RE: What is it with you people! :@
April 16, 2013 at 8:38 am
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2013 at 8:39 am by KichigaiNeko.)
The thing that has me up in arms is the supposition that it will "destroy the electricity industry" when said "industry" could make a killing utilising this type of technology for it's own profit.
We currently have the same issue here in Oz. Electricity moguls cry "We are being ruined" but do nothing that captures the fact that all this solar power can be captured for profit. Your average house uses what... 368KwH per month, of which your PV cells create 85-150% of that and feeds back into the grid. (dependant on the season. Here in oz it is nearly all year round)
It is the "into the grid" bit that gets me up in arms when electricity utilities start crying poor. SOMEONE has to manage all that power/ energy and who is better suited than electricity utilities who are too busy crying that the solar panels on houses is doing them out of their nice safe 19th century technology. And no, PV Cells will not supply your base load required for industry so all I am hearing from electricity companies is that "you are pushing us out of our nice safe comfort zone ...how dare you! whine winge whine"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt_hour
We currently have the same issue here in Oz. Electricity moguls cry "We are being ruined" but do nothing that captures the fact that all this solar power can be captured for profit. Your average house uses what... 368KwH per month, of which your PV cells create 85-150% of that and feeds back into the grid. (dependant on the season. Here in oz it is nearly all year round)
It is the "into the grid" bit that gets me up in arms when electricity utilities start crying poor. SOMEONE has to manage all that power/ energy and who is better suited than electricity utilities who are too busy crying that the solar panels on houses is doing them out of their nice safe 19th century technology. And no, PV Cells will not supply your base load required for industry so all I am hearing from electricity companies is that "you are pushing us out of our nice safe comfort zone ...how dare you! whine winge whine"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt_hour
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