Space Age Energy in the Suburbs?
Feb. 20th, 2007 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beetigerSolar energy for the price of your regular utility bill?
-Ignoring for the moment the fact that this is a startup that may or may not be able to do what they promise,
-Understanding that if I actually put in my own solar panels, it would be free to get energy and I wouldn't be kind-of-arbitrarily paying the price my local utility charges,
-Acknowledging that this means I'm paying for the energy my house makes, semi-unrelated to the amount of energy I end up using,
-And recognizing that this would probably make my house uglier and harder to sell to a mainstream family, and not in fact save me money, just make me feel a little better about my footprint on the environment...
....am I missing something else, or does this look like it might be worth doing?
-Ignoring for the moment the fact that this is a startup that may or may not be able to do what they promise,
-Understanding that if I actually put in my own solar panels, it would be free to get energy and I wouldn't be kind-of-arbitrarily paying the price my local utility charges,
-Acknowledging that this means I'm paying for the energy my house makes, semi-unrelated to the amount of energy I end up using,
-And recognizing that this would probably make my house uglier and harder to sell to a mainstream family, and not in fact save me money, just make me feel a little better about my footprint on the environment...
....am I missing something else, or does this look like it might be worth doing?
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Date: 2007-02-21 03:17 am (UTC)So if I put in panels myself, and they produced more than I used, my utility company would pay for the energy? The biggest risk to me there is that I'm unlikely to be in this house for 20+ years.
My current energy is supposedly wind-based, for which I pay a kind of small random green tax.