[MassHistPres] Ooops -- house next door

[Garrett Laws]

So goes the ownership of a historic house...doing things for reasons many
others simply can't understand and don't make immediate sense!

Garrett

On Sunday, September 4, 2011, Willa Bandler <willa at keyfitz.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Dennis De Witt wrote:
>
>> My understanding concerning a couple of non-shingle photo-voltaic
collector arrays proposed for or installed on flat roofed public buildings
in Brookline is that those numbers didn't make sense either
>
> Yeah, other than for tax incentives, it usually doesn't. And even then,
sometimes. Oh, that reminds me of something...preservation? :)
>
>
>> With respect to flat roof installation another problem is that projecting
solar panel arrays produce enormous wind loads that the existing underlying
roof structure sometimes cannot accept, as a result of which they are
sometimes installed at compromise angles which further lessens their
efficiency.
>
> I'm pretty sure there's some other solution in these kinds of situations
rather than installing panels at an inefficient angle. But then, putting
solar panels on roofs is kind of the worst choice anyway. It's just that
most people either don't have the room for them on the ground or aren't
willing to look at them down there. I grew up totally off the grid, and our
solar panels were (still are, actually, I'm just not living in that house at
this point) on tracker racks on the hillside next to the house. The racks
allow the panels to track the sun through the day for greatest efficiency,
and also allow the panels to be easily accessed if repairs are ever needed.
Which they're mostly not, but still.
>
> -Willa
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Garrett

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