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It turns a surface that mostly transfers heat into your attic into a surface that transfers less heat into your attic and a great deal of electricity into your
by gte910h 14y ago
It turns a surface that mostly transfers heat into your attic into a surface that transfers less heat into your attic and a great deal of electricity into your house during the part of the day that requires the most air conditioning.
If you live anywhere that's hot much of the year, it's a great deal, dropping your electric bill precipitously and recouping costs often in 2-4 years in that type of situation (as opposed to 7-12 in less reasonable areas). Also due to the nature of how cheap the electricity is during the day, you can set the A/C low during the day "coast" off the temperature differential during the night closer to a temperature you'd like.
Bad areas for solar: Constant cloud cover, Lots of overhanging Trees, far northern latitude. I would not use it in Alaska, Portland or Atlanta for these reasons.
- jusben1369 14y agoWait Atlanta? I was with you until you hit an incredibly hot city with a therefore powerful sun.
- gte910h 14y agoAtlanta is FILLED with very tall trees. Which then fall on your panels and break them. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=google+maps+atlanta&hl=en&ll=33.77616,-84.374195&spn=0.010184,0.020621&safe=off&hnear=Atlanta,+Fulton,+Georgia&gl=us&t=h&z=17 https://maps.google.com/maps?q=google+maps+atlanta&hl=en... Those large green trees? They're 60-160 feet tall. Drop branches every severe wind. There all over the place (Although most are under a hundred feet tall). They knock out our power lines, our cable lines and when they fall, our houses (luckily most people remove them long before that point). There are certainly suburban areas near Atlanta where they've been clear cut in their past as part of their transformation into chicken farms (Before being turned into housing), and those locations would likely be EXCELLENT areas for solar panels. But anywhere that has original trees, nope.