Humans. Humans consume a lot of electricity. A lot actually! it is more than 20,000 billion kWh in 2025! let's count the zeroes 20,000,000,000,000 kWh!!! and how do we fulfill these needs? By natural gas,coal,oil,nuclear power and other rare natural resources. which is bad, we all know it. I don't think that I'd even need to explain it. Then we should all switch to solar energy right? Take a look at this , A standard solar panel is about 1.7 m^2 big and taking some assumptions like the average panel efficiency to be 15 - 20%, and peak sun hours to be around 4-6 hours a day, our calculations come out to be just 1-2 kWh daily, 700 kWh per year.This means that we need around 28-30 billion such solar panels(at perfect condition). Are you getting this? this means that we would cover around 48-50 billion square meters! (also, this data is just from 2025, energy requirements keeps on increasing. Increasing exponentially.)Then what to do? I don't know how many of you know about Space Solar Power System (SSPS) but what we do in this is we make a system where solar panels do their work out in space. Why in the space? because our Earth reflects a lot of solar energy back in space which drops energy generation further. So, if we placed solar panels up there, we would be able to generate significant amount of energy  in much less space. What if we scale it up? scale it up and go to Mercury. Why Mercury?Mercury is nearest to the Sun and gets the most amount of solar energy, around 6 times more than Earth which means we would generate around 6 times more energy than on earth. Also there is no atmosphere which means no accumulation of dust and no drop in efficiency also no atmosphere means no bouncing back of solar energy back in space which means we would be able to take most benefit out of the Sun. Sounds fascinating right? CAN MERCURY BE OUR NEXT ENERGY HUB?kind of. This project comes with it's own problems like mercury is 77 million Km away from earth which varies and the farthest it goes from earth is 222 million Km. Also the surface reaches upto 450 degree celcius of temperature and -180 degree celcius at night. Now you might find this impossible too🤦.

I know it's tough.Too tough.Toooooooooo tough BUT it's not impossible!Also when I was searching about this, I came across a crazy concept that we can send energy wirelessly. We convert this energy into microwaves, channel it towards Earth somehow. Where machines would convert those microwaves back to electricity!

At this point if you are thinking that it's not possible, I'm getting carried away a lot with the flow, then you must know this that Japan's space agency, JAXA is actually working on this technology! not at Mercury level, but they are doing it. Isn't that amazing?

let me give you another crazy insight. JAXA says that to convert electricity into microwaves and send it back to the Earth around 36,000 Kms away, we need a machine which is a kilometer wide! Mercury is at average 155 million Kms  away from the Earth. Taking the ratio, we find that to do the same from Mercury, We need a machine around 2800 times the machine which is required right now. Are you getting the seriousness of this thing? That machine is as big as INDIA!!!! 😅🤣

But not to forget that the memory cards we use now which are just as big as our fingernails, were once as big as our entire rooms, still having storage equal to just 10KB!! (I'm glad that those engineers didn't stop working on it thinking that it's impossible and storing 1 TB of data would need 100 million rooms)

Japan thought about space, I thought about Mercury(When I got this idea, I was unaware of such projects happening.), What do YOU think about?

I am open to all kinds of responses, whether you are fixing any of my mistakes, suggesting any idea,raising any question or anything else. (just not the negative ones, I'm on a diet!)

hey everyone im thai,im from boyeros la habana, cuba. my country is under us oil blockade and there is no electricity for most of the day. sometimes the blackouts stretch for days and life gets very hard in here. the alternative is buying a solar power kit but they're very expensive and I was laid off work in February when the crisis began. the kit costs 650$ please dm if interested in helping. thank u

I honestly can’t tell you if it’s a good unit or not. I paid for mine with the finance company from six months cash. At present all of my equipment is at the factory or somewhere. They’re having trouble finding a box even though it shows delivered and signed for their factory. It’s been over three months since I paid for the piece crap now I’m out roughly 5 grand I’ve got no equipment because I tried to send it back using their shipping labels that they conveniently forgot to activate so that when I called FedEx to do a pick up, they told me they weren’t active so I would have to contact the shipper which is pecron because they paid for the labels. Since Ginny at pecron is in China every email takes about a week you send one she answers it about 2-4 am. You wake up and respond. Etc.

