treehugger.com— This TV commercial is awesome! Almost movie-quality. I think it's very memorable and helps the solar-power industry.
Sep 14, 2006View in Crawl 4
If you haven't been following solar power, most modern systems don't even use batteries but rather stay on grid.What happens is that during the day if you have solar panels on your roof, it provides electrity through your house through a DC to AC converter through your normal outlets and devices in your house and anything extra goes to the grid.If your power meter gets power from your system onto the grid, it rolls backwards saving you money.During the night you just get your power from the grid and it rolls forward.Now if you happened to have a montly cumalative roll back from your begining power meter reading at the begining of month (get this) the power company pays you 1 and 1/2 times more than you paid them due to government subsidies to solar power on grid systems.Now this still requires you to be on the grid and if you true independence you still have to have a buttload of batteries, but at least the powercompany is paying you and not the other way around.
@"Gret conceptual commercial, but did you notice just how much real estate it took up for the solar field?"Have you been to South Dakota? Or Nevada or Arizon for that matter?Real estate is not a problem.Although I'd hate to live out in South Dakota during the winter... The seas of grass and plain is kind of unique.
Not enough real estate?? Are you kidding.There has been a study that proved if Nevada built a solar energy power plant, 100 miles by 100 miles (10,000 square miles in the desert) it would produce enough energy to power the entire United States!! The study included efficiency losses in transmission as well. This foot print is not that large if you can imagine the size of all the nations power plants combined. think about it. . .
@daddiogig:I take it you have never seen a large production oil field, refinery, or perhaps the massive oil-sands projects in Canada? Sure it takes up space, but at least that space is re-usable.
bitemegatesSep 15, 2006
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anagogeSep 15, 2006
No good for 90% of diggers who are up until 4am in the morning in the dark ;)
trashbox999Sep 15, 2006
best ever? no way!
htmldeitySep 15, 2006
All we need is a Dyson Sphere.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere</a>
vertinoxSep 15, 2006
If you haven't been following solar power, most modern systems don't even use batteries but rather stay on grid.What happens is that during the day if you have solar panels on your roof, it provides electrity through your house through a DC to AC converter through your normal outlets and devices in your house and anything extra goes to the grid.If your power meter gets power from your system onto the grid, it rolls backwards saving you money.During the night you just get your power from the grid and it rolls forward.Now if you happened to have a montly cumalative roll back from your begining power meter reading at the begining of month (get this) the power company pays you 1 and 1/2 times more than you paid them due to government subsidies to solar power on grid systems.Now this still requires you to be on the grid and if you true independence you still have to have a buttload of batteries, but at least the powercompany is paying you and not the other way around.
vertinoxSep 15, 2006
@"Gret conceptual commercial, but did you notice just how much real estate it took up for the solar field?"Have you been to South Dakota? Or Nevada or Arizon for that matter?Real estate is not a problem.Although I'd hate to live out in South Dakota during the winter... The seas of grass and plain is kind of unique.
dash24Sep 15, 2006
Not enough real estate?? Are you kidding.There has been a study that proved if Nevada built a solar energy power plant, 100 miles by 100 miles (10,000 square miles in the desert) it would produce enough energy to power the entire United States!! The study included efficiency losses in transmission as well. This foot print is not that large if you can imagine the size of all the nations power plants combined. think about it. . .
xixorSep 15, 2006
@daddiogig:I take it you have never seen a large production oil field, refinery, or perhaps the massive oil-sands projects in Canada? Sure it takes up space, but at least that space is re-usable.
hipstershaunSep 16, 2006
anagogeDid you read the part of his comment about the power being stored in batteries?
sivatallaSep 20, 2006
Truly the best...
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neoniJun 30, 2009
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