Not exact matches
The city
of Los Angeles now
requires that new or replaced roofs for homes and other residential buildings meet a
solar reflectance index
value — a measure
of a materials» ability to stay cool in the sun between zero (black surface) and 100 (white)--
of at least 75 for flatter roofs and 16 for steeper ones.
A good agreement with the observed radial profiles would
require stellar winds by about an order
of magnitude stronger than the
solar value, which is not supported, although not ruled out, by observations.
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This means that if you generate more
solar power during the middle
of the day than what your house needs, and thus export surplus power to the grid, the utility is
required to give you the full retail
value of that excess power.
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However, the utility incentives offered in Oregon
require the owner
of a
solar system to transfer their REC's to the utility and so this is why you will not see a
value for REC's in the
solar investment calculations on this site.
As far as unstored, untransmitted electricity goes, rooftop
solar PV and other local PV sources have greater
value per kWh in that they
require less transmission (at least on average —
of course grid connected rooftop PV could sometimes be used elsewhere)(this is after the inversion, so inverter costs have to be factored in — unless a house has both AC and DC outlets — perhaps air conditioners in particular could run on either and switch to DC to reduce use
of the inverter when possible?).
The
value of approximately 2 calories which is given in the second volume
of the Annals
of the Astrophysical Observatory
of the Smithsonian Institution is to all intents and purposes the same as that
of Pouillet; for if the positive corrections which are known to be
required for the latter, on account
of the defects
of the water pyrheliometer, are applied, we shall have a
value of the
solar constant differing very little from that which is now offered to us as an improvement on Langley's result, but which is quite the reverse.
This technical feat,
requiring the cooperation
of the Weather Bureau and the Signal Corps, quieted criticism
of the Smithsonian
value for the
solar constant.