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fasttense

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3. Here in TN the TVA has a plan to subsidies the rich for their solar power.

Reply to The Northerner (Original post)

Tue Jun 12, 2012, 08:34 AM

Jun 2012

Here in TN you can spend $20,000 to $30,000 to put in solar panels and the TVA and the corporate power monopoly will buy your excess solar power at premium prices. And they will give you $1,000 to do it. Isn't that wonderful, if you have $20,000 to $30,000 just sitting around, you can put in solar panels and get pay back on your investment in about 16 years.

Or, and here is a really useless idea, you can add $4.00 a month more to your electric bill and then the TVA and the corporate power monopolies promise to buy a rich guy's excess solar power for you. Now isn't that just hunky dory?

Wow, with ideas like that we should be on solar power in about 200 years.

I guess if the Pentagon were supporting solar power we may get more intelligent ideas...or maybe not.

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This is so true and what many of us have been wanting for so long! Thanks for the post. freshwest Jun 2012 #2

Here in TN the TVA has a plan to subsidies the rich for their solar power. fasttense Jun 2012 #3