u/L1tch

Mostly making this as a not to myself but also want to know if what I want is even possible.

To start, I have gas heating for my home, (Northern Virginia). My furnace is well over 10 years old and will be needing to be replaced soon, I just know it. I want to move away from gas and go full electric with a heat pump and electric (possibly tankless) water heater. To help boost this all, I also want to get solar panels installed on my property.

Here are my hic-ups that I foresee right now. Firstly, the wiring of the house will need to be adjusted for all of this so I will likely want to do the panels first. It shouldn't be hard to find a company, but where would be the best way to look for some kind of financial assitance for paying for it? Like a grant or Government subsidy for going "green"/adding power back into the grid?

Next, the current furnace is located in my attic and I am not too sure how the air pump system works. Is it similar to the funace in the attic with the compresser/fan out on the side of the house? Will my air ducts need modification to work with the system or will it just be a simple fitting at the intake?

Lastly the water heater. Not much there, can just swap it out with an electric one. Though knowing the opinions with tankless wouldn't hurt. Biggest thing though, is everything else will need to be through pro's. I know better than to mess with electricity.

Ok, time to show my age.

I started first streaming around 2015. I got myself established with OBS and back then streamlabs was just the bells and whistles you used to add on. I had to stop after a few years due to very bad relationships, yaddayadda. Now that I am getting back into streaming as a vtuber, and re learning the field and how to bring myself back up from the dead, Streamlabs has vastly evolved into a nearly all in one broadcast software.

Now here is my problem. In the last decade, the streaming sphere really has changed and I want to shift off of twitch to youtube. Namely I want to do both. Because I have everything on Streamlabs already set up, it feels like I would be wasting all the effort I put into it so that I can multistream without a monthly subscription. I think I am stuck in a time sink fallacy. Should I take the time and rebuild myself using OBS or just deal with single stream on Streamlabs?