Re: [Staffslug] Free solar panels

On 11 August 2010 21:17, Jonathan Marriott <jon(a)kiwiuk.net&gt; wrote: > Solar cells are pretty crap and a complete non-solution in this form as they > requires huge scale and massive storage facilities or geographically > separate plants and an inter-continental distribution grid to work > effectively (i.e no blackouts at night). Guess what we don't have yet! > > However, our Government has seen fit to spend money on this scheme and not > taking part is effectively refusing free money. If you don't take it, > someone else will. > > Regards, > Jon > Agreed, they are highly inefficient....at present.  But, they are nowhere near as intrusive as those blasted giant windmills that the government seems to insist on setting up everywhere :-(  I seriously doubt that they are less efficient than the windmills when all the maintenance etc is taken into consideration. What we need is somebody in government to switch their brain cell on (this would be the one that is shared around the cabinet three witch sisters style) and put some proper funding into British initiative in creating higher efficiency solar voltaic panels. By the way, I've been using one to keep my car batteries charged for about 10 years now :-)  It was about a quarter of the price in Australia than they were over here so I got it there when I was down under.  They do work to trickle charge a car battery and so saving it going on the mains. -- ============================================== Kevan Linux user #373362 Staffordshire ********************************************** www.freeworld-recycling.org 'From me to you towards a sustainable future.' ********************************************** _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug