PV as an investment [RE-wrenches]

[Allan Sindelar]

Wrenches,
Please continue with thoughtful responses to this thread. We're regularly
asked this, too, and we need a good response. As I have done with a few
other essential threads, I will save all of the good postings on this topic,
edit them to a single document that we can hand out to customers asking
about payback, and make it available to other wrenches who request it. This
is good, important stuff. It is a "consciousness shift here folks... that is
why the change to renewables is so much more complicated than what seems to
be so obvious..."
Allan at Pos Energy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Cory, Bald Mtn. Solar" <toddcory at jps.net>
> Good thread...
>
> Another reply I have come up with to the usual payback question is to ask
them why they
> think it is with energy, "cheaper is better"? I ask if when they bought
their vehicle or
> home, did they look for the rock bottom, cheapest thing they could get? Of
course not,
> so I point out that likewise, some kinds of energy are different (and
better) then
> others.
>
> Yes, that $500.00 used, rusted out, 1967 pickup will move your body from
point A to B,
> just like brown, carbon based power will light a bulb or run the TV, but
green power is
> different and better because it is clean... but like a Lexus, it does cost
more.
>
> I also then point out how the current cost of brown power does not begin
to include the
> long term environmental consequences of using it. I tell them that their
children's,
> children's, children will get to pay that bill. I encourage them to be a
leader, be an
> example to others and make the only intelligent choice for the health of
future
> generations on our planet.
>
> We are dealing with a consciousness shift here folks... that is why the
change to
> renewables is so much more complicated then what seems to be so obvious to
us that are
> on the "other side". Again, 70+ % of what I end up doing is education of
the customer...
> too bad the schools don't teach people to think outside the box better.

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