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One to three years to get the energy payback. A lifetime to get any financial payback. And you fucked up your roof with an expensive system that needs a lot of regular maintenance. Good luck in hail storms. You'll need it.

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SECOND, you'll never convince people that there's a problem if the "solutions" you advocate are too expensive for the average family, and always seem to mean the poor get poorer and the rich, richer.

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One to three years to get the energy payback. A lifetime to get any financial payback. And you fucked up your roof with an expensive system that needs a lot of regular maintenance. Good luck in hail storms. You'll need it.

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I would never advocate that YOU get solar. You don't get enough sunshine, your electricity rates are too low, and you're subject to damaging storms.

But I did my homework, pencil- whipped the numbers, and went solar. Why? Because I estimated our payback period - the time it takes to recoup the cost, after which it's all gravy - as 6.5 years. And since our rates went up about four years after install, the payback period got even shorter. Over the past 7 years since installation, we paid a grand total of about $1000 for electricity generation. $12 a month. I advocate solar to ALL my neighbors, and I'm no dummy.

AFA "expensive maintenance" .... that's the one thing in this older home that HASN'T cost us a crapton of $$$. I paid $150 for panel washing. And there's no roof damage.

You're just being a Karen now.

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SECOND, you'll never convince people that there's a problem if the "solutions" you advocate are too expensive for the average family, and always seem to mean the poor get poorer and the rich, richer.

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