• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    18 days ago

    A technology — known as plug-in, balcony or garden solar — is already enormously popular in Germany, in part because you can buy a kit for less than $600 at IKEA. It’s a small solar panel system, often producing up to 1,200 watts of electricity, or a little more than a refrigerator consumes, that you can affix to a wall, hang on a railing or prop up in a garden — and then plug directly into a wall socket. With the help of a small device called a micro inverter, it pumps electricity into your household circuits to offset your power demand.

    Really cool. Can’t wait for my country to take 15 years to decide that we’Re SpeCIaL and ban them.

    Edit already banned.

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      18 days ago

      would you like Australia to come over and help out? 😁 I’m sure it’ll be a quick and painless takeover, won’t feel a thing

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          17 days ago

          I mean you’ve already got her apparently:

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_First#Ideology_and_policies

          Social and economic policies

          New Zealand First has been closely associated with its policies regarding the welfare of senior citizens[163] and its anti-immigration stance.[184][187] The party has frequently criticised immigration on economic, social and cultural grounds. It proposes an annual immigration cap of between 7,000 and 15,000 “seriously qualified” migrants, who would be expected to assimilate into New Zealand culture.[188]

          Peters has on several occasions characterised the rate of Asian immigration into New Zealand as too high; in 2004, he stated: “We are being dragged into the status of an Asian colony and it is time that New Zealanders were placed first in their own country”.[189]

          That was exactly her party platform at the same time as well

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            17 days ago

            Yeah, I was thinking of NZF as I was writing that.

            This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!

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              17 days ago

              😅

              I think too much social media, things are pretty good for us at the moment, would hate to have a cooker in power

              Looks like it may happen in the UK as well