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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9800 on: April 25, 2024, 05:50:23 PM »
weather guys are better at predictions than Mel Keiper with the NFL draft
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9801 on: April 26, 2024, 08:19:14 AM »
Dust devil. Never heard of it until about a year ago. Interesting, weird, whacky stuff.

Caught on Camera: Dust Devil spotted spiraling in Fort Myers (winknews.com)
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9802 on: April 26, 2024, 08:25:22 AM »
very common in my neck of the woods
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9803 on: April 26, 2024, 08:39:37 AM »
I recall dust devils as being fairly common when I was a kid.  I don't recall them as much in Cincinnati.
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« Reply #9804 on: April 26, 2024, 09:01:02 AM »
I saw a dust devil hit a tent once, after which a very confused gal emerged, trying to make sense of the situation. 
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9805 on: April 26, 2024, 09:12:39 AM »
The biggest dust devils I ever saw were in Arizona
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9806 on: April 26, 2024, 09:18:26 AM »
I read this rather quickly, it looks kind of interesting, but I'm suspicious it's not accurate.

How we know that the sun changes the Climate. Part I: The past | Climate Etc. (judithcurry.com)
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9807 on: April 26, 2024, 09:32:43 AM »
Very common in the western part of Texas.  
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9808 on: April 26, 2024, 11:51:31 AM »
SunPower (Nasdaq: SPWR) just sent an email to its employees saying that it will “wind down” residential solar installations and lay off 1,000 employees.

SunPower is one of the largest residential solar installers in the US. A SunPower spokesperson told me this morning that the company has filed an 8-K, and principal executive officer Tom Werner sent an email to all employees that said in order for the company to achieve “financial viability”:


https://electrek.co/2024/04/24/sunpower-ceases-residential-installations-lays-off-1000/
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9809 on: April 26, 2024, 12:00:51 PM »
Solar installation for residential is really expensive. It's also not very attractive.

I used to do a lot of work on mansions along Chicago's North Shore suburbs (Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, Highland Park, Lake Forest) and the vast majority went with geothermal. I only do a little work on those now. Clients are mostly difficult.

Those people wanted stone or copper roofing, etc. Not solar - not for this, which I did do:

585 Longwood Ave Glencoe Il 60022 - Heritage Luxury Homes

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9810 on: April 26, 2024, 12:03:36 PM »
I figure if home solar were really attractive, a lot of houses in San Diego would have it.  A few do of course, it is not common.  Then Hawaii and Arizona and Nevada ...
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« Reply #9811 on: April 26, 2024, 12:12:58 PM »
The panels are also very heavy, and subject to damage from weather - more so than tiles.

I'm not sure you can get a hurricane-rated solar roof. I stopped looking at them when I found out the pricing.

We are fully hurricane rated now - whole house, top to bottom. The new roof and structural work I had done brought my premium down about 30 percent alone, from what it was. It's $5,100/year now.

Overall, we are paying about 500 percent less than what it would be if we had no wind mitigation at all. Yes, 500 percent.

Maybe some of the other Florida guys can weigh in here.

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9812 on: April 26, 2024, 12:13:50 PM »
@Mdot21 @Honestbuckeye 

Any thoughts?
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9813 on: April 26, 2024, 12:16:45 PM »
Geesh, I'm obviously paying a whole lot less for condo insurance, some of it is indirectly through the HOA of course.

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