Solar panels wrongly installed flat

The solar company installed the solar panels flat on my flat roof. And now rain water is pooling on it for days.

The sales person at the company said there would be a slight tilt and water would flow away. But to my surprise, the panels are flatly installed. There was no prior inspection before the quotation nor installation. The salesperson didnt do his due diligence to check whether a tilting mechanism should have been offered in the contract. He just wanted to close the sales asap.

Now im chasing them to have them fix it, but they dont want to do it because they dont want to pay for the contracting labour cost.

Im yet to pay for the invoice and my system is still inactive.

What should i do?

I'm in a rental so can't put up shutters for shade and having a huge sun facing window in the Australian summer is rough.

This is my second attempt at growing passionfruit vines to create some shade (catepillars ate the first lot) so I put up some netting to hopefully let them get big enough to survive on their own. Also added some ground up rabbit droppings into the soil for compost/nutrients.

Any other tips to help them grow faster would be very appreciated.

How would disaster control work in a Solarpunk society? Espacially if the energy grid colapsed and there would not be a constant supply of energy to charge the equipment which would be needed to help the locals? If there is already a post about it on here? Thanks in advance!

If you were given all the resources to make your own ideal city. How would it look like?

Hey guys, I'm based in the UK and I would love to start doing stuff to greenify my city. I'm working on some stuff currently that may mean I'll have more money in the future to throw at this but for now my budget is around £1000

I know I could get a big group of people together locally to help me if I decided to do stuff but I'd love to figure out what sort of stuff could be done, I hate seeing shitty grey walls everywhere.

My current ideas:

• Putting together packs of seeds (that are non-invasive and work with the local biodiversity) and giving them out at my gigs/local events
• Running a plant market where people can bring and share free plants, trimmings, advice etc
• Putting hardy potted plants randomly all over the place
• Finding some funding to put up moss walls on places

I am ignorant when it comes to these things but am eager to refine these plans and ideas and be as smart about it as I can. Any help, tips, or ideas are welcome!

Cheers

Hi, I'm giving a talk titled "Demand Utopia an introduction to Social Ecology". Since we believe in the unity of environment and technology, solar punk aesthetic fit very well. Now I'm looking for a picture. I'd be willing to donate a few bucks too.

Edit: A friend will draw a little something for me. Thanks for the things you shared.

hi y'all! Its 4am and im working on a proyect I have in mind.

I live in a small town where people has lost culture among other human things. I want to recover it in my village inducing a self management community oriented on recovering green spaces, maybe puting up a Greenhouse and various other ideas such as summer schools, where people can develop a sens of unity and self-sufficiency.

I post this here so I can get more ideas related on the technological side of my proyect. I was thinking on some kind of workshop where the elders can learn good user level on portable devices, the basics of social media or put up an Intranet server to work on a community forum, or to teach the young people to program their own aeolic system with an old fan and arduino...

I know it sounds ambitious, thats why I wanted to share it so you can help me to land my feet.

I read you!

Now, I am NOT saying I'm going to do this, I'm just being a little goofy.

Haha, but for real though how bad of an idea would that be? I know grafting is moderately complicated, but I dislike seeing all these ALREADY non-native saplings being put in around our cities just for their aesthetic, and shading alone.

But, if these could bear actual food for the community how sick would that be? Would issues with rotting fruit/or nutrient depletion really be a concern? Or do cities in fact not plant more edible fruit trees in public because I don't know, something about economics?

Making the world a better place. One robot at a time.

Is a permaculture farm considered solarpunk?

We all know that ‘capitalism’ has radically changed from the days of yore when you could buy and sell apples in the town square with ease. But what would you look for to know when modern capitalism has ended? Will certain practices cease? Will new ones, like Solarpunk ‘Library’s of Things’ become commonplace?

Leave your thoughts below

I saw this shared by Heather Cox Richardson. She typed out some of the most interesting sections relevant to now. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/z7oXxsnAjY7TrQp9/

I'm surprised it's so clear about the risks of it happening in the USA too, including criticising the billionaires then who'd been promoting fascists until the outbreak of war, and in quite down to earth practical language which makes it useful to explain to people who'd instantly reject 'palingenetic ultranationalism' (Griffin's definition) or Umberto Eco's 14 characteristics as too long to read. (Anti-intellectualism is one of the characteristics, but otoh you've got to meet people where they're at now.)

Notes:

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=armytalks

War Department, “Army Talk 64: FASCISM!” March 24, 1945, at https://archive.org/details/ArmyTalkOrientationFactSheet64-Fascism/mode/2up

Hi fellow solarpunkers,

I'm writing a fiction novel based on a solarpunk future. The concept is war against a colonising force.

I was looking for ideas on what kinds of weapons may be used in this world.

At the start of the novel the solarpunk nation only uses defensive weapons but towards the end, when the enemy invade again, the solarpunk nation has produced offensive weapons.

Some of my current ideas include EMPs and slime cannons.

What kind of defensive and offensive weapons would such a world have?

Hey, I am writing an assignment on Solarpunk. The research question looking at the potential and challenges solarpunk discourse has.

Thus I was wondering if anyone knows who wrote the solarpunk manifesto published on ReDes?

I was also wondering if people have any thoughts about the solarpunk discourse, how it has developed or characteristics:)

Thank you in advance :))

- a solarpunk student