I've looked into wind energy here but the local power company works on a non-refundable credit/debit system, and at a cost of around $25k the payback period is about 10-13 years for me.
Here you stay hooked up to the grid sending the generated electricity back the grid instead of using it yourself. If you generate $1000 of electricity and use $1200 worth you pay the difference, but if you generate $1000 worth and use $500 worth they keep the difference. I wouldn't even mind if I could share the difference with neighbors, but I'll be damned if I'm going to give the extra to the power company. The other alternative would be to add a huge bank of batteries and run off those, but that would increase my cost significantly. -----Original Message----- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:46 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Solar Power I've looked into it a couple of times, but the prices haven't come down enough. It'll end up taking 7~10 years to get your money back out of it. The most I'm doing now is trying to figure out device by device (using the kill-o-watt) why the hell my last electric bill was over $400. It's been a frickin mild winter and I'm still paying out the nose for power. On Jan 17, 2008 10:25 AM, Scott Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone using Solar as a primary source for home power. after all of the > crap that went down with Progress Energy, we're seriously considering > getting off the grid. > > > > -- > > Scott Stewart > > ColdFusion Developer > > > > SSTWebworks > > 4405 Oakshyre Way > > Raleigh, NC. 27616 > > (919) 874-6229 (home) > > (703) 220-2835 (cell) > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:251186 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
