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The equipment doesn’t have moving parts so I wouldn’t expect it to break down so quickly. The real surprise for me was how much having solar panels on your roo
by bunderbunder 9mo ago
The equipment doesn’t have moving parts so I wouldn’t expect it to break down so quickly.
The real surprise for me was how much having solar panels on your roof adds to the cost of roofing work. Which is a problem because the roof is likely to need repairs more often than the solar panels.
- epistasis 9mo agoYeah it's a tradeoff on the roof. The panels also increase the lifetime of the roof. Solar panels are incredibly durable, there's a thriving secondary market for used panels, and we're likely to see 30-50 years of usage out of any panel created today. Cracking the problem of making the roof out of solar panels seems like a fantastic engineering challenge. But not one with small tiles, make the roof out of the bigger cheap large panels. I would love to see startups working on that. Asphalt roofs look like crap anyway, changing to shiny panels would be a huge improvement IMHO