Posted on 06/15/2007 11:46:43 AM PDT by P-40
Graphic courtesy Applied Materials Applied Materials is installing 24.6 kilowatts solar arrays to help generate power. It's the largest solar array ever installed at an Austin business site.
Unlike most solar arrays that are on rooftops, this array will be mounted on poles along U.S. Highway 290 East in northeast Austin, clearly visible to passing motorists.
Applied Materials will begin installing panels later this year that use a variety of state-of-the-art technologies. The project will generate more than 33,769 kilowatt-hours (33.8 megawatt-hours) annually. This pollution-free energy will eliminate 58,370 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to planting eight acres of trees.
During Thursday's announcement, the president and CEO of Applied Materials presented a $25,000 check to the Solar Decathlon Team at the University of Texas. The team is building a solar-powered house that will be on display at the National Mall in Washington in October. UT is one of 20 universities taking part.
The installation is expected to be finished by August.
Guess what technolgy dovetails nicely to thier design and manufacturing skills?
Solar wafers. And they are going into that industry with a big push the last few years.
I’ve always asked this: The whole premise of Global Warming is the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reflecting the radiation from the sun back to earth, after bouncing off the earth’s surface initially. What aids this process, supposedly is that the radiation, on striking the earth’s surface, bounce back with a lower radiation frequency, and this is what’s trapped back by the carbon dioxide.
Now, if solar panels are used, wouldn’t that worsen the effect by trapping the sun’s energy “more efficiently” rather than allowing it to escape the earth’s atmosphere? Or have I missed something?
If anyone’s interested in something to compare that to, 33,769 kWh annually is enough to run two houses in my neighborhood.
In fact carbon has the opposite effect, it helps heat dissipate, which would help wick it away to space.
Ping!.....
That is probably about three to four houses here if they are all electric. Maybe more if they use gas for heating.
That is probably about three to four houses here if they are all electric. Maybe more if they use gas for heating.
We're in the central San Joaquin Valley where it gets above 100 degrees for weeks at a time during the summer. Our cooling costs are astronomical. We use about 19,000 kWh/yr, most of which is to run the A/C, and 400-500 gallons of propane for heating. We're also on a water well/septic system. Our only real connection to the outside world is electric.
There are many different frequencies of radiated energy. Greenhouse gasses tend to be transparent in the visible light spectrum and more opaque in the infrared spectrum.
Thus, the Sun's visible light heats the ground, which re-radiates that energy as infrared light, which is absorbed by greenhouse gasses.
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