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FBaggins

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12. I'm sorry... that too is wrong.

Mon Feb 11, 2013, 09:24 PM

Feb 2013

The thin-film payback you're probably thinking of is how long it takes for the units to produce as much electricity as it took to make them.

It takes much longer than that to pay back the cost of the unit plus installation.

If they paid for themselves in 3-5 years, everyone would have them.

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