Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Is SpaceX REALLY Bringing Down Launch Costs? (And Other Questions) | Lightning Round" video.

  1. Agreed on the crisis making people think about grid independence and whatnot! Well, to be fair, not only crisis, but also technology advances... which are powered by crisis, so still. xD Power outages, brownouts and blackouts, general instability used to be just the reality of things... something you dealt with, but couldn't actually solve it in a more permanent manner. The past few years though, I've been increasingly interested in those huge camp style powerbanks. Been watching reviews and whatnot with more frequency. I think the only reason I didn't get one myself, or just tried going the DIY route is because both those and the battery cells needed for DIY projects are still either prohibitively expensive here in my country, or just not available at all. Still, I sometimes even consider importing them just because it seems to be so readily available in some websites... but then I remember importation restrictions, taxes and the shipping costs. :P It'd be great to somehow integrate one of them into the mains and have a partial full house backup power of sorts. Also thinking of getting a few solar panels to set up in a balcony or something (I live in an apartment, no roof solar panels for me). :P The apartment building my mom is living in (moved this year) is already putting forward a project of solar panels... but this is mostly for lighting on the common access areas and parking. Important thing is, with international crisis in consideration, cost of grid power going up, and potential for climate extremes that will endanger the stability of the grid all the time - plus lowering of prices of solar panels, batteries and other stuff involved in grid independency projects... I think we're very very close to the point when building homes and places with this in mind will become kind of an inevitability. People on the market for new homes will have putting a backup battery system and alternative sources of power in mind from the outset, it becomes a point of purchase, and so the market starts changing towards that.
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