On (01 Nov 97) Kyle Hearn wrote to Ian Woofenden...
 IW> That's great! The down side is that now it makes even less
 IW> sense to go solar. :)
 KH> That's in an apt. A house/mobile will be more. I'm very
 KH> interested in going off grid completely and staying that way
 KH> for a very long time.
That's great, and I'm all for it. But don't fool yourself about the
economics of it, what with the subsidized grid. If your property is
on the grid, you won't make RE pay in dollars. Yet.
And the first thing to do is to get efficient loads, which makes it
even less economical to invest in RE generating sources. 
                        Ian
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