jet contrails and solar output [RE-wrenches]

[carl reuter]

Dear Wrenches: Last week I did a system upgrade for some folks living in the Sierra Nevada foothills and the customer told me that the output of his original eight BP90s on a Wattsun tracker would drop by 30% on some days where there was a lot of jet activity. He attributed this to the contrails or 'chemtrails' as he called them. I thought that was a bit of an exaggeration until I just read a newspaper clip about how Nasa announced that contrails are actually forming weather altering clouds and having an impact on our climate. Apparently they saw a dramatic shift after sept. 11 and were able to study it better with the planes grounded. It seems we may have to factor this into module output calcs in the future.Carl Reuter



Carl Reuter, Land and Sea Solar
"Bringing Solar Down To Earth"
www.landandseasolar.com
Ph: 831-477-7169
Fax: 831-465-8349




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