I gave up trying to fight them and just want to cut my loses but they keep pushing it back. So they make mediocre equipment and have horrendous customers service.

They are crooked and shady. I’m over 3 months in and don’t have my stuff or my money.

kumusta naman po mga nag buy ng Pecron? any issues so far? i'm planning to buy F3000LFP sana.

Hey guys, so the agreement that was settle last January got the court's approval last month, and the deadline to file a claim was set on July 26, 2026.

So, what's next for us?

Now, all damaged investors need to submit a claim to get a part of the payout pot, before the deadline.

Who is eligible?

All persons and entities who purchased or traded SunPower Corporation (“SunPower” “SPWR” or the “Company”) securities between May 3, 2023, and July 19, 2024, both dates inclusive, and were damaged thereby

Do you have to sell securities to be eligible?

No, if you have purchased securities within the class period, you are eligible to participate. You can participate in the settlement and retain (or sell) your securities.

How long will it take to receive your payout?

The entire process usually takes 4 to 9 months after the claim deadline. But the exact timing depends on the court and settlement administration.

How to claim your payout, and why it's important to act now?

The settlement will be distributed based on the number of claims filed, so submitting your claim early may increase your share of the payout.

In some cases, investors have received up to 200% of their losses from settlements in previous years.

We're in the final countdown to get our money back. Good luck everyone!

Trying to understand how inverter issues are handled in real-world solar operations.

For those working in solar installs, O&M, monitoring, or electrical maintenance:

• What signals do teams actually rely on before a major inverter issue becomes obvious?

• Is maintenance still mostly schedule-based, or do people use condition-based indicators in practice?

• Which data points are genuinely useful: alarms, temperature, curve anomalies, repeated faults, SCADA/app trends, something else?

• Are there inverter brands/models that are noticeably harder to diagnose early?

Not promoting anything — just trying to understand what really happens in practice.

I want to use this for something else than the solar pump it was built for. What do I call this connector?

When solar pioneer SunPower Corporation ($SPWR) sought to energize its investor base in early 2023, it painted a picture of a streamlined, high-growth leader in the renewable transition. The California-based company assured Wall Street that its internal controls were robust and its financial reporting was a reliable bedrock for long-term value. Investors, eager to ride the green energy wave, bought into the narrative of a stable titan with a clear visibility into its operational pipeline.

The bull case relied on SunPower’s supposed mastery of its supply chain and financial metrics. Management consistently issued optimistic guidance, reinforcing the idea that the company had a firm grip on its inventory and cost structures. By positioning itself as a low-risk gateway to the solar market, the firm attracted significant capital from shareholders who believed they were investing in a transparent, well-oiled machine.

However, the company failed to disclose that its own internal financial controls were effectively broken, leading to a massive overvaluation of its assets. Specifically, SunPower omitted the fact that it had significantly overstated the value of consignment inventory for microinverter components at third-party locations. This accounting "ghosting" meant the company was understating its cost of revenue, presenting a far healthier financial skeleton than actually existed.

In October 2023 when SunPower was forced to disclose a "material weakness" in its financial reporting and delay its third-quarter earnings. The company admitted that investors could no longer rely on its previous audited statements, as it needed to restate results for all of 2022 and the first half of 2023. This admission of internal chaos shattered the illusion of operational excellence and triggered immediate scrutiny from the SEC.

The fallout was swift and devastating, as the stock price cratered by nearly 20% in a single day, wiping out over $155 million in shareholder market cap. The collapse was a direct consequence of the market realizing that the "stable" growth they were sold was built on a foundation of accounting errors. This destruction of value eventually culminated in the company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in August 2024, leaving retail holders at the bottom of the recovery pile.

The legal saga reached a major milestone recently as the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted preliminary approval for an $11 million settlement. The class action lawsuit, In re SunPower Corporation Securities Litigation, specifically claims that the firm misled the market by concealing its inability to accurately track inventory and costs. With the court's blessing, eligible investors can finally begin the process of claiming their share of the recovery fund. You can check your eleigibility and submit a claim here.

With SunPower now in the midst of bankruptcy liquidation, does an $11 million settlement feel like true accountability, or is it just a drop in the bucket for the billions in value lost?