Look at this video of a California arsonist being stopped by hikers and arrested recently for setting a wildfire on a popular trail, believe it happened yesterday: what is this arsonist motivation - what in the world is he thinking?
"going on"? There's always been an issue with mental illness and other behavioral issues. It's just that we hear about all incidences happening across the country and the other side of the world with little effort on our part these days.
Put solar panels in different regions and different amounts of power are produced. Fine. This study goes further to examine how that regional power production translates into CO2 emission reductions: Researchers map where solar energy delivers the biggest climate payoff | EurekAlert! publication: sciadv.adq5660
Here is a more graphical map: Source: Solar Resource Maps and Data | Geospatial Data Science | NREL My area of North Alabama: Bob Wilson
I hope they have improved both the unit itself and where it's mount in regards to the DC to AC mini inverters. The only Australian solar panel manufacturer, Tindo in an Adelaide South Australia suburb, ended with many containers full of their early 250w panels, purely because the micro inverters failed. The systems were under the 25 yr warranty Tindo offers with their system installs, but to reduce the losses, they removed the 250w panels and replaced them with higher output panels and the system owners only had to pay the make up cost between what they paid for each of the original panels and the supply only cost of the new bigger panels. I bought a lot of these 250w panels for $100 aud, they still work faultlessly even though they were 10 yrs old. Made for building a fairly cheap and reliable off grid system on two of my motorhomes and the house. All gone now, lost one motorhome when the workshop burnt to the ground, the second when the house and motorhome burnt to the ground ..... gotta find time and the weather to cooperate to fit a system on this latest 31 ft motorhome .... no, none of the fires were related to solar or lithium batteries, the grid connection meter box on the side of the garage at the house went up, the motorhome was parked between the garage and house and the wind was blowing across the river, pushing the garage fire onto the fibreglass panels on the motorhome, the diesel fuel tank on the other side of the motorhome caught fire and the wind pushed the fire onto the house. The first motorhome, sadly, was in the workshop because I was doing an oil charge and planned to finish it in the morning so we could head off for a 3 mth holiday that afternoon ..... I believe that one was arson, robbed the place and burnt it to the ground to hide any evidence, we were already supposed to be on the road that morning, so we wouldn't have known about it for at least a few days ...... T1 Terry
Bummer. I understand @hill had a fire problem with a renter in Nashville. Looking at my production for July 1-30: Assembling parts for solar linked J1772 adapter - this will change the EV charging to the solar panel output minus 1-2 A for the house load. Perfect following load that matches the solar panel output. This should reduce battery in-out loss and over generated load to grid. Two new fire and carbon monoxide detectors - one for attic and the second the hallway. Just too darn hot after 10 AM. Plan to install lightning rod higher than the solar panels - told not necessary, I'm a belt and suspender engineer and the best way to motivate me is to tell me not to do it. Plus all the news stories about lightning strike injuries and fires. My roof has 400 W panels with 300 W micro inverters mounted in the air gap under the 16 panels. This gives a peak 4.8 kW during the summer. The 13.5 kWh storage battery is mounted under the shadiest eave and is less than 1/2 the peak, daily production, ~30 kWh. charging the EVs is my buffer to avoid over charging the battery and dumping excess into the grid. Bob Wilson
