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January 04, 2012

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Solar Energy California

Great post! I wish it were that easy to get people to see the long-term benefits of switching to solar power. I feel the only people willing to invest their money into having a system installed are those that truly understand how it will help in the future. To others, it seems like a trivial cause and an even bigger waste of money. I pray every day that more people come around and see things our way. Thanks for the great blog!

Larry Johnson

Thanks for commenting! I'd really like to find something small scale but really useful to help show people the advantages of solar without initially committing them to tens of thousands of dollars of installation. I suspect grid parity will be reached soon if energy costs from other sources continue to rise.

Andrea

Catherine, You do beautiful work. I am defiintely going to buy one picture maybe two! Great idea and I love the organization Make A Wish Foundation which helps out so many children. Very thoughtful of you.

Eva

RE PAYBACK:we bought new 95 8cy muasntg new in 1994 (midlife thing?;-) actual mpg = 12city 15 hwy required 92octaine+ or it rattled horribly (ext warranty 40k in repairs in 40k miles lemon but not official) Gas 87a2 gallon why buy a new car 2001 now owned free and clear. When gas hit $2.40prem+ in 2005 reason was there. 120 mile rnd trip biz = $25-$30 go to the mall/store $6 a trip.New Lancer = 35 mpg. own free/clear save $2,000 year in fuel, biz tax deduction the same$ per mile:-) poff 4yrs

Mae

I strung over 1000 of these toegther in basically the same fashion for our college's entry into SunRayce '99. We had a form, like you mention, to line up the cells and space them about 1.5mm apart. For large numbers, we found it most efficient to tab the tops first, then string them in the form, soldering the tabs to the bottom. I think we used solder-bearing paste instead of flux pen and solder separately. Keep in mind, when you build your own panel, the worst cell limits the entire string.

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