Set the controls for the heart of the sun...
Speaking of which, the sun will have turned into a small dark cold chunk of coal before I have PV at F towers.
The electromagnetic noise generated by the inverters is an act of environmental vandalism like streetlights that spew light upwards into the dark skies.
I operate a VLF observation station here, and PV inverters within a few hundred metres totally blat out the entire VLF spectrum.
Make the inverters electromagnetically quiet then I'll think about it again!
As someone who was kept awake by the squeeking of the control unit on an electric heater in a Travelodge the other night (yet can't separate a conversation from the rest of the noise in a pub, or for that matter hear much mid-range, noticeable dip when doing hearing tests at roughly the sound frequencies of a Nicholson tuned Cosworth DFV being hammered off the line...)
I find this interesting, my neighbours have 18 panels on their roof, and the only annoying noise I ever hear is my refrigerator. Maybe I make too much noise during the day when it's operating.
I reckon there's room for 24.
Major line fault?
Some eejit cut the cable.
Navy were conducting exercises in the area at the time, no other vessels present. Wasn't us, no sir, couldn't be. Cable must have spontaneously snapped.
New cable has been in place for about a month now. However, the cost of replacement used up the budget that would have gone to a second, much higher capacity, cable.
Aye... they have previous for such like.
Nope, there wasn't a sub there... nope couldn't be... what's that? Everyone saw it going up the Kyles of Lochalsh? What do you mean it ran aground on the way back...
Solar energy is free and abundant. IMO no new house should be built without them. The problem at the moment is that it is only generated during daylight hours and it is clear that storage technology needs to continue to develop. However I have no doubts that it will. Added to that is the fact that all cars will be electric in the not too distant future which will create a lot of storage capacity which could be tapped when demand is high. If the government is serious about renewable energy they should be incentivising home owners to install solar panels by buying production at rates which make it an attractive investment. In the meantime with a domestic installation any production surplus to immediate demand can be used to heat water thus storing energy.
The problem is, is that if the government continue to push the "everyone back to the office, starbucks needs you and your local shop doesn't", all those electric cars will be sitting in the wrong place when its sunny rendering their storage capacity useless, unless we're going to use solar, to pump hydro, to load it up into cars overnight incase it's excessivley overcast in the morning.
I'm getting keen on H2 energy storage as a principle. Batteries are fine but gas cylinders can store energy for years which allows true seasonal storage (assuming you can get enough juice off the roof during the summer of course).
Teslas can already be used to store energy for domestic solar, alongside the Tesla power wall - but I just don't think that lithium cells are a great long term solution for storing energy compared to gas cylinders. I could be dead wrong, but it's hard to find comparison data on the efficiency of Solar -> Li-Ion -> work vs Solar -> H2 -> Fuel Cell -> work
I am now wondering how the age of the average calor gas bottle compares, I've got one at the parents which I reckon is about as old as me. Well it's been in the shed for as long as I can remember, and I have no idea why because we're as committed to the orange bottles as Hank Hill, so that Blue one's a bit of an oddity.