The bright side: local solar company booms - Mount Shasta, CA - Mount Shasta Herald
A small company located in Siskiyou County, CA focuses on solar and wind power energy systems.
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The Case For Personal Solar Investment, Now
(Above) Solar Panels Power Wholesale Solar's Offices
SOLAR PANEL PRICES DROPPING FASTER THAN WE THOUGHT
This month, selling solar panels is like selling pork belly futures on the Chicago Board of Trade, because price drops are that hard to follow. Grid parity is the ultimate economic stimulus for solar energy, right? Soon enough, we won't need incentives, tax rebates, feed-in tariffs. etc.
With state governments having budget problems, it's not unlikely that some green energy programs will get suspended or scrapped. So we just may have a window of opportunity to walk through now rather than later.
START A SOLAR FUND FOR YOURSELF
Here's what I think. Ditch your 401k for a few years, cut out the latte, stop paying for the premium cable channels, and START YOUR OWN PERSONAL SOLAR SAVINGS FUND. That's investing in your own energy independence, with an easy-to-prove, positive, 10-15% return on investment.
Or just drop the dime now on a solar power system, while the window is open.
Watch smugly, while late adopters suffer through ten percent (or more) annual inflation buying dirty electricity from the former power monopolists.
OWN YOUR ELECTRICITY FUTURE
WHAT IF you had locked in the price of power twenty years ago? You'd be able to retire faster than the folks who lost funds and bailout money to Citibank types, who are spending your retirement and tax money on $50 million personal jets, if they can get away with it.
What happened to that missing $55 trillion again? Instead of growing smartly as a nest egg, it's been drained away by the shenigans of the financial elites.
It appears they drained it off when we weren't looking, and stashed in away in second homes, personal luxury goods, real estate, etc.
GUARANTEED RETIREMENT: FLAT-PANELED ROOFTOP POWER PLANTS
Put your retirement on your roof, where you can see it. Where it will reduce your utility bill the day you put it in, with a 25-year warranty on top of that.
You won't get a warranty on a 401k.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Presidential Residential Confidential
Whatever happened to those solar panels on the White House? We've all heard how Jimmy Carter installed them, then Reagan took them down.
The backstory on the whole affair illustrates the cycle of change. Of course, we're lovin' it.
The Official Google Blog again zeros in on renewables with an article on the whereabouts of the decommissioned White House solar thermal system. Yes, it's still producing hot water.
Carter's speech dedicating the panels is worth eyeballing for historical perspective alone (includes YouTube link).
We're hopefully awaiting the specs on Obama's upcoming photovoltaic system...anybody know that story?
Official Google Blog: Back to the energy future
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Mark Twain on "Just Doing It"
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain
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