good cheap houses in rural America though, but you have to accept the reality that now you're stuck in rural America with nothing to do and no culture for hundreds of miles lol

as soon as it collapses I'll be buying. I sold my cheap shitty condo in 2022 and have been moving around the country / renting ever since.

@feld i don't understand your point. you just said anyone can buy a house, then you said the housing market is really bad and you can't buy a house right now?