Air Quality on PV [RE-wrenches]

Lynne A Carter solarvil at netpath.net
Tue Apr 10 19:26:27 PDT 2001


That Should say NOx not Ox.  I am and this is just tooo creative for the
spellchecker.
Lyn at solarvillage.com
Solar Village Institute inc.
PO Box 14
Saxapahaw, NC  27340
Tel. 336-376-9530
Fax. 336-376-1809
www.solarvillage.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Lynne A Carter <solarvil at netpath.net>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: Air Quality on PV [RE-wrenches]


> Bill,
> How are you? I hope CA is treating you well. That is a wonderful site lots
> of neat info, thank you!   I used the calculator and we came up with the
> numbers we are offsetting. Ox lbs. 255, SO2 lbs. 460, CO2 lbs. 59,498 and
> got a net profit on the total mileage for all the company/personal cars,
> trucks and vans. That's fun.
> I did not see any information on effects of air quality on PV power
ratings.
> Air Quality, in NC is very dirty air. We see humidity (water vapor in the
> air) but we also see air pollution. I am hoping to find a number that I
> might use to calculate the decreased photovoltaic electricity that dirty
air
> may cause. Like a code "orange," "red" and maybe "purple" how much power
am
> I loosing from the lack of good air quality? I may have missed this at the
> site it is quite large.  Let me know if I am wrong.
> Today its in the 90's and were seeing lots of haze the power production is
> down. Luckily, all this hot air brought in some wind and looks like a
> thunderstorm soon. It could be the photovoltaic arrays are responding to
the
> temperature or the pollution or water vapor.
> We size systems a little larger to compensate for the summer temperatures
> and the pollution.  This year it could get very bad because of all the
coal
> electric plants that are firing up.
>
> Lyn at solarvillage.com
> Solar Village Institute inc.
> PO Box 14
> Saxapahaw, NC  27340
> Tel. 336-376-9530
> Fax. 336-376-1809
>
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