{"id":18,"date":"2008-08-26T04:15:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T11:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geniusblog.zokul.com\/2008\/08\/26\/solar-costs\/"},"modified":"2012-11-11T19:18:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T02:18:14","slug":"solar-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"solar costs &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>according to an article in &#8220;solar power&#8221; magazine you end up with almost $10 per W installed: the panels are $5, install $3.80, inverters $1.20<\/p>\n<p>in bigger installs the costs are down since bigger inverters cost less per W and installers can work quicker (it&#8217;s more repetition!)<\/p>\n<p>my thought: pre-fabricate connectors with inverters, so the whole thing is as simple as drilling holes, plugging cables in and turning on the master switch!<\/p>\n<p>another thought of course &#8230; cconserving electricity &#8230; getting better lights, newer A\/C units &#8230; and improving ventilation (a little fan can help a lot)<\/p>\n<p>besides i always wonder why the panels have costly aluminum all around, why not have glass plates that are held by brackets that mount it somewhere &#8230; and a few mirrors that can help getting more sunlight on the panel (cheap, cheaper &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>also why can&#8217;t we power an A\/C unit with 26V DC &#8230; and 50 A &#8230; so you don&#8217;t loose anything thru the converters? at least try to use only DC\/DC, i think getting a nice sine wave is cool but really not necessary in most cases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>according to an article in &#8220;solar power&#8221; magazine you end up with almost $10 per W installed: the panels are $5, install $3.80, inverters $1.20 in bigger installs the costs are down since bigger inverters cost less per W and installers can work quicker (it&#8217;s more repetition!) my thought: pre-fabricate connectors with inverters, so the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-cng-and-electrons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}