XPost: uk.d-i-y, alt.home.repair, alt.sci.physics
From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com
Commander Kinsey wrote
> I wonder if the treehuggers have ever worked out how much plastic is
> involved in creating these useless things.
Not much with solar panels, its mostly metal and the panels
themselves which don't involve much plastic at all.
> They could perhaps charge up a golf kart, but they certainly don't make a
> meaningful amount of electricity.
Specially in winter in scotland. They likely would do the lights
and electronics in summer, particularly if they have a decent
battery so that it works once its dark, but given that they
have so few panels, likely they don't have a battery at all.
> Solar panels are for remote areas like Africa, outer space, etc.
They are marginally viable here on houses without any subsidy
or FIT but don't produce as good a return as the stock market
or mutual funds, which is why I don't have any myself.
> I once sent some students off to study primates in Africa with a solar
> panel. It powered a couple of laptops. Not a house.
We do use them to power quite a bit of stuff like the irrigation gates etc.
And the remote repeaters where it costs lots to run a power line to them.
Couple of the houses here have a pair of massive great tracking arrays and
they would certainly power the house fine but wouldn't have been cheap.
One of those house has a massive great steel fence right around it so that
bugger clearly doesn't have any shortage of money. Bet its marijuana money.
> On Fri, 07 Jun 2019 17:22:44 +0100, Brian Gaff
> wrote:
>
>> Of course by the time the mortgage was paid the panels would be dead and
>> gone, hopefully replaced by better ones or maybe not needed any more due
>> to
>> either human race being wiped out or everyone having a fusion reactor at
>> home.
>> Brian
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