Clearly one must have more that financial reasons for undertaking a solar PV installation. In less than two months, I'll be able to run my first yearly figures and I will revise my financial calcs, as I produced more energy than I ran the original numbers with. I'll post all my assumptions regarding payback.
It's all more than just numbers, however. Going solar, for me, is about a hope for sustainable living. But solar, and wind, and bio-diesel, they can't provide for that under our current living patterns. Simply -- they cannot scale. They are not sufficiently energy dense to support car centered lifestyles lived out by a highly consumptive population.
One hand of my blog will be an attempt to identify the areas in my own life that are excessive, that can, should, and will be pared down to support the tenents of a sustainable life. PV is just one small piece of that. The other hand of my blog will be made into a fist and shoved up the collective American ass -- to point out all the things that make this a really shitty place to live. Going forward, if it sounds like I am a doomer and that I'm one of those America-haters, it's because I am.
Plastic full-size Ronald McDonald's don't make where we live a better place.
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