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Enormous solar outburst could dazzle your weekend [Alaska, Seattle, Des Moines, Chicago, Boston]
Christian Science Monitor ^ | January 21, 2012 | Pete Spotts

Posted on 01/21/2012 2:52:28 PM PST by annie laurie

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Thanks annie laurie.


21 posted on 01/21/2012 4:57:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Don't get saucy with me Bernaise.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

22 posted on 01/21/2012 5:12:52 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: Hotdog

That is the insured/value for a 10kw system. $20k rebate from utility paid for half of it. 30% fed tax credit will reimburse another 10k. It saves me $150 a month.


23 posted on 01/21/2012 5:15:32 PM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: LonePalm
LOL! I don't care who you are, that's funny, right there.

Mel Brooks is appropriate anywhere, weddings, funerals, elections, hangings, threads on extrasolar planets... anywhere.

And Harv Korman could make me laugh by reading the phone book (Do we still have those?)

/johnny

24 posted on 01/21/2012 5:20:27 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: George from New England
And it should have a lifetime of 25 years, with proper maintenance. I've run solar power in specific circumstances for over 10 years.

They are pretty bullet-proof if designed correctly.

/johnny

25 posted on 01/21/2012 5:23:30 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: annie laurie
Enormous solar outburst...

Maybe they should put the sun on ritalin or maybe call the police to use a taser on it.

26 posted on 01/21/2012 5:38:33 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (religion + guns = liberty.)
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To: annie laurie
Pete Spotts

yeah, sure.

27 posted on 01/21/2012 5:39:30 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (religion + guns = liberty.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Got a pair of Fronius IG5100 inverters due to differing panel pitches. 22 panels are at 12 deg due S, 22 at 26 deg. I am at 28.4 degrees N
They run about 4200w and 3800w output. Avg about 42 kw a day.


28 posted on 01/21/2012 5:41:10 PM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: annie laurie

http://spaceweather.com/

For information on Aurora and other atmospheric phenomena.

Not much activity yet.


29 posted on 01/21/2012 6:08:57 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: George from New England

Doing the math...after tax payer pay a portion and you safe $150 a month then you will break even in 22years...that’s if nothing goes wrong...do you own a Volt too?


30 posted on 01/21/2012 6:52:50 PM PST by Hotdog
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To: Hotdog

“At current electric rates”

With out of pocket being $8k, payoff is 4 to 5 years. Sooner if rates go up.

Inverter warranties are 10 year.


31 posted on 01/21/2012 7:33:21 PM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Couple more links from bottom of yours;
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/

About The SDO Mission
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/about.php
SDO: The Solar Dynamics Observatory is the first mission to be launched for NASA’s Living With a Star (LWS) Program, a program designed to understand the causes of solar variability and its impacts on Earth. SDO is designed to help us understand the Sun’s influence on Earth and Near-Earth space by studying the solar atmosphere on small scales of space and time and in many wavelengths simultaneously.

SDO’s goal is to understand, driving towards a predictive capability, the solar variations that influence life on Earth and humanity’s technological systems by determining

how the Sun’s magnetic field is generated and structured

how this stored magnetic energy is converted and released into the heliosphere and geospace in the form of solar wind, energetic particles, and variations in the solar irradiance.


32 posted on 01/21/2012 8:27:43 PM PST by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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To: George from New England
> Hey I got $40k of solar panels on my roof this year. Am I in more danger of damage from the sun occurring to them?

Nope. They'll do just fine.

Normal everyday PV solar panels can take many times the usual max insolation without any damage at all. In fact there are some PV installations where they use Fresnel lenses to collect and concentrate the solar energy by a factor of 10 or more, to make the best use of the expensive solar cells. In that kind of use, the cells do tend to age quicker. But that's 10 times normal levels, continuously, for many years.

A relatively short burst like this should have no discernible effect at all.

33 posted on 01/21/2012 10:17:43 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: annie laurie

Figures-totally clear skies all last week, now it’s overcast.


34 posted on 01/22/2012 1:35:55 PM PST by GATOR NAVY
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To: annie laurie; SunkenCiv

Maybe this is what pushed the ball left of the uprights in the Baltimore - New England game.


35 posted on 01/23/2012 12:28:28 PM PST by colorado tanker
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36 posted on 01/23/2012 1:43:46 PM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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