On a sunny day (Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:11:48 -0700) it happened "Watson A.Name -
\"Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\"" wrote in
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"Jan Panteltje" wrote in message
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On a sunny day (Thu, 15 Apr 2004 05:57:18 GMT) it happened
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A guy in Florida quoted 48 years pay back time. I ran
the numbers for my home - over 40 years, and I pay 13
cents per kwh. A 2 kW system costs $15000. Assuming
an average of 8 hours per day of 2kW per hour, that
solar system would give me 16 kWh. I pay 16*.13 or
$2.08 for 16 kWh. Works out to 19+ years for payback,
if you don't count on mortgage payments for the system.
Add that in, and the cost of a $15000 system is
much worse - over 30,000 in a 25 year, 7% mortgage.
You have to take into account that the cost of a kWh from
the grid in 25 years will be a LOT higher too, if there
still is a grid during and after WW3 that is.
JP

I don't blame you for being paranoid about WW3, if you're from Holland.
History has treated those countries poorly during the last WWs. But
then, who cares if there's a WW3? I'm more concerned about the next big
earthquake. Some scientists are predicting a big 6.something earthquake
in the Southern Calif. desert before Sept. I hope so, 'cause some of
these immigrants might consider going back to their point of
origination.
Yea, every place has it problems, here it is the water level, and dikes
-so flooding-.
Those imigrants are a workforce, illegal immigrants behave usually pretty
well to avoid being exposed.
I personally think they have equal rights as the native Americans who stole
the land from the Indiens (spelling?).
Zero rights? Or the right of the strongest.
Was it not Reagan who pardonned most of them in California?
Then they started paying taxes....
Was not California short of cash?
JP