@matigo what you realize after a while is that "important" people aren't that much different from anyone else. They're also, like most people, likely faking it. :)
@matigo Not so in the case of coffee or tea. The caffeine content is very mildly diuretic but it’s effect is insignificant re dehydration. http://time.com/5192272/coffee-tea-dehydrating/
// @hybotics
@matigo Don’t be daft. That sort of thing doesn’t happen. The deal with the present energy supplier is the feed-in tariff is about ½ the cost of power.
The arrangement is you don’t save money by feeding back into the grid. You save by using the solar power itself and not taking much in from the grid.
@matigo No battery. Can be fitted but isn’t necessary. A retired engineer friend with a much larger property & garage (best inverter location) has a pair of ex-telephone exchange battery racks. Each cell is a 2 volt lead-acid monster bigger than a normal car battery.
I don’t need the added expense of a battery.
According to the wi-fi dongle on the solar array’s inverter my system produced 4 kWh of electricity in the afternoon only. This is because it was installed in the morning & only activated at 12:45 pm.
According to the blurb issued with the product, I can expect it to produce an average of 3.6 kWh daily throughout the year in this locality.
The sky was mostly overcast today, reducing the efficiency significantly.
So it a looks quite promising.
With the recent closure of a brown coal powerplant, power customers have been warned they might suffer power outages if the draw on the system is excessive on hot days due to air conditioner usage.
The solar array fitted to my roof this morning would be at its most efficient under such weather conditions. Household power use comes initially from the solar array, only drawing on the national grid when usage exceeds generation capacity.
So when I’m using my A/C in cooling mode most if not all of its electricity usage will be from the array. Much less likely to suffer a power outage.
Photovoltaic array of 9 cells installed on my roof today. Weather is overcast, season is early Autumn, time is mid-afternoon. The system inverter has its own wi-fi dongle so I can monitor power production which is currently (pun intended) 2.88 kW. Whist it is connected to the national power grid, I'm not getting any credits for it until my power supply company signs me up to a rebate plan which can only be done after the final electrical safety inspection.
So the home power usage comes first from the solar array and any excess above that comes in from the grid.
I'm doing a load of laundry at present to make use of the generation capacity.
FU Apple. Tried to burn an mp3 CD in iTunes, kept getting an error that some music couldn’t be burned because they were not in mp3 format. Most odd. I had used iTunes to convert them, they showed up as mp3 but in the playlist they were still showing as either purchased or matched aac files.
Easy solution (for me, at least). Out comes the 2005 G4 12” PowerBook. Imported the required music via USB stick. Made a new playlist & burned it to a CD. No problems at all.
#OldStuffCanBeSuperiorToNew