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Alex[_31_]

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. 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.

He's got that garage...