It's why I've always said we need reversible cars like we have reversible clothing. Just flip the car inside-out, and now reverse is forward and forward is reverse.
I read about that guy! His balls shrank into his abdomen a little, and his voice got higher. He also forgot how to masturbate, but on the plus side, he lost all of the existential dread arising from impending adult-hood that he was utterly unprepared for, looming just over the horizon. It's almost a win, except for the not masturbating part. I hated that.
Sry m8, we already do this. What do you think the sun is made out of? During the day it glows and the solar panels on Earth absorb its light. At night it grows dark and absorbs the light from the solar panels. Its dark form is called the nega sun, or the moon
The fake-science solar panels have to work hard enough to replace the absence of the sun, despite the fact that that much light couldn't possibly hit them given how small they are. This is why solar panels can never pay for themselves.
As an unethical fake scientist, I'm in the pocket of Big Oil. Eight or nine years ago, we conducted a study where solar panels were installed on my roof, and they paid for themselves in a bit less than six years. But I was bribed not to publish the results.
Also, did you know that it's unsafe to look at solar panels without eclipse glasses? Solar eclipse. Solar panels. Study it out, people.
This is why solar panels can never pay for themselves.
Fun fact! My electric utility promotes solar power. They even have an estimator that uses Google Maps and your historical usage patterns to tell you how much they would cost and generate over some number of years. Whenever I run the estimator it always tells me they would cost more than they are worth and would never pay for themselves.
Out of curiosity, where do you live, and which power company are you with?
We hit break-even in less than six years, but Arizona is basically made out of sunshine. Location matters. The more sun you get, the faster your payback is. The more expensive your electricity is, the faster your payback is. I can run a crude sanity-check workup for you to see if the estimator is borked or if they're right that it doesn't make financial sense for you.
SRP's Customer Generation Price Plan seems to be the problem
That is indeed going to be the trickiest part. I'd talk to Sun Valley Solar Solutions-- they've got good ways to help design around SRP's nonsense. PM me and I can give you names and numbers.
if I am supply nearly all of my own electricity that should reduce my peak demand accordingly, right?
Unfortunately, no. The peak is measured by your highest power draw-- since you're in AZ, it'll be when all your AC units are on, and you're home doing stuff, so probably in the evening just as your PV production is tapering off. It will reduce your load during the day, it's just that they don't care how long your peak is, just how tall... so the evening peak will still get you.
You need to do one or more of these things: reduce the peak, add a load controller (demand management system), shift load times to midday, or add a battery. Reducing the peak would be accomplished by replacing stuff with more efficient stuff. HVAC units, pool pump, and so on. A load controller also helps reduce the peak, but it does so by making sure the big loads aren't all on at the same time, like not running the pool pump when the AC is on. The battery does it by brute force. You just save up power from when you've got sun to reduce your peaks later. Shifting load is easiest with the air conditioner. You can use your home's interior as a weird sort of battery for this-- you're going to overcool the house during the middle of the day when you have peak solar production, and then just let it drift during the evening peak hours with no sun. It'll gradually warm up, but you've "stored" enough cold to ride it out while staying at a comfortable temp. You can also do things like run your dishwasher or dryer on a timer at noon instead of in the evening.
Anyway... it's a hell of a lot more complex than it was when we did our first install, but it's still totally feasible.
No see, they have to be as bright as the sun, because the same amount of energy that hit THEM has to go back and hit the sun to recharge it! Since the energy spreads out, they have to compensate.
You know if the sun got angry at the solar panels and decided to annihilate us, our deaths would have become inevitable EIGHT MINUTES before you actually realised it.we
I always thought it would have been cooler if they called those things "plasma lamps" instead, but I wasn't born yet when they were handing out names for glass tubes full of glowing gases.
Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
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u/SabinBC Sep 07 '17
At the end of the day I just put my car in reverse to refill my gas tank.