Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, December 10, 2010, 12:00 AM
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Students take pride in solar
Original post made on Dec 11, 2010
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, December 10, 2010, 12:00 AM
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a resident of Cuesta Park
on Dec 11, 2010 at 2:02 pm
> The panels will produce 1.27 megawatts of energy.
> That is enough to power 10 homes for an entire year
First, since watts are units of power -- rate -- not energy,
it doesn't make sense to say "for an entire year",
rather "for the lifetime of the panels".
Second, assuming the new photovoltaic panels produce electricity
at (a rate of) 1.27 megawatts and assuming there is sufficient
daylight 10 hours/day to do so, then the amount of energy
produced each year would be 1.27 MW * 10 hours/day * 365 days/year
== 4635 megawatt hours (MWH) . Ok.
My house uses on average 500 kilowatt-hours per month of electricity.
That's 6 MWH/year . The new school panels would power
4635/6 == 772 houses like mine. Not 10.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Dec 12, 2010 at 5:06 pm
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Neal, thank you for adding a bit of math and science to this silliness. I also attempted to add some to an earlier article. Clearly, the people pushing this project could use some education.
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