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February 10th, 2010
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Question about home wind turbines/solar panels?
Do you think it is feasible or worthwhile to have a wind turbine on your house or solar panels installed. I mean from a financial point of view rather than ethical. Do you know of any good websites?
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Its marginal at present. It will take more than 10 years, and probably 20, to recover the outlay (allowing for interest). So it depends on two things:
1. the price of electricity – if it falls, its less worthwhile, if it rises more
2. reliability – no one knows what the servicing costs are likely to be over 20 years, and they could wipe out any savings.
There ok. I think there's better, just no one can afford better yet.
If you get solar power the best thing to do is make a deal with your local power company to sell your excess energy on days when you don't need it and get a more reliable flow of electricity from them.
I don't know any good sites, but if try a search on specific models like i wanted to know about thermocouples but i just kept getting education sites, so i search a specific model of thremocouple and got a lot of good deals.
Wind turbines depend on your location. I'm still not satisfied with the cost to power ratio of solar panels, so I prefer to use the acreage for water heating purposes. Much more efficient. Have you considered an underground heat pump for power?
See solar panels and wind turbines cost a bit to install. But once you've installed them there is going to be no problem at all except the natural consequences like weak winds and little sunshine.