round 2 [RE-wrenches]

[Travis Creswell, Ozark Solar]

Yes they need more education and a place to get it.  Finding us is
secondary.  None of us have the time to regularly tell people that solar
isn't the solution for your $/400 month electric bill.  I do my best to
spend at least 10-20 minutes every UQ lead that calls me.  I know they will
probably never buy anything from me but I want them to know that solar can
do great things if you just apply it properly.  Hopefully someday they will
remember the nice guy who told them about solar and call me back ready to
business.

Travis
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>From: Smitty <smitty at aaasolar.com>
>To: "RE-wrenches at topica.com" <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
>Subject: round 2 [RE-wrenches]
>Date: Tue, Feb 27, 2001, 11:23 AM
>

>Todd wrote:
>I think many of the leads are folks with a
>romantic idea of "solar" and little information on conservation or
>realistic intelligence on what is involved in the whole setup. A web
>page
>with rough costs for rough kWh of production might act like a good
>filter, so that the leads would be from semi informed and educated
>folks.
>
>Todd
>
>To reinforce Todd's point I submit the following I was mailed this am.
>
>Hi:
>
>I live in Alaska and will be building my own home within the next 5 or 6
>years.  I will be putting a metal roof on my home and am
>looking into using solar panels as well.  I would love to run as many
>appliances as possible from solar power, but during the middle
>of winter we only get about 5 hours of light.  In addition, some winters
>are rather cloudy.  Would it be possible to run a solar water
>heater in this situation?  Please e-mail me information on this
>subject.  I am in the stage of doing a lot of research on making my
>home as environmentally friendly as possible and would appreciate any
>information you can provide me with.  Thank you.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Cindy Lyons
>
>AND
>
>On our last power bill we received we used 60 kWh per day and a total of
>1800 kWh for the month.  With this info can you give me a
>idea on what size of a system it will take to power our house and out
>buildings?
>
>Thanks
>    Jack
>
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