Re: [Staffslug] Free solar panels
On 11 August 2010 21:17, Jonathan Marriott <jon(a)kiwiuk.net> 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.
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