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Re: [RC] The Price of Gas - Barbara McCrary----- Original Message ----- From: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [RC] The Price of Gas Today solar is on the verge of being economically feasible - but it's not there yet except in specialized applications. At the rate it is going it may never get there. I looked at a solar system for my house and while I would like to do it - the payback for it is 30 years. I can make a lot more money by putting the same money into a reasonable investment than putting it into solar. That is the problem. We invested thousands of $$$ in a solar system for our house and all we got, for a while, was enough electricity to power our refrigeration equipment for a day or two during a power outage. We have routine power outages here, due to our line running through a forest and trees or heavy branches falling during stormy weather. Now the system is not working for some reason, and every time we call in some "expert" to track down the problem, they charge us plenty but no one has solved the problem yet. We are extremely disappointed in solar. So I suspect it is going to take a lot more than expensive gas to push the alternative technologies over the top. The one that seems to be ready for prime time is wind. But there seems to be a lot of "not in my back yard" associated with wind energy fields. I can't blame anyone for not wanting a huge field of wind turbines. They have to be the ugliest blight on the landscape that I have ever seen. Lud and I believe that nuclear is the answer. I know a lot of people are worried about safety, but there are two nuclear power-generating plants in CA, and no one seems to be very worried about them. It's just the idea of creating new ones that gets people all in a stew. Too bad...it's clean, it's effective, and it's available. It doesn't pollute the air and we don't have to sell our souls to the middle eastern countries to have it. This does not, however, solve the problem of sending our cars and trucks down the highways. Barbara =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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