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To: knarf
"I’m no engineer, but isn’t 72,000 systems delivering 724 megawatts a bad return on investment ?"

Well let's do the math. One megawatt is a million watts so we have 724 million watts being produces by 72 thousand systems. 724000/72=10055 watts per system. Call it 10 thousand watts per system. Not bad. What is missing since NOBODY knows how to report accurately any longer is the watt-hour production. 10 kilowatt-hours would be impressive per system. Not quite enough to run a house but impressive for a passive system. But if this is the total annual production then it is a HUGH waste of money and each system could barely power a low enegy light bulb during the day. You decide, since the idiot that wrote this knows NOTHING about the subject.

22 posted on 12/27/2010 10:09:32 AM PST by jpsb
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To: jpsb
Well .. I've already confessed my ignorance, so I guess my question is a quasi statement .. thus;

I've already decided.

Waste of money ... but I'll bet it's impressive to those hustling enviro-dollars.

23 posted on 12/27/2010 10:19:03 AM PST by knarf (Who's Holi ? - Christ I know, you obviously don't - let me tell you about him - Romans 10:13)
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