XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y, alt.sci.physics   
   From: CFKinsey@military.org.jp   
      
   On Fri, 07 Jun 2019 03:44:24 +0100, Bob F  wrote:   
      
   > On 6/6/2019 4:06 PM, Rod Speed wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> "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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   >>>>   
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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.   
      
   I wondered WTF he was on about.  Insulating a solar panel from the sun is the   
   last thing you want to do.  And he says spelling is unimportant....   
      
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