I clicked because I thought there would be guillotines.

But solar power is good, too!

Now I want to see guillotines too.

heads would roll!

and post it in a word document, simple copy & paste whenever you want to use it.

And they are willing to loan them to us.

You've gotta love the French. We'll return them nice and clean but with a bit of wear.

No?

state - avoids a lot of water being lost to the heat, --- and they're doing it very successfully.

Yeah for solar.

Of course with “openness” in relationships. 😆

Silly me.

Tres bien! I would love to get back to France. Perhaps someday.....

If there is voltage for a sufficient period.

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hold up to large hail like we get out here in the SoWest ???????

can prevent hail storms from forming. They could probably use a similar system for this.

I visited a huge tomato farm in the Midwest. Tomatoes were grown year-round in greenhouses that seemed to go on forever. To work there, the employees had to transport themselves around in golf cart type vehicles--that's how big these greenhouses were. The tomatoes were grown vertically.

They showed me their system for preventing hail. I have pictures of it somewhere. It looked like a bazooka that was about 20' tall and there were several of them. When a hail storm that might damage the greenhouse glass was forming, they would watch for certain conditions and then set these bazooka-looking things off. It sounded like guns going off, only much, much louder.

on edit: I found a picture of the bazooka type thing. It's by the little white shed in this pic:

nt.

lead the way with that!

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Oh and guillotines …





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I should stop by and see if it's still working. I'm sure the original inverters turned themselves into e-waste a long time ago. Inverter technology is much better now.

Solar Parking lots are everywhere in my California city now. The schools have them, the hospitals have them, a nearby supermarket has them...

Rooftop solar is common too. My own neighborhood exports electricity when the sun is shining.

We've reached the point in California where new solar installations increase the price of electricity because huge battery/inverter stations must be built to store the excess. We also pay to keep gas plants running even when they are generating no electricity. This is part of the reason we pay 43 cents a kilowatt hour for electricity. In general places with aggressive renewable energy programs tend to have the most expensive electricity in the world. Sunlight may be free but integrating solar electricity into a reliable electric grid is expensive.

As I write this batteries are sinking an excess supply of about 7 and a half gigawatts. This energy will be released back into the grid as the sun goes down and into the evening. Unfortunately there's a limit to that too. It would take a ludicrous tonnage of batteries to displace fossil fuels entirely, especially in the winter.

https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook/supply

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