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Posted on 01/21/2007 6:41:36 AM PST by Uncledave
Please Freep Mail me if you'd like on/off
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Well, solar panels and home power generation has gotten a lot cheaper and easier in recent years. It's possible to buy prebuilt kits instead of rigging up everything on your own. Projects like these seem like a logical next step. The sun does pour down a lot of energy whether we want it or not, and the more of that we can capture, the better.
Very interesting. I wonder what the monthly rent is.
I hope their supposed economies of scale make this feasible -- they're selling directly against utility retail rates, perhaps there's some margin there for them -- and I also assume since they own the equipment they would pocket some tax credits. It would also create downward pressure on utilities' rates if it gained any traction.
It seems that they were in the news constantly about 5 years ago.
It says you pay the net metered rate for your state - typically it's simply the retail rate for electricity. And you lay down a $500 security deposit. They also will lock in the rate for up to 25 years. Given the way rates are constantly going up that's the most attractive part of the deal. Sure makes you wonder where the rub is.
Fuel cells take hydrogen. Hydrogen comes from either fossil fuels or from hydrolysis of water. That TAKES energy to make.
I'm in FL. Heating isn't a big issue. It's mid Jan, and the AC is running.
Some housing developer around here is using solar power as a selling point for their new homes. They claim the panels should handle the electrical demands and even sell back power to the utility.
Now if most people decide to heat their home this way and those new kind of hybrids become popular and we build a lot of nuclear power plants, the United States will far exceed the Kyoto protocols without any sacrifice whatsoever.
The new kind of hybrids (coming soon) have a battery that can run your car 40 miles before gas power takes over. People just have to charge their car each night. If you didn't have to buy gasoline to cover the first 40 miles you drive a day, how long between refueling could you go? I figure I could go for months. People who live relatively close to work and have stores and other services within a few miles might need to refuel only for special trips.
Very good idea. I don't see any drawbacks other than they might be booked for YEARS for a new install.
They will have to pay me to put those ugly @$$, black crap on my roof.
"What ever happened to fuel cells?
It seems that they were in the news constantly about 5 years ago."
Bush came out in favor of the technioloy, so the leftest greenies had to deny they were feasable.
Folding. Remember the folding.
Actually, I don't think this has to do with that on the consumer-level.
It's a grid-tied product - you wouldn't be a candidate, as far as I can tell
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