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Sosseres:

--- Quote from: BuriaL on August 08, 2009, 07:29:52 PM ---Using solar power with todays tech is prolly not a good idea in norway due to little light.
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The thing I've always wondered about solar power is how those collection areas stay clear of debris. Snow, ice, leaves, sand and several other kinds of materials ought to force some kind of cleaning action?

BuriaL:
I did use the power bill from my appartment.. with a fridge, oven, computer, stereo, hotwater, heating / cooling, and lighting all using power. Did you assume i live in a little box on the street? :P
Its true that a family would need more power tho.

Instalation costs shoudlnt be to much, if you cant do it youreself. Maintenance is making sure the panels are not damaged or dirty..i dont think its verry hard to do.

I dont know how much a batterycharger, batteries and replacement batteries would cost, but hell the system is running on 50% and still produce more than i need. Scale it down a notch, move it to a country further south where power is expensive.


I dont think having a system like that would be a bad idea if i lived "a bit" further south. But no, where iam currently living i wont be changing to a system like that anytime soon.
Wtf would i do in the winter with 6 hours of light? :P

darkjedi:
You'll find that your house is seriously lacking in power during winter or rainy days. Besides that, the Sun's power output is not consistent throughout the day. Your 14 daylight hours is our perception of daylight, not the Earth's. Basically you have to take away the first 3 hours and the last 3 hours from the daylight hours. That makes it more or less 8 hours of usable daylight.

BuriaL:

--- Quote from: darkjedi on August 08, 2009, 11:15:44 PM ---You'll find that your house is seriously lacking in power during winter or rainy days. Besides that, the Sun's power output is not consistent throughout the day. Your 14 daylight hours is our perception of daylight, not the Earth's. Basically you have to take away the first 3 hours and the last 3 hours from the daylight hours. That makes it more or less 8 hours of usable daylight.

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With a battery system rainy days shouldnt be a problem, and the system will produce some power anyways. I did scale the system to double of what i would use for a reason.

Just becouse its not peak efficency light conditions more than 8 hours per day in the ideal areas for solar panel dont mean that the light isnt absorbed.

If you buildt this system in a part of egypt, youll get 8 hours of 100% power output every day. And you get less than 100% the rest of the time. Its 12 hours of light every day all year around.
You could scale the system down 50%, And i dont think youll have to worry about to much rain.


One thing that seems to be a problem tho is smog. It blocks some some of the sun, and makes cleaning the panels more important.

darkjedi:
Hehe. Good luck getting the Egyptian government into purchasing 3 million units of Solaris system.

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