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Can you run a home entirely on solar power in New York?
If yes, what would be the approximate cost for a 4-bedroom, 3000 sq. foot home yet to be built? Are there state grants and/or tax benefits available in NY to fund such a project?
Thanks, mande, for your eye-opening answer!
While I do care about the environment, that is not the only reason I am considering solar power. The land I am thinking to build a home on has a 600-foot long driveway, so it will cost tens of thousands of dollars anyway to connect to municipal utilities… maybe perhaps not as much as solar, but if it’s not a giant difference, it might be worth it to invest in solar power. The third reason is long-term savings. With the rising cost of oil, wouldn’t it be more cost-effective over the long-term to use solar energy?
It would cost many tens of thousands of dollars.
And it doesn’t work well in the winter, for obvious reasons.
And let’s not forget, those dollars that you pay to buy the solar equipment, represent energy used, to EARN those dollars.
This is always ignored when people talk about solar, and it’s why it really doesn’t pencil out at all.
To give you an analogy, if take a semitruck across the country, burn thousands of gallons of gas to get there and back, to buy one fluorescent bulb to replace a regular bulb, it’s absurd for me to ignore how much energy I used to GET that bulb, right?
Same thing with solar.
It takes you YEARS of not only working to earn that money, but all the energy that is being used in your workplace, you driving to and from work, etc., far outweighs what you’re not using by having solar power.
It’s just taking from one pocket and putting it in the other.
Sorry to be so negative, but it’s all just an illusion to make people feel better about themselves for ’supposedly’ saving power.
government grants for home solar power
