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To: microhoogle! who wrote (130662)	3/7/2001 1:00:01 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Dear Murali, I installed a solar system on my first house in 1976 or 77, It provided 30 to 100% of my hot water needs depending on the season. It may have saved 10 dollars a month. I also converted form oil to gas heat and installed a high efficiency hydropulse furnace. It reduced my heating bill by 70%. If I had used this furnace with a tankless hot water heater my solar system would have only saved about 3 dollars a month. My system cost me nothing as at the time there were income tax credits and I got a 1500.00 grant from the state of Rhode Island. I got my system at dealer cost as I was friends with a guy who wanted to get into the business and needed to buy several systems to get a license. Several of my Engineer friends also bought the system's and none are now operational. My son just bought a home in a development that had solar water heaters installed when they were built. When the complex switched from electric to gas hot water heating all the systems were disconnected. watman.com The economics of solar assisted hot water heating are bad to worst. That's just the fact. The payback period always assumes no costs for system failures. 15 to 20 years with no system failure. tom watson tosiwmee

To: microhoogle! who wrote (130662)	3/7/2001 3:10:33 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Respond to of 769667

Murali, A friend of mine just moved into the Carson City, Nv. area and bought a home that is heated by some kind of solar panels that look like rocks. The center of her home is a glass-topped arbor that allows the sun rays to hit the panels that look like rocks and line one wall of the so-called arbor. There's a fan on top of the ceiling in that room and you can feel the heat surge if you stand in the doorway! It's quite a neat setup but I don't know how much, if any, money they save cause they have only lived there for a couple of months. Nevada is entertaining deregulation of their power companies. I read in the Reno Gazette that they will not allow their power companies to sell off their power generating plants till next year or the year after!!!! On that note I will add that conservatives in the Silver State will be turning greener after they rob their constituents of the power plants then overcharge them when power is in short supply ( It's known in some circles as the grid stranglehold!!!! LOL )We know it well here in Ca. Nevada is a conservative state but they have VERY strict burning laws. We bought a place on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe and had to sign a notarized declaration that we would not burn anything but whole wood in our fireplace. Pellets and other products are outlawed. I don't think you can even use a wood stove........fireplace only. It's not because of "Green Party" environmentalists cause Nevada is very conservative. It'll be interesting to watch how the deregulation works in that state over the next couple of years. My guess is that the energy companies will pick us all off state by state and blame the rise in prices on environmentalism. By the time everyone figures out the truth the profits will have surpassed trillions of dollars.