tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post4187208225742080905..comments2024-02-16T17:52:44.944-06:00Comments on The Nuclear Green Revolution: Calculating the Cost of San Diago PV Generated ElectricityCharles Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01125297013064527425noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-62698206119375045502010-01-03T11:08:44.861-06:002010-01-03T11:08:44.861-06:00David, I simply reported 2009 data from a pro-PV s...David, I simply reported 2009 data from a pro-PV source. According so Solar Buzz the average price of American solar PV dropped a little over 11% since January 2009.Charles Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01125297013064527425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-75021768587272826032010-01-03T10:55:37.886-06:002010-01-03T10:55:37.886-06:00This is has always been the case for Grid Integrat...This is has always been the case for Grid Integrated PV. When I learned about this as the 'alternative' in 2000 during our huge energy crisis here (which was a crisis of 'costs' not access) I started moving away from my decades long anti-nuclear position.<br /><br />GIPV is fine for the middle and upper middle classes (what's left of them) but not for regular folks. Essentially, as Rod implies, it's working class people and renters that are subsidizing the urban sprawled large homes built up on speculative bubbles of sub-prime mortgages that pay for this. I'm totally against subsidized GIPV.<br /><br />Actual PV cell prices have dropped a lot. I think the bottom line price Charles quotes is way too high. I think it's about half that. It was $30000 total price back in 2000 for an unsubsidized install of a 2.5 KW system. Even so it IS subsidized. By me.DWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03070034894266417461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-77327732035631875802010-01-03T04:59:39.180-06:002010-01-03T04:59:39.180-06:00Here is the part that really frosts me - who the h...Here is the part that really frosts me - who the heck is paying the $15,119 kicked in by the state government? Many of the taxpayers who will be forced to contribute to someone who owns a roof on which to mount a $30,630 system - one that will NEVER produce reliable electricity - could never afford to participate in the endeavor.<br /><br />I hereby "unfriend" all renewable energy advocates, especially those who think that they deserve taxpayer support!Rod Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03652375336090790205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-512899360177068212010-01-02T23:46:04.581-06:002010-01-02T23:46:04.581-06:00Should be about $2,249.00 as seen here:
http://ww...Should be about $2,249.00 as seen here:<br /><br />http://www.ecofly.biz/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=35&idproduct=37DWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03070034894266417461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-50228474225528622602010-01-02T21:24:10.752-06:002010-01-02T21:24:10.752-06:00$.50 per KwH means that half the population of CA ...$.50 per KwH means that half the population of CA will be unable to afford electricity, and most of the other half will suffer a steep loss of amenity.<br /><br />It means a catastrophic contraction in manufacturing and business activity, as well- a permanent deep depression, or, really, a return to 19th century lifestyles for most people. <br /><br />Here in the Chicago, IL area, I pay about $.10 a KwH. When I manage to keep my use under 150KwH a month, which is most of the time, my bill, including connection charges and taxes, is about $22. $.50 a KwH would mean a $110 bill for very frugal use for one person with no family.The North Coasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14292115710427172625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-13950832464354264022010-01-02T14:20:45.371-06:002010-01-02T14:20:45.371-06:00The total cost of thee sunvista inverter is a typo...The total cost of thee sunvista inverter is a typo.crfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10726414637021391906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-56566282521806127302010-01-01T10:28:58.058-06:002010-01-01T10:28:58.058-06:00In order to break even over the 120 year period of...In order to break even over the 120 year period of time, electricity would have to sell for about $0.50 per watt, or about 4 times as much as the current outrageous cost of California electricity.<br /><br />Charles<br />I think you wanted to say $0.50 per kWh<br /><br />Another good example how solar PV beats (sarcastic) nuclear generated electricity.<br />It shows that PV proponents are mathematically illiterate or ignore the numbers stacked against their solar PV utopia.<br />It also clearly shows how someone else must pay the subsidies for modern day idiocy.Frank Kandrnalnoreply@blogger.com