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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Why not require all commercial building to have solar power?
 
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P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

ma i married a tuna posted:

I'm not quite sure why no one is offering anything useful in this thread yet, but this idea seems viable. The notion that solar panels require more energy to produce than they deliver over the course of their lifetime is no longer true, and their purchase cost is no longer prohibitive. Obviously, location is a factor, but you could legislate for that - factor in yearly sun-hours, and environment obstruction. I can't imagine why this would not be cost- and energy effective all over the southwest, for example.

You would need to put into place a maintenance program, since solar panels lose efficiency with partial obstruction (bird poo poo etc) but that hardly seems prohibitive.

Why not have an intelligent energy policy instead of a retarded building code if you want to promote solar? There's plenty of places other than roofs to put panels.

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P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

JawKnee posted:


e: as mentioned, the thing to remember with Chernobyl is that a WHOLE bunch of things that should never have been able to happen were allowed to happen due to saftey regulations being actively ignored as well as a very silly design using graphite in the core I believe. Read up on it - it's not a mistake that will ever happen again, or frankly should have happened if people weren't intentionally being unsafe.

I met an old engineer who worked as a construction worker on the plant when it was being built. He saw enough corners being cut and general incompetence that he wisely moved himself and his family out of the city as soon as the job was finished.

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