I installed 48 panels on my roof back in 2003 which generate up to 8.8 kW DC (7.5 kW AC). The installation generates 10,500 to 12,000 kWh per year depending on the weather. The total cost was $65,000 which after subsidies and tax breaks dropped to $31,000 - which is roughly the same as my installation would cost today before any subsidies. Since installation I've had to cover the meter rental (currently 16.3 cents per day) but I've had no other utility costs and no maintenance costs.
In the year before I installed solar, electricity cost me a tad under $3,000. Utility costs have increased considerably since then, so I've more than covered the cost of the installation. And I should have another 20 years of life in the panels. Perhaps more.
If you plan to stay in your house for 10 years or more, it may make good financial sense to consider solar. Based on my experience, it's certainly worth considering.
I'm curious, since there aren't that many people who've had solar for this long. Has the system required any maintenance in those 12 years? New inverter or anything like that? I'm thinking about solar too, but I want to be able to factor in maintenance costs as well. And I'm skeptical of the assumption that you just install the panels on your roof and forget about them for 30+ years. Even my ROOF isn't slated to last that long.
"English is evolving all the time" = "Stupid, thick idiots who can't remember simple words like 'installation' MISUSE words and then they become 'the norm' because of thick idiots"...
So are you saying that English DOESN'T evolve? Because that's going to make it really hard on future generations, who won't have any words or phrases for anything created or changed after 2015.
I explain why a 100MW solar farm (which is what this story is about) is a perfectly good (indeed in many ways superior) substitute for a 100MW coal power station.
Yeah, just as long as you build it somewhere where there's 24/7 sunlight and no clouds. Non-geostationary orbit maybe?
It also means that you need 3-5 times as much installed capacity to get near the power delivered figures for baseload power sources.
Don't worry, Elon Musk will save us all. You just have to have faith in him, follow his edicts, and do your daily Elon Musk devotion, and all these issues will be taken care of.
I'm thinking this is one of those Google brain-teaser questions. The one of us that comes up with the most creative answer to this impossible question may get a job offer!
I'm going to go with "As much as you need to build an app that teaches you any other computer language."
Provide meaningful projects in gender-neutral environments and women may very well gravitate towards them.
Well that should be pretty easy. We just need to send a memo to the vast, vast majority of companies and agencies doing regular day-to-day programming tasks and tell them they need to save the world instead.
I simply cannot see how it is constitutional to permit this to happen. While I understand that rules are being leveraged to limit its exposure (including the fast-track vote process), the spirit of the Constitution has always advocated for transparency and public ownership of government operations.
Secret courts, secret legislation. Pretty soon we'll have a secret President too.
And I've got a news flash for anyone not keeping up: Industry lobbyists write *ALL* legislation (in the U.S. anyway, probably in most other countries too).
He's possibly the most creative, intelligent, thoughtful, forward-thinking person on the planet. For so many reasons. Your knowledge of him must be minimal.
Tell me, when you typed that, did you give him a handjob with your right hand and type it with your left, or vice versa?
The data didn't agree with their hypothesis, so they found a way to fix the data so it did. That's how the scientific method is supposed to work. IT'S SCIENCE, PEOPLE!
I'm getting a little sick of the slovenly Musk worship on this site. It's worse than the way 99% of Slashdotters used to drop to their knees anytime Steve Jobs whipped his dick out. Like Jobs, Musk could take a shit on stage and most of your pathetic fanboys would be fighting each other for the privilege to touch it.
By law the H1B should not be cheaper than hiring Americans.
Two points:
1) The law doesn't mean jackshit if it's not enforced
2) H1-B's aren't hired just for their cheaper salaries. They also come with a number of other perks. For one thing, they are indentured servants, meaning they can't leave your employ no matter how badly you treat them. If they quit or try to go somewhere else, they lose their visa. They also, as a whole, help keep the salaries for American citizen workers held artificially low. After all, no one is going to ask for a raise if they know you can replace them with an H1-B.
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I installed 48 panels on my roof back in 2003 which generate up to 8.8 kW DC (7.5 kW AC). The installation generates 10,500 to 12,000 kWh per year depending on the weather. The total cost was $65,000 which after subsidies and tax breaks dropped to $31,000 - which is roughly the same as my installation would cost today before any subsidies. Since installation I've had to cover the meter rental (currently 16.3 cents per day) but I've had no other utility costs and no maintenance costs.
In the year before I installed solar, electricity cost me a tad under $3,000. Utility costs have increased considerably since then, so I've more than covered the cost of the installation. And I should have another 20 years of life in the panels. Perhaps more.
