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Is there anything that you or anybody who owns a car plug in at night? If so, then you have your power grid.
How's the power grid charging up the cars at night with no solar?
Whatever solar you collect, you just collect twice what you need. The rest, you store for nighttime use. There are many ways to do that. On a small home scale, you could use rechargeable batteries, capacitors or a heavy flywheel that continuously speeds up during the day. At night you can feed off that rotational momentum. These can be used on a large scale too. Another large scale way would be to heat up sodium. At night that heat could be turned into steam to power turbines.
Whatever solar you collect, you just collect twice what you need.
So instead of just covering my roof with solar panels, I should also cover my neighbor's roof?
And what happens when, here in Chicago during winter, we have cloudy skies for a solid week?
Not to mention only 9 hours of sunlight?
On a small home scale, you could use rechargeable batteries, capacitors or a heavy flywheel that continuously speeds up during the day.
Is this more free stuff I need to take advantage of free solar?
I don't really know how many solar panels you would need. But I know the technology works. Because people use it. You could have some solar panels on your roof. Some on your garage and some on your shed if you have one and need it. Also, during the day, many people are at work. So their home usage at that time could be stored also. For people who do stay home, they probably aren't using that much power. Especially when they're collecting twice what they need. Also, solar panels work best in direct sunlight. But they will work in indirect light too.
Next, I live east and north from Chicago. It is never cloudy for a week. Even then, solar panels will collect some energy even on a cloudy day. For the rest, as I said, it can be transmitted in from places where it isn't cloudy. Next, yes. Everything would be free. And even if you do get charged a little something, so what. You wouldn't have to be paying for heat in the winter, air conditioning in the summer or gas to drive around on. Assuming you had an electric car. Which is cheaper to maintain than a internal combustion powered car.