Solar Power?

[LEP]

Dmlfarmer when I went to your link and looked around it still looks like solar has a ways to go before it is anywhere close to viable.

I agree we should implement all viable renewable options, but the reality is if power rates go to .25 or .30 kw there won't be anything but half empty houses in Canada.

Manufacturing in Ontario currently pays .05 and can barely make a go of it.

[LEP]

Just thought of another thing, even small scale diesel generation is far cheaper than solar. I think it comes in at .14 to .15 /kw.

Wouldn't that be good for the environment to have 15or 20,000 of those in a city the size of Saskatoon or Regina.

[oneoff]

Just sa another example of a solar system not capable of producing much power.

Apparently when there is hoar frost; or even a light dusting of snow; solar panels can be almost totally covered by a layer that probably affects their output significantly.

At least thats what it looked like today; on the roof of a home almost completely covered by a solar array.

[oneoff]

Now for a suggestion that would produce some real power; using energy sources vented directly to the atmosphere and/or burned obscenely though oil site flare stacks.

I am told that there still remains the first individual or company to sign up for less than 100 KVA generating capacity under SaskPower programs that pay 10.2 cents per kilowatt hour generated into the grid.

As an example; the meager amount of about 5 cubic feet per minute of raw gas will generate in the order of 25 kilowatt hours of electricity......

and also produce about the same amount of waste heat energy blown out of the radiator

And
Another 25 KWH all ready to extract somehow from the exhaust gas stream.

Now think green house heating; or enough heat to warm thousands of square feet of enclosed....but even largely uninsulated building are.

Now I'll bet bucket can grasp this situation; but not so sure about the rest who might even dare read this heresy

Call me a Bitcher if you want; it might well be taken as a compliment.