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To: null and void
No, they bill me for Kilowatt-hours.

Do you know the difference between Kilowatts and Kilowatt-hours?

I didn't. Neener neeener neener!

I would like to know how big your system is, how many panels and what it's output is. Your $13,000 system seems to outperform systems that cost many times that amount. Especially given the fact that your meter doesn't run in reverse.

Eh? They're using Kerosene lamps?

No they use a four year payback as a minimum investment criteria.

Probably. That and the fact that the system hasn't been consumed, and is part of the physical plant of my house, has raised my property value, and is making me a little money every month.

You don't consume the output of the system? What do you do with the electricity? What the system produces is the consumable not the system.

Advice on par with telling me the stock market will fluctuate...

You don't seem to believe that energy prices fluctuate.

41 posted on 05/21/2008 4:47:56 PM PDT by LeGrande
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To: LeGrande
Do you know the difference between Kilowatts and Kilowatt-hours?

Yep.

Especially given the fact that your meter doesn't run in reverse.

Ah, but my meter does run in reverse. Indeed, my bill was so low the replaced my original meter (calibrated for forward power only) with a bi-directional (calibrated for both directions of power flow) meter.

No they use a four year payback as a minimum investment criteria.

Ah. That explains why they haven't built a refinery in this country in over 30 years.

You don't consume the output of the system?

Sure do, and a dab more.

What the system produces is the consumable not the system.

Hmmmm. Just got too deep for my admittedly shallow understanding of things. I bought the asset of a PV system, didn't I?

You don't seem to believe that energy prices fluctuate.

I firmly believe that it will fluctuate upwards. Harvesting nearly all of my own electricity insulates me for that ever increasing household expense.

43 posted on 05/21/2008 5:07:31 PM PDT by null and void (The one word of Chinese our congress really understands is 'kowtow')
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To: LeGrande

Hey, gotta go away for a bit, I’m enjoying our conversation and hope to continue it later (and with any luck, learn something!)


44 posted on 05/21/2008 5:15:48 PM PDT by null and void (The one word of Chinese our congress really understands is 'kowtow')
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