What's funnier is the 35 million spent on solar panels at the Emmett J. Bean
Federal Center in Indianapolis. It saves $475k a year so that means it will
take 70 years to break even even though the the panels have a lifetime of 30
years. I think that savings is probably based on every day being
What's funnier is the 35 million spent on solar panels...
to save $475k a year...[and] take 70 years to break even.
Its a lot more than breaking even. Don't forget about a few million tons of
pollutants and burned fossil fuel byproducts, and destroyed land and habitat
that now don't have to
This is precisely why the WA8SME CubeSat simulators run off alkaline batteries!
Not enough light in a room to keep the batteries charged all day...
Mark N8MH
At 05:22 PM 5/15/2012 -0400, Bob Bruninga wrote:
You would be amazed at how little power a solar panel gets in the classroom or
the