Thanks, liberals. We’re subsidizing deadly technology...
I’m pondering....Are you denying your neighbor heat and sunlight by capturing it via these panels?
Someone call Mythbusters!
Who didn’t see this coming???
Panels can also hinder venting a roof in a fire.You pull the electric meter, you terminate the electric service to the structure. Flipping the switch on the electrical panel only stops the current after the switch. The panels and wiring may still be producing current.
We may need to put a switch on the sun!
>> ... my electricity bill was running about $800 every two months so it’s cut it down to about five ...
At what capital cost? $20,000? What a deal...
Another issue: Firefighters routinely chop a vent hole in the roof to allow the smoke to vent. Firefighters can see what they’re doing, so the blaze is extinguished more quickly. A clear option: “Burn baby, burn!”
Simple - just fight fires at night.
Our construction industry has yet to learn the lesson of the three little pigs. While I currently occupy a stick built home, my next one I will build myself and will be brick (CEB) with steel studs, concrete floors with tile, steel joists and metal roofing.
Nothing flammable in the structure of the building at all.
The worst place in the world to put your solar panels is on the roof anyway. Panels mounted on a tracking pole get up to 45% greater efficiency.
Old problem, the new 2014 NEC requires rapid shutdown of source circuits from modules within 40 seconds via a disconnect located by the main service panel.
Additionally micro-inverters are quickly taking over the market, they are located on the roof under each panel, no 220 volts operating voltage from the main - no output from the inverter back to the main panel.
Rooftop current is limited to that of the individual module, not a string of them.
I remember hearing that firefighters were extra cautious about utilizing the “jaws of life” or other emergency cutting tools on hybrid/electric cars because of the risk of cutting a main power bus line.
If things get any more complicated for the firefighters there all going to have to take a course from Mr. Goodwrench in order to be able to do highway rescues.
“Miller explained solar panels add increased weight on roofs, and that most panels contain materials firefighters consider dangerous.”
Dangerous? I hope they aren’t poisonous to Gaia.