If you plan to stay in your house for 10 years or more, it may make good financial sense to consider solar. Based on my experience, it's certainly worth considering.
I'm curious, since there aren't that many people who've had solar for this long. Has the system required any maintenance in those 12 years? New inverter or anything like that? I'm thinking about solar too, but I want to be able to factor in maintenance costs as well. And I'm skeptical of the assumption that you just install the panels on your roof and forget about them for 30+ years. Even my ROOF isn't slated to last that long.
"English is evolving all the time" = "Stupid, thick idiots who can't remember simple words like 'installation' MISUSE words and then they become 'the norm' because of thick idiots"...
So are you saying that English DOESN'T evolve? Because that's going to make it really hard on future generations, who won't have any words or phrases for anything created or changed after 2015.
I explain why a 100MW solar farm (which is what this story is about) is a perfectly good (indeed in many ways superior) substitute for a 100MW coal power station.
Yeah, just as long as you build it somewhere where there's 24/7 sunlight and no clouds. Non-geostationary orbit maybe?
It also means that you need 3-5 times as much installed capacity to get near the power delivered figures for baseload power sources.
Don't worry, Elon Musk will save us all. You just have to have faith in him, follow his edicts, and do your daily Elon Musk devotion, and all these issues will be taken care of.
I'm thinking this is one of those Google brain-teaser questions. The one of us that comes up with the most creative answer to this impossible question may get a job offer!
I'm going to go with "As much as you need to build an app that teaches you any other computer language."
Basically, it works like this:
They Chinese. They play joke. They pee pee in Uber's coke.
Provide meaningful projects in gender-neutral environments and women may very well gravitate towards them.
Well that should be pretty easy. We just need to send a memo to the vast, vast majority of companies and agencies doing regular day-to-day programming tasks and tell them they need to save the world instead.
Not many actors get to span good chunks of two centuries, with great roles in each.
Probably another whale. It was bad enough that the first one they sent to the moon got all those stupid whalers killed.
Looks like you may have a new competitor soon.
I simply cannot see how it is constitutional to permit this to happen. While I understand that rules are being leveraged to limit its exposure (including the fast-track vote process), the spirit of the Constitution has always advocated for transparency and public ownership of government operations.
Secret courts, secret legislation. Pretty soon we'll have a secret President too.
"So, who won the election?"
"We can't tell you."
"You can't tell us who the President is?"
"No. National Security. Terrorists."
And I've got a news flash for anyone not keeping up: Industry lobbyists write *ALL* legislation (in the U.S. anyway, probably in most other countries too).
This $470 dollar pc would blow your console out of the water.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
LOL. The PS4 uses a HD 7870 GPU. You think a system with a GTX 750 will "blow it out of the water"?? Keep dreaming.
He's possibly the most creative, intelligent, thoughtful, forward-thinking person on the planet. For so many reasons. Your knowledge of him must be minimal.
Tell me, when you typed that, did you give him a handjob with your right hand and type it with your left, or vice versa?
The data didn't agree with their hypothesis, so they found a way to fix the data so it did. That's how the scientific method is supposed to work. IT'S SCIENCE, PEOPLE!
I'm getting a little sick of the slovenly Musk worship on this site. It's worse than the way 99% of Slashdotters used to drop to their knees anytime Steve Jobs whipped his dick out. Like Jobs, Musk could take a shit on stage and most of your pathetic fanboys would be fighting each other for the privilege to touch it.
Heard good things about that game. Look forward to seeing it in the PSN store.
It's great that he's finally talking some sense. I just wish he weren't doing it to an empty room with only his mom and kids present.
I think that's from Confucius's 65th Rule of Acquisition.
Chinese company caught cheating? NO WAY!
I almost broke my string of pearls from clutching them so hard. You just don't expect this kind of corruption out of China.
By law the H1B should not be cheaper than hiring Americans.
Two points:
1) The law doesn't mean jackshit if it's not enforced
2) H1-B's aren't hired just for their cheaper salaries. They also come with a number of other perks. For one thing, they are indentured servants, meaning they can't leave your employ no matter how badly you treat them. If they quit or try to go somewhere else, they lose their visa. They also, as a whole, help keep the salaries for American citizen workers held artificially low. After all, no one is going to ask for a raise if they know you can replace them with an H1-B.
Sing along, former American employees!
Yeah, I never got why people ran down New Vegas. I really liked it.
Because it was written to make the democrats look like evil power-grabbing evil evil evil evil-doers.
Hastert is a Republican.
They are a very quiet sort. Not so good at learning words and phrases, though.