U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked

I'm actually a proponent of intelligent use of solar and have been since the mid-1970s. There are options that could be implemented that wouldn't involve covering vast areas of land that are currently (see what I did there) "green. Think about parking lots and installing photo-voltaic arrays as covers. No net increase in land use and people can park under cover. Who knows, it could save a kid or pet from stupid parents as well. I'm not a fan of just tacking panels on your roof. I've seen too many that look like Fido's ass.

 

Oh yeah...how much of the cost of fossil fuel generation is tied up in regulatory compliance and fuel taxes?

 

Too much. But on the flip side of that coin, too much is also being spent on subsidies for them too.

 

Wind farms decimate raptor populations.

 

Raptors kill cute disease riddled rodents.

 

True.

On another note there was one day last week where two red tail hawks were hunting over my house as they do every morning. At one point an F35 dropped down out of the south headed towards USAFA and there was a split second where you had the two hawks hunting with the F35 in the background. It was beautiful. Wish I had a camera and good timing.

 

I am looking into it for a simple purpose. I don't want to power the whole house with it but I'd like to have access to it. Putting just enough in place to meet the demands of running the A/C systems and refrigerator seems like a clever way to use it.

 

That could work, although AC is a big ass load. The 1970s systems leaned more towards using solar panels to heat/preheat water as booster for the water heater, and to some degree, home heating. As is the case now, "green" energy is highly dependent on the region where you live. Even in the southeast, cloud cover on a bright day can reduce output. Dry climates can make good use of evaporative cooling, we cannot. As I mentioned before, it should all be part of a thought out plan.

 

by central geniuses.....you know like the priests in egypt when they were so advanced.

 

I pass a few of these "Solar Farms" talk about an UGLY FUCKING EYE SORE...
Riding along in the wonderful country side and come around a corner and geezus fk a BLACK hillside...scared with acres and acres of solar panels..

 

Yeah, I would think AC was about the last thing you'd want to run off solar.

 

I dont think the inverter cares what creates the load.

 

About 10 years ago they decided, in a controversial move,
to supply 30-40% of the power requirements of the
Manchester NH Airport parking garage with solar panels on
the roof at a cost of $3.5 million, which would save about
$100K a year on the electricity bill. Sounds great!

Let's see how that has worked out.
Just keep in mind that intent is everything.

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/glare-airport-solar-panels-interfering-air-traffic-controllers

https://www.unionleader.com/news/po...cle_417763f4-4aef-52f1-bad2-ae2acdd05b8b.html

 

No it doesn't, my point was it's a hell of a load.

 

There's something vaguely obscene about this conversation.

 

It's more about offsetting the volume of energy consumption. They could take part of the load but the size and cost would have be reasonable to even consider it. Most of my research points to what we all know is that it really isn't cost effective as the ROI would take forever to see. It was the only use case I could see for it. When would your solar production be the highest? On the same day the A/C units are working their asses off.

 

So you're looking at it more like direct use, makes sense. I was thinking, that's gonna take alot of batteries.

 

Acree, here is Aurora from last night. She was nearly killed by some cadets at West Point last year so its so excellent to see her healthy. She eats LOTS of rodents.


upload pictures to web

 

There are a lot of variables unique to each situation to model this. By my account, I can put in a system that covers my total aggregate usage (i.e., integrated over the whole year) and the ROI is ~ 7 years. I benefit from net metering opportunities, solar flux, and some Local Public Utilities incentives. I'm waiting to do the re-roof and system all at once. YMMV.