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Sheldon Martin[_4_]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 wrote:
>On Friday, July 17, 2020 John Kuthe wrote:
>>
>> I see the coal cars on the trains, I'm not stupid! We still do a LOT of STUPID 19th Century things!
>>
>> John Kuthe...
>>
>Why didn't you install solar panels on your roof? You could have generated
>your own electricity and probably sold some back to your local power company.

I doubt his roof has enough area at the correct exposure for solar
panels to produce much. Where I live a lot of people place the solar
panels in their yard on posts that are cemented into the ground so
they're up off the ground so they can mow around them and so they can
brush the snow off. They don't like to place them on their roof as
they will cause the roof to leak... I doubt it would work well on that
tile roof anyway, they'd have to drill a lot of bolt holes.

I thought about installing solar panels here and even had a company do
a survey. I have several acres they could use but I didn't want to
look at those ugly panels and there would be a lot of mowing and snow
removal. Plus more than half the time they'd produce no elctricity,
they produce nothing at night or on cloudy days. Once installed I'd
be responsible for their maintenence and repairs. The panels are
mostly made of plastic, UV light wreaks havoc on those panels so they
don't last long. Solar panels are okay for a few small light bulbs
but would need a lot of panels to run A/C, an electric stove, a
clothes dryer, a fridge/freezer, charge an electric car, fergetabout
it. Solar power is a long way into the future. Solar is good for
powering small electronics, like a calculator, a medical thermometer,
a toothbrush, a clock. The main drawback to solar is transmission.