Re: Power Supplies, Saving Money, and switching vs. Linear?

[Frank Olson <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RoughRider wrote:
> It is almost free once you spend the huge $ for the panel, charge controller
> and battery.  However, others in the alt.energy.homepower newsgroup have
> calculated that if you have commercial power, the payback on your investment
> is something like 18 years.  Not worth it.  No business case.  Hobby value
> only.


I wonder how you'd feel when you're in the middle of one of the famous
California "Brown-outs", and your next-door neighbor (the one with the
solar power cells on his roof) is enjoying all the comforts of air
conditioning...  :-)

Frank Olson
http://www.yoursecuritysource.com