Always a worry if you're depending on credits, tax rebates, etc. to make a long-term financial justification for something. Those can disappear at the whims of the legislature.
On Fri, May 27, 2022, at 11:04 AM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > In theory an excellent idea, but in practice it can be dodgy. I say > that because our legislature in Florida was able to get a bill passed > that phased out net metering for consumers, meaning that if you just > sunk $20k-$30k into a solar system that in 2-3 years you weren’t going > to get paid for the power you generate, or if you did, it would be a > much lower rate that currently required by law. > > That payback curve was going to get very, very flat. > > Despite the sway that utilities hold over our legislators, our somewhat > psycho governor saw the light and vetoed the bill. Had he not I think > things might have gotten quite ugly. > > -D > > On May 27, 2022, at 10:56 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: > > What you do is run your solar into the grid running your electric meter > backwards during the day. This let's you essentially use the grid as a > big battery. > With the right payment structure you can get paid daytime surge rates > and only pay out night time rates to charge your car. > Long term plans for the northern estate include 3000w of solar. > Curt > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > > On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 10:20 AM, Buggered Benzmail via > Mercedes<mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: > Putting aside the environmental and international economic and security > issues associated with lithium batteries and PV panels, I like the idea > of a garage with PV panels to charge your car. Of course you would need > storage batteries in your garage to collect and store the electrons > from solar photons so you can charge your car at night. The whole > process should be on the order of maybe 8% efficient if you’re lucky. > > --FT > Sent from iFōn > > On May 27, 2022, at 4:31 AM, mitch--- via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: > > When I first heard of ZEVs, I thought "Oh, you mean Remote Emissions > Vehicles". > Mitch. > > On 2022-05-26 17:24, dan penoff.com<http://penoff.com> via Mercedes wrote: > And I don’t want to start the back and forth up, but the electricity > to charge those batteries has to come from somewhere, and it’s likely > generated using fossil fuels at present. > So the emissions are going to come from somewhere in the process, just > not from a tailpipe on the car in this case. > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com<http://www.okiebenz.com/> > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
