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REPORT ABUSIVE REPLY
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Say goodbye to cheap electricity
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what's the big deal?
all you need is $250,000 and a spare football field at your house and you can go solar!
everyones doing it!
it's the way of the future!
Quoting: ^TrInItY^ Doesn't take that much space, I have plenty on my roof and I can sell the excess back to the grid. Now for those city-dwelling Obama voters who live in apartments, I guess they are truly fucked, but they voted for it so they should enjoy it. lol just because you have a few solar panels on your roof does NOT make you fully energy independent you have a GRID TIE system that does NOT provide for all your power needs AT ALL and you know that as you STILL get a power bill I happen to be 100% off grid and I KNOW what it takes to do it... Solar is not practical in real world practice take it from someone who has actually done it I'm glad I did because I'm self sufficient but for the average person in the average neighborhood it just aint happening Good point Trin. A few points of my own: 1. I am not an average person in an average neighborhood. I know what I'm talking about, about this. I even know more than you do about it, no offense. I've worked in the energy industry and am an electrical engineer. 2. I am not trying to get off the grid with this system. I don't need to, to remove the effect of Obamaprices from my life. All I need to do is, on the average, to feed back the same amount to the grid as I take at other times. 3. I am currently off the grid anyway. I am in the NYC suburbs which, as you've heard, has had some recent weather events. A week after Sandy and I am still running off my gasoline generator. 4. Being off the grid with solar would be nice, but quite expensive because of mainly the batteries to store sufficient power. A grid-tie system, with emergy energy storage via gasoline or propane rather than batteries, seems reasonable to me at current prices. With you %100 on that. Here in Oz it costs about $8,000 for a 5 Kilowatt inverter and 16 panels, thats enough for an average family. Power created above use gets you a cheque from the energy company. Off grid for a families needs runs at $63,000 to start up because the batteries are expensive so on grid feed back is a good way to go.
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