Dear Google, you make me feel really uncomfortable when you share a video with the world wherein you describe a project which you will make for "the country".
Where does it say "the country" ?
Look for the youtube video. They say it at the end.
Project Sunroof
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#32Want to see what it does, try City Hall: https://www.google.com/get/sunroof#a=2600%20Fresno%20St%2C%2...
So City Hall would actually save less money (12k vs 13k/14k) than the two regular homes I tried in San Francisco. If the numbers are correct, we're looking at $650-700 a year in savings. Not bad, but not that great either, especially considering heating alone in both buildings I looked at ran $150-300 / month (including summer which is hardly warmer at night in SF). Can solar panels be installed at such a price on a regular home? I doubt there's any incentive for City Hall here.
EDIT: I also doubt the calculations are correct considering that city hall's roof is many times larger than the two homes I looked at, yet saves less money.
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#33Dear Google, you make me feel really uncomfortable when you share a video with the world wherein you describe a project which you will make for "the country".
Do you really mean "uncomfortable"? I don't get it. Annoyed maybe? (like when new products don't come to Apps users) OTOH, just because you have a generally accessible url, the video at that url must be addressed to the world?
No, i'm not annoyed. I understand why they can't offer it globally right from the start.
It's the wording itself that makes me feel uncomfortable in a way that is hard to articulate.
Re: Project Sunroof
#34Want to see what it does, try City Hall: https://www.google.com/get/sunroof#a=2600%20Fresno%20St%2C%2...
Interesting:
"1,960 hours of usable sunlight per year"
I wonder how they arrive at that number, and how accurate it is? Anyone in SF want to try a few addresses in Outer Sunset vs the Mission?
I'd be interested in seeing that number alone mapped out over the US on a zoomable map.
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#36I was recently thinking about a project to show how easy it would be to power the entire US on solar panels. It actually wouldn't require much land, in fact if you put panels on every building top and parking lot you'd be almost there. What I was imagining was something that'd show you "ideal" spots for solar farms. Ideal meaning proximity to population centers, orientation of land, environmental impact, etc.
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#37So how big of a business this could be for Google ?
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#38http://www.zonatlas.nl
granted it is in dutch and made by a completely boring governmental institution. OTH it's made with openstreetmap.
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#39How do they make these maps? Do they have satellite images of different points of (sunny) days and run the analysis that way?
Extrapolation. Use the time on the satellite photo to get the time reference, and thus where the sun is and how much sunlight going at a direction. Use the location and direction of the house get a sense of the facing of the roof. Use color level of the bright and shade sides to estimate the roof pitch incline. Given the roof's area, direction, and pitch, it's not hard to estimate the sun light received.
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#40It's a 404.
same here.