• jadero
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    5 months ago

    When I was calculating costs in anticipation of putting in solar, I played around with several online calculators. Latitude, panel orientation, and angle. I was surprised by how few extra panels were required to do “stupid installs” like vertical, horizontal, west-facing, etc.

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      5 months ago

      Ya, the idea that panels have gotten cheap enough and high enough output, bifacial, etc that using them as straight up fencing is now increasing viable is absurd compared to where we were a few decades ago and we had to fight for each PV watt. Now inverting, wireing, and raw space are becoming the primary factors.