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To: Krowbar who wrote (47104)	7/25/1999 4:50:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Del You are correct about the Reagan abortion of the solar efforts. Of course, solar water heating was the only major part that was economically viable with reasonable subsidies. We do well in Hawaii (still have some power company and state subsidies and ideal weather for solar, but still in most of the mainland, solar is premature -- i.e. the economic costs of fossil fuel is still very low and solar technology still needs some major advances. In 10 years or so of advance in silicon technology solar electric roofing will do the job for home electricity needs.

To: Krowbar who wrote (47104)	7/26/1999 12:47:00 PM
From: Yogizuna	Respond to of 108807

Del, With your hot water being run on electricity, preheating it with solar should save you some pretty good bucks over a long period of time I presume. Yes, even though there are many things I like about Ronald Reagan, removing the solar panels from the White House roof was not one his better ideas in my opinion! One of his worst in fact. Helping to nip the budding clean energy industry in that time frame was a sin, and not just because I lost some money because of it. Today I would feel and think the same way, even though at the present time I have zero "solar investments", unless one of the many companies I own stock in has some solar research going on somewhere. We have one solar panel fed to a marine trolling type heavy duty battery (they last about five years), which can do very well running small fluorescent lights, radios, and a small B&W TV in power failures, like the one we just had in the last heatwave. I think that everyone that can should have some backup power available to them in case of emergencies. And it also makes us a stronger people. Yogi