every apartment complex should utilize this:

zork

zork

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every apartment complex should utilize this:
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solar panels on the roof of the parking structures.
Not to mention every commercial building should be utilizing it too.
 
Have any details about those solar panels? Or did you get that directly from Sun Pumps?
 
I interviewed at the Neiman Marcus corporate office in Las Colinas a few summers ago. Their parking lot was a slab of cement. Maybe there were light stands for the night, but there was nary a tree in site. Former pasture converted into a huge parking lot and an ugly cube building.

When I went back to the car after the interview, I burned my hand on the side of the car before I opened the PLASTIC door handle. (I finally understood the brilliant idea behind plastic door handles instead of metal.)

Then, when I got inside, I burned myself on the metal of the seatbelt part that sticks into the buckle.

I was living in LA at the time and had not had Air Conditioning in any building I had lived in out there. I swore that I would get a WHITE car with tinted windows if I got the job and moved back to Texas. (The job went to someone in-house and I passed through Dallas on my move to Argentina.)

There is just money being lost and energy being wasted every day they don't have those solar panels over the cars.

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Sco, doesn't your son install them?
I'm working on it at my house. First will be the solar roof on the pool house shed. I'm planning my inverter interconnect wall now with expansion in mind.

What is the most price to performance panel out there that is actually obtainable? Is Sunny boy a good inverter family?
 
The amount of usable power generated, compared to the surface size needed by solar panels, makes them impractical for all but basic and/or supplemental use at their present technology.

NOVA had a really informative show on the subject just a few months ago.
 
Every shopping mall, big box store, and industrial building in America will have them as soon as they become economically viable. For now, it's a whole lot cheaper to get your juice from the power companies. Things are changing fast though. It's all going to be solar or wind in 20 years.

Bernard
 
My first foray is to replace one of my pool pumps, that needs to be replaced, with a DC model that will be powered via a couple solar panels. I'm planning it so my inverter will be able to have another (and maybe another)plugged into it as I gain more experience with the technology behind it and learn more about the best panels for the money out there.

It may be early adopting.(not particularly cost effective at this point) I'm also treating it as an emergency power item( more of a future thought as the total array expands) instead of buying a generator that would need gasoline to power it. (grasping for more justification)

We'll see.
 
i was more excited that it didn't have poles between every other parking spot.
 
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