If that is true that’s a great incentive. Wonder if that is only for home instillation or if they would do it for ground racks as well. I’m more interested in that. But Oklahoma doesn’t have it so no need wondering I guess.
Solar Panels for the home - school me - why isn't everyone doing it?
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Super hard and the salinity tests borderline unhealthy to consume. Supposedly common for that area of the county I found out after drilling the only way to fix it is with a reverse osmosis filter system so we bring in water for consumption for now. Distilling will work too so I have a small still too.
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Love your setup! I'd live like that in a heartbeat in the mountains.
If the well water is sketchy, get a UV-C sanitation system to clean up the well water issues if it's related to whatever is causing it to be undrinkable, a filter to separate the sediment and an RV softwater that will do the entire cabin. We use one in our RV and it's great. Not expensive either.
Look up RV portable soft water tanks. Hooks up with a garden hose, and the larger one that weighs about 20 lbs will produce about 350 gallons of soft water, depending on the hardness. It could be more or less, in your case with what you said, it could be less, but uses 2 lb of any table salt and about 30 minutes to recharge.
We RV with friends that had an off grid cabin near Angle Fire in New Mexico. They absolutely loved it.
Used an indoor toilet with a black tank outside. They would treat it, and use a macerator to discharge the waste into a semi-septic system. He couldn't exactly describe how it operated it, but he said it was the standard for living off grid, installed by a company that does it for a living.
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Lowes will as well.
I have a composting toilet inside but in the 3 years it’s been there it’s never been used. The outhouse is not offensive at all the way I constructed it. Well water issue is high salinity not bacteria
Water softener probably wouldn't help then.
I'd still live there! LOL.
Everyone is doing it, in states where they penalize you for not doing, and reward you if you do do it. In california, you almost can't afford not to.
In states like Oklahoma where energy is extremely cheap to begin with and there aren't really any incentives to speak of, best case scenario you're paying your electric bill 20 years into the future.
Which isn't such a great deal because we're on the cusp of several game changing technologies that will dramatically reduce the cost and increase the efficiency of solar. Thin film panels that will be cheaper and more efficient than current commercially available roof panels, solid state batteries that will last virtually forever, and molten metal batteries that will make a distributed grid possible (and potentially eliminate the need for home batteries to begin with). There's a very real possibility that the cost to go solar could be cut in half over the next few years. It would be a shame to get on the hook for a 20 year system when there's no immediate incentive to do so, and then have something come out five years from now that would be half the price.
In states like Oklahoma where energy is extremely cheap to begin with and there aren't really any incentives to speak of, best case scenario you're paying your electric bill 20 years into the future.
Which isn't such a great deal because we're on the cusp of several game changing technologies that will dramatically reduce the cost and increase the efficiency of solar. Thin film panels that will be cheaper and more efficient than current commercially available roof panels, solid state batteries that will last virtually forever, and molten metal batteries that will make a distributed grid possible (and potentially eliminate the need for home batteries to begin with). There's a very real possibility that the cost to go solar could be cut in half over the next few years. It would be a shame to get on the hook for a 20 year system when there's no immediate incentive to do so, and then have something come out five years from now that would be half the price.
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Are the solar folks dumping their product because of the new tech coming?
Hydrogen cells?
Their setup is really nice. Not having access to a power drop anywhere on your property might be one of the only reasons to go with solar.
We used rainwater exclusively in Ketchikan. Even for consumption. The difference being we got an average of 162 inches of annual rainfall so the water never set in the tank and stagnated.
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