Add six small solar panels, energy-efficient appliances, decent home insulation, etc, then you're "off the grid", using one-twentieth the power of a normal household?!
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I posted the following comment on the article at its website:
Well, this is a another wonderful argument for not going over to solar.
"We use one-twentieth the power of a normal household"
"The entire system, including a second set of batteries after five years, cost about $5,000."
Since the average American household uses 11,040 kWh a year, 1/20th of that would be 552 kWh a year. Where I live, we are paying pretty high electric rates. $0.19 per kWh. For 552 kWh, that would be $104.88. They paid $5000 for their system. If they had just put that $5000 into a CD at 3% interest, it would have generated $150 in interest a year. Even if you assume that $150 would have been taxed at the 28% tax rate, that still would have left them with $108. That would have paid their entire electric bill for the year, with $3.12 left over, and they would still have their $5000.
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