Is a Solar Battery Really Worth It? The Truth Over Its Lifetime 🔋

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• WH

  @WhatThatsSomethingNew99 · 1 year ago

  A properly sized solar and battery system is basically a cheat code for life/energy costs. We love ours

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• CH

  @chrisbridgland7212 · 1 year ago

  I have 2 batteries and they are an absolute game changer!  Guilt free air conditioning, tiny bills and knowing you no longer need to care about power prices plus full back up blackout protection. Would do it again in a heartbeat 🤩

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• CU

  @cuspingrover · 1 year ago

  demand charge. Sounds like just another way for the electricity companies to get at your wallet

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• HE

  @henrylawson430 · 1 year ago

  For energy independence I would like to be confident that it would work if unfortunately we were in a war scenario. In such a scenario there would be grid instability, cyber attacks etc. You would want a battery from a country that is not an adversary. And maybe  battery that doesn’t require internet connectivity to operate. I know people don’t want to talk about this as it is inconvenient but a large section of your market would be interested if there were suitable options.

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• AA

  @AakaashPraveen · 6 months ago

  By using VPP, do we see the battery of the life getting affected? By the way, thanks for the great unbiased reviews and knowledge sharing.

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• DI

  @DIYDumpRat · 7 months ago

  For me batteries will be worth it when they last the lifetime of your vehicle or house.  Not the there yet but almost.  Having to replace them after 10-15 years isn't appealing at all considering the cost. Looking forward to seeing more about these sodium batteries.

• JO

  @joschmoyo4532 · 1 year ago

  Ah yes, the old I invested in the stock market and retired at 35 BS. Try telling that to all the people who got raped by their fund managers. My mutual fund has done sweet fa in thirty years. <br>Batteries as an investment &nbsp;? <br>That&apos;s not why you would consider them. As a cost saving measure in an increasingly unstable economy ? 50 50. <br>When you lock up money to earn interest it&apos;s not working for you. When you save on living costs in real time it is. <br>With insurance and living costs going through the roof, bill reductions are the difference between surviving and loosing your home to mortgage default. <br>In short, your analysis is idiotic.

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• IM

  @im_not_an_elephant · 1 year ago

  If you have $40k, would you:<br>- spend it on solar + battery (Melbourne)<br>- or invest it on ASX: IVV (S&amp;P 500 ETF)<br><br>What&apos;s the ROI after 25 years?<br><br>ChatGPT 5: solar+bat=$103k, IVV=$383k<br><br>Qwen3: solar+bat=$141k, IVV=$177k<br><br>Gemini 2.5 Pro: solar+bat=$105k, IVV=$233k<br><br>Deepseek R1: solar+bat=$92k, IVV=$215k<br><br>Kimi: solar+bat=$48k, IVV=$304k<br><br>Grok4: solar+bat=$97k, IVV=$393k<br><br>Summary:<br>- if your goal is to maximize wealth, IVV wins<br>- if you value energy independence + saving the whales, go with solar+bat<br><br>Assumptions:<br>I let Ai make up their own assumptions

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