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From: me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net
"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
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> "Just Wondering" wrote in message news:Ssq4J.17545$IO1.13914@fx19.iad...
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> On 9/27/2021 2:15 PM, Dechucka wrote:
>> On 28/09/2021 5:57 am, contact wrote:
>>> When the wind stops blowing, the electricity stops flowing!
>>
>> Interesting my house is totally solar and I have power at night. Go
>> figure
>
> We all figure that either "my house is totally solar" or "I have
> power at night" is a lie, because they can't both be true.
>
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> "Totally solar" is a "black box" model which means that solar is your only
> source of electricity, it can include storage batteries to postpone the
> use of that electricity.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_box
Average consumption 30 kilowatthours (kWh).
Figure 16 hours of storage as a bare minimum
100Ahr battery = 600 wh
Minimum required 40 batteries.
Cost about $8000 just for the batteries.
Another $14,000 for the solar system
Figure about $15,000 for installation.
More for the lost floor space, or building to hold all this.
And that only gets you through the day. If you don't have 8 hours of full
charge... overcast, raining, snow, etc then your battery capacity
requirements will go up drastically,.
Then we need to calculate the pollution produced for all that hardware, the
regular replacement of the batteries, panels and systems over a lifetime and
then figure out if you're actually cutting emissions... or just spreading it
around.
Seems to me to be a lot of money and issues for a dubious reduction in
pollution.
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