Posted on 09/10/2014 4:31:10 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
"The bottom line is solar works here," said Pete Wirth, whose 18 solar panels supply all of his Fayetteville home's electrical power. "It would probably work better if you had no cloudy days, but solar works perfectly fine in Central New York."
The only way solar works here, or just about anywhere, is with heavy government subsidies. Wirth's system cost $24,000 when it was installed two years ago, but after tax credits and rebates, he paid about $6,200.
That means taxpayers pick up about 75 percent of the cost of solar systems.
(Excerpt) Read more at syracuse.com ...
Upstate bump
If it could probably work better,then it is obviously less than perfect.
Yeah, but the owner in this article seems pretty proud of his new solar power system (at the expense of his neighbors). Isn’t that special...
Just how well will it work with a foot of snow piled on top of the solar cell?
Solar power is neither efficient nor cost effective.
It’s something to be embraced by liberals, socialists, progressives and communists to satisfy their need to feel good about themselves while making other people pay for it.
If there was only some way you could convert Lake Effect snow into energy you’d be fine. Don’t miss that since I moved away from there.
“If there was only some way you could convert Lake Effect snow into energy you’d be fine. Don’t miss that since I moved away from there.”
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
There is. It’s called hydro. And trees.
Many years ago, when I was foolish enough to be on Facebook, a lib was bemoaning the evils of big business guys who wouldn’t put solar panels on cars, forcing us to buy their evil oil. After a few seconds of my trying to point out some basic facts, he spewed some of the vilest bilge at me, personally, that I have ever been subjected to. I realized fb wasn’t for me, and also that you can’t reason with the insane, who aren’t looking for answers but rather validation for their whacky thoughts.
Had another fb spat with a lib, successful and highly paid, about poor tenants who punch holes in the tin roofs of their homes and glue in plastic liter bottles filled with water and chlorine. This lets in daylight for free. While the lib thought this was green and awesome, I ruined the thread by pointing out that plastic is photo-reactive and crumbles away in sunshine, at a high speed in the tropics, and then incoming rainwater rots the structure and suggested the tenants use glass bottles instead. For my sins, I was lambasted and removed from the thread. These people are humorless and closed minded.
I see wires running to his house. I suspect he is also “selling” his “excess” power back to the utility.
So, in other words, his neighbors paid for his system, and then they pay again in higher utility rates so he can be compensated for power the utility is forced to purchase at a high rate, but can’t distribute.
Yeah, that “works”.
Show me a solar system that is cost effective, unsubsidized and completely off grid in central NY and I’ll be impressed.
More ridiculous pseudo-intellectual green energy pipe dreams at work. You can be sure these green donkeys would never depend on green energy to run their internet...
...unless of course it was subsidized by the other guy.
Their definition of “works” is way way off.
Mostly, you can’t have an intelligent conversation with someone that is insane. It’s like mud wrestling with a pig. Both of you will get dirty, but the pig thinks its fun.
Good grief, are they still calling it Lake Effect snow? What other kind IS there in central NYS anyway??? I moved from there about 35 years ago. “It’s just Lake Effect Snow, it’s not, like, real snow or anything - just 3 feet of it, nothing to worry about, folks!”
I moved from Central NY to Connecticut about 15 years ago. If we get 6 inches it’s a disaster. I say to myself you don’t know what snow is.
Yes, and Quebec has more hydro power that is can use. However, the folks in northern NH do not a power line going through their county because it will ruin their VIEW.
As far as the trees go, many people like me continue to add alternative heating systems. I am installing a pellet insert. With the difference in wood pellets verses heating oil, I figure it will pay itself off in three years.
I grew up in Orchard Park, NY in the suburbs south of Buffalo. Six inches of snow was just a normal winter day. You went out and plowed or snow blowed and everyone went to school or work. Here in southern NH, if we get 4” of snow they cancel school. I guess it is all about legal liability.
Uh huh
If the Fed can keep the paper flowing into the furnace, Syracuse can be a tropical paradise for 365 days a year until global warming takes over.
How did that solar power project work for the Ithaca Public Library?
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