XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y, alt.sci.physics   
   From: CFKinsey@military.org.jp   
      
   On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 03:52:50 +0100, Xeno  wrote:   
      
   > On 12/6/19 4:20 am, Commander Kinsey wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:13:27 +0100, Rod Speed    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> "Daniel60"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:qdo3gd$ia1$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>>> 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 ...   
   >>>   
   >>> Yep.   
   >>>   
   >>>> what we in Australia call Superannuation??   
   >>>   
   >>> Nope, that's compulsory. The poms call that NI, National Insurance.   
   >>   
   >> You don't have to pay that.   
   >   
   > You might not, we do, no choice.   
      
   It's about time we got rid of government altogether.  There's no freedoms left.   
      
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