Comments for This is How Gorgeous Solar Power can be at http://ecogeek.org , comment 1 to 28 out of 20 comments http://ecogeek.org Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:47:25 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-31886 Guys, these people do good works and the response from the troops has been fantastic. squeeze Git on over to that site. - Infants Erin Ugg Boot Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:32:53 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-31548 replica designer handbags,provide you the best quality,selection and price you can only find in the top specialty stores,Keeping you abreast of the lastest trends and providing the convenience of shopping from home. replica handbags replica handbags , - replica handbags Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:36:18 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-30719 In conclusion, although there were many satisfied Chi customers, the quality of the CHI flat iron was called into question. 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Just do your homework. - ouch no kidding Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:40:46 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-29273 Somewhere there is a company that will actually spray your roof with the right chemicals to produce electricity. Why all the talk about connections has no one heard of wireless? The tiles are great everyone likes a blue roof but there must be choice of colors. It doesn't really matter what great technology is invented there are always some people who insist on walking rather than catching the new fangled thingy called a bus! - ouchthathurts Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:09:15 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-28517 Here is a site where you can get a different view of the roof (all terracotta) and a bit (very) different outlook. http://ecdfan.blogspot.com/2009/06/marketing-of-solar-tile.html I don't know who is correct but it sure smells like there is a dead rat somewhere around! - russ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:56:04 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-28182 The above installation is downright ugly - but there is a simple solution: produce a black-colored (non-solar) tile for the rest of the roof. Sure, it would absorb more heat than the terra-cotta, but it would also by definition be in areas that don't receive as much direct sunlight. I think a uniform color would look MUCH better. - Bryan Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:04:29 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-28164 This is a big step in the right direction! There will always be a market for larger homes, but this is one way to make even the biggest "McMansion" have a smaller energy appetite! Thanks for finding and sharing this! - Richard Taylor, AIA Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:26:49 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-28157 Hi! I like your srticle and I would like very much to read some more information on this issue. Will you post some more? - cheap ugg boots Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:53:07 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-28119 thats really creative how they changed the design - Fred Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:46:55 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-28044 500 watts per 100 square feet today is a long way from not long ago. I don't think it'll be long before aesthetic panels will do much better. And at a lower cost. Thanks for this post - Jerry Waxman Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:17:41 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-28039 Still building McMansions, and decorating them with pis poor very low efficiency solar cells to be green! Goddamn! Will Yankee Doodle never catch on! Shiite-heads! Sustainability is a keyword, and without it, You Die! Zero maintenance is a not a concept, Zero upkeep is a practical reality now-a-days! No Shyster vulture capitalist planned obsolescence allowed! By law! Obama law! Off-grid is not some fool's folly - today it is a practical reality with good solar cells properly installed! but not for the crap McMansions in these photos! Goddammit folks, I'm trying to be patient with you, and so is the rest of the world! The fvcking oil is gone folks! The new dollar is the "Yuan". Suburbia is dead and in the past, GM is defunct, Chrysler's are gone and so are the "Glory Days" of America's past! Build the future! You must now build smaller, more practical, solar oriented super-insulated,water conserving, greenhouse attached, complete with chicken coups, aquaculture pools, gardens, dry toilets, water preservation systems, survival shelters along the lines of the "Earthship" concept! Not goddamn palaces to the glory of and age gone by! Warning! only the smart survive, and America is not being smart, it is trying to preserve the past and that simply will not wash! not in architecture, transportation, science, technology, biology, medicine, of life in general! Change in imminent and omnipresent. Move on America! move on or crumble under the force of a powerful and rising Asian fact. - Uncle B Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:14:54 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-28028 You have a good point. I have a similar system (see netzeroenergy.org) In my case the tiles are 3ft wide and thus has a lot less connections than the blue system, but more than standard panels. I did some mean time between failure analysis, and am more likely than not to have zero contact failures in 20 to 30 years based on the data I had. Also by connecting in multiple strings a bad contact only causes a percentage loss of output. I looked into this quite a bit. The MC3 connectors are very positive fit and contact, and are weatherized, being under the roof out of the weather I expect much better reliability than under traditional panels. The other way to interconnect is to make holes through the roof deck on connect on the inside (if accessible). I didn't like this idea. Because the membrane on the roof deck is my waterproof layer (the tiles are mere protection for the membrane). (I too have BEng in electron engineering) - Mark Bartosik Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:18:34 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-28007 For grid-connected systems, there's generally no need for a battery, the PV is there to reduce overall consumption (or if you have enough, to add electricity to the grid.) - sendai Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:36:39 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-27963 Hmmm. 53 W/m^2, why bother? I'll bet they are expensive (take a lot of energy to manufacture) and are a maintenance nightmare. I wonder how well the thousands of electrical connections will fare on a rooftop environment. A rooftop seems to me to be a perfect accelerated aging environment for fragile electronic equipment. :) However, I bet they will still look good after they stop working in 7 years. - Joseph Frisco PE Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:34:27 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-27955 Have they finally got system -not just the PV array, but the inverters, that big battery and installation- prices down to where the interest cost is not greater than the cost of grid energy? Oops, I forgot depreciation. Even if you expect the PV array and the electronics to outlast you, the battery [i]will[/i] go away in ten years or less. - Steve Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:54:54 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-27854 Sounds like you'd need at least twice the roof area for these that you would with standard solar pannels. Do-able, though if cheap enough. But they look expensive. Any cost info? - bbm Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:46:53 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-27847 That was my first thought as well, build the entire roof with a uniform color palette. That would make the solar tiles blend even more pleasantly. Weren't there articles recently about new car paints that look like dark colors to the eye, but reflect heat almost as well as white? If you make the (unpowered) roofing tiles with such a pigment, you could blend the entire roof without the penalty of increased thermal gain. - Jonathan Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:32:38 +0100 http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-can-be#comment-27834 Here's another one: netzeroenergy.org Which happens to be my house, shameless plug, but relevant. Unfortunately my roof does not face south, but it looks cool! The tiles at the edge are concrete tiles, which are not so popular here in North East. - Mark Bartosik Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:07:26 +0100