I had one talk me into letting them into my house. The solar electricity system was $65,000 and a water heater was $14,000.
The numbers they used to cost justify the thing were so far out of the ball park it was amazing.
Of course they counted on huge govt subsidies to entice me.
Solar power works best when the sun is shining. In warm climates, keeping a home cool in summer is a major challenge.
You have at least a couple of options:
1. Install roof-top PV solar collectors, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars, and use the electricity they generate to power your air conditioner.
2. Paint your roof white, at a cost of a few hundred dollars or less, and reflect most of the sunlight away, before it has a chance to heat your home.
a Win Win, right?
until the ice storms hit..
and the climate turns gray..
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM
The hell if I’m going to let ANYONE pound nails (or drive bolts) into my excellent, non-leaking, roof.
How do solar panels fare in a SHTF scenario? From global monetary collapse to EMP? That would be the only reason I would get one.
Gotta love the pic. It is from Germany. Look aat the license plate on the car in the garage.
How do you re-roof a house with all those solar panels up there?
And what happens to them in a hurricane?