RE: Times have changed, 'green' sells products L3

[Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM]

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> Van: Ronn Blankenship
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> Verzonden: Sunday, July 15, 2001 6:58 PM
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> Onderwerp: Re: Times have changed, 'green' sells products L3

> Something else I just thought of:  in some areas, there is not much 
> clearance between the roof and overhead electrical or telephone lines.
> If a solar power unit sticks up X feet above the roof, will it be
> necessary for the power and phone companies to raise their wires by X 
> feet also to maintain the minimum legally-mandated clearance?  How much 
> will this add to the overall cost of installing a solar power system,
> as said utility companies are likely to pass along the cost of raising
> the wires to their customers?

IIRC, those panels are only a few centimeters thick, not a few feet. Putting
two-feet-high solar panels on a roof would probably not be doable; the total
weight of all that material would probably let the roof come crashing down.
(That, and it would look real ugly, all those boxes on rooftops.)

So, I don't think there will be any need to raise wires for power lines and
phone lines, and therefore no costs to pass on to the customers.

This is not really in issue in much of Western Europe, BTW: high-voltage
power lines usually don't run directly over residential areas, and phone
lines are mostly underground, not above ground. Nice, living in a
geologically stable area...


Jeroen
Bowing his head in shame for using non-metric units. Sorry, Alberto...

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