Green incentives fuel interest in solar power in Toledo area
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090625/BUSINESS0...
These guys are hawking solar-hot-water systems for a "usual $8,000 to $9,000 cost"? And then have the nerve to claim that with subsidy and a tax break, that the buyer can knock that "in half"? Ooh, gee, what a deal it becomes then! {sarcasm} A 10-yr payback? Absurd. IT'S JUST THE SUN HEATING A LIQUID. And I bet that there's a maintenance cost in those 10 years that will push out the period.
These alt-energy systems are a joke. They are TOO EXPENSIVE. With the Internet, we've gotta beat these guys at their game. Whatever happened to the ideals of the Mother Earth Catalog? Working up energy systems with your own equipment? We've turned into a nation of credit-card-waving NITWITS, beset by contractors looking to make a mint (or at least try to cover the overhead costs of running a small business in Ohio -- yuck!).
