A little off topic from Industrial grade solar, but I had a solar salesman knock on my door the other day.
He started right in about home improvement. I told him I was all set then he really got rolling. as I began closing the door solar finally came up and I told him that I really wasn’t interested now.
This guy was actually yelling at me.
I use a small amount of solar to power a fan in my camper. It’s perfect for that type application. But if I walk in front of the solar panel, the fan stops immediately. There’s no battery big enough to overcome that in an industrial application.
Our political geniuses in Washington State were giddy to announce the first electric hybrid ferry entering service in Seattle in July. The perfect “green” solution for a locale that doesn’t see the sun for close to 8 months out of the year. Contract for the first three solar ferries is over $400 million. With budget creep, that figure will surely be closer to $600 million. We currently have 21 ferries in service in Washington. This is the cost to replace just 3 of them. Doomed to fail but, hell, Washington taxpayers reliably vote in Democrat moon bats to run our state into bankruptcy.