A Man complains Solar Panels are Faulty
An area man has been complaining to anyone and everyone who will listen about the faulty solar panels. He says he was bamboozled into purchasing them. However, Anders Cooper says he was onto them from the very beginning and knew the solar panels would not be as efficient as the salespeople promised.
Anders reports that he has been studying the sun since he was a young boy, and as he put it, “You know, when the teacher had us stick a pin through a piece of paper, and then we put another piece of paper on the ground and we looked at the other piece of paper on the ground, and there it was…”
This reporter said that it sounded like Mr. Cooper was describing the “pinhole projector” that elementary classes would make to view a solar eclipse safely. After a pause, Mr. Cooper replied, “Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. I thought that was pretty cool, so I started walking around with a couple of pieces of paper and a pin, always ready to pull the trigger on it.” At that point, Anders shook his head and smiled, then continued. “I’ve spent a lot of time looking right up into the sun, and trained myself not to blink. I can’t drive at night anymore, but it’s worth the trade-off.”
What’s there to see at night!
The reporter then asked Mr. Cooper what was meant by the trade-off, to which Anders replied, “Not being able to see very well at night… What’s there to see at night anyway? It’s dark, which leads me to my complaint. When attempting to bamboozle me, they said that I could expect to achieve up to a 25% efficiency. Mr. Cooper got animated at this point in the interview and raised his hands to the heavens. “Ah Ha! It’s right there where I got ‘em. When they said Up To 25%. That could mean anything below 25%. Even 1%.
As a side note, and to help the reader understand more fully, monocrystalline silicon panels – which Mr. Cooper had installed – reach between 19% – 25% efficiency.
“So I am having them tested. They will not get away with it!” Mr. Coop exclaimed. He went on. “This testing will be a multi-faceted process, including laboratory and on-the-roof testing, quantum efficiency, and temperature coefficient testing.
The reporter then asked. “What do you hope to prove?” To which Anders responded. “They put the solar panels on the wrong side of the house. And they don’t work at night anyway!”
