THE SUNNY SIDE
Mar 06, 2021
3 minutes
BY NICHOLAS PHILLIPS
HE BACK of Bob McMullen’s roof turned out to be the best spot for his solar panels. He’s got six installed on the roof’s western hip, but there are no fewer than 13 crowding the rear, angled southward, gulping up maximum sun. He’s showing me this from the grass behind his house in University City. The panels above us are -ed together asymmetrically, so he points out the obstacles that informed such an array: a vent protruding here, a chimney over there that casts a meddlesome shadow every morning.
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