On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 16:28:43 GMT, someone wrote:


....I bought this house a year ago. I's all electric.
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.... I plan on living here for another twenty years. I figure
that even if my electric bill settles down and averages $350.00 a
month (like that's gonna happen!), that's going to cost $84,000.00!
Kinda makes photovoltaics look better, doesn't it?

Every appliance in the house is Energy Star except the hot water
heater..... When every
light in the kitchen, breakfast room, living foom, family room and
study are burning I'm using less that 200 watts! And I still get this
kind of electric bill. Do you know of a better alternative?

You're a fool. You aren't living on 200 watts. Your appliances
consume thousands of watts. Your electric heat, yow! And do you have
"air conditioning"?

And no, your electric bill is not "$84,000". It would be $350/mo.,
$4,200/yr., so what if that comes to $84,000 for 20 years or $420,000
for 100 years, nowhere do you have to come up with $84,000 at once.

To maintain the same life style on photovoltaics might cost you
$84,000 UP FRONT lump sum payment, thought as mentioned the rest of
the taxpayers will subsidize you back a lot of it. If you want to
make photovolatics realisitic you'd need to drastically change your
approach to life and the design of the systems in your house.

If you could "just switch" to photovoltaics and not have an electric
bill, don't you think everyone would have done it? Do you really
think that you and only you has had this unique bright idea for the
very first time????


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