XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y, alt.sci.physics   
   From: frank@frank.net   
      
   On 6/9/2019 10:50 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:   
   > On Sun, 09 Jun 2019 10:01:28 +0100, Daniel60   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Commander Kinsey wrote on 8/06/2019 4:04 AM:   
   >>> On Fri, 07 Jun 2019 03:46:18 +0100, Bob F  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>   
   >>>> You know this for every supplier in the world?   
   >>>   
   >>> Well if you live in the desert maybe you can actually make real money   
   >>> instead of stealing it from the taxpayer.  But in most places, solar   
   >>> panels are next to useless unless you want to charge up a couple of AA   
   >>> batteries.   
   >>   
   >> No farm, just a normal 3 bedroom house with 20 solar panels that I   
   >> installed about two years ago costing about $4,500.00.   
   >>   
   >> Last month, being the start of Winter, i.e. lower sunlight levels, my   
   >> Solar rebate (after any power I might have used during the day) was   
   >> $21.49, so, even at this low sunlight rate, I'd repay the panel costs in   
   >> about 17.5 years.   
   >>   
   >> O.K., I'd have not earned interest on that $4,500 for that time, but,   
   >> then again, I'd have been getting 'free' daylight power myself for that   
   >> time!!   
   >>   
   >> Taking into account the greater quantity of power I will(/have) be   
   >> generating during Summer, that pay-back time would be reduced (to,   
   >> maybe, 10 years'ish!!).   
   >>   
   >> Just saying!!   
   >   
   > I wouldn't buy something that took 10 years to break even.  Ever heard   
   > of an ISA?   
   Beside you probably don't have 10 years left to live.   
      
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