Point of information: Tacoma Washington is a Pacific Northwest coastal town located at 48 degrees North latitude on the shores of Puget Sound - lots of clouds and rain, OK? Everyone knows that Washingtonians don't tan they rust. We have so much rain in this area that I have no problem growing most anything that I plant, so when I found Solar Tree sprouts from the seeds that I bought and planted from BP-Solar last fall it was no big thing. I knew the soil was good and that #10 AWG stranded copper wire had to be used to support the interconnections so the electrical resistance would be minimal and the panels could grow to as large as possible, even 85 Watts. I hoped the effects of Global Warming would not hurt the formation of the panels monocrystalline, buried grid, laser etched silicon photovoltaic cells and they would grow to become BP-585, the most efficient volume-manufactured photovoltaics in the world. True to their word, my BP panels grew to ten feet tall and their high energy density and high efficiency is a perfect match for Tacoma's climate with poor insolation. I had always grown sunflowers in that location so when the array started tracking the sun, I knew it had to be left over sunflower energy in the soil causing this effect.
My friend Smitty with Xantrex supplied me with the "New and Improved" SuntieXR inverter so I could put this free energy from the sun on the electrical grid. The strangest thing happened to my electric meter, it started going BACKWARDS! I was producing more power with the photovoltaics than the electric load from the house so the meter stopped and started going backwards building a bank of power to be used later or "Net-metering".
That was last October when I flipped the switch "ON" and began producing power with my Solar Tree. It has 1280 Watts of photovoltaics, mounted on a dual-axis active tracking system that is tied to the electrical grid via SuntieXR inverter. The Solar tree's first year of production was 1,288,740 Watt Hours of utility grade electric power, not bad for a place that it rains all the time. The sun may not shine everyday day up here in the Pacific Northwest and I'm not going to produce maximum power every day, but every day the sun comes up, I'm producing some power.
I've got more Solar Tree seeds, and they are bigger, want some?
Best Regards,
Solar Richard Thompson
2037 South 7th Street
Tacoma, Washington
USA 98405-4013
1.253.572.9220
SolarRichard@Aol.Com
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