As one of the only people running a Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 512 GB of RAM on the network, I can tell you at sustained 100% GPU utilization I am measuring 250 watts max (at the power outlet). My solar panels are easily producing this. The power calculation goes away once you connect a solar panel. You can get a 400 watt solar panel on Amazon for $300.
> You can get a 400 watt solar panel on Amazon for $300.
Too expensive. It's probably producing 200 watts average for 8 hours a day. That's 1600 watt hours, which is about $1.60 at PG&E prices. That would take 187 days to recoup the cost of just the panel.
If you include installation costs and "what PG&E steals if you wire it to the same grid" it's probably more like 4x that, which is too long.
Tell me when we can have 400 watt solar panels for $50. Stupid capitalism literally forces solar panel prices to make it unprofitable.
People should never have to take out loans for solar. Solar should be subsidized and forced by the government to be so cheap that it repays for its cost within a month. Then we're talking. Most things I buy to save money, I expect them to repay within a month. Maybe 2 months max.
I'm not "worried" about that cost, I would rather just pay PG&E electricity if the solar panel cost $300.
Just pointing out why capitalism + solar is a failure. Capitalism reprices the good thing to be equally expensive to the bad thing, so that nobody buys the good thing anymore.
