Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 08/18/2010 1:47:01 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Going Green Makes Neighbors Go Blind Glare from solar panels on an East Bradford roof is blinding neighbors By TERESA MASTERSON Updated 4:31 PM EDT, Wed, Aug 18, 2010
Some residents in East Bradford, Pa. claim to be blinded by the light – but in this case, it is no godsend.
A homeowner on Muirfield Drive has covered his roof with solar panels. In theory it is an energy-saving, environmental dream. In reality, the glaring roof is an eye sore – literally.
"We can't walk out the front door because the sun blinds us. We have trouble navigating in our house because we're blinded," Judy Armourtold the Daily Local.
Armour and her husband can no longer use their living room because of the powerful sunlight being reflected off her neighbor’s sharply-slanted roof.
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Sub-Driver, the Environmental Inquisition will be arriving at your door any time. Zip up your bugout bag.
Ping.
Focus it back with a large mirror and a magnifying glass. You can burn the place down in no time while being green yourself!
Are there no bricks in East Bradford, Pennsylvannia, that we must be vexed by these noisesome monstrosities?
They should rig some concave mirrors and send it back.
I seem to detect NYMBY BS, neighbor fascists.
I like your idea. Probably a number of sheets of mylar would do it.
Actually, if it’s not a curved mirror, at worst, the reflected light will be a little less strong than direct sunlight. Most of us manage to survive that. It simply doubles the opportunities to encounter it.
Misleading headline. They have not gone blind. Credibility is not helped by sensational headlines that don’t tell the truth.
Who will rid me of this troublesome glass?...............
There are some folks 3/4 of a mile from me with a boat in their driveway. One panel of the windshield gives me a direct reflection at about 2:23 this week. It is painfully bright.
I’m not an engineer....hey wait, I am. It seems to me that the purpose of a solar panel is to collect the solar energy, not to reflect it. An ideal design would reflect nothing, it should look like a black hole.
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Well, no, not permanently. I guess you didn't realize they were talking about temporary blindness, like when the sun shines through your car window while you are driving.
A friend's mother left a small mirror on the dash of her car. When she came out one afternoon, there was a clear line about 6-8 inches long on the headliner where the sunlight reflected from the mirror had scorched it. The mirror was flat, but the curved windshield may have increased the intensity of the sunlight hitting the mirror.
I doubt that you'd get much focusing from the windshield, which itself is pretty lossy. Chances are that the car was pretty warm and the headliner was dark. The headliner probably isn't designed to be exposed to direct sunlight. The additional heat from the sunlight from the mirror was probably enough to overheat it.
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