In this age of concern for global warming and talk of carbon footprints and carbon taxes, much of it coming from our own President of the United States and his staff, we should be doing all we can to encourage all people to conserve energy and our resources. But we are also faced with massive budget deficits. The above suggestions allow our government to encourage energy conservation at virtually no cost.

Contrary to what some may believe . . ., these photovoltaic (PV) panels are SOLAR panels, not SKY panels or UP panels. They won’t work too well unless they are directly and completely exposed to the sun, not just facing the sky or facing up. Even if a small corner of a panel is shaded, that panel will have reduced output, if it isn’t completely shut down. And when that panel is part of an array of panels, if that panel has reduced output or is completely shut down, in most cases the entire array that this panel is part of will also have reduced output or be completely shut down.