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Old 02-22-2013, 02:10 PM   #31
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Hellrazo I keep almost eveything off during the day and the house is shut down at night like any other normal family would do. It dosent make sense for what they claim i use. So now i am looking into solar and i also have a great fast running stream that runs through my property and i am building a low torqe drive unit for a generator so i can have hydro power. I will get off the grid one of these days !
For the general NH area, assuming you don't have excess trees blocking the sun, you could offset 1/2 of your electric bill with a $50,000 solar system. You'd need about 1,000 sqft of panels, and a LOT of batteries. That is based on also cutting your average monthly bill down to 2,000Kwh.
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