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I will be interested in following what is happening with solar power in states other than California. I think I will browse the WEB to see if anything enlightening shows up. I will also send a note to the Sungevity guys to ask in what other states they provide support.
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 10/11 - All Members:
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Points milestones report ======================== RT reached 125,000,000 points  judson Somerville MD reached 58,000,000 points finman reached 14,000,000 points Bon Kuhlman reached 2,000,000 points Runtime milestones report ========================= GeraldRube reached 94 years of runtime xroule reached 45 years of runtime Results returned milestones report ================================== pramodp reached 3,500 results New members report ================== No new members found.  Retired members report ====================== No new retired members found. For the week as a team: Statistics Total Run Time Points Results Team Records: Results Returned: 06/08/2011 4,091 Points: 09/20/2011 1,150,642 Runtime: 01/25/2006 1:123:00:53:34 Good crunching folks!!!!! |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 10/11 - Active Members
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Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days. Top Twenty active members returning points today: 01: RT - 256,238 points 02: judson Somerville MD - 213,424 points 03: GeraldRube - 82,481 points 04: Coingames - 67,214 points 05: xroule - 61,834 points 06: David Autumns - 54,574 points 07: NiceMedTexMD - 41,594 points 08: parmesian - 38,013 points 09: dkt - 30,732 points 10: Daeloan - 30,430 points 11: finman - 22,137 points 12: jpenning - 18,208 points 13: Vuj - 16,166 points 14: darth_vader - 15,341 points 15: brown chris - 14,814 points 16: YellowAV - 14,635 points 17: keithhenry - 13,741 points 18: lawrencehardin - 10,385 points 19: Blueprint - 10,144 points 20: Fanie - 8,148 points Total points returned today: 1,063,107 Active members returning points today: 37 Average points per member active today: 28,732.6216 |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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................................CONGRATULATIONS RT ON REACHING 125,000,000 MOT POINTS !!!................................ |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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.................CONGRATULATIONS judson Somerville MD ON REACHING 58,000,000 MOT POINTS !!!................. |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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..............................CONGRATULATIONS finman ON REACHING 14,000,000 MOT POINTS !!!.............................. |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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..........................CONGRATULATIONS Bon Kuhlman ON REACHING 2,000,000 MOT POINTS !!!.......................... |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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.... For you guys in Texas, have a look at http://solarpowerrocks.com/texas/ and see if that helps. Doesn't look like there's the lease set-up Sungevity does in CA but there appear to be incentives (state and federal) that can cut the cost of buying a system by over half........... Looking around at all that stuff just reeks of flimflam. I hope that Sungevity will send me a direction that looks promising.Well, like I said, I just did a little searching on Google and this site came up at the top of the list. Yea, there are ways to game that sort of thing. From appearance, it would seem to be a website three 20-somethings put together to provide better organized info about solar. Would I make a decision based on just this one site? Of course not. My impressions so far with respect to solar is that there's no one answer for everyone because so much depends on just where you are. There's a tax credit at the federal level, some states have varying incentives and some utilities do as well. What's available for business seems to be better that for residential solar. It seems in some cases, the solar equipment is exempt from property taxes too. The biggest factor of course is the site. Where can you put the panels, how much sun will they get, how efficiently will they convert that to electricity and does your local electric company/co-op allow you to send your excess back into the grid (not always)? What appears to be the case with Sungevity is that they buy the equipment, get the tax credits/rebates/etc. and lease the equipment to you. From a cash flow view, I suspect they use the lease you sign to get the financing they need to buy the equipment. That also fits with a higher down payment lowering your lease costs since they don't have to finance as much of the cost that way. I would think it is quite possible for folks in CA to buy their own solar equipment though leasing from Sungevity (and any competition they have) is probably cheaper, at least up front. I suspect what they do is most likely unique to CA because of the specific tax credits/rebates/etc. available in CA. That or they're pretty new and just don't have a presence in other states yet. Basically, it seems any of us could "go solar" if we're willing to buy the equipment. The numbers to justify such a decision are going to vary greatly because of the variation in incentives from state to state and city to city. When you buy a HVAC system for your house, you have to look at what you can afford, how efficient a system you can get for that, what the fuel cost will be, any rebates being offered by the manufacturer, any state or federal tax credits that might be available and more. Solar's no different. |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Got the memory today that I had ordered for both of my machines. Both now have 4GB of memory. The quad is crunching four CEP2 tasks concurrently at the moment and I am not seeing any problems.....yet. The quad is currently using 55-60 percent of that memory running the four WUs. I'll have to check it in the morning and see how thing went overnight. My crunching may have just gotten much simpler!
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Somervillejudson@netscape.net
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: May 16, 2008 Post Count: 1065 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Texas should be in the lead when discussing solar power. Lobbied enough to know a bit of money spread around in our state capital would be all needed to create a bill with tax breaks and shasam a new industry booms in solar power. Hey look at California!!!
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