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   From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   On 6/6/2019 8:09 PM, Rod Speed wrote:   
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   >   
   > "Bob F"  wrote in message   
   > news:qdcjrs$ini$1@dont-email.me...   
   >> On 6/6/2019 3:57 PM, Rod Speed wrote:   
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   >>>   
   >>> "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.   
   >   
   >   
   So what? That is clearly someone who wants to pay for solar panels on   
   someone else's house.   
      
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