XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y, alt.sci.physics   
   From: CFKinsey@military.org.jp   
      
   On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:32:27 +0100, Daniel60    
   wrote:   
      
   > Commander Kinsey wrote on 11/06/2019 8:09 AM:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Is that something like what U.S.A'ians cal a 401K ... what we in   
   > Australia call Superannuation??   
      
   No idea, I don't have one.  You put money in and don't touch it for 5 years   
   and earn a higher interest rate.   
      
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