Posted by Jimmydog on August 22, 2019 at 08:38:30 from (216.184.46.49):
In Reply to: Solar panel update posted by philip d on August 19, 2019 at 13:59:56:
Rusty, thanks for pointing that out, I hadn't heard about that. I wouldn't have thought a solar panel could catch on fire. About the only thing that could combust on a panel is the plastic coating and junction box on the backside, and it would take a heck of an ignition source to get that going. But then again I wouldn't have thought to hook so many of them up in series to get to hundreds and thousands of volts DC either. And if I did I'm sure I still wouldn't do it. At those voltages you could start a lot of things that don't normally combust on fire. Obviously a major design flaw not an indictment of the panels themselves. Makes me wonder just what advantage the engineers thought to gain by using high voltage DC? Anybody have any guesses? I just assumed all the big installations used micro invertors.
Enough with this land usage nonsense, it's just a strawman argument and you all know it! There's plenty places to site panels. If every home and business in this country had solar panels covering their roof, we'd have more energy than we'd know what to do with. Of course we might lose a couple Wal-marts along the way, but I'd just chalk that up as part of the cost of progress. Heh heh.
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