Home Solar Installation In 1 Minute (VIDEO)
Curious what goes into a solar installation, what it looks like, how simple it is? Check out this 1-minute time-lapse video of a solar installation by home solar installation company WattElse in Australia:
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Anyway, hope you enjoyed the 1-minute home solar installation video. I thought it was an inspiration to watch and learning a bit about WattElse was inspirational, as well.
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Faster and cheaper:
http://www.minijoule.com/en/how-does-it-work/video/
Faster, cheaper, and thanks to our energy monopolies in the USA totally illegal. Thank you America.
Mmh, I don’t know about the legal obligations.
The goverment has a program to get plug-and-play systems consumer ready, so it might be possible?
http://energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-funding-develop-plug-and-play-solar-energy-systems-homeowners
http://cse.fraunhofer.org/press-releases/cse-selected-to-lead-us-department-of-energy-sunshot-project/
Check the www. for the term ” plug and play PV “, ad your state/county and see what comes up.
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The legal situation in Europe isn’t uniform as well, differs from country to country.
So the EU parliament decided during the last week to get an international standard for these things written into a legally binding guideline.
Since it isn’t attached, looks like you would lose it in a strong wind, or to a 5 fingered Freddy picking it up and re-sellig it. :0 Oh No Mr Billlllll
Matt, If you watch the video, after placing the panels, they do go around them attaching them to the “rails”.
For the miniJoule attachment methods see here:
http://www.minijoule.com/en/how-does-it-work/set-up/
After a neighbors tree destroyed my solar system, it took 5 months…. lol… (insurance)
And there is no good reason why rooftop solar installation can’t be done as cheaply and rapidly in the US as in Australia. (There are one or two bad reasons, but hopefully those dragons can be slain.) The solar revolution is under way in the US and will only pick up speed as, “Anything we can do, you can do better.” (On account of your presumably lower labour costs.)
We will get there.
Since the United States is “Number 1” we are not allowed to learn from the experience of others. Therefore we have the advantage of getting to reinvent the wheel, over and over and over.
By the time Europe and Australia has installed solar for $1/watt I’ll bet we’ll have pulled our price down to $1.50/watt.
But we’ll still be Number 1!!!!