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Post by Smilin' Jack on Nov 6, 2013 22:29:41 GMT -5
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Post by Fredo on Nov 8, 2013 13:56:46 GMT -5
Seems like every day there's something just a little bit stupider than the last.
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Post by Smilin' Jack on Nov 12, 2013 23:31:40 GMT -5
I just heard that if you have a solar panel installation on your roof here, the fire department won't fight the fire if your house goes up in flames.
They say it's not safe for them to put water on an active or operating electrical generation gear nor is it safe to work the fire from inside the building with the added weight of the solar panels overhead.
Well, they might have small point about the live wires but goodness how do they deal with that in just about every other building they'd get called out to when fire breaks out?
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Post by Fredo on Nov 13, 2013 9:44:13 GMT -5
I think our local guys usually kill the power at the pole before they enter a building. Clearly, they don't know much about solar if they're afraid of the 24 volts that it produces.
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Post by Smilin' Jack on Nov 19, 2013 8:56:23 GMT -5
Or it's just a new union rule that gets them out of doing any real work.
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Post by Smilin' Jack on Nov 19, 2013 9:00:36 GMT -5
I'm thinking that these aren't the 'for home use' solar installations. These are the 'feed it into the grid' installs. But still I'm with you, hit the main breaker and then get to work.
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Post by Smilin' Jack on Nov 19, 2013 9:10:11 GMT -5
I was speaking with a neighbor to one of these industrial wind turbine installations who is 150 yards from a couple transformers that are part of it.
All of his rechargeable phones, etc. charge themselves without even being plugged in and he can hold a florescent tube that stays lit in his hands just from the stray electricity coming off of the transformers at times.
Yet all of the government types responsible for public health and safety say, there's no problem here, even as the hair on their head is standing straight up while they say it.
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