solar power

["Zack Clayton" <zack.clayton@epa.state.oh.us>]

David Pyles wrote> how many acres of south facing roofs are in
the areas currently served by the average nuke?

It doesn't matter in that way.  On a per acre basis,  panels in Portland ,Or; Traverse City, MI; and Rochester, NY are going to produce a different amount of solar power than the equivalent acre in Miami, FL; Dallas, TX; and Honolulu, HI.  Even so, whose roof is going to be providing for the air conditioning at 3:00am in August, or the third overcast day in a row during that winter storm?

The most roof panels can do is suppliment daytime home use,  Industry will still need a generator somewhere else.   And who is going to make up the cost differential between  solar panels and fibergalss shingles?  No one in central Ohio has stepped up for that one.



Zack Clayton
Ohio EPA - DERR
email:  zack.clayton@epa.state.oh.us
voice:  614-644-3066
fax:        614-460-8249

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