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By TAH, Section Diaries Posted on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 10:34:10 PM MST
Thin Film solar in no light

My solar output from my thin film dropped to just over 1 hour full output per day average for December 2007. Even though we are 43 degrees north I got a whole lot more last winter. I looked at this http://www.weatherunderground.com/history/airport/KDLL/2007/12/15/MonthlyHistory.html
and it kind of shows why I had little output. We also had about 36 inches of snow in December so of the 5 days with sun there was usually 6 inches or more of snow and ice on the panels for at least part of the day.

Thin film solar | 6 comments (6 topical)

Re: Thin film solar (3.00 / 0) (#1)
by vawtman on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 04:49:06 PM MST

This is like the winters before Al Gore.Another winter storm watch for ya and the Canadians are gonna breath on us again(LOL)

My aunt moved back here to Wi from California mainly cause i told here the winters are nice now.

Global Cooling and maybe ice age but at least we had a couple tornados thrown in.

Re: Thin film solar (3.00 / 0) (#2)
by elvin1949 on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 07:10:22 PM MST

AHHHH Weather,it is a fickle thang,what-do-you-think.
later
Elvin

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Re: Thin film solar (3.00 / 0) (#3)
by Boss on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 11:11:24 AM MST

In northern New Mexico last night we had our second minus 20 degree drop this Winter.
Go figure.
I don't think Global Warming means we are in for milder temperatures. I understood from the beginning that it meant wild weather swings. Exactly what is happening. A month ago it was 30 degrees at night, barely had the ground frozen, last night it was -22 degrees. I have a pickle jar with half biodiesel to dino-diesel on the front porch. This morning it was frozen solid.

Brian Rodgers

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Re: Thin film solar (3.00 / 0) (#4)
by TAH on Sat Jan 19, 2008 at 07:39:14 AM MST

There have always been wild weather changes. From what I can tell the warming that has happened over the last 35 years has actually made the weather more stable. For the 30 yeas before that the temperature was dropping. The temperature has increased stedily on average for the last 8000 years but this didn't stop things like the mini ice age a thousand years ago.

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Re: Thin film solar (3.00 / 0) (#5)
by finnsawyer on Sat Jan 19, 2008 at 09:31:32 AM MST

128 inches of snow and counting. 47 degrees north latitude, lad. And the big pond has essentially no ice on it. Damn you, Al Gore.
GeoM

Re: Thin film solar (3.00 / 0) (#6)
by TAH on Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 10:00:28 PM MST

Update on thin film EPV panels

2.5 years old. Output steady or slightly increased. Output highest daily KWH ever two weeks ago.

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