Much cheaper nowadays Janne. Worth looking at again perhaps? Panels have come on in leaps and bounds in the last 10 years. I have small shares in a solar business. We are looking at 20 yrs plus on the panels we use.
We have been thinking about it. The design, can they take the tropical heat and sun?
that was one of the problems when we built the house.
We had a standing seam Aluminium roof made, the distance between the seams is so the manels can slot in. The 'seams' are designed to take a kind of Alu profile that holds the panels in place. Then you fix the Alu profiles to the roof. Hurricane proof too.
I am ashamed to say that this Island, one of the richest countries in the world, THE richest in the Caribbean by far, had less solar panels per capita than any country in Europe, including Albania, until they created a small solar farm.....
We are still at the bottom of 1st world countries.
( writing this with head down in shame)
Please do not ask how recycling is here, or any other environmental 'thing'....
Fadcote, I have been told that much of the energy from the sun is ansorbed by the panel, so less hits the Earth. So less energy that is turned into heat.
That was one of the plusses if Sahara was turned into huge Solar Farms. The idea was, together with the increased water area, that would cool that area, and create humidity that would cause rain.
If those calculations were correct, no doubt that would cause some other enviroionmental problems further down the line.
The reason I am very interested in the Environmental stuff is that my main home, Cayman, is basically on Sea level. two centimeters raise will devastate much of Grand Cayman.
Plus my second home, in Arctic Lofoten Islands, if the Gulf stream stops, that area will go very, very cold and possibly not be habitable.
