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Solar Self Sufficiency... Berkely relative - cbelt3 - 08-19-2013
I heard the tale yesterday of my Aunt and Uncle, both in their 70's... they had sold their large house in Berkely at the top of the market. Then at the bottom of the market bought a small apartment building. Then bought a house that had been set up as an all solar house. The Uncle bought himself a Tesla (Yes, they made a ton of money). They have not purchased energy or fuel for a year now, unless they use their gasoline engine car for a long trip.
I'm impressed, and jealous. I look forward to being able to contract for panels in the place of my roof at some point.
My mother (organic farm in Mo.) just finished getting a solar panel array hooked up on the farm.. a $25K investment that feeds right into the grid, so she doesn't need storage of any sort. She's thinking of putting another set up as an equipment shed to house the tractors.
Re: Solar Self Sufficiency... Berkely relative - haikuman - 08-19-2013
GREAT news ~!~ The greening of Amerika *(:>*
Re: Solar Self Sufficiency... Berkely relative - Filliam H. Muffman - 08-19-2013
Which Berkely is this?
Re: Solar Self Sufficiency... Berkely relative - Buzz - 08-19-2013
Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
Which Berkely is this?
knowing belty, hopefully Elizabeth...?
Re: Solar Self Sufficiency... Berkely relative - vision63 - 08-19-2013
But then if you got all that money, you can just pay the power bill and buy the gas. Saving money seems to be a rich man's game.
Re: Solar Self Sufficiency... Berkely relative - mrbigstuff - 08-19-2013
vision63 wrote:
But then if you got all that money, you can just pay the power bill and buy the gas. Saving money seems to be a rich man's game.
up until recently, i would agree with that statement but the latest iteration of installs has you leasing out your rooftop in exchange for X-KW of electricity and the remainder returned to the grid. of course, there are contracts involved and if you sell you are either on the hook for the cost of the install and removal, or it's written into the sale for the new owner.
Re: Solar Self Sufficiency... Berkely relative - testcase - 08-19-2013
Buzz wrote:
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
Which Berkely is this?
knowing belty, hopefully Elizabeth...?
:useless:
Re: Solar Self Sufficiency... Berkely relative - Buzz - 08-19-2013
testcase wrote:
[quote=Buzz]
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
Which Berkely is this?
knowing belty, hopefully Elizabeth...?
:useless:
for some reason the semi-provactive "pole shot" from 1995's Showgirls doesn't want to play nice...
guess somebody doesn't want to share some body, even though mostly SFW.
Re: Solar Self Sufficiency... Berkely relative - cbelt3 - 08-19-2013
Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
Which Berkely is this?
Cali.
Re: Solar Self Sufficiency... Berkely relative - Filliam H. Muffman - 08-19-2013
cbelt3 wrote:
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
Which Berkely is this?
Cali.
You mean Berkeley, CA?