I hope so. I must admit I was a bit taken aback so I was kind of hoping someone here might contradict this guy!
On 18 June 2014 15:46, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 02:30:13PM +1200, LizR wrote: > > http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/Reichelstein-solar-2012.html > > > > Although the cost of solar has been dropping as mentioned he reckons we > are > > 15 years away from it being viable for the average householder to install > > it. > > > > Really that long? 2 years ago it was viable with the extraordinary > feedin tariff we got here (60c - about 3 times the cost of > electricity at the time, about twice what it is now). A ton of people > installed it at the time. (Well actually many, many tons, if you want > to be pedantic.) At the rate electricity costs are going up, I expect > it would be viable within 5 years, even assuming the cost of > photovolatics stays the same as it is now. > > Cheers > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret > (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
