I'm looking for some good, practical solar energy sites. Stepdaughter
just bought her first home and mentioned she wanted to use the stimulus money she receives to install a solar system and "go off the
grid". We've discussed this subject here before and I realize how impractical such a thing is, but don't want to discourage her. I
tried to explain that you can't heat water, run a heat-pump, power a
well pump, or run washers and dryers with a photovoltaic array. The
house has good insulation, new insulated windows and a high
efficiency heat pump. I gently suggested she could install a solar
water heater, or at least a pre-heater, and possibly handle all her
lighting needs with batteries and string a clothesline, but that her
best bet would be to reduce consumption. But as with most youth that
wasn't the answer she wanted.
So, does anyone have a good website that might lay out realistic
costs v benefits for solar energy systems?
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