XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y, alt.sci.physics
From: "@frank.net
On 6/10/2019 5:56 AM, Daniel60 wrote:
> Frank wrote on 10/06/2019 12:58 AM:
>> 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.
>
> Funny you should mention that!!
>
> Two years ago, my Cardiac Surgeon said after a bit of work I should be
> good for twenty years ... so still got eighteen or so to go! ;-)
>
Besides this time frame for many of us elderly, I suspect the
Commander, if still around, will be confined to the funny farm.
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