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Aside from "saving the planet" that setup you posted doesn't do much else. These 8 panels will generate on average ~ 1 dollar`s worth of power per day. And at what cost? They won`t say, none of them...they only bait you with "how much" you are "saving"...which in turn factors in all the money the tax payers have to pitch in for subsidies.Absolutely!You fucking dumb asshole, both wind and solar are now produce electricity cheaper than any fossil fuel or nuclear. They are also cheaper to install. Once installed, they require no pipelines, rail lines, or mines to support them. And grid scale batteries are making them power 24/7.None of you want to accept the Clean Power Plan for what it really was---an attempt to grind the U.S. economy to a crawl to allow the rest of the world to catch up. Obama's job was to get in power and put on the brakes. America last.
Cry in your pinko appletinis.
The lead, acids, rare earth materials, petroleum for the plastics, copper for the cables and wiring, all the transistors, diodes and other electrical components, the transport of the materials to the site, the actual construction and manufacturing of the solar panels turbines etc. . .
What is the fucking carbon footprint for all of that?
Let's add it all up.
Shall we?
How much CO2 does one solar panel create?
How much CO2 does one solar panel create?
Yes, it's true that making solar panels creates carbon dioxide, but over the life of a solar installation it produces on average of 30x less CO2 than coal power.
KARL BURKART
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Whenever I sing the praises of solar PV as a means to hugely reduce U.S. carbon emissions while strengthening the security of the grid, I get people complaining that I'm not disclosing the carbon impacts of solar panel production.
So let's get this straight.. solar panels are at least 20x better on the climate than coal, kWh for kWh. I say at least because the most often cited report is by Danish utility Vattenfall from 1999. It looks at only 3 countries -- Japan, Sweden and Finland -- all of which are fairly dark and dreary, and it does not account for recent advances in PV production (new solar panels are significantly more efficient).
Based on that study, solar PV works out to about 50g of CO2 per kWh compared to coal's 975g of CO2 per kWh, or about 20x "cleaner."
Coal power plants in the U.S. are considerably less regulated (and therefore less efficient) than their European counterparts, making them more carbon-intensive. And the U.S. has much greater solar access than Japan or Sweden, making solar PV less carbon-intensive.
Not that you would ever look this up for yourself, or even bother to read the rest of the link. You will work hard to preserve your willful ignorance.
18 panels of the same type produce in the real world (as opposed to advertisement brochures) only 20 Kw hours per day....maximum on clear sky days
So unless you don`t use any power at night you better be stingy with the consumption else there is nothing available to charge the batteries.
The whole scheme reminds me of "Used cars" when "Rudy Russo sells a Centurion
5 kw system for $7500, enough for the house and an EV. ADD a Powerwall 2, and you have a complete system.
Grid tie Solar Power Systems for your home - Grid-tie Home Solar Panel Systems
Laughable if it were not so appalling how these charlatans mislead the suckers they target.
For 7500 $ all you will get is about 5 KwHrs of power on a normal day...which costs not even 50 cents in most places. At that rate it would take about 40 years to pay for itself and during that time you better not plan to charge an EV with the iddy-bit of "power" you get for $ 7500 that are supposed to supply the house.
No wonder they keep pushing a grid-tie. It`s not that you would have any "excess power" to spare to feed into the grid...it`s because they don`t want the idiots who fell for it noticing that Mickey-Mouse system to "beep out" when you plug in your toaster or fry something on the stove and the grid makes up for what the power inverter can`t get from the solar panels.
It wont even be able to compete with a donkey wheel
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