The return on investment argument....

[Claire]

Originally Posted by Nocturn

This is really why so little is happening.....lots of talk, lots of concern, lots of heavy criticism towards oil and power companies, yet when it's time to actually do something....

Yes! you've hit the nail right on the head there. Drives me up the wall, one of my other pet subjects to go on and on about on here.

I think, if I had £1500 or so knocking about not doing anything, I'd probably invest it for now and wait for some of these tech.s that are due out next year. And just stick with a green electricity supplier for the time being. Although you could wait for ever of course, but it does seem like the improvements over the next year should be worth waiting for.

[freefuelforever]

Lots of people have made up programs that calculate the return on investment.

In fact, there is a program you can link to from my website, from the Canadian government, that has a worldwide database of weather. You input your demands, the panels you are using, etc and it gives you return over years. Now, I am using it for solar water heating, but they have it for electricity as well. It is linked here: (it runs under MS excel) There a default values if you do not know some of the figures and just want estimates.

http://www.freefuelforever.com/index_files/Page701.htm
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