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RE: Cost and Savings
By bighairycamel on 4/24/2008 5:18:48 PM , Rating: 3
No I was talking strictly about selling a house with a pre-installed solar panel and it affecting the resale value. I am only making an assumption with no hard evidence, but most people probably wouldn't care how much it cost the owner to have it installed.

Cost does matter and that's why you don't see them hardly anywhere.

No you don't see them hardly anywhere because most people don't even know the systems are available for residential use (have you ever seen any sort of marketing for these things?), or they think the prices are going to be astronomical. $7k really isn't very much at all when it comes to a home upgrade. I know a few people I work with paid for a geothermal heat pump system and it cost well over that...

RE: Cost and Savings
By Spuke on 4/25/2008 12:35:02 AM , Rating: 2
$7500 is for the 1.4kw system. You could probably do your hot water heater and your lights off of that. Not exactly a huge savings with that. The 5.6kw system is what you want. You might get 50% if your house is under 2700 sq ft. A friend has a 3700 sq ft house and has a 7.5kw system and it runs 70-75% of his house. He paid $50k for his.

RE: Cost and Savings
By Chernobyl68 on 4/25/2008 12:24:17 PM , Rating: 2
most solar water heater's I've seen aren't electric, they circulate water though the panel.

RE: Cost and Savings
By Spuke on 4/25/2008 1:24:46 PM , Rating: 2
I wasn't talking about a solar water heater.

