关于太阳能光伏的 6 件事,来自一位真正了解内情的人

我的朋友马克·特纳刚刚完成了他自己的太阳能光伏屋顶安装,和其他人一样,我一直很好奇它是如何工作的——以及它的效果如何。

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我的朋友马克·特纳刚刚完成了他自己的太阳能光伏屋顶安装,和其他人一样,我一直很好奇它是如何工作的——以及它的效果如何。

他写了一篇博客文章回应,几乎回答了所有简单的问题,所以我想在这里分享一下。我希望我们很快也能跟进。如果跟进,我会通知你。

他指出,虽然他的屋顶并不完美,但有总比没有好。随着太阳能风能预计很快都会比化石燃料更便宜,他指出,任何发电都比没有发电好,至少因为它有助于推动这些技术走向经济可行性——以及说服剩余的反对者接受这些技术。他还提出了一个小而非常重要的观点——最好知道你在用什么。他说使用 eGauge,这帮助他不仅监控发电量,还监控用电量,这使他高度意识到他家的用电情况:“这个仪表让我如此了解我们的能源使用情况,以至于我实际上可以通过看它来判断家里哪里有灯泡没关。仅仅安装一个电能表就可以极大地改变你的能源使用习惯,使你的家庭更加环保,而这一切只需花费光伏系统价格的一小部分。”


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Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as ESPN, Backpacker, and Fortune. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His books include Defining the Wind, about the Beaufort Scale of wind force, and No-Man's Lands, about retracing the journey of Odysseus.

His most recent book, On the Grid, was his sixth. His work has been included in such compilations as Appalachian Adventure and in such anthologies as Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Appalachian Trail Reader and Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel.

For 2014-2015 Scott is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, which is funding his work on the Lawson Trek, an effort to retrace the journey of explorer John Lawson through the Carolinas in 1700-1701.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons.

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