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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,977
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Originally Posted by Tim Hancock
I find it hard to believe that you are money ahead in this endeavor unless the govt HEAVILY subsidized you're initial purchase. Even in mass production, PV panels are very expensive to produce due to the sputtering process all of them require. No way does PV make financial sense without govt "funny business".
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Tim,
BTW, the price of solar panels have been coming down to about 30% lower than they were a year ago, so its a lot easier to get into something like this.
Also we have sun 350 days a year out here so being productive with them is a lot easier than someone in the mid-west where you might have only 200 days of sun every year.
Joe A
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