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Originally Posted by Gene
Trojan,
I think we agree more than we disagree or we wouldn't be so civil!
Anyway, my other brother - the one who won two academy awards for scientific achievement (he is one of the principal inventors of Digital Theater Sound aka DTS) was commenting about how much solar panel it would take to run his hill side home in Malibu up the hill from Axel Rose, and he said it would take about $40,000 in panels to make it work. His home is about 2500 sq ft and he's married to a kook.
Anyway, we will eventually use something else. It's hardly oil raping, which has zero meaning. You can do better than throw a iddy biddy turd than that. It's utilizing earth's resources just like we do when we make solar panels, use petroleum to make lipstick for pigs and stuff like that.
Carry on!
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I was talking to a co-worker building a new home that mentioned costs similar to those for a like size house. It immediately made very little sense to me, but crunching the numbers made even less.
An efficient 2500 sq ft home here has an average electric bill around $125 a month for total electric. Some very basic math dictates it would take a couple lifetimes for this to be beneficial, assuming it was maintenance free..........