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Old 03-30-2018, 12:37 PM   #1237 (permalink)
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Trackers are expensive and they break a lot.
Then let's say your panels are 300ish watt, 35 or so volts each and you run 20 of them in serries per set. If 1 panel tracker goes down or even if a leaf covers 1 solar cell is can cut the output in half. Your trackers have to be synchronized because the max amp output is limited by your lowest production panel.
I would rather see individuals with solar panels rather than big government.
Plus building giant solar farms is putting all your eggs in one basket so to speak. One fire, flood, mild tornado or bad hail storm can wipe out a multi billion dollar solar farm.
Plus there is always going to be some neo hippie out there that tries to stop the solar farms construction because it might interfere with some rare desert critter.
The only thing that can stop people from putting solar panels on their roof is an HOA. To me wanting to live in an HOA would be like wanting to live in nazi germany.

Another advantage individuals have is were are all connected to the power grid. The middle of the desert isn't. Long distance transmission lines have to be built to get the power out of there. Which involves more nimby neo hippie bs.
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