By ALG Staff
Americans for Limited Government Foundation released a report today entitled “Shedding Light on Solar Electricity.” The report covers a number of problems that the solar industry has been causing its customers. It also makes a number of recommendations to state legislators about how to protect consumers and improve transparency in the solar industry.
Americans for Limited Government Foundation Director of Research Richard McCarty, who authored the study, stated in the report’s conclusion: “Consumers have a right to know the facts before they decide to have solar panels installed on their homes. Too many times, unscrupulous solar industry employees have omitted these facts or, intentionally or unintentionally, misled potential customers. That is why state legislators should enact sensible laws that require solar companies to be open and transparent with their potential customers about the advantages and disadvantages of solar panels. Even after legislators address these problems, it will still be necessary for consumers to do their own research to ensure that solar panels are the right choice for them; but until consumer protection laws are strengthened, this research will be even more vital.”
People considering rooftop installation of photo-voltaic panels also need to know what that will do to their homeowners insurance premiums. Fire fighters will not go anywhere near a possibly live electric supply.
Oh, they are pushing that big time in the last
decade here in Guam. It’s all on the grid installs
also. So, every time the GPA power grid goes down
on it’s ass, you have to have a generator also as
backup. That’s quite often also.
I’m waiting for a good CAT III or IV typhoon to
blow threw and see what’s left of those panels on
other houses.
Out here, flat roofs on single stories have to
be represerved every 5-10 years with silicone
for heat ablation. You can’t do that with panels
on.
I recommend going DC on individual components
like a split A/C, and fridge/freezers, and non
permanent mounted panels.
Solar panels would be fine, 200 years from now. Until then, piss off you subsidy whores.
“Never give a sucker an even break.”
(dead white dude – probably a “green energy” salesman)
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A couple of years ago, someone put a huge solar panel farm under two 1000ft towers in Milwaukee. Half the panels are still there.
“Solar panels would be fine, 200 years from now.”
Why?
About 160 W/m^2 (avg) is what reaches the Earth now, what will it be in 200 years?
Can’t get something out of nothing, no matter how hard you wish. And there is no “energy multiplier” – there is only loss. Good luck.
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