Solar contractors working in expanding regions along the East Coast have the unique challenge of installing PV arrays that can withstand upwards of 100-mph winds. Every June to November, those coastal states, especially Florida, are susceptible to the annual superstorms as they travel northwest from the Caribbean.
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When the entire solar array is assembled, it acts as a single unit, but each component must meet certain wind pressure load ratings to be installed in these environments. The main concern on an array is wind uplift on panels, as they have the largest surface area on the system. However, making smart roof penetrations, not skimping on rail attachments and selecting appropriate mounting and racking solutions can keep arrays in place through high-velocity hurricane wind zone areas.
While you're here, how about this:
How Does The Tesla Solar Roof Stack Up To A Traditional Solar System After 6 Months?
Earlier this year, Tesla activated our Tesla Solar Roof system with two Powerwalls in the garage for storage. After 6 months of playing with the system, I’m excited to report back with the pros and cons of the system. Most importantly, I want to revisit my decision to buy a Tesla Solar Roof to see if I would do it all over again or if I would have simply installed a normal photovoltaic solar panel system.
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We installed our first solar system on our home in 2011, eventually expanding it to a 17 panel, 4.4 kW system. When our home burned to the ground in late 2017, a solar-plus-storage system was a fundamental element of the new design. As a result, our new home is fully electric and doesn’t even have a gas line run to the house.
The Solar System has been Flying Through the Debris of a Supernova for 33,000 Years - Universe
As the Sun travels through the Galaxy, so too do the hundreds of billions of other stars that comprise the Milky Way; all swirling and spiraling in varying directions. If you could time travel to a distant past, you'd look up and see an unfamiliar sky – different stars, different constellations, and sometimes the glow of a brilliant supernova. Stars explode in the Milky Way about once every fifty years.
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Supernova shape the galactic landscape that the Earth and Solar System travel through. We typically think of the space between stars as a void – an empty vacuum. But there is incredibly diffuse gas and dust drifting between stars called the Interstellar Medium (ISM). Where Earth's atmosphere has thousands of trillions of particles per cubic centimetre, the ISM can be as low density as a few dozen particles per cubic meter.
Orlando airport installs floating solar panels - Orlando Sentinel
Mayor Buddy Dyer's focus on sustainability includes a vision for solar power at the airport that would leave tourists in awe of Orlando as a city of green energy.
The airport's first try with solar energy, Dyer said in a statement, is the "beginning of showcasing new technology to Orlando residents and airport visitors as we move the city forward."
Putting out enough power for about 14 homes, the system will cost about $520,000. It will be tied into a main, underground power line at the airport.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Ameresco receives $36M contract for Army floating solar system | Worcester Business Journal
Renewable energy company Ameresco, based in Framingham, will partner with Duke Energy to make energy improvements at Fort Bragg, including a floating solar installation.
The $36-million design-build contract will cover both energy efficiency improvements and energy generation at the North Carolina U.S. Army installation. Among those will be a 1.1-megawatt floating solar photovoltaic system at a remote special forces training site at the base. to be installed by Ameresco.
This solar system has three stars, and that's not even the weirdest part – BGR
On Earth, we see one big star, the Sun, and a whole bunch of tiny ones in the distance. Science fiction has long promised that there are planets orbiting multiple stars, and science quickly backed that up. Now, in what might be a first-of-its-kind discovery, researchers believe they’ve spotted a triple-star system with plenty of material to create exoplanets .
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The research, which was published in the journal Science , can’t offer us anything conclusive in the way of a “Tatooine-like world,” but it does tease us with the possibility. Is there a planet lurking in the mass of dust and debris? We can’t help but wonder.
A Subjective Ranking Of Every Moon In The Solar System : Short Wave : NPR
This episode was produced by Brent Baughman, edited by Viet Le, and fact-checked by Emily Vaughn.
A Guide to the Unearthly Oceans in Our Solar System | Gizmodo UK
Liquid water is typically associated with planet Earth, but our solar system hosts surprisingly large volumes of the stuff – you just need to know where to look.
Earth is parked inside our solar system's habitable zone, a celestial sweet spot in which liquid water can persist on a world's surface. Places outside this zone, whether planet, dwarf planet, or moon, are either burnt to a crisp or frozen solid, but that doesn't mean they're devoid of liquid water. Granted, this wet stuff isn't just sitting on the surface in plain view, so scientists have had to use various tricks to find it.
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