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Politics : BuSab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (13473)	7/9/2012 9:48:08 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23934

Solar power is catching on. In our neighborhood there is a shop building with a sizable solar panel (about half one side of the roof). Saturday I paid a guy to cut and remove ten big pine trees in my yard. I kept some wood for my fire pit, but there was way more than I wanted. He called a guy who used wood as his only source of heat and cooking, and the guy came and picked up some. I haven't checked today to see if he got the rest. He was so poor he didn't have a pot to pee in, didn't have a well or a regular house--just a shack on five acres. He had a solar panel to charge batteries for light and minor electrical needs, and a generator to run power tools. He was poor but he wasn't dumb. Asked me if I knew who Tesla was. I did. The trouble with solar power is that you have to store it in batteries, which means converting it from AC to DC for storage and back to AC for use. I know of one person who has gone completely to solar power, one who has personal hydro power and one who has both.