Will this help promoting Solar power for residential sector??

2015-12-11T14:43:45-05:00

This is going to make a lot of trouble for Power company, either they face pressure to "credit" back the power or people will start living off grid. There are already bussiness that provide solar power panel free, you just pay the "electricity" to the companies that install it like paying your bills to the regular power companies.

I always believe solar power will not work in industrial scale, it will only work in residential scale in a massive way. What do you all think?

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/11/googles-project-sunroof-now-tells-more-homeowners-how-well-solar-would-work-on-their-roofs/#.y98igdd:yubC

Google’s Project Sunroof Now Tells More Homeowners How Well Solar Would Work On TheirRoofs

Google's Project Sunroof, which started as a 20 percent project by Google engineering lead Carl Elkin, helps you figure out how well solar panels would work..

Response by SGT David T. made Dec 11 at 2015 3:06 PM

2015-12-11T15:06:38-05:00

If they were affordable to the average homeowner perhaps...

Response by SSG Warren Swan made Dec 11 at 2015 3:47 PM

2015-12-11T15:47:38-05:00

I think the Google solar/wind farms in the Midwest would disagree with you. Are they as "powerful" as traditional power means? No. It's an old technology that has been given "new life" with the Presidents focus on getting away from coal power. What sucks for the solar power fiends is that right after the President gives a solar startup money to rock n roll, they rock and roll right into bankruptcy. Also the tax credits that were used to want folks to get into it, are going to expire and I haven't seen any attempt at renewing them.

Response by SN Greg Wright made Dec 11 at 2015 5:56 PM

2015-12-11T17:56:13-05:00

PO3 Private RallyPoint Member Terrestrial world-wide widespread solar power is a pipe dream. It'll never happen. Too unreliable, too expensive to start up. Mirrors in space (on the moon, say), are entirely viable. But until they crack Fission, Fusion is going to remain the best option to power civilization.

Response by PO2 Wesley Wilson made Dec 11 at 2015 6:53 PM

2015-12-11T18:53:32-05:00

The solar power thing is all smoke and mirrors. Here is why,

The cost of the system is far more than the cost of the energy it will produce, the average panel has a life expectancy of about 20 years , the performance degrades over time.

The energy companies are under a mandate to have a percentage of renewable energy in place or face hefty fines, the government subsidizes almost every project that sells back to the power companies, the installing company gets a benefit for using unskilled labor the investors get major tax breaks, in the end it cost the tax payers,

There are a few instances where solar is a viable option but right now its just a feel good program that does nothing but line the pockets of those with mony already.

I have been involves in solar for a pretty long while, think about it this way, if it was really worth it you would be doing it without all the incentives.

Oh and the Green power thing is a joke, making those panels creates more pollution than they will ever off set and to work at night you need large tocic battery banks

Response by PO1 William "Chip" Nagel made Dec 12 at 2015 4:27 AM

2015-12-12T04:27:02-05:00

Not saying it isn't expensive to install and a lot of people going to need some Gov't Assist to get it going but once there, It Rocks. It is on my Daughters house and the Electric Bill is $15 a month so the vast majority of the electricity is produced by the Cells on the Roof,

Response by PO3 Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 14 at 2015 8:21 AM

2015-12-14T08:21:13-05:00

The true cost of Solar panel is "land area". It took up too much land and generation of power all depend on the "weather". The life span of the equipment can be produced cheap when there is a demand and advancement of technologies. but the land area (on earth) will not and can not be solved. Even the technologies of battery system will make solar better, but it still never able to solve the land require for it.

The reason I posted this is, our roof is a wasted "land area", imagine how much land area we can utilized. That is reason I know residential solar generation is the way to go (on earth).

I also come upon a new concept of solar power business, there already more than handful of company doing it. They are acting like a regular power company, they build the infrastructure and you only pay them a monthly electricity rate of your consumption, and usually 10%-40% cheaper than regular electricity rate, (thanks to the promise of skyrocketing electricity rate...).

There are already consumers of such business actually live off grid because of their sunlight time of their region. Imagine that to a large area of a few states, that will relief a lot of demand on the power grids. That is the beauty of free market, the more you try to distort it, the worse it come back to correct itself.

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Response by PFC Doyle Hayes made Sep 13 at 2023 10:02 AM

2023-09-13T10:02:37-04:00

Solar will not run your whole house and now along with your electric bill you have to pay for solar