XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y, alt.sci.physics   
   From: CFKinsey@military.org.jp   
      
   On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 10:53:25 +0100, Daniel60    
   wrote:   
      
   > Commander Kinsey wrote on 10/06/2019 12:50 AM:   
   >> 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?   
   >   
   > No!   
      
   Might be a British acronym.  It's a long term savings account.   
      
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