attractive solar panels!

[Steve]

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• Steve
• 31 Oct 2014
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All the houses on this little estate (20 houses) have been fitted with these "integrated" solar panels. What a fantastic idea! Never seen them anywhere else. I'm guessing they are more expensive than normal panels, but I would think if these were the norm, far more people would be attracted to solar panels!

One question I have is some of the panels appear a different colour to others. An obvious guess is hydro heating panels, but you wouldn't normally fit them in the middle of the PV panels.

By the way I don't make a habit of secretly photographing strangers' houses from my car.

And yes they are CFL streetlamps - the worst streetlamps in the world. Thankfully Rotherham council are phasing them out and replacing with LEDs at quite an eyewatering pace. Don't know where they got the money from.

 

[stem]

I wouldn't actually call them attractive, just less ugly.

As solar panels do wear out, when they need replacing, that would mean a new roof (or most of it).

Although I suppose by then, a small 'cell' the size of a postage stamp will produce more energy than an entire roof does now, be much more attractive and easier to install

 

[EFLImpudence]

Don't know where they got the money from.

Yes you do.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

They got some of it from me.

And some of it from an old person in fuel poverty who then died from a hypothermic condition because they became so fuel poor that they could not afford enough heating.

 

[winston1]

I wouldn't actually call them attractive, just less ugly.

As solar panels do wear out, when they need replacing, that would mean a new roof (or most of it).

Although I suppose by then, a small 'cell' the size of a postage stamp will produce more energy than an entire roof does now, be much more attractive and easier to install

Be great if a solar panel could produce more energy than the amount of solar energy falling on it.