I’m looking at making use of a 2.5mx7m flat roof. Obviously the hive request more time investment but I’m willing to learn

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    Putting a hive in a city is a bad idea. Domestic bees, which are more resistant because they are fed by humans, eat the food of wild bees, and accelerate their disappearance.

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      I heard this phrase once: Trying to save the ecosystem with domesticated bees is like trying to save biodiversity by putting up another cattle ranch.

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    Install solar panels and plant local flowers (drought resistant in drought prone areas).

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    They help different things. Bees will help the local flowers and plants, solar panels will cut carbon emissions. But boosting plants doesn’t cut carbon emissions since the carbon isn’t sequestered, it’ll go back to the atmosphere once the plant decomposes.

    So if you like the look of flowers or want honey, go with bees. If you want to lower carbon emissions, go solar.

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        4 Solar Panels are plenty, I have 2 and on sunny days you get much more than you can consume. I would recommend just getting 2 aswell (I got 870Watt peak in total) because everything else would require either some form of battery or would involve giving the energy into the power grid. Also in Germany there is a 800W limit for easier registration aswell.

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          That depends highly on what you do. We have 8 and it’s not nearly enough.

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              Well i got 6 KWH in December and the highest of the year was 81.4 KWH in June. I’m just saying that getting closer to fully consuming what you produce is much more worth than going into the grid/batterys. We also don’t produce to get to 0 KWH by external sources but that isnt the goal.

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            Well we are a 2 person household basically, what do you do to consume the power of 8 panels on sunny days?

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    Has anyone put into the equation how much energy is consumed in the production of solar panels ??..😏

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      I’d be curious to know for funsies, but do you really expect it to be anything that would make one rethink solar?

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    Neither of them will have any significant impact we are all already fucked.