You might need a little help moving it to the right spot...
Posted on 12/04/2012 9:01:40 PM PST by smokingfrog
A non-profit clean energy group, Solar One, has been deploying solar generators to areas most affected by Hurricane Sandy. The group currently has several generators running in the Rockaways, and made a recent delivery to Midland Beach on Staten Island.
The delivery went to a community-run center operating at St. Margaret Mary Roman Catholic Church. Adjacent to the church’s gymnasium is a building still without power. There, volunteers have set up services like a legal clinic, to help residents with their paperwork, and a free store, packed with donated goods like soap and canned foods.
Outside is a small yard with tents where residents can get a massage, sign up to volunteer for the day, or just rest. Several groups and individual volunteers have set up shop here, to help provide services. It’s become a one-stop shop for residents in need.
It’s also where the new solar generator will reside. Max Joel, with Solar One, hopes it will provide some small conveniences. “People will be able to charge cell phones, charge laptops … can run a small refrigerator, lighting,” he said. “For a lot of the things I’m seeing around the site here, it should serve pretty well.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wnyc.org ...
The generators are manufactured by DC Solar Solutions in California. Consolidated Solar is the east coast distributor.
And it only took a month to deploy.
The guy usually rents them out to construction sites and such.
He called FEMA, etc. and couldn’t get anyone interested.
They’re only 10kw, but better than nothing if you have no power at all and have trouble getting fuel for a regular generator.
10kw would do most of what I need, daily.
15 day and night would run the farm in the winter, and I could weld in the shop, etc.
Hard to get a city going with that, but I applaud his contribution.
Solar generators, New York, in winter.
Yeah,,, i guess up there in the sunbelt that makes good sense.
If they delivered that with fuel and a trailer then they had fuel and the ability to get generators.
New York, in winter.
Yeah,,, i guess up there in the sunbelt that makes good sense <<
Shuuush!..if the South ever discovers they can own the North via free sun power...lol...
For your edification
Note to the solar afficionados - that great big “solar” generator that they had to roll in on a trailer provide enough power to “be able to charge cell phones, charge laptops … can run a small refrigerator, lighting,” Please keep that in mind when next you insist that we become more “sustainable”.
Monkeywrench out.
These solar panels are rated on their peak power, when the Sun is not obstructed and when the light is perpendicular to the panels. This may be achieved for about 15 minutes in the middle of summer, if the panels are perfectly oriented. Often this cannot be achieved at all.
A 10 kW panel will give you, on average, maybe 1 to 2 kW averaged over day and night (in other words, from 24 to 48 kWh.) Daytime in fall and winter is particularly short, and cloudy skies are the norm.
Of course this is also power, and you can use it - as long as you don't have to pay for it. If you do, though, you may be better off with a gasoline generator - especially because it works when you need it, and idles (or stops) when you don't use it. Modern generators with inverters are particularly effective, since they don't have to maintain the RPM to hold the frequency.
There is no such thing as a "Solar Generator." Perpetuating the ignorance of a word which has had a specific meaning for a century just confuses the ignorant and allows significant scams to exist, merely by means of abusing the common meaning and understanding of the word.
I refuse to read any articles that use this fraudulent word game to further social engineering agenda, or to exploit the ignorant.
Generators have been traditionally defined as mechanical devices that produce electrical energy by converting some other form of mechanical, physical or other potentially storeable energy.
Solar is more clearly a conversion device that creates electrical energy from solar energy, which must be somehow stored or used immediately, in order to perform useful work.
"Solar coverters power Sandy-stricken areas" would be a more accurate and clearer headline.
You might need a little help moving it to the right spot...
Well, there is, but not what the bozo "reporter" is writing about. You're right, these are just solar panels. There are solar generators that generate steam to turn a turbine, technically that's a solar heated steam powered turbine.
Perpetuating the ignorance of a word which has had a specific meaning for a century just confuses the ignorant
Ditto! Calling solar panels "solar generators" is nuts. A theft of language.
Well, there is, but not what the bozo "reporter" is writing about. You're right, these are just solar panels. There are solar generators that generate steam to turn a turbine, technically that's a solar heated steam powered turbine.
Perpetuating the ignorance of a word which has had a specific meaning for a century just confuses the ignorant
Ditto! Calling solar panels "solar generators" is nuts. A theft of language.
excellent summary....and to add, at the most the sun is available in NYC, 5 hours a day this time of the year....as always, what happens at night with solar power....zero...
There’s also heated-air solar generators. They use parabolic mirros or focused-arrays to heat air and run an air-piston motor connected to a generator.
Staten Island, NY Weather for today:
Chance of Rain:30%
Wind: NW at 15 mph
UV Index:2 - Low
Chance of a shower or two during the morning, followed by partly cloudy skies this afternoon. High near 55F. Winds NW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
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They need a couple of windmills too... /s
Actually, on a cloudy day, as shown, and as typical for the area this time of year, any place is OK. It puts out essentially zero power no matter which way it's pointed. it's good to warm you up, though. Those 15, or so, people required to move it around get quite warm from the exercise.
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