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Everything They Tell You About Solar Is Wrong - Travis Bradford

Travis looks very young in his picture and his outlook on solar is just a green, no pun intended. Do some simple math take your current total electric bill including energy, fuel, taxes, franchise fees and divide it by the KWH you used it should be between 7 cents and 18 cent per kwh. That total includes transmission and distribution costs. Now what Travis didn't tell you that is that the most efficient solar technology today is 12 times more expensive per kwh than the most expensive current utiltiy cost. With govt grants and tax breaks the payback on a residential installation on that cost differential is 28 years. One other minor problem he doesn't mention is with solar you need storage capacity,under the best of conditions the sun only shines 12 hours per day. Now if you follow the electric car industry you know battery technology is very limited. Oh one last little problem with his theory, and it is just that. There is not enough manufacturing capacy for photovoltaics to replace the load he is projecting with current solar, and thin film technolgy won't be capable of mass production on that scale for many years. There is no magic solar bullet even in the distant future.