Solar home wiki

ideas to start with:

Doors Open content from Gord on Ravena Dr., photos, chatter.

Marco Island beach-house photos and cautionary tale: Lightning rods save inverters.

Glossary: inverter, balance of system, breaker, DC, AC, voltage, current, efficiency, insolation, solar angle, wind loads, racking, tracking, mounts, monocrystalline, polycrystalline, thin film, solar south, cost-per-watt, grid-tie, off-grid, grid-interactive,

Motivations and outcomes: space heating, energy, CO2 footprint, independence... --> grid-tie, solar thermal, off-grid, grid-interactive,

Economics, demand, and the effectiveness of solar PV in different environments: reference to Toronto's transmission grid issues. In some places, PV solar makes more sense than others because solar output will match up with electrical (but not all energy) demands e.g. from

Understanding the electrical grid: base and peaking generation, various environments with more coal, more nuclear, or more hydroelectric, each with a different emission intensity.

Why conservation is cheaper than production.

Why solar panels on a car make little sense, but solar panels on the roof of the garage are promising!

--tai 22:52, 2 January 2008 (UTC) eastpole