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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Eric who wrote (75760)3/29/2017 5:41:42 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 86356
 
Hopelessly uneconomic - a three man job to clamber around on a house roof installing one little panel. Installing hundreds at ground level would be a LOT cheaper, more easily maintained with large economies of scale. It's like planting corn at home. Yes, you can go to a store, buy a little bag of seeds at retail price, till a little patch of land at home where land is expensive, and fiddle around getting a few cobs of corn. Or giant soil preparation, planting, irrigation and harvesting machinery can do it for a fraction of the cost where it should be done.

Mqurice

See the harnesses they have to wear too.



Here is how it should be done. Vastly cheaper:

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