Posted on 10/29/2016 7:13:48 PM PDT by Daffynition
Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk wasn’t kidding when he said that the new Tesla solar roof product was better looking than an ordinary roof: the roofing replacement with solar energy gathering powers does indeed look great. It’s a far cry from the obvious and somewhat weird aftermarket panels you see applied to roofs after the fact today.
The solar roofing comes in four distinct styles that Tesla presented at the event, including “Textured Glass Tile,” “Slate Glass Tile,” “Tuscan Glass Tile, and “Smooth Glass Tile.” Each of these achieves a different aesthetic look, but all resembled fairly closely a current roofing material style. Each is also transparent to solar, but appears opaque when viewed from an angle.
(Excerpt) Read more at techcrunch.com ...
Instead of a massive, unattractive array of solar panels typically seen in suburbia, SolarCity had installed roof tiles that are solar collector themselves on several of the houses that are part of the film set. Whether meant to emulate clay tiles on a Spanish-style house or shingles on a colonial, Musk says they have 98% of the ray-collecting power of a conventional solar panel, are durable and will last longer than the house itself.
But can you walk on it?
LOL....stop. LOL
And why should I believe Musk..........?
And land a sleigh with eight reindeer?
Exactly what I was thinking! LOL!
Whether meant to immolation slate clay tiles on a Spanish-style house or shingles
well lets see.... He built a car company. He built a rocketship booster that can land on a bobbing platform in the middle of the ocean. Quite frankly... the guy has delivered. What exactly have you done?
I agree. If people want them, they can buy them. We support free markets here don’t we?
Or does the usual FR scientific dumb-down apply?
Why do I have the feeling that this will be an exclusive product with SolarCity and the entire goal is simply to create financial instruments to feed Wall Street?
Are they for northern climates?
Meaning can we walk on them without slipping and sliding off when up there shoveling snow off? Or will the abrasion from a shovel destroy them? How do they react to extreme winds?
And cold weather durability. I’ve purchased several electronic devices over the years that fail around minus 20 or so.
Our roof spends 2 to 4 months with snow covering it when the electrical demand is at it’s highest.
http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-always-depended-government-money-up-front-about-it-2015-6
Personally....I've delivered on MY dime....
http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-always-depended-government-money-up-front-about-it-2015-6
“Exactly what I was thinking! LOL!”
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Me too, Château Flambé!
What happens when the sun and the moon both turn dark?
http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Darkening-Sun-Moon-And-Stars
He delivered pizzas last night.
I can foresee a time when every roof is a solar panel and the electric utilities cry about it and demand a cut.
Rough estimate: my roof is about 120 square meters * 1 kW/m^2 * 25% efficiency * 12 hours/day * 365 days = 131,400 kWh per year. Knock that down by some amount because of clouds and non-optimal solar angles and it still provides all of my electricity unless I want to use it at night.
http://www.i4at.org/surv/solmap.htm says I get about 3.5 kWh / day / m^2 on average or 153,300 kWh per year hitting my roof. With a 25% efficiency I still get between 3 and 4 times as much electricity as I use during the year. From there it is just a matter of installed cost vs. about 11¢/kWh and rising cost to buy electricity.
(Just noticed that the 3.5 kWh/day requires the surface to face the sun, so I'll need to rotate my house during the day :-(. Looks like I'll lose some of my planned electricity.)
Here’s a clue for you sparky. Many MANY American businesses have delivered on your dime. How do you think Ross Perot got started? Processing Medicare payments.
Musk gets things done. Period. I don’t give a damn where the money comes from — he delivers.
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