"Lee Haefele" wrote: >I have a business that uses about 15KW around the clock, costing about > $1500/month.
Basically about $0.14/KWH which is in line with the rest of the country except those subsidized area such as TVA, hudro in the NW, etc. If I put in 50KW of solar panels and tried to store energy > from day to night, the panels alone would cost $250k, then probably > add > 50-100% for a full installation with building modifications. Which just illustrates why solar will not be a stand alone alternate energy source. Wind as well as other sources, thermal etc, will need to be part of ther mix. > My electricity > cost is in NY, approx twice the cost of many other states, but still > if you > add any interest/time value of money, things need to change a lot > before > this works. Not based on the above data given as. 15KW load, 24 hrs/day, 30days/month, $1500/month, except for some subsidized areas as noted. Building a new grid is not going to be easy and the fossil energy people have a lot to lose if they can't be included, but then so does the planet if we don't solve it. Lew _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
