Post #9646

Just a quick post about solar. Many people want to use solar trackers to make their panels make more power all day long. The practical side of this is that the panels are cheaper than the tracking mechanism. Additionally, you will have to do maintenance and repairs on the tracker. Today I rode past the solar farm shown here and saw about 1/4 of the rows of panels were not pointed at the sun. They were pointed east and were making less power than if they had been parked facing straight up. If the commercial guys can't keep up with trackers, trust me, you don't want to either. Just add more panels.