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Title: Alberta announces $36M rebate program for solar panels on homes, businesses
Category: Provincial Politics
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2017-02-28 06:08:07
Canadian

[Alta_redneck]

I live in hailstone ally, will there be rebates to replace broken panels caused by golfball size hail?

[peck420]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

I live in hailstone ally, will there be rebates to replace broken panels caused by golfball size hail?

As long as your house insurance is up to snuff, and they are aware of your installation, it should be covered, same as any other hail damages to your home.

[Lemmy]

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[peck420]

If the provincial boobs wanted to make a splash in clean energy, they should be talking about solar shades up QE2. Micro wind on the bottoms, solar on the tops.

Then they could drastically reduce the long term maintenance and operation costs of one of our busiest roadways....plus produce a ton of clean energy.

If they want to make a splash in the micro generation market, do something about the smart meter and micro generation application back logs.

Lots of people itching to put clean generators up, with zero incentive, just stuck waiting for all the appropriate paper work and infrastructure to get put in.

[Lemmy]

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[ShepherdsDog]

Yeah...every house will have its own cold fusion reactor.

[peck420]

Lemmy Lemmy:

The future, I predict, is home generation. In 50 years, there will be no public power utilities or large-scale production. Homes will power themselves.

Nyet.

Energy efficient homes do not make energy efficient generators.

The future will be clean, large scale production from large scale buildings with energy generation designs integrated in.

Your average house, even if designed for generation, as opposed to reduced consumption, will never be large enough to satisfy more than the individual home. Your average office building can be. Your average industrial building certainly is.

[Lemmy]

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[DrCaleb]

Lemmy Lemmy:

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

I live in hailstone ally, will there be rebates to replace broken panels caused by golfball size hail?

Because "me, me, me".

Because nowhere else on Earth has hail, and so solar panel makers have never thought to put polycarbonate sheets on to protect the silicon wafers.

Oh . . wait . . .

[peck420]

Lemmy Lemmy:

Wanna bet?

Sure, it's not like I build buildings or anything.

$1:

Why would a house have to generate more energy than for itself? That's the whole point. You reduce the most inefficient part of the system when you remove the transportation and delivery networks. Each home generates just enough power to power itself. Then you remove the need for large scale public spending projects, large scale transport/delivery apparatus, billing systems, line repairs, etc, etc, etc. Plus you remove all the environmental problems of large scale centralized energy production.

Because "me, me, me".

And, you may want to do a ton more research into power generation, scale, and efficiency.

Going to a significantly lower efficiency, dispersed energy production system, will not help in creating a more efficient, and more environmentally friendly, society.

[ShepherdsDog]

$1:

Or maybe it'll be wind/solar and batteries.

Too many places in Canada where neither of these are effective considerations.

[BRAH]

The Alberta Government should be encouraging developers to build greener buildings, developments offering tax breaks or whatever to kick start it instead of a rebate program for solar panels.

[peck420]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Because nowhere else on Earth has hail, and so solar panel makers have never thought to put polycarbonate sheets on to protect the silicon wafers.

Oh . . wait . . .

It's a legislation issue. Panels only have to meet 1" at 88km/hr impact to pass. That requirement is not sufficient for all areas.

It won't matter if you have 2mm of poly, or 4mm of tempered glass. They are designed to the minimum impact requirement.

[Lemmy]

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