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To: DManA
$1/watt. Compared to a cost of about $0.10 per kilowatt-hour on my last bill means I would need 10,000 of full sunlight (10000 watt-hours = 10 kilowatt-hours for that $1) to break even. Longer if I have to pay for maintenance and a storage system.
9 posted on 09/16/2009 8:27:48 AM PDT by KarlInOhio ("I can run wild for six months ...after that, I have no expectation of success" - Admiral Obama-moto)
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To: KarlInOhio

Yea the maintenance aspect is always overlooked in these stories. If they came up with a technology that produced electricity at $0.001 per kilowatt-hour, but you had to replace them once a week, that still wouldn’t be a very good deal would it?


12 posted on 09/16/2009 8:33:00 AM PDT by DManA
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