Note to self thread

Singlemalt

Singlemalt

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Native Humboldt said:
That's truly a sad story I sure hope mine don't do that. I can't say that I have ever seen a bird on or around my panels, but I'm not normally looking at them either. I'll set up one of my game cameras up there this weekend so I can see if they land on the panels. There are so many trees around they normally stay away from my house.
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A consideration off the top of my head: make a chicken wire cage over the panels; yeah it's an expense but not too heavy a one. Maintain it and your lost solar efficiency is minimal. Stay solar and protect the birds
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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curious2garden said:
The smaller roof top solars do not kill, just maim. But there ya go, there's a reference.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/brightsource-solar-plant-sets-birds-on-fire-as-they-fly-overhead-1.2739512
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The big solar plants cause problems resulting from overconcentration of resources. This happens in many industries; pig farming on an intensive scale is both an environmental disaster and the new pig barn designs are actually ticking time bombs; many of them have actually exploded and caught fire due to massive buildup of natural gas from decomposing waste kept under the barn.

The rooftop solar panels are more troubling because they are not concentrated. They'll also be far more numerous. I'm an advocate of distributed power solutions- but I'm no fan of hurting animals in the process.

It occurs to me yet again that energy efficiency and power reducing tactics and technologies can be life savers, even if the lives saved aren't human.

To that end I've been investigating the efficacy of energy saving solutions while growing cannabis. My thread is littered with energy saving ideas.

If all goes well, I plan to purchase a fuel cell system, to generate electricity here at dramatically higher efficiency rates than power plants and then use it on site to eliminate transmission losses.

While it would initially run on piped in, fossil fuel based natural gas, there is no reason not to feed it natural gas- aka methane- from biological sources and thereby become the power source for a fully sustainable future.

I know it isn't fried crows on a solar farm, but I'm working on the same thing they are, just on a more accessible and less deadly scale.
 
SOMEBEECH

SOMEBEECH

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ttystikk said:
WTF? Rent is not more expensive than the national average- certainly not given the quality of life get- and electrical power is available at some of the lowest rates in the country. We save on gas, too; who else is paying $2.939 a gallon for regular?

On second thought, stay home. We have too many people wanting to move here already.
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Dont know where ya live,But dont really care.I will never leave Texas! 270.00 A Gallon.:P
12c KWHR,Why a gold mine.A circle of friends as tight as dicks headband!Big enough,cheap,and a Free.
Yea,We have Drugs laws,Fuckem we run this damn place.I't is a we buy em we fire em town.

You don't get out of prison here,You never go,or you die there. No snitches,no ditches.
I have told a few about the last,6-7yrs or so ago,that snitched.

Anywho,wanted some solars too.Not a tree hugger,More of a look at em like i will eat yo ass,If needed.
So dont say,if hungry enough you would not eat a damn bird.
Boy aint I tellin ya,How I REAALLY FEEL :mrgreen:
 
MD914

MD914

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SOMEBEECH said:
Can you tell me How....Read it 5 times.I'm trying to work with ya,But if its the eye deal.
I really can't do much but,this HERE DOES THIS MAKE IT BETTER?:mrgreen::hug:
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After reading it again it ALL MAKES SENSE :bigjoint:
It gets hard to focus with one eye :mrgreen:
 
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