The higher the solar fraction, the greater the solar contribution to water heating, which reduces the energy required by the backup water heater. The solar fraction varies from 0 to 1.0. Typical solar factors are 0.5â0.75. Don't choose a solar water heating system based solely on its energy efficiency.
Price of a Stamp. The current price of a first class stamp is 49 cents. A domestic first class letter (1 oz.) is 49 cents. The price of each additional ounce is 21 cents. It will cost you 34 cents to send a domestic postcard.
The U.S. Postal Service is lowering the price of postage stamps for the first time in 97 years, the agency announced Thursday. The price of a stamp to mail a standard letter will drop from 49 cents to 47 cents on Sunday, Fortune reported. The price of a postcard stamp will fall to 34 cents, down 1 cent. International mail will fall to $1.15 from $1.20. The change will hurt people who had collected Forever stamps, which take on the value of the current postage rate no matter how much they cost when they were purchased.