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Having to go out after a storm to clean several hundred pounds of snow
off your damn roof so the solar panels will work.

Oh that's right, You wanted British Columbia to go to Solar power,
instead of Coal, even though you live up north in CANADA...

Dumbass.

Ouch. Maybe if the panels were set up on the side of the building instead?

Zaku-chan wrote:Ouch. Maybe if the panels were set up on the side of the building instead?

Won't work. They have to face the sun at an optimum angle to work
well enough to pay for themselves.

What if they were on the side, but angled so they could still catch the sun for at least part of the day? Probably easier to maintain, even if they don't collect as much power.

What if they were on the side, but angled so they could still catch the sun for at least part of the day? Probably easier to maintain, even if they don't collect as much power.

They need to be on the roof where they can get the maximum amount of sun all day to be effective. Otherwise you are not getting your money's worth.

Go nuclear. Fuck coal, fuck solar, fuck wind. They're all shit.

How much nuclear is Canada using?

AdmiralKanos wrote:Go nuclear. Fuck coal, fuck solar, fuck wind. They're all shit.

Thus my, build 365 six reactor plants a year for a decade solution to power problems. Also, buy uranium stocks.

I'd consider a solar powered house if it meant I could tell the electric company to go fuck itself. Unless I move to Arizona, though, that's probably not a viable option...

RedImperator wrote:I'd consider a solar powered house if it meant I could tell the electric company to go fuck itself. Unless I move to Arizona, though, that's probably not a viable option...

Ditto for me, but it would be central Australia, you know what I mean?

you know these little heating wires in the rear windows of cars?
they dont take much power and melt the snow at arrival.
fuck coal, fuck nuclear!
solar/wind/water power are cool!

RedImperator wrote:I'd consider a solar powered house if it meant I could tell the electric company to go fuck itself. Unless I move to Arizona, though, that's probably not a viable option...

what problems do you have with the electric company?

here it´s quite cool. if you produce more power than you need you sell it to the electric companies.

Crown wrote:

RedImperator wrote:I'd consider a solar powered house if it meant I could tell the electric company to go fuck itself. Unless I move to Arizona, though, that's probably not a viable option...

Ditto for me, but it would be central Australia, you know what I mean?

I'm not too certain it's all that viable here in Arizona. I saw more solar pannels on houses when I lived in the midwest.

salm wrote:

RedImperator wrote:I'd consider a solar powered house if it meant I could tell the electric company to go fuck itself. Unless I move to Arizona, though, that's probably not a viable option...

what problems do you have with the electric company?

here it´s quite cool. if you produce more power than you need you sell it to the electric companies.

I just resent all the utility companies. And insurance companies. And banks. And the phone company. Oh, and the cable company. Anyone who sends me a bill, honestly.

Personally Red Imp...I believe we all do at some point.

I mean that's why I can't stand the mail...for every one piece of good news...I get four bills easily.

Nuclear is the way. Screw all those tree hugging scientific ignorant evironazis. If they are unhappy with nuclear, then they can go outside and play hide and go fuck themselves.

AdmiralKanos wrote:Go nuclear. Fuck coal, fuck solar, fuck wind. They're all shit.

Damn, but I wish we did that. Get a bunch of breeder reactions on-line, too...

Appealing though that may be, there is a limited supply of fissionables.

I say go hydro. Only problem is the damn hippies start bitching about the fish then. But then they're never satisfied.

I say go hydro. Only problem is the damn hippies start bitching about the fish then. But then they're never satisfied.

Where you gonna build new plants? We've heavily dammed rivers already. More than just greens oppose new damns, fisherman, sporting interests, etc.

Dam's can increase flooding upstream while controlling down stream. No free lunch on any energy choice.

Like it or not, nuclear presents the most bang for the buck (no pun intented) but the waste disposal issue a giant political football.

what´s so wrong with solar??? if it´s developed further at a much higher rate than now, even houses in places with less sun can be powered. there could still be emergency power lines or generators.

Yeah... You heard about Yucca Mountain in the US? The Government is planning to store the nuclear waste there, and a bunch of people are bitching about it... Funny thing is that they can't offer a better solution. On ChannelOne's website (Some news prog for kids in school), there were idiots saying that they didn't want nuclear waste in their town because it would explode

Exonerate wrote:Yeah... You heard about Yucca Mountain in the US? The Government is planning to store the nuclear waste there, and a bunch of people are bitching about it... Funny thing is that they can't offer a better solution. On ChannelOne's website (Some news prog for kids in school), there were idiots saying that they didn't want nuclear waste in their town because it would explode

basicly they´re right. i wouldnt want nuclear waste in my town either. it might not explode but it might leak, get into the water supply or something else like that. i dont want to have 6 eyed children.

Its not like they're going to store it in your town... They're just afraid that trucks transporting it will leak it, which I may add is VERY improbably. I've seen vidoes of those containers crashing into cement at 60mph, and still surviving without a scratch.

Exonerate wrote:Its not like they're going to store it in your town... They're just afraid that trucks transporting it will leak it, which I may add is VERY improbably. I've seen vidoes of those containers crashing into cement at 60mph, and still surviving without a scratch.

IIRC, the things have even survived train derailings. Most impressive their construction.