I'll be the first to admit, I am pretty jealous lately seeing some of the posts that the folks have been making the #solar tag here on HIVE. Users like @steevc, @cryptoandcoffee, @solominer, and @ksteem all have a range of setups that I have been drooling over for quite a while now. Living in Michigan, we don't really get enough sustained sunshine to justify installing it in our current house, but I could see adding the capability to our next home. With the advances in battery technology and things like that, power storage is still a viable option.
A handful of years ago, our power company installed a "smart meter" on our house. I'm sure it has a variety of uses, some of them good, some of them bad, but it allows them to give us personalized reports like this one:
The fact that our house was purchased in the early 80's and is still able to hover just about 8% above energy efficient homes is pretty impressive. Granted, it's just @mrsbozz and I. I am sure if we had kids those numbers would be greatly increased. Plus the heat dome that has been plaguing the midwest lately has likely driven our numbers up, but that is probably true across the board.
As I said though, I still like the idea of having my own array that can store energy for those times when the power goes out. After dealing with a basement flood back in late 2019 I'm always a bit paranoid about whether or not my sump pump can run or not.
We live in an area that is surrounded by farmland and there has been a lot of commotion in the community lately about Detroit Edison Energy (DTE) buying up some of that land for industrial wind and solar farms. Needless to say, there is a pretty large majority that are opposed to these solutions. Personally, I don't know all the pros and cons on either side, but I really don't want to look out the window and see a big solar farm.
In case you missed that, solar panels in my own yard or on my house are fine, a big solar farm across the street... not okay. Seems a bit hypocritical doesn't it? I think the big rub for me is that if it's mine, I get to see the benefits first hand. If it's someone else's, they get all the positives and I get all the negatives.
Plus, I still feel like nuclear power has a lot of unexplored territory yet and we are at the cusp of a big boom in clean, safe, low profile nuclear energy. That doesn't mean I don't still want some solar panels of my own!
SMR
Speaking of nuclear power, my SMR stock is still hovering close to $50 per share as of Thursday. As I have said before, there is a ton of competition in the nuclear space right now, but I think Nuscale still has a lot of room to run. At the very least it still has a lot of room to take a leisurely stroll through the park. As you might expect, given safety concerns and regulatory pieces, things don't necessarily move quickly when it comes to nuclear power.
I think once that is all out of the way we could still see a huge boom in the sector. Even bigger than what we have already seen. Quantum computers and AI aren't going away any time soon...
CHEX
My favorite RWA (Real World Asset) token CHEX (Chintai Network) has been taking a lot of heat lately. Apparently, there is a concerted effort from a small group of people associated with a competing token that have instigated a FUD campaign against CHEX.
Sadly, it seems to be working to great effect. The price of CHEX once sat close to $1 per token and this past week we finally saw it slip back under $.10 per token. It's honestly a bit mind blowing. There are obviously a large number of tokens in the RWA space and thinking that only one of them is going to be viable is kind of silly. In addition to that, once everything kicks into gear, CHEX already has many of the regulatory approvals necessary to hit the ground running.
Many people liken it to the Shopify website that allows a business to create an online presence and storefront in a matter of minutes. Imagine being able to leverage their platform to tokenize a real world asset in a matter of minutes. CHEX can do that. While these other projects will be scrambling to get the infrastructure set up and approvals gained, CHEX will be onboarding their 100th partner.
It's just crazy how much weight FUD still seems to hold after almost a decade of crypto cycles.
Colloidal Silver
I read a really great post the other day by @steemflow which you can see here. It was talking about a concoction they use in India for vaccinations and inoculation. This isn't about whether you think vaccinations are bunk or not, so don't expect much response from me if you choose that angle in your comment on this post. I do find the fact that they use gold in the mixture interesting and it made me think of talk I heard a while ago about people using colloidal silver as a health supplement.
Actually that's a pretty rudimentary statement I made there, if you want more info, you can read all about it here. I just wanted to bring some attention to this because while the #silvergoldstackers community is full of posts sharing rounds, bars, and coins people have picked up, I can't remember ever seeing a post in recent history about this use for precious metals.
In the community I work there was a guy who had blue skin, he literally looked like a smurf and I found out later it was because he regularly took colloidal silver as a supplement.
That's all I have for this week, BTC continues to test those all time highs and alts are doing whatever alts want to do. Maybe next week things will really pick up!
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