Capulator
likes to smell trees.
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how long you been running that cap?
yo pauly would you mind or if you even can edit the poll to more options like near the 1k-3k range, interested to see how many others have higher bills and for how long?
ill let you in on a lil secret :surprised
tooo damn much. going solar in just a few months, in the planning stages now. my goal is to have enough stored for my house and garden.
O shit. That just makes me love the good ol outdoors more and more!6k lights, 3 8inch inlines per room plus AC, around $900
Midwest
is that what electricity costs when your near a gas processing plant? like in corpus christi? Only trade off is your health and life expectancy. Not saying where I live is that much better, as it's on it's way towards a similarly dark path. I saw a documentary where everyone within a certain distance of the plant has a respirator and expected to die or have health complications around mid 40's.Ha!
3.5 cents/kWh, bitches!
Go Big Oil! w00t w00t w00t :)
Great idea! I have a suggestion, however; instead of buying all the infrastructure to try to store your own power, have the power comapny put a two-way meter on your house. Then, when you generate more power than you're using, they take it. When you need more than you're generating- like at night- you buy it back. This has several advantages, among them the fact that now you don't need to buy or maintain storage, the utility becomes your 'perfect' battery, since you always get 100% back from what you sell them- with batteries you only get about 2/3 back- and it simplifies your power controller circuitry, making for a less expensive install all the way 'round.
Ultimately, you want to have enough geration capacity to roughly double your daytime power consumption. Then, you'll more than likely not quite buy back all the power at night, and your power bill will beome a credit. Kinda nice...
Every state has different rules and regulations on how you can sell your power to the utility and for how much. Keep in mind that with solar, you're doing the utility a huge favor because you're generating excess power at exactly the same time they're trying to cover their peak usage from all those air conditioners running in houses in the sun- often even while their occupants are away working!
all the peeps that r moaning about their electric bill! Why not just buypass it. and not pay atall, free power :) its a win win situation, well unless mr electric comes out to check it, and catches u bang to rights! !lol"
just a thought, eh! ;) not what id do... just saying like haha..
In my area its pretty windy and alot of folks use wind turbines made by a company in oklahoma called bergey () grid tied and about 30-40 grand installed,alot of farmers use them all over the country in rural areas.Just curious confuten is that comparable to 10k of solar costwise?
Before i answer that i have a question. With solar a 10kw system produces about 80 kwh per day( 10kwh*8 hours a day of sunlight. When u say a 10kw wind turbine , aprox how many kwh are produced a day as a rough avgerage? If it is about the same (aprox 80kwh a day ) than that would be twice as cost effective as solar. 10kw solar costs about 60k after rebates. Bare in mind i speak based on our companies price point, we are not the cheapest cost per kw in the market but we do provide a 25 yr warranty on our system the systems that are as much as 30% less than our inital cost provide a 10-15 yr warranty, and good luck if that company will n around to service the warranty in 5 yrs!
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