XPost: uk.d-i-y, alt.home.repair, alt.sci.physics
From: CFKinsey@military.org.jp
On Fri, 07 Jun 2019 20:13:38 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
> 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.
Metal frame, but the main part is surely plastic? Or is it glass? That would
be rather fragile.
>> 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.
Way more efficient to have huge arrays of panels on farms etc.
>> 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.
And the problem with that would be?
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