[LINK] Standards, please! The third coming of electric vehicles

[Ivan Trundle]

On 22/04/2012, at 2:02 AM, Frank O'Connor (and Karl Auer) wrote:

>> Anyone with a bit of roof space facing vaguely north can
>> get into power generation. And locally generated power gets rid of the
>> whole transmission losses thing. The single most energy efficient thing
>> we can possibly do is generate power near where it will be used.
> 
> Like my roof you mean?

Here in Canberra, the local electricity supplier determined that less than 30% of homes were suitable for solar power generation.

If you trawl through the various online solar panel forums, you'll hear about the myriad of reasons why most roof spaces are hopeless for solar panels - primarily from shading, and wrong orientation. Shading can be as much as a single TV aerial mast, and has a significant impact on power generation.

iT