At 04:14 PM 7/19/01, Jeroen wrote:
>At 22:55 18-7-01 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
>
>> > Further, you should take into account that in Europe many people live in
>> > apartment buildings. This lowers the number of deaths in two ways:
>> >
>> > 1. You have many people living under one roof, so you can serve a lot of
>> > households at a time when you go up on the roof.
>> > 2. Apartment buildings have flat roofs. Chances of falling off a flat roof
>> > are a lot smaller than falling off the sloped roof of a house.
>> >
>>
>>But, flat roofs are very bad for solar power. You need a south sloping
>>roof...angles and all.
>
>That makes flat roofs perfect for the job. Because it is flat, you can put
>tilted panels on them in whatever direction you want. That's a lot harder
>to do on tilted roofs that just happen to be in the wrong direction.
>
>
>>Plus, there isn't enough roof/person for the roof of
>>an apartment building to suffice.
>
>True, if all the power for the building needs to come from those panels.
>However, if you install it to provide *part* of the entire power need, it
>might at least generate enough power for, FREX, the elevators and the
>lights in the hallways, basements, parking garage etcetera (depending on
>the size of the roof).
Oh, great. Then when they quit working, you're stuck between floors in the
elevator in the dark.
-- Ronn! :)
