The large rectangular solar panels that PSE&G has been installing on utility poles across North Jersey are not winning style points from residents and local officials, who call them hideous, an eyesore, even “ugly as hell.”
No one said green was pretty, in fact it’s even uglier when you’re forced to wear it.
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Ok those are hideous. Doesn’t it snow there? I wonder how much snow they can support before there are tons of vehicle damage claims from them falling on cars.
first blizzard and/or freezing rain comes along and they are toast.
Wouldnt it have been easier to install all of them in one location and then distribute the power on the circuit?
The wages of sin against Gaia begin with solar panels and wind farms. If you live differently from an uncontacted Brazilian Native and have AC, a car, a refrigerator, airplane travel, electricity, meat you need Absolution through the Green Sacrament of Penance. You must make a confession before a priest ordained by the prophet Gore of your use of fossil and nuclear fuels and your eating of vegetables from any hybrid seeds and any meat. Solar panels and wind farms are acceptable acts of contrition, only if you forsake all other forms of electricity consumption and you use those solar panels and wind farms only to charge your Volt or Leaf. When you succeed, the prophet Gore will impart absolution in the name of Gaia.
Excellent, T-man, except you forgot the 1st Commandment of Green: “Thou shalt not allow solar panels and wind farms in thine own backyard, but instead, seek to place them on thy neighbor’s property, and then unseen.”
I’m certainly not coveting my neighbor’s solar panels…
Anyone know how much these thangs cost?
Panel cable: $50
Panel bracket: $300
Panel: $2500
City council members flooded with complaining phone calls: Priceless
6600 homes @ approx $78,000.00 each.
Brilliant!!
That’s “Liberal” math. We ignorant Conservatives don’t understand it
I’ve seen similar lamp posts that have the solar array on TOP of the post, and it powers the street lamp and traffic signal. now that you posted this bob, I’ll take a pic of what I’ve seen. hopefully you can find a use for it
All they need now is the noise and flicker (and smell of dead birds and bats) from some windmills, and they will be set. I wonder if they will put any of those in the white neighborhoods.
The greenies have to realize is that this technology is way too inefficient for anything other than individual power alternatives for homeowners. It takes thousands of acres of Solar Electric to produce the power that a three acre Nuclear or slightly larger Natural Gas Power Generation Facility can produce. Solar is also variable depending weather conditions, which doesn’t effect the other technologies. I have two types of solar I presently use. Solar Hot Water & Solar Electric, of which both need a backup alternative if weather conditions prevent adequate output from either source. 85% of the time my Solar Hot Water provides all of my domestic hot water. My Solar Electric produces about 30 to 40% of my electricity needs at the very most & due to current costs of Silicon Cells is about 8 times more expensive than commercial electric. This is because of the initial expense of the equipment purchase prices. Over time I can see at least a 400% return on my purchase price, but that will be over a 10 yr period of time. If electric rates shy rocket like Obama wants, my payback will be quicker. I don’t see large commercial Solar Cell Farms usage of land & cost of investment of equipment making this technology an economic alternative to Conventional & Nuclear Power Production. Wind is also an inefficient technology due to large areas of land usage, inefficiency of equipment, high cost of maintenance & weather factors effecting energy production. It might be fine for enhancement of farm, home or small business’s, but not Commercial Production. Inefficiency nullifies any perceived benefits & produces visual eyesores in place of nature or natural view scapes.
I almost forgot, my Solar Hot Water has been in service for the last 25 years & paid for itself in the first 6 years of use. My hot water is now pretty much of a freebee. For anyone interested, I have 164 gallons of hot water at an average temperature of 160 degrees F. & a thermostatic control valve that mixes it with cold water & maintains 120 degree water to the whole house.