June 22, 2007
Get Your Piece Of The Sun
Whoa! Check out the SF Solar Map! Using Googlemap tech, SF Environment and CH2MHill have teamed up to show you where the solar installations are throughout the city. And if you plug in your address, it'll give you approximate numbers on how much energy you could generate with solar, how much dough you'd save, and how much carbon you'd save the environment.
For example, when SFist cobbles together the money to buy Kirk Hammett's house as our new headquarters . . . (which, by the way, is more expensive than Red Rock Island):
Roof Size: 2800 sq. ft.
Estimated solar PV potential: 4 - 7 kW
Estimated electricity produced: 7300 - 12775 KWh/yr
Estimated electricity savings: $834-$1460 per year
Estimated carbon savings: 5445.8 - 9530.15 lbs per year
Exit night, enter light!
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On my Macintosh:
Safari - the website crashes the browser every time
Opera - the website says I live in the Pacific Ocean and no valid data is available
Firefox - my persistence pays off and the site works as advertised
Hopefully the solar panels themselves have been tested and work more reliably than their website.
Damn -- and here I was hoping it would be a map to show where in the city the sun might be shining at any given moment. That could be very useful on quasi-foggy days.
That's a great idea, actually, Beth. Not sure how it would support itself (or where it'd get the data), but I bet it'd be popular.
I'm so starved for Ed Jew news I ran the numbers for how much money Ed could save if he went solar.
2450 28th Avenue**
Roof Size: 1300 sq. ft.
Estimated solar PV potential: 2 - 3 kW
Estimated electricity produced: 3650 - 5475 KWh/yr
Estimated electricity savings: $417-$626 per year
Estimated carbon savings: 2722.9 - 4084.35 lbs per year
That Metallica reference is beyond awesome and super-highlarious. Thanks!