Excellent in-depth article on Climategate and its ramifications.
The claim was both simple and terrifying: that temperatures on planet Earth are now 'likely the highest in at least the past 1,300 years'.
As its authors from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) must have expected, it made headlines around the world.
Yet some of the scientists who helped to draft it, The Mail on Sunday can reveal, harboured uncomfortable doubts.
In the words of one, David Rind from the US space agency Nasa, it 'looks like there were years around 1000AD that could have been just as warm'.
Wow, thanks for this. You seem to be quite the expert in this category. I'll stop by more often.
I don't get it. You still have to take the 240v that comes out of the microinverter and transform/rectify it to charging voltage for the batteries. So the microinverter just adds another 8% loss to the system, compared to a DC-out MPTT controller like FlexMax 80. Also, much of Andalay's propaganda is bogus -- nobody in their right mind has 600 VDC wiring, shadows on one panel don't affect the output of other panels, etc. Yeah, this system makes sense if all you want to do is pretend to sell electricity back to the grid (note: they might buy it, but it doesn't really go anywhere except into heat at the first transformer), but if you actually want to USE the generated electricity, a conventional system is much more efficient.