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Posted by Warm Worm on December 22, 2007, 5:55 pm
Don wrote:
>>> "Edgar"> wrote
>>>> Solar power at $1.00 per watt?
>>>>
http://www.solveclimate.com/blog/20071219/1-watt-itunes-solar-energy-has-arrived
>>> 2 reasons.
>>> 1) Big oil won't let the media jump all over it.
>>> 2) The owner has been trolling the PV solar newsgroup for a couple years
>>> now and he's blowing smoke big time.
>>> I read the link this morning and was not convinced.
>>> The thing about solar is that you have to *navigate a certain amount of
>>> learning curve* in order to understand what you're dealing with.
>>> Unbelievably you can't just buy a panel, nail it on the roof and sit back
>>> and watch the coins tumble in.
>>> Its much more complex and quite frankly I can't see, at this point in the
>>> game, the average homeowner having the where with all to stick with it
>>> after the initial investment.
>>>
>>> ** A corollary that may make more sense to you is the nitwit that thinks
>>> he can go out and buy a cheap cad program and design his own house.
>>> He may indeed believe he has designed his own house but we in the
>>> business know the reality of the thing.
>>>
>> I hope your wrong, but I haven't seen or heard of this before so who
>> knows.
>>
>> I'd definitely do a lot of research and get a lot of information before
>> going solar.
>>
>> Now, what about super capacitors rather than batteries? I've heard about
>> it, but I want to know more.
>
> Your ahead of me when I was your age Edgar.
> I just mentioned caps in my last post.
> A cap stores juice then releases it all in one fell swoop, like for
> supporting that oomph for big bass speakers.
> I called my idea a reverse cap, rather than releasing the juice all at once
> it would release a metered amount over a long time, like a battery.
> Not that long ago cars had caps, called coils, in the ignition system and
> even though the system was only 12 volts the coil would produce 60,000 volts
> to fire the sparkplugs.
> This was the manner of making *hasty obstacles* of enemy vehicles in a
> course I took in the army.
> But yeah, envision a device the size of a water heater in your house that
> was really a reverse capacitor that could power your house for say 10 days
> before needing to be recharged.
Cool. That's the Don I (also) like to read.
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