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‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

I am not sure 1.5m Germans all deciding on a single course of action is something to be happy about.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Why? Can you explain a little bit?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

A mere drop in the bucket when 77m have decided on a much worse course of action in another country.

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[–] RandomVideos 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There is something in it - they are making solar panels with chemicals that makes energy trans

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We even tried to make trains trans once

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

My North-East facing balcony doesn't get enough sun light. But it's an interesting idea.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Isn't wind energy better on balconies?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Hmm no,

first oft all: noise. Wind turbines have moving parts, that attached to a building or even worse attached to a balcony creates noise in the whole building. Imagine the rattling of 5-6 ~10 year old, bad maintained, wind turbines.
Second: the energy output is rather low. A 1,2KW turbine is about 1.2m/3.9feet big. That's in spherical, cause it has to be able to rotate by wind direction.
Third: balconies are preferred to not have wind, but sun.
And last but not least: blades. Every windturbine form factor has (fast) moving blades. If it's reachable someone is going to stick a finger in it.

If you're living more suburban and have a windy detached place to setup a small windturbine that's an option. On the garage or shed for example.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Would be nice if grid tied inverters weren’t such a regulatory PITA. Micro-deployment solar, and more importantly distributed energy storage, makes so much sense and could solve a lot of grid-related problems.

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