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What is their carbon footprint? What % of the energy consumed (for Internet but also driving) comes from the solar panel vs ICE? It's nice to live in the nature, but is it ruining it?

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It's all solar.

How much WP you got on there? edit: just read you got 3*350wp While that is plenty for your computer and routing, do you have any other electrical devices on board? You have a tour of the vans inside?

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Fridge, Freezer, Electric Blanket, Electric Hotwater, 12v Oven, Microwave, Instapot, Telephony Kit (blog post), Gaming Computer and Xbox.

Sure enough for the power consumption of the modems, but I don't think the 5G networks are solar powered in Australia. Using multiple networks at the same time will use more power than using only one.

Does a 5G/4G tower consume more energy when one extra device is connected to it (for redundancy), but not actually transferring data? The answer might be yes, but it'd be very marginal.

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