One gigawatt can power about 1 million U.S. homes. But since solar power is on only about a third of the time, a gigawatt of solar can only power about 330,000 homes.
And by that logic 3 women can have one baby in 3 months.
One gigawatt can power about 1 million U.S. homes. But since solar power is on only about a third of the time, a gigawatt of solar can only power about 330,000 homes.
And by that logic 3 women can have one baby in 3 months.
The difference is around half of Texas's summer electricity usage is on AC. AC use tends to be the best use-case for solar power, as both AC use and solar power are primarily driven by the sun.
Basically, in some cases, the mythical man-month holds.
Which in many ways shows that the state should be encouraging passive houses. A passive house would put less pressure on the power grid when the heat kicks in. On the other hand humidity appears to be the current Achilles heal of these houses.
Great so all we have to do is tear down the roughly 8 million houses and rebuild them...
I agree that *new* buildings need to be built more efficiently, and a lot of existing buildings can be upgraded in various ways to save energy, but shit like "encouraging passive houses" is about as useful a suggestion as "just move where the food is" is for hunger, which is to say not useful at all. =Smidge=
Not really, you can just add another outer skin with the insulation to the current building, change the windows to double/treble glazing insulate the roof properly. All new buildings should be passive or near passive in construction.
Okay so, I work in construction, right? Engineering consultant, mostly commercial and lately municipal stuff. One project, currently under construction, is to make a complex of rent-controlled housing units "flood resilient" as part of ongoing Hurricane Sandy remediation. To accomplish this the design is to add a concrete wall just over 3 feet (just over a meter) all around the existing outer wall, to make it strong enough to resist the flood waters. The goal is to not have the
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One gigawatt can power about 1 million U.S. homes. But since solar power is on only about a third of the time, a gigawatt of solar can only power about 330,000 homes.
And by that logic 3 women can have one baby in 3 months.
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The difference is around half of Texas's summer electricity usage is on AC. AC use tends to be the best use-case for solar power, as both AC use and solar power are primarily driven by the sun.
Basically, in some cases, the mythical man-month holds.
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Which in many ways shows that the state should be encouraging passive houses. A passive house would put less pressure on the power grid when the heat kicks in. On the other hand humidity appears to be the current Achilles heal of these houses.
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Great so all we have to do is tear down the roughly 8 million houses and rebuild them...
I agree that *new* buildings need to be built more efficiently, and a lot of existing buildings can be upgraded in various ways to save energy, but shit like "encouraging passive houses" is about as useful a suggestion as "just move where the food is" is for hunger, which is to say not useful at all.
=Smidge=
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"Just add another outer skin"
Okay so, I work in construction, right? Engineering consultant, mostly commercial and lately municipal stuff. One project, currently under construction, is to make a complex of rent-controlled housing units "flood resilient" as part of ongoing Hurricane Sandy remediation. To accomplish this the design is to add a concrete wall just over 3 feet (just over a meter) all around the existing outer wall, to make it strong enough to resist the flood waters. The goal is to not have the
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