PV as an investment [RE-wrenches]

[Joel Davidson]

Thank you for compiling this discussion, but I reject your wrong-headed opinion
that U.S. energy use is a cause for the murders. The murderers do not care what
energy you use or how you use it so long as you follow their rules.

"Allan Sindelar, Positive Energy, Inc." 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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