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01-23-2008, 04:17 AM
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Solar panels on every house will probably never be efficient; especially considering they produce DC electricity that would then have to be converted to AC. The latest advances in industrial solar generation involve arrays of mirrors that move with the sun to focus light on a tower filled with water. The water boils, turns a turbine a boom... gigawatt level electricity.


I'm discovering at the moment that solar water heating, on the other hand, is surprisingly good. The boiler is only ever turned on in the morning; I can have a shower at midnight and still have piping hot water.
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