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Old 05-21-2013, 10:12 AM   #17 (permalink)
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I was thinking that if you're up to it - and you certainly appear to be - you could mitigate a lot of the heat load your house experiences by shading the house with the solar panels.

That would sharply reduce how much air conditioning you need. Sure, you give up a lot of power generation by foregoing tracking, but I think you get it back in reduced weathering on your roof, reduced cooling load, etc.
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