This heat wave is absurd in some ways. My 10x5 south-facing balcony is in blazing sunlight. Feels like it could power at least a tiny heat-pump. At 15w/sf that’s 750 watts. Google says a typical home AC is 3500-5000w. So ~15-20%?
Are there ad hoc local plug-in solar rigs?
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yes. check out store.santansolar.com for cheap panels; then you can get a wall-pluggable inverter that will feed it back into your house's grid via a power outlet
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note that you want to match the inverter power as closely as possible to your solar panel output -- so a 1000W inverter, you'd want 4 ~250W panels (for max efficiency) amazon.com/ECO-WORTHY-Swi
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no, i don't have a good place to put the panels that *isn't* the roof; i'm working on doing the whole she-bang with a city-approved grid-tie and master electrician approval and everything because why not
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