{"id":9718,"date":"2017-04-28T18:36:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T08:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=9718"},"modified":"2017-04-28T19:10:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T08:40:46","slug":"apology-usg-solar-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/apology-usg-solar-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"An Apology To USG Solar Panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10824\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10824\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10824\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Aliens_Solar.jpg\" alt=\"use panel and aliens guy\" width=\"650\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Aliens_Solar.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Aliens_Solar-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whatever you do, never expose a USG Universal Solar Panel to light.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I would like to humbly apologize to USG solar panels, or to give them their full name, Universal Solar Group.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/apology-australian-premium-solar\">article I wrote about them<\/a>\u00a0back in February I pointed out how horrible their written warranty was.\u00a0 I made a sincere, concerted effort to make it clear it required around two or three hundred dollars in unnecessary maintenance every three months.<\/p>\n<p>But I didn&#8217;t stop there.\u00a0 I profligately expended my carefully hoarded reservoirs of mental energy to convey the information that keeping their wretched warranty intact for 30 years could cost over $28,500 in today&#8217;s money.<\/p>\n<p>I endeavored to elucidate readers on how quality panels do not require such warranty conditions.\u00a0 I endeavored to elucidate so hard.<\/p>\n<p>And I ended my Herculean effort by imparting the wisdom I had won from years of experience dealing with solar\u00a0spruikers, which was to never use these panels and tell those who suggest installing them to go to hell.<\/p>\n<p>But I now see that after all the time and effort I spent writing the article, after an eternity of creating draft after draft to ensure its words would crackle like lightning in the minds of men and sear like fire in the minds of women, after printing out countless variations so Tonto 23 could determine which one tasted the best, after hours of consultations with quite possibly the most intelligent 8 year old I have ever given birth to, I realize I have failed and my failure is great.\u00a0 I have failed my readers, myself, and most of all I have failed Universal Solar Group.<\/p>\n<p>My failure occurred because not once in that article did I tell people the most important thing about USG panels, despite the fact it had been staring me right in the face the whole time, but I stumbled blindly by and left revelation lying in the dust.<\/p>\n<p>So I apologize humbly and unreservedly for failing to inform you of a mind expanding piece of information.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t believe I let the most important thing about USG solar panels simply slip by.<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;ve failed a lot in my life.\u00a0 Broken marriages&#8230; broken fingers&#8230; 22 dead horses all named Tonto&#8230; owning Justin Bieber&#8217;s entire discography&#8230; but I&#8217;ll never live this one down.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Most Important Thing About USG Solar Panels<\/h2>\n<p>The most important thing about USG panels was sitting right there in their warranty, among the long list of things that would render it void, clear as day, for everyone to see.\u00a0 And I&#8217;ll show it to you right now in this screen shot:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usg.jpg\" alt=\"USG warranty conditions\" width=\"985\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usg.jpg 985w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usg-300x46.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usg-768x118.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 985px) 100vw, 985px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And there it is.\u00a0 The most important thing about USG panels is right there in front of you.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that?\u00a0 You say you don&#8217;t see it?\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 I think you&#8217;re just saying that to make me feel better.\u00a0 But none-the-less, I&#8217;ll humor you and blow up the relevant section:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9961\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usgcondition.jpg\" alt=\"The Most Important Thing!\" width=\"922\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usgcondition.jpg 922w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usgcondition-300x10.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usgcondition-768x27.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There you have it.\u00a0 The most important thing about USG panels.\u00a0 These panels, these solar panels, have their warranty voided if they are damaged by lighting.\u00a0 Just take a minute to think about that.<\/p>\n<p>There would be no reason to say their warranty would be void if they were damaged by lighting unless it was possible for lighting to damage them.\u00a0 So the only logical conclusion is Universal Solar Group has made solar panels that can be damaged by light.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the only explanation that fits.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">We Can Only Pray They Come In Peace<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m not about to suggest that some factory in China actually makes solar panels that can be damaged by light.\u00a0 That that would be ludicrous.\u00a0 We have to consider more rational explanations and there is only one that makes sense.\u00a0 When you look at the other crazy requirements of the USG warranty, the need for maintenance every 3 months, the requirement that a highly trained professional waste their time cleaning them, and above all else the very name of the company itself &#8211; Universal Solar Group, the one explanation that fits becomes clear.\u00a0 These panels are not of this world.\u00a0 They are made by aliens.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/aliens.jpg\" alt=\"Aliens!\" width=\"461\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/aliens.jpg 461w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/aliens-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know where the beings behind Universal Solar Group come from, but clearly their understanding of humanity is limited.\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t know what kind of world their solar panels are designed for.\u00a0 Perhaps they are meant for installation beneath the murky atmosphere of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saturn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Saturn&#8217;s<\/a> moon <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Titan_(moon)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Titan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There, at 10 times the distance the earth is from the sun, below a thick atmosphere of permanently unbroken haze, the panels would be quite safe from what we call &#8220;light&#8221;.\u00a0 The wavelengths that reach the surface of that strange world would be quite different from those that reach our eyes.\u00a0 Perhaps only a few watts per square meter would reach those panels, so no wonder their maintenance schedule requires them to be regularly checked for anything that could shade them and for it to be removed.\u00a0 Every <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">erg<\/a> of energy could be vital.<\/p>\n<p>And no wonder they need a highly qualified professional to go out and perform maintenance.\u00a0 The survival of the alien colony could depend upon it.\u00a0 Between the methane rain and plumes of water and ammonia from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cryovolcano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cryovolcanos<\/a>, perhaps maintenance and cleaning really is required every three months.\u00a0 Or perhaps the months are based on Saturn&#8217;s orbit, making three of their months equal to seven of our years.<\/p>\n<p>Cleaning panels may be the most prestigious activity in their culture and performed by high ranking individuals.\u00a0 It is even conceivable they obtain some kind of religious ecstasy from it.\u00a0 This may be exactly what they are trying to share with us &#8211; their religion.<\/p>\n<p>Before I realized the truth, I thought their panels were just crap, but now I know they are actually meant for another world, I see they are extraordinary examples of interplanetary craftsmanship and I thank them for sharing their technology with us.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why they have come to earth, but now I know what they must be, I&#8217;d like to extend my hand in friendship to Universal Solar Group and hope they extend their hand, claw, tentacle, pseudopod, or sucker, in return.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ie1WWWOxhMs?t=1m5s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karen Carpenter<\/a> can express these sentiments far better than I can:<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"The Carpenters -  Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_BrSVOOK610?start=50&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; 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