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Message 47 of 357 (776132)
01-09-2016 5:36 AM
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01-08-2016 9:48 PM


Re: o.k.

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Message 103 of 357 (776691)
01-18-2016 1:12 PM
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01-18-2016 8:33 AM


Re: What's stopping Texas? Politics.
RAZD writes:
What you want to do for most efficient distribution of energy is have the energy produced near where it is used, and that means integrating it into the urban landscape and NOT in large distant installations. Solar allows this in a way that fossil fuels can never compete with.
Not mention a side effect of removing terrorist targets....
color emphasis mine...

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Message 142 of 357 (777045)
01-25-2016 12:35 PM
Reply to: Message 141 by ringo
01-25-2016 10:55 AM


Re: Manhattan
Ringo asks:
How would solar work in Manhattan?
I googled "solar power windows" and got this:
Solar windows can power buildings | Computerworld
plus rooftops & parking lot shading over parked cars.
And rooftop vertical axis wind turbines.

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Message 176 of 357 (777217)
01-27-2016 3:15 PM
Reply to: Message 174 by ringo
01-27-2016 2:18 PM


Re: Manhattan
Ringo writes:
My issue is with people who just say, "It's scalable," without demonstrating that it is.
I guess I must be ignorant. What the hell is "scalable"?
The quick hipshot answer is easy: Just make more panels.
Maybe the problematic word should be "storage"???

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Message 188 of 357 (777277)
01-28-2016 1:32 PM
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01-27-2016 3:29 PM


Re: Manhattan
Ringo responds:
Which is why I asked about Manhattan. How do you scale up from six panels on one hippy-dippy house to x panels in a city of ten million?
Assuming the hippy-dippy house is a family of 4, (6/4)x10,000,000 = 15 million panels. Now cheaper per panel because of the economy of size.
How many automobiles (much harder to make per unit than a solar panel) are there in Manhattan? One source I got was "According to the data, only 1.4 million households in the City out of the total 3.0 million owned a car." So now we need to show that owning some 11 panels each is more expensive than buying a car, over the service lifetime of these items. ??? What is the problem?
The buildings need only do themselves, not other buildings. How many solar windows per typical building? What is the power consumption of a typical building? Do it building by building. Make it optional.
And how big would the battery be to prepare for a rainy day?
each panel array would have it's own battery/capacitor storage. It would foolish to put it all in one place (like for example, Battery Park - a target of rising sea levels). Have each building's 13th floor decked out with Elon Musk's wall units.

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Message 326 of 357 (780731)
03-19-2016 1:48 PM
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03-16-2016 9:43 PM


Re: Solar Power in Arizona
Jon asks:
Do you have anything to address the 'how'?
Jon - what is the very FIRST WORD of his link?
https://solarthermalmagazine.com/...-using-only-clean-energy

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