Would you stick a windmill on top of your house?

[aphex]

Yea Holland!

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: Carbonyl
Solar-The unit we needed to produce 22Kwhd was $37,500!! But I used queseys example plus battery cost which is less..

Of course you can get a homeloan for it.

How much surface area would a unit like that cover?

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Carbonyl

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: Carbonyl
Solar-The unit we needed to produce 22Kwhd was $37,500!! But I used queseys example plus battery cost which is less..

Of course you can get a homeloan for it.

Do you get any kind of tax deductions for using environmentally friendly power sources like solar panels?

I did'nt even bother to check with loosing numbers like that. It basically caame down to addeding $350 a month on the mortgage or just paying $130 for electric company power. The banks rate counts as a second mortgage so figure in the 9-11% range.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-280.html

Oh, I wasn't looking at that in terms of the total costs and what not. Just general knowledge information on whether you received tax credits for using solar panels, windmills, etc. or not.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: KnightBreed

Originally posted by: Carbonyl
Solar-The unit we needed to produce 22Kwhd was $37,500!! But I used queseys example plus battery cost which is less..

Of course you can get a homeloan for it.

How much surface area would a unit like that cover?

Hehe lots. I think the panles were made by siemens and were 4x8' and we needed ~25


Knightbreed heres and excellent site which sells themText . Also i hope you don't like AC. And some electric cos don't allow for a tie in which means you still have to have power.

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: KnightBreed

Originally posted by: squirrel dog
No I would not,if I ever wanted to sell it later on down the road.Fuel cell generators should be here in 10 years or less.The power company will sell or lease you one.I saw the white paper at a local trade meeting.Size of a 5 ton central a/c unit.Sits outside your home,produces electric power has no moving parts,and has water vapor as the exhaust.Lasts 5-7 years,then someone comes out and replaces the catalist.

Fuel cells require hydrogen to produce the electricity. It doesn't come for "free." The hydrogen must come from some place, either directly from a refinery or from a personal reformer (extracts hydrogen from fossil fuels like methane or gasoline).

To think you're just gonna slap an A/C-sized unit to your house and have it produce electricity is just a bit neive.

Actually they will likely run off natural gas and such a model already exists. They are just bloody expensive.

Plug Power

That's a link to a company back home in upstate NY that's spearheading the move to fuel-cells. They've had some pretty impressive results so far.

 

[StageLeft]

yes

 

[Analog]

nope.