XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y, alt.sci.physics
From: daniel47@eternal-september.org
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??
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Daniel
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