Solar panels (UK based)

[shg]

Yikes, I just realized that's in pounds. We pay $0.10. Good thing when you use 4000 in a summer month.

 

[Smitty]

Yikes, I just realized that's in pounds. We pay $0.10. Good thing when you use 4000 in a summer month.

You're lucky. In Northern California it's more like $0.45. But then again, we don't have air conditioning (and have to suffer in September when the sun is coming in the windows full bore)...

 

[Richard Schollar]

The UK has an extremely expensive welfare state to pay for - which helps explain the high cost of everything...

Smitty, your proposed system was huge compared to the biggest residential systems you get over here!! You yanks always do things bigger than we do

 

[barry houdini]

Good thing when you use 4000 in a summer month.

Are you kidding?

We use approx 7000 a year perhaps a little under....although we also use gas for heating and hot water so that doubles the outlay......

 

[T. Valko]

We don't get enough sunny days where I live to justify the initial expense.

It might pay for itself over your lifetime!

 

[shg]

Are you kidding?

We use approx 7000 a year perhaps a little under....although we also use gas for heating and hot water so that doubles the outlay......

We had 70 days over 100 this summer, and several over 110. This nice fall day is 97.

Pretty toasty.

 

[barry houdini]

We're having an unprecedented heatwave (seriously) for this time of year - 80 in London today

Is that cold in Texas?

 

[shg]

We have an electric gate at the foot of the driveway. This past February, after a combination of freezing rain, snow, and more freezing rain, we were iced in for six days while the temp hovered in the low teens. We kept the fireplace lit the whole time and enjoyed the winter wonderland.

If you tried to talk outside, the words froze in mid-air, and you had to warm them in a frying pan to hear what you were saying.

That's cold for Texas.

 

[Smitty]

Is that cold in Texas?

That's downright chilly, especially for this year.

And I'm complaining because it's "only" around 100 here.

 

[barry houdini]

Darn Texicans ....everything has to bigger, taller, hotter or colder........

a combination of freezing rain, snow, and more freezing rain

...although that sounds more like the English weather I know and love