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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob F"  wrote in message   
   news:qdcjrs$ini$1@dont-email.me...   
   > On 6/6/2019 3:57 PM, Rod Speed wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> "Commander Kinsey"  wrote in message   
   >> news:op.z2zgydx2wdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   >>> On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 22:59:47 +0100, trader_4    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>   
   >>> Agreed - you might aswell make as much use of the roof space as you can.   
   >>   
   >> Problem is the cost of that.   
   >>   
   >>> And so what if you generate more than the house uses?   
   >>   
   >> You've obviously wasted your money.   
   >>   
   >>> There are houses that don't generate anything.  And once we all use   
   >>> electric cars, we'll need a hell of a lot more.   
   >>   
   >> But it makes a lot more sense to use nukes for that.   
   >>   
   >>> It also seems damn stupid to build an estate of 50 houses and put 1.2kW   
   >>> on each roof, instead of 2.4kW on half the roofs, with a much lower   
   >>> installation cost.   
   >>   
   >> But that approach isnt viable. No one is going to   
   >> pay for the cost of doing it on someone else's roof.   
   >   
   > Tell that to the companies that do exactly that.   
      
   That’s not one house owner paying for the panels on a neighbours house.   
      
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