10-07-2020, 08:57 PM | #1 |
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Solar panels are a meme
So is Tesla, incidentally.
Background: Gavinator signed a bill earlier this year mandating that all new housing in California will need to have solar panels. Ignoring the e-waste concerns of solar panels - the pollution that goes in to building them, and they pollution they leave behind when they die - and also the maintenance issue of needing to habitually clean them, it doesn't seem like that bad an idea. There's caveats, though. A lot of them. The first is that common solar panel calculations over a 20 year period assume static rates of electricity usage. This is obviously not the case. Due to the same global warming pressure, there's now a positive feedback loop with regard to air conditioning. As you know, air conditioning cools a closed system by dumping entropy outside of it. So as global warming increases outside temperature, there's more pressure to use air conditioning to combat thermodynamics. Spending more electricity to cool your house, then heating the outside air even more with what the coils dump outside of it, thus leading to more electricity to cool the home and keep the refrigerators from breaking down...it's a punishing, logarithmic increase in energy usage. Solar panels provide a fixed rate assuming clear skies. But what happens if fires dump soot into the air, obfuscating the light of the sun but smoke-grilling the humans beneath the clouds? The solar panels won't save you or even help much at dealing with the electric bill. Finally, and worse of all - my city has initiated new ordinances limiting the planting of trees so they don't interfere with solar panels. You can't plant shade trees and are encouraged to cut down existing ones that have lived for centuries. You're encouraged to uproot you lawn and plant rocks instead. Water rates are skyrocketing due to the human density, and trees need to give way for that. Trees obviously purify the air, provide shade that limits the usage of air conditioning. They're well worth their weight in water and don't produce e-waste when they're gone. Yet, they're being prioritized behind solar panels to meet the supposed 'energy crisis'. ... I don't hold popular opinions with global warming. I 100% believe it, but I think we should embrace the inevitable. No alternative, renewable energy except nuclear is 100% safe without dramatically affecting the topography or climate of the planet. After nuclear I guess wind is pretty safe I guess, but that's still limited. Anyway, solar panels look to me to provide little positive benefit. Cutting down trees to accommodate them is foolish. Solar doesn't purify the air we breath and doesn't discourage air conditioning use. It's a technology that works best in a runaway greenhouse, not at preventing such a greenhouse from happening.
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10-09-2020, 09:07 AM | #2 | |||
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Your logic doesn't track.
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Nuclear is great, but we can do solar panels and nuclear at the same time.
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10-09-2020, 02:06 PM | #3 | |
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This is something I feel heavily about do not @ me.
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10-09-2020, 03:24 PM | #4 | ||||
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If I'm projected to save $70,000 over a 20 year period based on recovery data from 1991-2011, that amount is obviously inflated since kilowatt hours are more expensive, temperatures are two degrees higher year round and 'cloud cover' is amplified due to wildfire pollution. Most of the solar panels in this state stopped functioning during the two big fire events, because not only did they fail to capture sunlight through the smoke, they were ash-covered during the fires and needed to be cleaned. That's 2 months of the year taken away by fire, or 3% of the 20 year of the solar panel projection. Quote:
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I can see your point. Lawns are indeed discouraged here now, but I should clarify though that trees are targeted above lawns in most cases here, due to the risks of infestation of trees by insects when they're not given enough water. The water issues are much more pressing to me than electricity since electric power is easier to transport than water, and historically California has supplied water using underground water tables. That isn't sustainable and modifies the topography of the land by sinking the surface once the water is depleted, and this was even before global warming accelerated the demand for water.
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10-20-2020, 06:25 AM | #5 |
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Reading this I decided to install solar panels in my house. I also found this review https://websolarguide.com/am-solar-powered-radio/
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