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My point was that a carbon black shingle would result in a much higher amount of work required to cool the inside of the house because you'd be baking yourself alive. The standoffs for solar prevent that. Which at 20% efficiency panels, back of the envelope says that could end up cancelling out the benefit of the panels entirely, for more than half the year.


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