Posted on 09/11/2019 12:53:57 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Fury over the fading benefits of solar power as thousands complain to finance watchdog that glass panels DON'T provide the rewards they were promised
Financial Ombudsman has received 2,000 complaints from home-owners
Barclays put aside millions to compensate those who bought mis-sold panels
Brian Thompson, from Gateshead, took out £10,000 loan to pay for panels
Was told by firm PV Solar UK that the panels would boost his pension
Payments from power panels sent to National Grid not enough to pay loan coast
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Plus, I think that the solar panels won’t operate unless the power grid is operational and working. So it is moot.
I read this somewhere.
what are they going to do. force the electronics onto you.
Here is a video explaining what happens when the power grid goes down... will your solar panels still provide power to your home? Apparently not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3QqQS_zNOE
That will never happen. Crazy. I can see maybe a solar assisted system, to heat water, but you’re not going to get off the grid.
Another left wing boondoggle.
It seems to me, that the mini nuclear power plants that will power whole communities or smaller yet for you house.
Solar seems good because we have backup systems that use petroleum products!
Without that you’d see that solar is good for nothing during power failures.
In Israel we use it to heat hot water for the bath. On cloudy days, you put on an electric switch.
Wind power used to be used for shipping, until the steam engine made it obsolete.
It’s good for what it’s good for. Fossil fuels ended the over-hunting of whales for their blubber.
as usual, only the stupid, ignorant, and weak-minded fall for these kinds of scams ...
Supplementing your normal source of power with solar and wind units is generally not cost effective enough to bother with. Small nuke plants are the way to go, especially when reprocessing fuel that’s going to be “hot” for 10,000 years anyway. An aircraft carrier is a self-contained small city and can be powered by a unit that would fit in your garage, and maintained by well trained 25 year-olds.
“We floated a bond issue in our California town to help the schools. A good chunk of the money went to building hideously ugly structures over every school parking”
Sounds like my CA city, Chino. Same thing down to even the K-6 level schools. I wonder if any citizens ever show up at the City Council meetings looking for information if the city is even breaking even on the scheme. I suspect the books are cooked worst case, and best case everyone on the city council just feels better about themselves for spending the millions of dollars.
Yeah, works great for novelty stuff that doesn't matter. My wife has a little solar powered squirrel doll that dances back and forth when the sun shines on it.
It ain't worth spit to power a modern city.
Mis-sold?!
In my neck of the woods we call that a SWINDLE.
The solar guys must be doing a great sales job over in this part of CT. I see a lot of houses around here with solar panels. It looks like people are getting them because their neighbors got them. I see a lot of 2 and 3 house clusters in neighborhoods. There’s a vacant house up the street with solar panels. They foreclosed on it when nobody would buy it for $30K over its value.
Now convince the rest of the nation.
You might be able to call it “renewable” which means it is a guaranteed win with Americans. The problem is that it has that radioactive stuff that has a bad rep. But good luck. I believe that our future is in nuclear power.
When I was in IBM School in Endicott, NY one of the instructors said that Endicott, NY gets the least sunlight of any U.S. city.
how bout their left wing minders oredered them to go solar?
So above some latitude in California for example, state-mandated solar panels for new homes is a waste of money?
Insights, corrections welcome.
“When you see them in Rochester NY which gets 3 sunny days a year, one can only scratch your head. “
Virtue signalling.
There’s a similar scam going on here in northern Virginia. The solar company installs with zero down and has a graph showing the “payback” time at ten years with the savings continuing for another ten years. The problem is that the electricity produced doesn’t actually pay off the solar panel and equipment installation, and people are finding liens against their homes for failure to pay off the loan and interest. They cannot sell and they can’t make the payments.
sounds like everyone is going to need a wood burning stove.
From what a can tell, northern England sunny days are half of what Rochester receives.
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