Fission is the way to go for this for its general simplicity of design and it can self start by manually moving control rods. I never see anyone talking about they are going to restart a fusion reactor if it ever goes offline for any reason.
My thought is to use fission for powering the ship, and fusion for the drive. The fission reactors can start the fusion drive as needed and you can have multiple portable fission reactors like the NASA kilopower designs in an offline/inert state that could be powered on in an emergency.
Yeah residential is capped at 20kw of production for net-metering. I have array rated at 14.5kw and it tracks that at peak pretty well. I hope to add more panels, but they will not be part of my net-metering and be there to charge the future batteries and inverters I want to add.
I normally only commit to "We will give an update in X (minutes/hours) to make sure we understand the problem first. Then start giving estimated timelines in ranges with specific call outs for updates and possible changes to the timeline.
I've found that most management just want to be involved in the process and have definite times set for updates and can handle timeline changes as long as information is coming at regular intervals.
I use an Ambient Weather WS-2902 WiFi Smart Weather Station, easy to setup and integrate with wunderground/accuweather etc, plus simple to use with HomeAssistant in a purely local configuration.
I have an Intel Macbook 2019 for work. I've tried a couple different kvm solutions but they all had issues, always on the Mac side. The best I got was <1 sec switching from Mac to Linux and 10-15 seconds switching from Linux to Mac for everything to stabilize.
I ended up going with the nuclear option of an IP KVM https://www.raritan.com/support/product/dominion-kx-iv-101 that will do all the resolutions I want at 60hz. It was very expensive, but on the bright side it lets me keep work laptops completely unmodified and easily swappable.
Looking at it over the long term, it's something we will need to do regardless of co2 emissions as the sun heats up over it's lifespan. The more interesting part of it is that I've you do Earth you have the tech and infrastructure to do the same to Venus and do the opposite to Mars.
Combine the solar shade with some solar panels and you are well on your way to becoming a Khardeshev II civilization.