[Ron61]

Bill,

I know that I can't afford it. Yesterday in our paper they had a two page write up about some guy in Redding that put in solar panels and the whole step by step process. By the time he got everything paid for, and got all of the required permits, and paid the electric company to allow the hook up and they installed a digital meter so it could red backwards to put any extra power he generated into the grid, he had over $60K sunk into the project. But he was really happy about the fact his electric bill dropped from $130 a month to around $5. That sounds good, but remember we have long and mostly dark Winters up here and he isn't going to get any power from that array. Plus the paper said the sensors in the array can be damaged by almost anything that touches them. Birds, hail, hard rain and so forth. I didn't think they were that easy to damage. But in just over 148 years he will break even as he still has to use the main power to run his air conditioner, hot water heater, washer and dryer, and that is with the solar power working.

Ron