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Systems could cost from $17,000 to $20,000 and would not pay for themselves as customers would typically pay $120 a month to repay the purchase price and then receive about US$70 in "returns" in electricity generated.
1 posted on 08/07/2004 12:22:26 PM PDT by snopercod
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I'm still trying to get the hang of this new posting system.


2 posted on 08/07/2004 12:23:24 PM PDT by snopercod (Nine out of the 10 recessions since World War II have occurred after a big run-up in oil prices.)
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The state grants are designed to make the system pay.

There is a fallacy in here somewhere. Can't quite put my finger on it.

3 posted on 08/07/2004 12:25:13 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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The amount of energy required to manufacture and install a solar panel is roughly equivalent to what the panel will itself produce over its entire projected lifetime, so I'm not sure I see the point.


5 posted on 08/07/2004 12:32:49 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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Hey! I'm doing my part. I have a solar powered calculator around here somewhere. Where's my rebate???


6 posted on 08/07/2004 12:35:39 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000 (The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government,)
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