Making the news today....

[coppice cutter]

8 hours ago, GarethM said:

Regarding solar, I am against solar parks as why waste a good field when cities and towns have industrial estates, shopping centers and even tower blocks devoid of them!.

 

If it's so financially viable cover them first and seeing that IKEA have been selling solar panels, why aren't they covered in them ?.

It's odd someone hasn't invented solar cladding.

 

Seems a waste roofing a building and then putting solar on the roof when some sort of solar cladding would do both jobs.

[coppice cutter]

1 hour ago, sime42 said:

Looks like you may soon be joined by some of your neighbours. ........

 

Solar panel sales boom as energy bills soar

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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More people are turning to renewable energy as a way to cut energy costs.

 

You need to be aware that the BBC consistently talk shite.

Edited August 28, 2022 by coppice cutter

[GarethM]

Solar cladding would be a bit like solar roof tiles, when you think about how it's wired together and repairability it's just not cost effective.

 

Plus it's pointless on three sides of the house for the small amount of power and even then you want them pointing upwards.

 

Plus most solar is glass, well silica.

Atleast a panel on top of a concrete or tile roof can be easily replaced, a roof should last 60+

Edited August 28, 2022 by GarethM

[Stubby]

36 minutes ago, coppice cutter said:

It's odd someone hasn't invented solar cladding.

 

Seems a waste roofing a building and then putting solar on the roof when some sort of solar cladding would do both jobs.

Solar roof tiles do exist .

[coppice cutter]

41 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Solar cladding would be a bit like solar roof tiles, when you think about how it's wired together and repairability it's just not cost effective.

 

Plus it's pointless on three sides of the house for the small amount of power and even then you want them pointing upwards.

 

Plus most solar is glass, well silica.

Atleast a panel on top of a concrete or tile roof can be easily replaced, a roof should last 60+

But the solar panels would be the roof, and presumably when most of them have worn out they'll be replaced anyway.

 

Unless, dare I suggest, solar is just a fad and in twenty years time everyone will wonder why people bothered?

[GarethM]

Yes, it would be the roof but a glass roof!.

My slate roof has been on since the house was built in the 1930s and other than the odd repair it won't be going anywhere.

 

A bolt on panel makes more sense, if it fails it's simple. If a solar roof fails that's not a one time repair job, unless your proposing a new "system" of aluminium rafters with accessable bolts from the loft space ?.

[coppice cutter]

Exactly.

 

If solar is going to be "a thing" surely there's a market for new builds where it's incorporated in the design and construction of the roof rather than just an add-on.

[GarethM]

Your not seeing the lack of repairability tho.

 

A glass tile regardless of how strong they are made is still glass, a very difficult if not unrecyclable glass.

 

They did try a concrete tile with a stuck on panel, but your talking a few watts per tile Vs a single panel 

[sime42]

4 hours ago, coppice cutter said:

You need to be aware that the BBC consistently talk shite.

Yeah, to an extent. They're still more balanced and factual than other news outlets.

The BBC has certainly got worse since they started including all the overly sentimental Twitter bollocks in every article.

 

[trigger_andy]

5 hours ago, sime42 said:

Yeah, to an extent. They're still more balanced and factual than other news outlets.

The BBC has certainly got worse since they started including all the overly sentimental Twitter bollocks in every article.

 

Your ability to expose your ignorance in every post you make is quite the achievement.