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<blockquote data-quote="TwoForFlinching" data-source="post: 3268107" data-attributes="member: 24500"><p>I had always heard that too. So one night, bored, I googled the crap out of it. I read, consistently in peer reviewed studies, that on average, the output generates, on average, enough electricity to pay back the carbon offset is anywhere from 2-8 months, depending on the location. That's the energy it produces compared to the actual energy that was used to produce the physical turbine and installation. Actual cost recouperation takes much longer and depends entirely on the average steady-wind in any particular location. In windy areas - ie - plains states, coastal regions, seaborne wind farms obtain that cost payback is 5-6 years. In lesser steady-wind areas, the consistent locales mentioned across articles referred the interior non-coastal Northeast where the cost payback can take up to that 20 years. </p><p></p><p>My cousin put a 3kw wind turbine in his back yard in SWOK. Took him 13 months to recoup that investment. He still has to pay the electric company during Summer, but in Fall and Winter, he did get a check. While energy producers in Oklahoma are, by law, no longer required to pay you for generating electric back to the grid, his municipal power coop still does for now, sort of. His average billing is $16/month.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TwoForFlinching, post: 3268107, member: 24500"] I had always heard that too. So one night, bored, I googled the crap out of it. I read, consistently in peer reviewed studies, that on average, the output generates, on average, enough electricity to pay back the carbon offset is anywhere from 2-8 months, depending on the location. That's the energy it produces compared to the actual energy that was used to produce the physical turbine and installation. Actual cost recouperation takes much longer and depends entirely on the average steady-wind in any particular location. In windy areas - ie - plains states, coastal regions, seaborne wind farms obtain that cost payback is 5-6 years. In lesser steady-wind areas, the consistent locales mentioned across articles referred the interior non-coastal Northeast where the cost payback can take up to that 20 years. My cousin put a 3kw wind turbine in his back yard in SWOK. Took him 13 months to recoup that investment. He still has to pay the electric company during Summer, but in Fall and Winter, he did get a check. While energy producers in Oklahoma are, by law, no longer required to pay you for generating electric back to the grid, his municipal power coop still does for now, sort of. His average billing is $16/month. [/QUOTE]
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