If they come just say your waiting for a mate!

Forget that. Gotta open me a second refinery!!

Solar panels dont work here in the winter the sun is to low and the basic pakage is 5 grand to install and fit them then you need alot of room in the hotpress or utility room to store the cylinder and controls it puts alot of people off the idea.

Solar panels do work here all year round (even in the winter), they don’t need direct Sun either but I agree the expense is a turn off. Should be made cheaper to encourage take up through a better grant system.

2 of my colleagues have hot water solar panels and they say they never work in the winter.

Also they both agree that the return on investment (ROI) takes around 25 years and the average lifespan of one of those evacuated tubes is less than 20 years. If I’m wrong somebody please correct me because I wish I was!

They need to be made a lot cheaper or energy prices need to rise in order to make them economically viable.

Im a plumber ive fitted all types and have yet to come across solar panels that work here in winter.

Great idea. Obvious answer : no funds…

Shane, I’m not a plumber so wouldn’t have your experience and knowledge on this. I heard those panel, the ones that look have large pipes sealed in a vacuum encased in glass work all year round, albeit it better in the summer.

Yea they are the best ones and most expensive but ive yet to see them work in the winter time theres just not enough sun to heat the tubes up.but in the summer ive seen them tubes get up to 82 degrees on a good day.

I spent 7k two years ago on solar panels, NOT worth it even if they lasted 30 years (the panels face south).

Try Lvp solar panel… Work all year around as gas boils in them at -70 or so.. Are more expensive but I’ve never run out if hot water since I installed them in June

Maybe I’ll rethink getting solar panels installed so!

Ireland had the same thermal energy as Germany and Germany has the most solar installed in Europe. A lot of Mickey Mouse consultants in Ireland who don’t know what they are doing and installing the incorrect solar technologies

I live in Yunnan province, China. Solar panels are everywhere here.

Tom, I’m in. Can I’ve €5,000 to spend on solar panels please? Bit low on funds at the mo.

Michael, your Local TD should be able to sort you out! ;-)

I’ve just put in system for a grand 300 litre tank 2 flat panels, no grant .. Sits in the hot-press… Not expecting heat in winter…my father fitted it though…

Much more. That table of petrol stations is all mixed up.

Because Ireland is for looting. It’s people are ignorant fools. Memory lasts 3.5 years and get excited by potholes that get repaired, coincidentally, every 3.5 years.

Should we not just give it away ?

We dont have the money to go exploring for oil.

Yet we have tens of billions to give to foreign bondholders?

I’d rather pour it down an oil well, even one which turns out to be empty

Water powered car! ha! Never mind the laws of physics, they just get in the way.

There have been many water powered car scams, the latest being in pakistan, just goes to show people believe what they want to believe despite over overwhelming evidence that it doesnt work.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/416542/the-water-car-fraud/

Btw this guy hasnt been killed by opec or the americans, i dont think they feel threatened by him