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Micro-Solar LED Desk Lamp | 40 comments (40 topical, 0 editorial)

Re: Micro-Solar LED Desk Lamp (3.00 / 0) (#6)
by Spdlmt150 (name@earthlink.net) on Thu Feb 7th, 2008 at 01:23:19 PM MST
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Small solar (or small re projects in general) tend to be far from cost-effective. Solar in general is too expensive to compete with utility power costs in most cases. If I had invested the money spent on solar panels several years ago into building windmills, I would need a substation by now.

It has been my experience that the larger the project the better the cost/return ratio seems to work out.

Re: Micro-Solar LED Desk Lamp (3.00 / 0) (#8)
by DamonHD (d@hd.org) on Thu Feb 7th, 2008 at 01:34:37 PM MST
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But remember that not everywhere has decent wind power, and the zero-maint aspect of PV has a distinct value all of its own...

Rgds

Damon

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Micro-Solar LED Desk Lamp | 40 comments (40 topical, 0 editorial)

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