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Comments on: Solar's new battleground: Colorado

Solar installers look to sunny Colorado for new projects.

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Will they be heating-neutral?
by billmosby September 17, 2007 12:42 PM PDT
By which I mean, will they reflect 30 percent of the incident light
back into space like the earth does, or will they contribute directly
to environmental heating by absorbing essentially all of the light?
Even the part that turns into usable energy eventually ends up as
heat. So if you build enough solar PV or other types of collectors,
they will have a noticeable environmental heating effect. Probably
should take that into account before all 6 to 10 billion of us get
hooked on the technology and have to be told to cut back.
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What are you talking about?
by lynxss September 18, 2007 1:36 PM PDT
When you take into account that the vast majority of solar installations are over roofing materials (tar, asphalt shingles, slate shingles and metal) or car ports and parking garages (asphalt) they are already being installed in places that radiate massive ammounts of heat. What you are claiming is that basically painting a layer of black over an existing layer of black will increase the heat output, possibly but not to the effect you are claiming. If all of the solar cells of the world were put up over pristine grassland type settings then yes you may have a point but they arent.

If you look at the square miles of asphalt, concrete and roofs already put down radiating heat will putting solar cells on a miniscule billionth of a percent of that surface area affect the damage already done?
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Colorado State Solar Incentives
by SunnyDE October 27, 2007 2:25 PM PDT
That's pretty big. If you're a homeowner and you're interested in the
solar powered incentives, you can get more info for
colorado solar incentives
here
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by sjo1981 July 2, 2008 4:39 AM PDT
hi,

Colorado being the largest installer of solar can encourage other cities also to follow them. Standard Renewable Energy would only save power generated by the Government to be used in minimum and could help whole nature.

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by angelinjones August 26, 2008 4:24 AM PDT
First, electricity offers outstanding benefits?beginning with the opportunity to diversify fuel sources upstream of the vehicle. In other words, the electricity that is used to drive the vehicle can be made from the best local fuel sources?natural gas, coal, nuclear, wind, hydroelectric, and so on. So, before you even start your vehicle, you?re working toward energy diversity.


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