Quoting Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Do you really think, though, that enough power would be gained on a
cloudy winters day in christchurch to power a streetlight + extra
gadgets all night long? I couldn't find any useful numbers on the
site.
It's not so much cloudy days what about adding power to the national grid on
normal days (read normal being a day where these units can grenerate power).
if alot of people did what one did (stuck solar units on his roof and became
100% self suffiencent with some surplus).
How would this affect vevsted inerests?
How much more power would/could be added to the national power grid
and remember just 'cause chch has a cloudy day doesn't mean elsewhere is
cloudly.
the problem is what is the charge rate (inwards and outwards) to be for the
excess (if there is) and is it offset against times/days when you use rather
than give power from the power companies.
there is a big problem in that power utilities have a vested interest in
stopping or at least reducing the methods effectiveness (read stock share
price).
Get a price on becoming overly self suffenient in power usage and then talk to
orion or who ever they'll not be interested in any scheme you might suggest.
some person in NZ had done exactly this spent thousards on it and wanted to
sell his surplus to the lines or reseller via a duel flow meter.
My memory is that they weren't interested an any method of brokering a deal
and so he is at least less reliant on the national/local grid than most of us
are.
On 06/07/06, Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes. Fantastic technology.
Wesley Parish wrote:
> I came across this today, reading Worldchanging:
> WC Retro: Starsight | WorldChanging Team
> http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004644.html#more
>
> http://www.starsightproject.com/en/africa/index.php
> and I thought, what a useful thing to have around town!
