The California Center for Sustainable Energy is implementing a pilot solar water-heating incentive program in San Diego. The success of the pilot will go a long way in determining how the program gets rolled out to the rest of California—which is important because, as you can see from this great study by CalSEIA, the value of solar hot water is quite high. That’s why it was nice to see a weatherman from a local news station get in on the act, climb up a roof, and tell people just what they should be doing with a sunny day. (Video here.)
[Note to Al Roker: I also heard the San Diego TV guy say there’s no way you could do as good of a job. He dared you to try to promote solar nationally as well as he did locally. He also called you a punk.]
Also of note: a local solar installer has announced a $0-down financing program, with payments set at avoided energy cost (estimated at a 7-year payback). That’s the first time I’ve heard of a program like that for solar water heating, and is the kind of innovation that will be necessary for the technology to find its place in ... wait for it ... the sun.
December 19—the day after COP15
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Pompey Road Posted 10:08 am
25 Feb 2009
Just joking, but there may be a good conspiracy book and movie in the making here!
Is payload seperation common?
The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.
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Pompey Road Posted 10:10 am
25 Feb 2009
The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.
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amazingdrx Posted 1:25 am
26 Feb 2009
This could be subsidized down to a 4 year payback, that's a plan that prices carbon based water heating by lowering the cost of solar water heating. Comparative pricing moves markets, taxes to price carbon are a regressive approach.
Subsidies are the progressive plan, that help families stressed by energy costs to go renewable.
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin
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meander Posted 1:02 am
02 Mar 2009
The San Francisco Chronicle has details.
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