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.
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Having lived SE of lake Ontario myself, two feet of fluffy LE snow has very little water content and doesn't compare to two feet of snow down here at the coast where I live now.
No, but with a little site selection and planning, you can build a "solar heated house"...no solar panels involved.
A properly oriented, well insulated building with an attached greenhouse/sunroom and an "air chimney" should heat and cool nicely, with little or no energy costs.
It's a carpenter thing...not a subsidized high-tech enviro-whacko thing.
Anything will work if you dump enough time and money Ingo it, and keep dumping money into it, and keep dumping no.ey into it.
Pathetic leftist idiots and the spineless repulsive republicans who allow this garbage.
“I see wires running to his house.”
Crap, I thought we got that shopped out.
And they’d work even better if they didn’t get buried in snow all winter.
Solar power is not a wise investment of money in CNY.
Good one; forced buy back by utilities stinks. Government subsidy of the home owner and the industry stinks.
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