Beyond oil banner& solar panel drop 2010
jjdm12@gmail.com (Agent solar access) | 16.10.2010 18:24
banner drop & solar panel out of the urban jungle on highrise flats in Nottingham, by "lookalike chilean miner"
in support of the beyond oil campaign by Greenpeace UK
http://www.gobeyondoil.org/ & in solidarity with the Crude awakening
http://www.crudeawakening.org.uk/
Drop done at what suspiciously looks like lentons highrise flats which face the south east on their longest width for sunrise& get full midday to sunset on the other.
Agent solar has experience using solar to power domestic& mobile systems from the 1990s & is working on cost figures for installing enough solar power for 50 flats on each block to supply 30-50% of power. One off cost of for safe sealed units with inverters fitted by access climbers for around £8,000.
£160 per resident on the scheme, which could be paid via installments. 25 flats could be done for around £5,000.
This would be even more viable for slightly more minted flats in the city & housing blocks & even more viable if it wasnt for the daft economic system.
A solar panel are being fitted& used in flats behind glass which maybe the easiest way to do it, though around 30% of efficiency will be lost depending on glass type& lighting in rooms will be restricted.
Solar panels generate power even on cloudy days, units are getting smaller & the batteries etc safer.
jjdm12@gmail.com (Agent solar access)
http://nottingham.indymedia.org.uk/articles/589