Solar Panel Porn

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Hell with the solar cells. Let's just boil some water with a fresnel lens and build a steampunk mining rig.

[SgtSpike]

Also people tend to forget: a solar panel still works in 20 years+++

Not necessarily. There's always the possibility of the panel breaking (neighborhood kid's baseball going through it, tree branch falling on it, etc), or rust/corrosion turning it into a pile of scrap, or some other unrepairable damage happening.  Solar panels aren't going to last forever, and I wouldn't even expect one to last 20 years on average.  I could be wrong though.

[rjk]

Also people tend to forget: a solar panel still works in 20 years+++

Not necessarily. There's always the possibility of the panel breaking (neighborhood kid's baseball going through it, tree branch falling on it, etc), or rust/corrosion turning it into a pile of scrap, or some other unrepairable damage happening.  Solar panels aren't going to last forever, and I wouldn't even expect one to last 20 years on average.  I could be wrong though.

Actually I would be interested in longevity data for solar panels. They have been around for a while, are there any old installations that are still working?

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Also people tend to forget: a solar panel still works in 20 years+++

Not necessarily. There's always the possibility of the panel breaking (neighborhood kid's baseball going through it, tree branch falling on it, etc), or rust/corrosion turning it into a pile of scrap, or some other unrepairable damage happening.  Solar panels aren't going to last forever, and I wouldn't even expect one to last 20 years on average.  I could be wrong though.

Actually I would be interested in longevity data for solar panels. They have been around for a while, are there any old installations that are still working?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080911082656AAmOnYD

What's amazing to me is that I've gone from reading that original tree post to this: http://inventorspot.com/articles/electricity_dirt_is_it_possible_17670

Then this: http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=42320

Then this: http://www.lightingafrica.org/component/k2/itemlist/filter.html?all_langs=yes&searchword=donate

To finally this: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peterdicampo/life-without-lights

What a journey!

~Bruno~

[ZodiacDragon84]

Hell with the solar cells. Let's just boil some water with a fresnel lens and build a steampunk mining rig.

That's pretty badass

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Hell with the solar cells. Let's just boil some water with a fresnel lens and build a steampunk mining rig.

That's pretty badass

Yep! They melt solid steel and iron, and you can get one from one an old discarded big screen TV's.

[BitcoinMint.US]

People attending the CCC summercamp in Finowfurth last summer 2011 might have spotted this Money Tree:



https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/117667596272309394278/albums/5707410803593713825/5707410803104879938

A single Atom + GPU based machine on a solar power pannel. Granted, small but off the grid ;-)

That is awesome.

[ZodiacDragon84]

Man, that is EPIC!!!!

[Valalvax]

Also people tend to forget: a solar panel still works in 20 years+++

Not necessarily. There's always the possibility of the panel breaking (neighborhood kid's baseball going through it, tree branch falling on it, etc), or rust/corrosion turning it into a pile of scrap, or some other unrepairable damage happening.  Solar panels aren't going to last forever, and I wouldn't even expect one to last 20 years on average.  I could be wrong though.

Actually I would be interested in longevity data for solar panels. They have been around for a while, are there any old installations that are still working?

Yea, some of the first solar panels built are still running 25+ years

[teflone]

Hell with the solar cells. Let's just boil some water with a fresnel lens and build a steampunk mining rig.

How many hash's there ?

[ZodiacDragon84]

Hell with the solar cells. Let's just boil some water with a fresnel lens and build a steampunk mining rig.

How many hash's there ?

So many, that it melts all that try to handle its raw power 

[xzion]

the solar panels come with a 25 year warranty and power guarantee. no, that doesn't cover baseballs or tree branches, but insurance will. so i can say with confidence that they'll still be going strong in at least 25 years.