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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (10170)11/13/2001 9:35:27 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Solar electric may "require tremendous amounts of construction materials to build a solar power plant on a large scale basis" as you say... or maybe not quite so much... I don't know.

But I do know from personal experience that solar electric (of the small, localized sort) works just great down in the tropics where the sun shines rather brightly. As a matter of fact, I preferred it to relying on the inadequate, unreliable, over-priced national generating grid.

With solar I didn't have any brownouts to bedevil my computers, and just equipped the entire house for 12 volt power... refrigerator, everything. Deep-cycle batteries could keep me off the grid all-together.

I don't know where you get your numbers ("Your $200 per month utility bill just turned into $100,000"), but they sound ridiculous to me for any rational economic plan for solar use where it's appropriate.
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