Yeah. IDK a lot about it as I haven't lived there in over 10 years, but a friend who still lives there tells me that he is satisfied with his. He purchased and installed it. He tells me that his meter actually runs backwards at times and the power company pays him premium price for what he puts back into the grid. I guess they figure how much annually and it makes a substantial dent in his power bill.
Yeah, it wouldn't work for me. I live very near the Canadian border and we just don't get a lot of daylight in the winter months. Our neighbor tried to go total solar and even adding a bunch of panels they have never been totally detached from the grid. That poses another problem---batteries. In the time I've lived here, they have upgraded or replaced batteries twice and added panels too. In CA, they don't have much problem with the daylight or the extreme winter temps either.
I haven't heard about those, and with todays prices I wonder if they would be that cheap---just priced a mini split HVAC and the price has doubled since last year from $10k to $20K. If that price is true--it is a super deal, but probably wouldn't be effective for me either because we live in a small canyon and get virtually no wind. I do have a good well though and I've thought seriously about a self sufficient hydro electric set up using gravity to bring the water down from the upper part of the property to the lower part in tubes that contain multiple turbines. But like everything else, probably a pipe dream until I start feeling sufficient pain in my energy bill, LOL.
We do have some massive solar farms here. All told Az gets about 10 percent of it's power from all sources of solar. Interestingly we have one nuclear plant Palo Verde that has operated perfectly for nearly 40 years and produces over 27 percent of the state's power.
A local friend just put a geothermal system in his shop. I was amazed. It really made sense. He just dug a trench six ft. deep and buried about an 8" tube in it. He circulates the air in the tube (40+ degrees) and heats that air. Beats the hell out of heating sub 20s air.
I have 21 panels and if I remember correctly about ten grand.
With a bill that low it doesn’t make sense. Here in Arizona the A/C runs twenty four/seven at least six months a year.
I was shocked to find a pile in the middle of the desert. I’m used to them being around large bodies of water for cooling.
I have 43 acres I'll sells ya.
I lived on it for 25 years but I gotz a place on an acre by the river on flat land.
