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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Natural gas works. Hydro works. Nuke works.
Give it up.
“Illegal” here in the Denver metro area. However, if everyone are freeze their butts off, then the trees in the local park will be fair game.
Always loved this idiom: a fool and his money are soon parted.
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 lot to install solar panels. At night, the area under the panels is very dark, so teachers and neighbors were complaining about the possibilty of crime and assault occurring there. So the schools put up BRIGHT lights that run all night long and now shine into the neighbors windows.
So the once-beautiful school buildings and school grounds are now ugly as sin and the bright lights (that nobody signed up for) ruin the nighttime in the surrounding area.
To top it off, the school district spent a fortune installing EV chargers in lots of car parking stalls under the solar panel canopies. No teacher can afford an EV, so they all go unused 99% of the time.
California liberals...is there ANYTHING they can’t foul up? What a mess.
And don’t get me started on the economics of solar, the control problems on the T&D system, or the costs associated with having a 100% backup power gas turbine generator on standby.
Of course we keep adding chargeable cars to draw power...
Solar also hears the air.
Solar also heats the air.
Already there. Bought a 30-ton splitter a year ago and I’m been opportunistic about snagging trees. I’ve even downed a few smaller ones for neighbors. The wood stove keeps the house toasty.
And it heats the air also.
Ah, but the elites would have theirs... heated homes, full bellies, lights that work, .... civilization. The rest of us will be living on the edge with limited food, no shelter, ... because that is the natural thing to do.
Sounds like a perfect application. Like those solar LED night lights. Low cost/low demand, expendable, doesn’t matter if it works or not. That is a great application for the current state of solar and at price point, the market supports such trinkets.
Boy I wished they still taught that in school...
Paging Senator Warren, Senator Elizabeth Warren. Please check your smoke signal mail about your campaign promise to go 100% renewal energy EXCEPT for Nuclear. Too much wampum, too little energy!
Ha! Typical English weather google pics: https://tinyurl.com/y5xg8lwj
Better start investing in lumber, log splitters, Vermont Castings, sounds like everyone is going to need a wood burning stove.
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are you kidding?
Some CA communities have outlawed woodburning
they want us dead or enslaved.
In CT they will not allow you to get “off the grid” with independent solar power.
That was a deal killer for me.
People are catching on that power companies have been forced to purchase often unusable energy from small producers. and credit their power bill.
I think there’s also an application for water pumps for wells. Couple with a lithium battery back up and you can have basically endless water if you’re in a rural location or even if you have a small lake or pond you can put in an irrigation system. These are becoming very efficient.
I love this solar fountain. As soon as the panel faces the sun, the pump starts up and water spurts out. No sun, no water.
In GA you have sunny days almost every day, so these birds have water until the sun goes down.
I have three of them.
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