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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3376183" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>In most cases, your correct especially if one is living in or near an urban environment with public utilities.</p><p>We are in New Mexico and Southern Colorado on a regular basis and travel around when we are there in the rural areas.</p><p>Thousands upon thousands of folks live off grid in those states. Solar power is their only energy. Most of the homes off grid use an array of panels that are about 10' X 10' for a small probably one bedroom home of 600 sq' or so in the middle of a high country desert. They move with the sun to make sure they are facing the sun 100% of the time electronically. I'm sure they have to maintain battery banks and inverters. Some have small wind towers but there isn't much wind there to justify them.</p><p>That's the only time I can see the advantage of Solar or wind at this time.</p><p>Solar probably has the best chance of going into the future if there is a huge advancement in storage batteries, but the thought of enough storage batteries to sustain the grid in times of no sun or no wind that sometimes lasts weeks is beyond my capability's of imagination using current technology.</p><p>Wind is an albatross on the necks of Americans. If Government subsidies quit today, the plains would be a cemetery of wind towers with tens of thousands of monuments.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3376183, member: 5412"] In most cases, your correct especially if one is living in or near an urban environment with public utilities. We are in New Mexico and Southern Colorado on a regular basis and travel around when we are there in the rural areas. Thousands upon thousands of folks live off grid in those states. Solar power is their only energy. Most of the homes off grid use an array of panels that are about 10' X 10' for a small probably one bedroom home of 600 sq' or so in the middle of a high country desert. They move with the sun to make sure they are facing the sun 100% of the time electronically. I'm sure they have to maintain battery banks and inverters. Some have small wind towers but there isn't much wind there to justify them. That's the only time I can see the advantage of Solar or wind at this time. Solar probably has the best chance of going into the future if there is a huge advancement in storage batteries, but the thought of enough storage batteries to sustain the grid in times of no sun or no wind that sometimes lasts weeks is beyond my capability's of imagination using current technology. Wind is an albatross on the necks of Americans. If Government subsidies quit today, the plains would be a cemetery of wind towers with tens of thousands of monuments. [/QUOTE]
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