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jay[_352_]

On 7/18/20 8:56 AM, Sheldon Martin wrote:
> 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.
Very inaccurate bullshit snipped.

You are absolutely 100% correct about adding solar panels to ones roof.
It is something Kuthe might do though since he is restoring a tile roof.
He could now go back and drill a lot of holes and install some panels or
maybe add some skylights.

I see acres of solar arrays in areas that I travel. They are NOT a
thing of the future. Guarantee you they are not only powering small
calculators and toothbrushes. Same for wind turbines. You may not see
many around your house though. Transmission lines have been here on this
earth for a long time and they can transmit energy regardless of source
of such energy.