PV as an investment [RE-wrenches]

[Drake Chamberlin - Electrical Energy]

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BRAVO!

At 11:58 PM 09/22/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Brother and sister Wrenches,
>As promised, I have gathered all of the posts on the issue of payback for
>solar. There's some pretty good stuff here, from many of you over the last
>few weeks.
>I'll send it as a Word attachment to any Wrench who requests it off-list.
>There are two forms; please ask for either or both. "Edited" is the
>four-page to-the-point version I will hand out tomorrow during my Solar
>Fiesta talk on grid-tied PV, minus our letterhead. "Raw" is the 13-page
>gathered file of all of the posts on the topic, from which the edited
>version was, well, edited.
>
>My contribution on the topic:
>A typical PV-powered off-grid home uses five to fifteen per cent of the
>electricity of a conventional home that has utility power. This is not
>accomplished by forgoing modern conveniences: our off-grid home has hydronic
>heat, a microwave, a Maytag refrigerator and Jenn-Air dishwasher, a
>computer, entertainment system, well pump and shop tools. We achieve this
>efficiency by closely adhering to two basic rules: use the right form of
>energy for the job, and minimize the amount that's wasted.
>If all of us in the US lived as though we got our heat and power directly
>from the sun, we wouldn't be reeling from a terrorist attack on "our way of
>life". We wouldn't have gone to war to keep our supply of Mideast oil
>flowing. We would leave the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge alone. We could
>see the stars in the night sky.
>
>Allan at Positive E
>
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