關於太陽能光伏的 6 件事,來自一位真正瞭解內情的人

我的朋友馬克·特納剛剛完成了他自己的太陽能光伏屋頂安裝,和其他人一樣,我一直很好奇它是如何工作的——以及它的效果如何。

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我的朋友馬克·特納剛剛完成了他自己的太陽能光伏屋頂安裝,和其他人一樣,我一直很好奇它是如何工作的——以及它的效果如何。

他寫了一篇部落格文章回應,幾乎回答了所有簡單的問題,所以我想在這裡分享一下。我希望我們很快也能跟進。如果跟進,我會通知你。

他指出,雖然他的屋頂並不完美,但有總比沒有好。隨著太陽能風能預計很快都會比化石燃料更便宜,他指出,任何發電都比沒有發電好,至少因為它有助於推動這些技術走向經濟可行性——以及說服剩餘的反對者接受這些技術。他還提出了一個小而非常重要的觀點——最好知道你在用什麼。他說使用 eGauge,這幫助他不僅監控發電量,還監控用電量,這使他高度意識到他家的用電情況:“這個儀表讓我如此瞭解我們的能源使用情況,以至於我實際上可以透過看它來判斷家裡哪裡有燈泡沒關。僅僅安裝一個電能表就可以極大地改變你的能源使用習慣,使你的家庭更加環保,而這一切只需花費光伏系統價格的一小部分。”


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Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as ESPN, Backpacker, and Fortune. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His books include Defining the Wind, about the Beaufort Scale of wind force, and No-Man's Lands, about retracing the journey of Odysseus.

His most recent book, On the Grid, was his sixth. His work has been included in such compilations as Appalachian Adventure and in such anthologies as Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Appalachian Trail Reader and Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel.

For 2014-2015 Scott is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, which is funding his work on the Lawson Trek, an effort to retrace the journey of explorer John Lawson through the Carolinas in 1700-1701.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons.

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