Solar-bashers---check this $1.3 million listing!

[509]

We are in Wenatchee.....my daughter was a year and half old before she finally saw it rain!! I am not sure how solar would have worked in Bremerton!! Your probably not that far from Bremerton weather in Maine. I can see why you might need a 4.4 kw system to make it work.

It was $600 for 1kw including poles and mounts. I am going to need a electrician to hookup and will be paying for some wire to run up to the battery shed. On cloudy days in winter I currently run around 6 amps at 24 volts. That might get up to about 10. I am doubtful that it is enough to eliminate the generator runs.

Of course, in summer I am pretty much dumping electricity the whole day long.

The cheap price was just a bonus with the state demolishing his house my view improved and I now have total privacy on my back deck.

Moab is more like Wenatchee than Bremerton. I think it is better since in winter it is sunnier, with clouds showing up during the summer.

[Sand&Salt]

We are at 5,000 ft. so it does cool down at night. We'd run a box fan at night, with the therm set pretty high.


I love the high desert and the rocks. But it is not really suited to humankind....I've been to ancient Anasazi sites and really wondered how they were able to farm....told by experts that climate has changed since their days. Used to be more rain 1,000 years ago....


Yes, 509, no one seems to know how to conserve energy. It is no effort at all, just being "conscious".

[509]

Here is a good book on recent (10,000 year) climate change in the west. That drought 1,000 years ago was a real dozy. It is interesting reading.

The West without Water - B. Lynn Ingram, Frances Malamud-Roam - Hardcover - University of California Press

Title of the book is "The West without Water". The last one hundred years have been very wet according to historical record. We do not know droughts....yet. Not sure how much wetter it was in the southwest compared to today. The tribes in Casa Grande had irrigation systems, so it was that wet.

[pknopp]

"Solar bashers".......probably poking people in the eye is not a good way to start a thread where you are trying to get people to see the benefits of solar energy.

[blueherons]

That property is gorgeous!