$5/W sounds hideously expensive. It's nearer $2.6/W installed here in the UK!
But as far as your analysis goes, you haven't factored in the money that
hundreds of companies that supply the armed services have made out of the war.
That means jobs which keeps the politicians in power and
Peter,
You are very generous with install cost of $5 per Watt and I think that
cost level is old. Today's solar panels are all under $1 per Watt with
few exceptions and installation typically doubles or triples that with
the man-hours and the inverter installation material costs. What I
have
Here's a parallel way to look at it, except with wind generation:
According to the US DOE, in table 1:
http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/capitalcost/pdf/updated_capcost.pdf
the cost to build a wind farm is $2213/kW to build + $40/kW-yr to
operate. Add to that pumped storage of the same capacity:
[corrected! And results are 10 times better!]
Remember this solar investment is the upfront cost. From then on, it has
paid for free transportation energy for emissions free EV's forever...
Lets try this
$1.7T divided by $3.30/Watt cost of solar = 500 BWatts of capacity.
In Maryland
On 06/26/2014 02:02 PM, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote:
$1.7T divided by $3.30/Watt cost of solar = 500 BWatts of capacity.
Around here, we are getting roof top turn key installations of around
5kw for about $2.25/watt before the income tax credit and without any
local incentives. I've
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From: Peri Hartman pe...@kotatko.com
To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List ev@lists.evdl.org
Sent: 26-Jun-14 8:20:44 AM
Subject: Re: [EVDL] $1.7 Trillion reinvested
Here's a parallel way to look at it, except with wind generation:
According to the US DOE, in table 1:
http://www.eia.gov
