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From: carroll@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Solar energy
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 16:46:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 14 16:46:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU!carroll    Mar 14 15:46:00 1986


	What about weather? It happens, a lot. And where I live (Central
Illinois; please, no corn jokes) it's cloudy a LOT. (over half the time). And
in the winter, when it's quite cold and there isn't much sun because 1.
the sunlight is not coming in vertically (that's why it's winter in the
first place), and 2. it's cloudy more than usual, is just when I need more
power (for heating); a LOT more than 2KW. Why, my 1.5KW space heater keeps
a few rooms warm, but that doesn't even count central heating. We keep our
house at 65 (day; 60 night) during the winter. So solar probably wouldn't
cut it for me. Not to mention clearing the ice off it during the middle of
winter with ice all over the roof. That's REAL safe.