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To: palmer; Diana in Wisconsin
solar power is a money wasting greendoggle

This is actually correct - anyone that has solar knows it - or should.

Plus is the event of a real armed conflict, those panels are a big bulls eye painted right on your roof for all the roving gangs to see. - You would need to be in a tightly secured locale with its own trained and standing armed forces.

14 posted on 12/21/2010 5:19:58 AM PST by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: bill1952

solar power is a money wasting greendoggle

Made the point yesterday upon reading that our local AF base is leaping ahead with a 7 million dollar solar project to reduce their energy consumption. That in itself is a premise that needs work. By my figures, the 185 panel project is spending perhaps 400 thousand dollars on panels, and a ton of money on labor and the associated electronics, to make a silk purse out of a sows ear.


50 posted on 12/21/2010 7:05:30 AM PST by wita
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To: bill1952
solar power is a money wasting greendoggle

Really? I've been powering my cabin in the mountains for a decade with solar cells and batteries. It's been a lot cheaper than connecting to the grid. We don't have a lot of load but it's worked pretty well.

I also have nice fields of fire from my ridge top. Any starving libs who come looking for some loot are going to fertilize the garden.

59 posted on 12/21/2010 8:37:26 AM PST by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand - If you are French raise both hands.)
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To: bill1952

An EMP would fry the eletronic components in solar panels. Even here in Arizona, solar isn’t worth it,unless you have a ton of money and want to live off the grid. With housing costs still headed south, it doesn’t make any sense to spend a huge amount of money on solar. There are lots of incentives, but you still have to front all the money yourself.


62 posted on 12/21/2010 8:47:36 AM PST by ChocChipCookie
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