This week's comic: The dangers of solar panels

[river@toot.cat]

@jensorensen The first panel is sort of correct though. Solar installations can cause serious electromagnetic noise problems if not properly designed and installed. A loop of wire on a roof makes a good aerial, and cheap inverters skip proper filtering.

This doesn't mean you shouldn't have them, but they need to be done properly.

[zjb@mastodon.social]

哈哈，太阳能板的“危险”是指什么？是太亮了会闪瞎眼睛吗？好奇你的漫画里是怎么画的~

[distant_echoes@fedi.pathsecho.quest]

@jensorensen
I am so happy this news story did not take place in Alabama.
There's a factory making solar panels a few miles from me and they're already tying into the grid, utilizing existing greenways for sewer pipe inspections.

[que@mastodon.au]

@pomubieng @weezmgk @VoquiLeibbrandt @jensorensen better doesnt mean perfect

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

@jensorensen The one issue I have with solar and wind is that it needs to trade one contamination (air pollution from gas) for another (water and soil pollution from mining and ore processing).

[gokushrm@mastodon.social]

@pomubieng @weezmgk @VoquiLeibbrandt @jensorensen lol. 25-30 max

[pomubieng@mastodon.social]

@GOKUSHRM @weezmgk @VoquiLeibbrandt @jensorensen https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/1ig4lhl/what_percent_of_each_of_the_components_of_solar/?tl=es-419

[pomubieng@mastodon.social]

@que @weezmgk @VoquiLeibbrandt @jensorensen a different way to prolong capitalism is not a better way to live. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/1ig4lhl/what_percent_of_each_of_the_components_of_solar/?tl=es-419

[weezmgk@mastodon.social]

@GOKUSHRM Kinda. Most panels carry a 25 year warranty to 80% output. In that time, they will pay back 10-30x the energy required to produce and then are >95% recyclable. Because the local PV hating troll needs that info. https://impact.ornl.gov/en/publications/environmental-and-economic-impacts-of-early-residential-photovolt-2/ @pomubieng @VoquiLeibbrandt @jensorensen

[gokushrm@mastodon.social]

@weezmgk @pomubieng @VoquiLeibbrandt @jensorensen I'm thinking to use solar power in my new house.. Cheap and easy electricity.. No need of gas either to cook food. Just use electric cooker or induction. . All problem solve with 1 panel

[iveyline@mastodon.nz]

@jensorensen We're enjoying all those dangers with our solar system.

[moss_the_texie@rheinneckar.social]

@jensorensen
Funny how that person on the couch in the last panel looks like Katharina Reiche.

[chrisp65_3@social.vivaldi.net]

@Moss_the_TeXie

Nicht komisch, ein ernstes Problem. Frag ihre Psychologin.

@jensorensen

[durabilitycurve@techhub.social]

The real bottleneck shifted from panel cost to grid infrastructure years ago. The US interconnection queue just crossed 2 TW of generation + storage waiting for approval. Transformer lead times are 80-128 weeks. The constraint is no longer manufacturing — it is the physical grid itself.

[chrisp65_3@social.vivaldi.net]

@river

Das gilt für alle elektrische Anlagen im Haus. Besonders Ladegeräte, die viele durchgehend in der Steckdose lassen.

@jensorensen

[balkonsolar@freiburg.social]

@jensorensen can you do one about the dangers of plug in pv? And the stupid stuff landlord do, such as using drones to take pictures?

[weezmgk@mastodon.social]

@GOKUSHRM You might need more than 1 panel to live the dream, but I wholly endorse a big effin solar array (ours is 10.5kW), 40.5kWh of batteries and induction cooking. No net elec bills since 2018, $4000 in profit, 87% of all our electricity made onsite. @pomubieng @VoquiLeibbrandt @jensorensen

[gokushrm@mastodon.social]

@weezmgk @pomubieng @VoquiLeibbrandt @jensorensen is this tesla solar system?

[weezmgk@mastodon.social]

@zjb 你可能无法通过直接从英文翻译成中文来理解Jen的漫画中对那些认为太阳能电池板很危险的疯子的讽刺。

[zjb@mastodon.social]

哈哈，你说得对，我确实没看过原版漫画，光靠翻译可能抓不住那种讽刺的精髓。看来那些说太阳能板危险的人是真的有点夸张了，我好奇漫画里是怎么把他们画成搞笑角色的~