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Description : Is your home powered by a solar panel system?

Last Answer : I am looking into it. My neighbor has a good set up and saves a ton of money. I live in New England, so there are lots of cloudy days. Here, we don’t have to be entirely off the grid if we switch to solar, the utility kicks in if the draw is too great on the panels.

Description : Do solar panels suck up all the sun and prevent things from growing?

Last Answer : What? No!

Description : Can Indonesia have potential to be a world powerhouse economically?

Last Answer : Explain your needs because this sounds like a homework question.

Description : Do you have experience using solar power?

Last Answer : answer:I am an electrical contractor in NJ and have a lot of experience in installing solar PV systems and educating my customers about energy efficiency measures. Solar PV can be a great investment, ... your home's efficiency is through an energy audit, with follow up of insulating and air-sealing.

Description : Does anyone have solar panels on their roof? What company did you use?

Last Answer : It's very unlikely that the installation cost will ever be paid back from the use of the panels. If you do this do it because you just want to, not for any money or energy savings. I spent ... heater ) then it's not unreasonable. I have built several using the method linked and they work great.

Description : What do you think about the CEO of Exxon/Mobil Rex Tillerson's statement "What good does it do to save the planet if humans suffer"?

Last Answer : “What good” does it do? It saves the planet. Which is more important than humans anyway. Fuck humans.

Description : Which affects global climate more, human activity or solar radiation?

Last Answer : answer:Solar radiation in that we would not have a climate without it. But solar radiation has been constant for billions of years. Human activity is altering the climate from the baseline created by solar radiation.

Description : What is the best way to build your own solar power generator?

Last Answer : you could get solar panels, or you could get an array of parabol mirrors, focus the sunlight on a pipe filled with water and connect it to a steam powered generator.

Description : How much money can you save when you have solar panels?

Last Answer : Here's how I would go about calculating this: - Find the cost of a solar panel system. You might have to ask a librarian to help you with this, or keep searching on the Internet. Here's ... system, compare that to the total energy collected by the system in its lifetime, and make a nice analysis.

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Description : How much money approximately can using solar panels save you per year?

Last Answer : the average person can save about 300-400 dollars in the California area but it changes in different areas but only slightly oh and when I say california Im only sure about San francisco and Sacramento. Not only ... the months you don't use all of it you can sell it back to the your power company.

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