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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
FWIW, I looked into getting solar panels installed in my house (I'm sick of paying $300 monthly electric bills for a 1050 square foot house, it doesn't surprise me in the least that a larger house (with more heating costs in the winter) costs more to maintain). It's not cheap. Between $35,000 and $50,000 since I don't live in California or New Jersey or New York or Austin. The calculator says that I live in a place with good sunlight too.
Still, it's pretty cool, and I assume eventually Houston will get with the program. In the meantime, I'll pay more to Green Mountain Energy than I would to Reliant Energy and feel slightly better that my power is sort of wind generated.
And Yay! to the private investors that killed the coal burning energy plants that TXU was going to build.
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here is what is really stupid about the whole question: everyone seems to have bought into a side as a political issue. Like you hear temp changes are cyclic and people say Greenland is called Greenland because 1000 years ago it was a very green place. Or I hear the Katrina should have been expected because massive hurricaines seem to come on 75 year cycles, and it was time. Of course the people making the statements seem to have some political point to make, but the people responding seem to be attacking it like advocates. We need some Judges, no more advocates.
