Thursday, July 18, 2013

Catching some rays


That's a 6 kilowatt photovoltaic array...produces enough electricity for a small city...well, how about 3 houses...or one house and 12,000 miles of driving in a plug-in electric car. And, it IS in our backyard!! Yesterday was the big day. The solar company flipped a few breakers and the thing started to orient itself using GPS. After an hour of calibrating, it was tracking the path of the sun and optimizing its angle to maximize solar production.








4 comments:

  1. Holy Smacks! That thing is Massive! Check out the article sent you about a better electric car, which you probably al
    ready know about.

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  2. ..and are those potato plants or poison ivy in the foreground? They'll be radioactive bionic soon enough. xoxo

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  3. If you lay on top of that can you get a tan?

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