Solar panels ....... what are you experiences? What are the good ones?

[FenceFurniture]

Tesla's new battery centre in the US will be a game changer.

As for using more power to make them than they generate - guess how the factory is powered.......

That doesn't account for the power used by any 3rd party component suppliers, but...

[Chris Parks]

How are the panels going to work covered in snow?

[FenceFurniture]

How are the panels going to work covered in snow?

They know someone who can sell them cheap batteries.

Yeah, fair point, and no industrial application is going to be able to rely totally on batteries.

[FenceFurniture]

There was this article: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...m-ion-battery/

Given the cheapness of AlIon, they could build monster reserve battery packs. Good by "baseload" coal burning devils!

The important part of that article was the last two paras:

Thus, you shouldn’t expect to be using Stanford’s aluminum-ion battery in your smartphone, tablet, or electric vehicle anytime soon. While the battery might allow you to charge your smartphone or electric vehicle in under a minute, it would significantly increase the weight of your phone or vehicle.

However, there is a chance you will see the aluminum-ion battery deployed on the grid one day. One application that might be a perfect fit for Stanford’s aluminum-ion battery is providing balancing and reserve power to the electric grid in order to maintain the balance between total electricity supply and total electric demand. This application requires high-power batteries with the capability to charge and discharge many times without failing. If Stanford’s aluminum-ion battery can be constructed at a sufficiently low cost in the future, it might be used to provide this service on the grid.

[Seymore Butts]

5.72kw system. Sunnyboy Inverter and Jinko 260w Panels. This is pretty much the best on the market at the moment.

With Origin at the minute and they give us a whopping 5.3cent feed in tariff. I wanted to thank them personally but thought against it on the grounds I may be arrested.

[Bob38S]

5.72kw system. Sunnyboy Inverter and Jinko 260w Panels. This is pretty much the best on the market at the moment. With Origin at the minute and they give us a whopping 5.3cent feed in tariff. I wanted to thank them personally but thought against it on the grounds I may be arrested.

I don't know about being arrested, but seeing you are so "happy" they may consider reversing the digits to 3.5 cents to make you even happier.

[Sebastiaan56]

We used Blue Mountains Solar and I would recommend them. I dont have our specs to hand but it has well and truly paid for itself. Like others Im waiting for the batteries to become widely available and then we will get off the grid for good.