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The Power of Love

Jackery

My expectations for solar power were set by the dim liquid crystal watches and calculators of the 1970s, which wouldn’t work at all unless they were in direct sunlight.

For decades, advocates have talked about solar panels getting cheaper and more efficient, but I always dismissed it as marketing-speak, until a recent purchase changed my mind.

Some background… Life in Austin has come with an occasional brief loss of electrical power during stormy weather. And since our house is at the very end of a small electrical line that runs up a wooded creek, downed limbs and squirrels chewing through cables have produced a daylong outage once every year or two. And although it was before we arrived, the locals still remember the trauma of Snowmageddon, when the regional power grid was down for sev »more

2026-02-24

Jackery
Austin currently:

Clear 12°C wind N 0 km/h
Air Quality Good (48)



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The Power of Love (971 words)
My expectations for solar power were set by the dim liquid crystal watches and calculators of the 1970s, which wouldn’t work at all unless they were in direct…
Posted Tue Feb 24th 2026

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But Why?!? (1603 words)
In my previous post celebrating 100,000 miles on the bike, I promised an upcoming post about the motivations that underlie my passion for cycling. Here it is, w…
Posted Tue Jan 20th 2026