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Old 03-26-2008, 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Made in the USA View Post
Solar is good. I studied a solar plant in Arizona/California area, and it could run an entire state. However, you have reliability problems just like wind (ie cloudy days).
Also energy storage problems. If you installed enough solar panels on the roof of your house to just run your house, it would cost you tens of thousands of dollars, at the least, and you would have to have a whole room dedicated to nothing but batteries to store the power to use it when you needed it.
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