Comments on: Solar Panels suck http://www.todaywasawesome.com/2008/06/17/solar-panels-suck/ imported fresh...often Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:22:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stu the (not so) Wise http://www.todaywasawesome.com/2008/06/17/solar-panels-suck/comment-page-1/#comment-484 Stu the (not so) Wise Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:18:26 +0000 http://www.todaywasawesome.com/2008/06/17/solar-panels-suck/#comment-484 A heavy usage month will see about 600 kilowatt hours in my home, while a light month is as low as 300. I'd say that I'm pretty conservative when it comes to power usage, but still not nearly enough for solar cells to do me any good. Some states offer big time incentives for using solar panels -- the only thing that makes them worth getting -- generally leaving only the rich being able to use them and take advantage of said incentives. Ain't politics grand? You'd be much better off building a homemade generator that is powered by your exercycle. A heavy usage month will see about 600 kilowatt hours in my home, while a light month is as low as 300. I’d say that I’m pretty conservative when it comes to power usage, but still not nearly enough for solar cells to do me any good. Some states offer big time incentives for using solar panels — the only thing that makes them worth getting — generally leaving only the rich being able to use them and take advantage of said incentives. Ain’t politics grand?

You’d be much better off building a homemade generator that is powered by your exercycle.

]]> By: sam http://www.todaywasawesome.com/2008/06/17/solar-panels-suck/comment-page-1/#comment-478 sam Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:37:42 +0000 http://www.todaywasawesome.com/2008/06/17/solar-panels-suck/#comment-478 You're going about this all wrong. What you need to do is go buy a good light, then point the light at the solar cell and feed its power back into the light. Pretty soon you'll be producing exponentially higher amounts of energy as the light gets brighter and brighter. Then you simply run your house off of that. You’re going about this all wrong. What you need to do is go buy a good light, then point the light at the solar cell and feed its power back into the light.

Pretty soon you’ll be producing exponentially higher amounts of energy as the light gets brighter and brighter. Then you simply run your house off of that.

]]> By: DieLaughing http://www.todaywasawesome.com/2008/06/17/solar-panels-suck/comment-page-1/#comment-477 DieLaughing Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:41:00 +0000 http://www.todaywasawesome.com/2008/06/17/solar-panels-suck/#comment-477 You should check this out then: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4224763.html No moving parts, enough for a few light appliances, good for recharging. If you had a rooftop covered in these things it would be significant. You should check this out then: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4224763.html

No moving parts, enough for a few light appliances, good for recharging. If you had a rooftop covered in these things it would be significant.

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