Solar panel washing tool - GIF

[PJs]

Good that you brought this up Jon! Thanks. People forget about this forgotten "little gem of an ROI incentive" when they buy PV systems and generally not told about it by the "Sellers".

Warning:

Now that new houses in California will be required to have PV's installed in the build...Grid tie of course; I do hope the maroon('s) that came up with this new law also invested their hard earned cash in washing services along with their back door deal with PG&E to double down on filling their coffers. May consider designing some equipment for this as an add-on attachment to the system...solar powered of course. I also cherish the idea of climbing a 20' ladder with a long handled brush and squeegee with a hose attached and washing 10-20 panels in gear on a pitched roof twice a year or more so PG&E can pay me...how much per KWh? Really?!? And will we be able to get panels cheaply from the worlds largest supplier (China) with the trade shenanigans going on...starting to give me the DT's (pun intended) and I barely consume alcohol or anything but a daily dose of espresso. Then there is the fiasco of balancing loads on an antiquated system as we are again expected to have rotating outage again this year and "Perhaps" some brown outs, (My Favorite for electronics)....or perhaps another epic fire season that will take 7 months just for reclamation and another 6 for PG&E to put in underground this time in an earthquake zone, then wait 4-6 more for permits to rebuild with the New Solar. Yuuup, that's the ticket! I'm going to design some earthquake proof pull boxes!

Also find it shocking that they use Polycarbonate for the very reasons stated by Frank and Drew1966 and it's not great for UV either, by a long shot...the very thing they are being task for, but probably do pretty well for Hail and the ever present Pterodactyl's caustic supply of polycarbonate etching gifts. A quartz coated polymer like eye glasses would be better and give better transfer to the PV. And with the economy of this new scale would reduce cost quickly as it's used in lots of everyday applications already.

I just hate it when something is shoved down my throat and pulled out my hiney without even asking or putting it out for me to vote on. Who knows maybe Nibiru will crash into us releasing the Beast, before the Chemtrails eat our flesh off to become obedient zombies of our own devices or vices and it won't matter anyway. Welcome to the west coast...and then some. Discernment, People!

Rant complete; only because I ran out of Steam and Coal and the tremors the last few days are playing havoc on the Fracked geothermal site near by.

I'm all in for PV, Wind, Geothermal and all the others, especially localized as a "System". There are some very exciting things in the works (Beta) with new OPV (Organic PV) that will be cheaper, more efficient and uniquely flexible in application. Perhaps Elon Musk's solar venture and some of the other peoples new batteries like; SWB (Salt Water Battery, non toxic of abundant crustal materials) and a new polymer separator for LION (impressively, indestructibly Safe), technology will shed some light on our electronic consumption, as I think these are at least heading in a decent direction...providing the Gubment, and DT's don't get us shaking in our boots and our heads in the sand.

I Know, I Know...Decaf!

PJ