I still hear the most inverters are good for only about 5 years before their electrolytics dry up and you have to replace them. Still a fragile part of the whole system. Plan B would be to put route 3-phase to new construction to allow inverters that did not have to store power at the zero crossings (i.e. Biphase has power ripple, 3-phase does not).
My guess is that due to this that most systems will not actually pay for themselves, as after a few years when the inverter craps out most folks will shrug their shoulders and let the system rot.
I just had solar installed on my roof. The inverters have a 25 year warranty (along with the panels). With the various incentives my break even point is 5-8 years depending on what electricity prices do. Since the warranty is much longer than the breakeven point, I am not worried.
For those reading the rest of the discussion, without the various government incentives, my breakeven point would be like 30-40 years, so no, solar is not ready to stand on its own yet. I am taking advantage of the incentives and hoping that by doing so I will help build a market so that in the future solar will be more competitive on its own.
I'm currently 0.004325 % of the circumference of this dirtball from the exact point on the globe of my birth, which, sadly, no longer exists, and approx 8.2 million circumferences from the point in space I was born...
The point on the globe where you were born no longer exists? or did you mean that the town / city / address / house or other arbitrary labeled surface feature no longer exists?
In calculating 8.2 million did you only include the orbital path of the earth around the sun or did you include the motion of the sun and galaxy as well?
Since you only calculated 6 decimal places, I will assume you ignored the rotational position of the earth at the time you were born as compared to the time you posted.
I know it is Christmas time, but this is slashdot
Now it doesn't matter how much you're ordered to comply with the police. They come in, cut the power to your computer...
When law enforcement officers confiscate a computer, they usually (in the US at least) try to transport the computer without powering it down. Standard procedure is to plug a portable generator into the wall outlet powering the computer, unscrew the outlet, and take the whole apparatus (including wall outlet, generator, and computer) to the forensics lab, without interrupting power to the computer. If all the jacks in an outlet are in use, they will unscrew the wall outlet and splice the generator's power cables into the outlet.
This is why the parent poster mentioned keeping the screen locked.
What's the probability that someone breaks into your car and steals computer tapes?
Maybe not as high as an employee selling the tapes and claiming that they were stolen.
Research into emergency evacuations by the Civil Aviation Authority in 2006 found that a significant number of passengers struggle with the most basic of tasks such as releasing the seat belt.
In terms of our genetic future, does this class of passenger need to be saved?
My results do not correspond with the results reflected in the report.
I have one of the monitoring boxes at home and my results (or at least my perceived experience) do match the results in the report. I am a Verizon (now Frontier) fiber customer. The service rocks.
Be free and open and breezy! Enjoy! Things won't get any better so get used to it.