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2023-02-06 Science & Technology

The Solar Power Problem(s) - Peter Zeihan

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Posted by DarthVader 2023-02-06 09:13|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 The Dark Side of Solar Power

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-06 10:20|| 2023-02-06 10:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Solar power is most popular where it is heavily subsidized. Without taxpayers getting fleeced there is little real financial incentive to go solar for other than remote uses where power distribution is an issue.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-02-06 12:53|| 2023-02-06 12:53|| Front Page Top

#3 I was hammered for months, up until I told them I would pay cash rather than finance the design. Then the badgering stopped.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-06 13:39|| 2023-02-06 13:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Cant store solar (or wind) - not efficiently.

Posted by mossomo 2023-02-06 14:05|| 2023-02-06 14:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Passive solar engineering, starting with architecture matching the local microclimate, is useful. Solar water heaters and solar chimneys are a reasonable choice. Solar panels are as silly as the ones my neighbor, a retired art teacher and artist, had installed -- here in Tornado Alley Oklahoma...

Posted by magpie 2023-02-06 15:44|| 2023-02-06 15:44|| Front Page Top

#6 I had a great room on the western end of my house in PeeAve that had very large windows that caught all the afternoon sun. Before putting 3M reflective film on them and adding thermal honeycomb blind window treatments (planned for and installed just after the addition was finished,) it was essentially impossible to air condition it.

Yes, you can do a lot with passive measures.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-06 16:01|| 2023-02-06 16:01|| Front Page Top

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