Comments for http://www.ecosolutionsreview.com Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:19:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 Comment on How Will We Create a Green Economy by Home Wind http://www.ecosolutionsreview.com/how-will-we-create-a-green-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Home Wind Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:19:06 +0000 http://www.ecosolutionsreview.com/?p=27#comment-4 Well, for starters I think that I challenge the opening thought with some new information. My company, WindEnergy7.com is currently selling and installing home power solutions that pay for themselves in 7 to 10 years. This is not blue sky BS, this is happening all over the US right now. If your wind resource is not that good, our system design will use more solar, if your wind resource is good, we use more wind. But we always prefer to use both, together. If it takes 30 years to pay for our system, you live underground and I will not sell a system to you. If it takes $30,000 to make $1000 a year of electricity, you just bought a bloated rip off of a system. Don't feel bad, that's what many of the systems are priced like. I can sell you, TODAY, a system that will do that $1000 a year for about $10,000. Depending on your wind/solar resources you could require a bit larger system to make that energy than someone else. Additionally, that $1000 will buy you far less electricity in one location than another. 7 to 10 years is the average expected payback for our systems. But let's take 2 extremes based solely on electrical cost. I just sold a system going in on Kekaha in Hawaii. The guy is becoming a dealer there for WindEnergy7. His cost per kilowatt hour is OVER 50 CENTS. OMG, he has great wind and his ROI is about 1 year using my wind/solar system. Because his power very high, his wind resource also very strong. WOW, what a great investment! Best I have seen. Another system I sold is a guy not wanting to be a dealer, just a newly built home. He is in a city that has a hydroelectric dam owned by the city and he pays the municipal owned utility ONLY 8 CENTS a kilowatt hour. Wow, that's cheap, and it's already green power. What's additionally bad is he's in a soft but serviceable wind zone, 2 on the DOE map. So, his ROI for a WindEnergy7 system is about 14 years. But, since the cost of the system is a direct 100% property improvement to the new home, he basically says his investment is whole from day 1. He's putting in a $23,000 system and his property value will be enhanced same amount as a green property with it's own power generation. The whole thing is to me. Don't buy an overpriced system that is so out of touch with real value. Yes, if a system cost me $30,000 to make $1,000 of power, I wouldn't buy it either. But, don't think that there aren't systems that are delivering now, a cost effective value to the homeowner. I will also add a BIG FACT. The DOE states that an average of 7% of the nations energy is lost in transmission from source to home/business. So, what is NOT THE ANSWER for sure is any green power that is centralized and transmitted like that. So, all this talk of "Smart Grid" and big wind farms etc. etc. are completely ridiculous. Let's take all that copper and make turbines to locate at the point of use. 7%... Wow, imaging filling up with gas and 7%, about 20 cents per gallon runs out on the driveway and can't be used?? 7% think about it. There's NO CENTRALIZED APPROACH that will ever be the right idea. We need a distributed redundant approach. Remember those rolling blackouts and all? -- <a href="http://windenergy7.com/turbines/" rel="nofollow">WindEnergy7.com</a> Well, for starters I think that I challenge the opening thought with some new information. My company, WindEnergy7.com is currently selling and installing home power solutions that pay for themselves in 7 to 10 years. This is not blue sky BS, this is happening all over the US right now.

If your wind resource is not that good, our system design will use more solar, if your wind resource is good, we use more wind. But we always prefer to use both, together.

If it takes 30 years to pay for our system, you live underground and I will not sell a system to you. If it takes $30,000 to make $1000 a year of electricity, you just bought a bloated rip off of a system. Don’t feel bad, that’s what many of the systems are priced like.

I can sell you, TODAY, a system that will do that $1000 a year for about $10,000. Depending on your wind/solar resources you could require a bit larger system to make that energy than someone else.

Additionally, that $1000 will buy you far less electricity in one location than another. 7 to 10 years is the average expected payback for our systems. But let’s take 2 extremes based solely on electrical cost.

I just sold a system going in on Kekaha in Hawaii. The guy is becoming a dealer there for WindEnergy7. His cost per kilowatt hour is OVER 50 CENTS. OMG, he has great wind and his ROI is about 1 year using my wind/solar system. Because his power very high, his wind resource also very strong. WOW, what a great investment! Best I have seen.

Another system I sold is a guy not wanting to be a dealer, just a newly built home. He is in a city that has a hydroelectric dam owned by the city and he pays the municipal owned utility ONLY 8 CENTS a kilowatt hour. Wow, that’s cheap, and it’s already green power. What’s additionally bad is he’s in a soft but serviceable wind zone, 2 on the DOE map. So, his ROI for a WindEnergy7 system is about 14 years. But, since the cost of the system is a direct 100% property improvement to the new home, he basically says his investment is whole from day 1. He’s putting in a $23,000 system and his property value will be enhanced same amount as a green property with it’s own power generation.

The whole thing is to me. Don’t buy an overpriced system that is so out of touch with real value. Yes, if a system cost me $30,000 to make $1,000 of power, I wouldn’t buy it either. But, don’t think that there aren’t systems that are delivering now, a cost effective value to the homeowner.

I will also add a BIG FACT. The DOE states that an average of 7% of the nations energy is lost in transmission from source to home/business. So, what is NOT THE ANSWER for sure is any green power that is centralized and transmitted like that. So, all this talk of “Smart Grid” and big wind farms etc. etc. are completely ridiculous. Let’s take all that copper and make turbines to locate at the point of use.

7%… Wow, imaging filling up with gas and 7%, about 20 cents per gallon runs out on the driveway and can’t be used?? 7% think about it. There’s NO CENTRALIZED APPROACH that will ever be the right idea. We need a distributed redundant approach. Remember those rolling blackouts and all?
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