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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (2996)	4/6/2001 2:01:57 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23153

Has anybody posted that AMG Data is again showing outflows from mutual funds? Nothing catastrophic yet, but sooner or later there may be a trend: amgdata.com No sign that the Fed is about the shut down the fire hydrant of money, however. federalreserve.gov

To: Think4Yourself who wrote (2996)	4/6/2001 2:07:02 PM
From: Libbyt	Respond to of 23153

>...you can't sell your excess power back to the grid. < Exactly....that is one reason I've been "dragging my feet" about looking into a solar system. I did read the article about Clint Eastwood, and his private golf club in the Carmel area. It makes absolutely no sense at all that he can't sell the excess power back to the grid....and hopefully that will change. Without the incentive to be able to sell excess power, it takes away some of the motivation to go through this expense for a solar system. In our area, quite a few people have solar heating for pools or their water heaters....but there aren't too many private systems (wind, solar) that really are capable of producing power. There was one homeowner who was highlighted in a local news story and he does use solar power to generate most of the electricity for his home.

To: Think4Yourself who wrote (2996)	4/8/2001 12:07:44 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23153

They f' you coming and going with solar, at least in California California is one of thirty states that has a net metering law. homepower.com Clint Eastwood has the ear of he legislature and will probably get his way. Most homeowners can sell all the energy they can produce with their solar cells back to the utility. The usage is averaged over the entire year. Only producers that produce more than they use over the entire year lose out. Using the grid as a storage device is a good deal for the homeowner. If the utility did not provide this service the PV generator would have to use batteries at significant cost. The utilities are forced to provide this service free of charge(to most...not everyone has a golf course loaded with solar cells in California). The home generator gets a subsidized PV system (about half) and a free storage system which is probably better than most states provide considering the fact that 40 percent don't even have a net metering law. Zeuspaul