XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y, alt.sci.physics
From: bobnospam@gmail.com
On 6/6/2019 4:06 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
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>
> "Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
> news:op.z2zib9yqwdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...
>> On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 23:11:50 +0100, Rod Speed
>> wrote:
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>>>
>>> "trader_4" wrote in message
>>> news:943fe1dc-72cb-4890-b684-b3aab20b0f99@googlegroups.com...
>>>> On Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 5:45:33 PM UTC-4, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 22:25:56 +0100, Andy Burns
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > Commander Kinsey wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >> I noticed some new houses being built, all with environmental shit,
>>>>> >> like
>>>>> >> solar panels, water reclamation from gutters etc. But why do they
>>>>> >> have
>>>>> >> only 3 or 4 panels when the roof could hold about 12?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Very little incentive to have any at all now that the
>>>>> feed-in/bribery
>>>>> > tariff has ended.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's what I would have thought, but these houses are only a
>>>>> couple of
>>>>> years old. None I could understand, loads I could understand, but
>>>>> not a
>>>>> few on each roof.
>>>>
>>>> One factor could be that the output per panel has gone up over
>>>> time. They were ~200W a decade ago, new ones are ~300W. But still
>>>> 3 or 4 would be only 1200W, not even enough to equal what a typical
>>>> house
>>>> uses. And you'd think that some of the cost is fixed, ie putting in
>>>> 12 isn't going to cost 3 times what it costs to put in 4, so if it's
>>>> undersized, the economics is worse.
>>>
>>> And he's in scotland which isnt great for solar insulation in winter
>>> or even in summer.
>>
>> WTF is solar insulation?
>
> The amount of sun falling on the panels.
Nope. That's insolation.
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