I've lived in a solar house since 1980. We have at least 100 trees. From
my experience with passive and active systems, all you need is
daylight--sun, clouds, rain or snowy weather, direct or reflected
light--to produce enough electricity to run a battery charger, or
produce enough electricity to run most home appliances, including
recharging a laptop; same weather conditions apply for heating and cooling.
Most people I know who live in apartments, even basement ones, have at
least one window. There's enough light coming in through a window to use
a PV battery charger, or the panel can be hung out the window--doesn't
even have to face south. Ambient light can also activate a trickle
charger indoors. Besides it's not likely that an individual apartment
would have its own independent connection. The building owner, manager,
super, would have the FIOS boxes installed in one location for the
entire building.
No, "we" aren't generalizing. It continues to amaze me that there are so
few people _in_the_US_ who take advantage of almost free heating,
cooling and electricity, and simply make up excuses for not doing it.
Aren't we generalizing a bit? I'm under trees here, there's not nearly
enough sunlight to charge batteries. People in apartment buildings
would have the same trouble.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:56 PM, b_s-wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Photovoltaic solar panels are the sensible answer to unlimited backup
> for FIOS. They can be standard equipment with FIOS boxes. PV solar
> panels are small and will keep the backup batteries charged
> indefinitely, even on rainy days.
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