Arizona Against todays PV

PV dealers, take exception to the facts

------ Batteries are a solution for those that get charged high peak rates and low off peak rates.
------ 85% reflective window film can save as much electricity as PV's generate.
------ Insulation to R-24 walls and R-50 attic can retain as much energy as PV's generate.
------ GSHP's can save as much energy as todays PV generate.
------ Solar thermal panels collect about the same amount of energy as todays PV's generate.
------ Capturing attic space energy can be about the same amount of energy as todays PV's generate.

These facts are true anywhere in America.and todays PV are obsolete everywhere in America.
Implementing all of these will cost about 1/2 of a similar sized installation of todays PV.
A PV dealer is not the person you should get advice from regarding home energy efficiency and cost savings.

Have a professional energy auditor test all aspects of your home energy use characteristics.
Have a professional independent HVAC engineer redesign all the energy subsystems of the whole house and assist you to select energy saving strategies that work best for your home and your cash.

The key to the home energy family budget and for the regional generating and the national electrical grid is reduce consumption. The utility companies and the State regulatory bodies and the national electrical grid has been good for Americans for the last 18 years of price decreases and it will be good for the US for another 18 years if Americans would divorce themselves of the more is better mindset.

Building more electricity generating plants on your roof top is folly.

I am a hook and bullet environmentalist.
I am a Conscientious Pickens Environmentalist (CPE)
I will not stand idly by while Americas wealth is wasted on todays PV. A hoax that has been foisted on America by Whacko Marxist environmentalists. If you have a better name for this group of activists and PAC's and now PV dealers I will use it. My apologies to environmentalist in general if this label puts a burr under your saddle. If the shoe fits wear it, if it don't fit then no offense.

Here is how todays PV fad all concocted by Whacko Marxist environmentalists transpired
1. Whacko environmentalists played on the fear of global warming forcing utility companies to abandon coal and switch to natural gas generation. which did not markedly do one thing to reduce carbon or pollution.
2. Whacko environmentalists played on the hate for local utility companies raising electricity rates as a result of natural gas prices.
3. The real estate boom exacerbated this situation. Homes were built as quick and as cheap as they could during a time when energy costs were low and home energy efficiency was not given the attention that it should.
4. Drafty, 2X4 stick frame, R-11, vinyl sided, unwrapped exterior wall construction
5. Little or no attic insulation
6. Uninsulated ductwork passing through unconditioned space
7. Energy inefficient HVAC systems and domestic hot water system.
8. Electricity and energy pig homes that looked very pretty and having excellent workmanship counted in the millions and millions.
9. Whacko environmentalists PAC's pushed through a democrat congress huge unlimited 30% tax credit and incentives for todays PV used in those grossly inefficient personal residences.
10. You are made to think that you have shielded yourself from electricity rate increases by PV dealers. But this is a false.security
11. Your new electricity rates are added to your tax bill to pay for those tax credits and incentives for todays PV
12. Your new electrcity rate is payed as lump sum to purchase your electricity 20 to 40 years in the future using todays PV.
13. Todays PV is:
Hyped up - you see PV on more and more commercial buildings. Why? See next entry.
Intangible asset - LEED certification for sustainable architecture allocates dollar value to "corporate image" to offset cost of PV
High carbon footprint - The embodied energy in PV ($7 per watt) comes from fossil fuel for their manufacture in China.
subversive - The allure of FREE ENERGY ignoring the fact that harvesting the energy costs energy
imported, - 10% of PV is manufactured in the US. The US consumed 20% (2006). Same old pattern. Higher in 2008, I'm sure.
$7 per watt, - You have to put about 7000 watts on a roof top to generate an inefficient homes electricity, $49,000
30 to 40 year payback, - Dividing $49,000 by the cost of grid electricity equals the payback (varies by the amount of sunshine)
Not renewable resource - A whole high tech industrial infrastructure and $7/KW of fossil fuel to manufacture todays PV.
Not Green - It costs more to sow PV than what you reap from PV.
Not sustainable - PV requires inexpensive Hydro electricity to manufacture rather than expensive electricity derived from PV.
toxic, - Arsenic, indium, bromine, gallium and etc all the elements used in the manufacture of PV need disposal.
energy robbing, - The energy was stolen from the grid to make the PV to generate the replacement energy to put on the grid.
30 year old technology - no real progress in PV efficiencies has been made since their invention.
subsidized - nearly 75% funded by government and utility companies to put on peoples roof tops
utility company rip off - With PV generation the operation and maintenance costs are born by the PV owner.
Whacko environmentalist heart throb - A mindless belief in PV
government hope plan - Government hopes that billions of dollars spent on PV will solve the energy crisis.
hoax - at current electricity rates the payback period for PV is greater than the useful life of the PV
Job exporting - Solar thermal panels, just as efficient as PV, was a successful American cottage industry until the PV subsidies.
SUV of solar - its big, its expensive, its wasteful, it has no utility, their should be a law against PV

What about all those Americans who can't afford the PV????????
What are those Americans going to do to pay their ever increasing electrical bill?????????
What are those Americans going to do to pay their ever increasing tax bill for the PV subsidy????????

Obama is a wacko environmentalist or he is pandering to wacko environmentalist (which means he is a lier), when he says he is going to bankrupt the coal industry if they don't clean up coal (cleaner than coal is now). To clean up already clean coal more makes coal fired plant twice as expensive to build and operate , nearly all of US electricity is produced by clean fossil fuels so the price of electricity will double but the plan is to reimburse most people for their higher heating costs which does nothing for conservation thus bankrupting America. The Whacko Marxist environmentalists are intent on bankrupting America any way you care to look at it.

You aren't Whacko if you agree in 1 thorugh 13 above.
You are Marxist if you engender hate and fear in the population and don't support capitalism and are not against bankruptcy.

You are a conscientious Pickens environmentalist who believes in balanced, pragmatic approaches to decreasing the costs of energy with a goal of maintaining the current clean environment who also support The principals of the Pickens plan.

Stop importing energy
Stop exporting wealth
Promote made in the America wind mills
and the corollary
promote other made in America energy.

In acknowledgment that our neighbors to the north and south
Where electrical grids and pipelines cross those borders
Where oil and gas are obtained and refined products are shipped.
And very beneficially contribute to the energy solution
but are part of the energy problem on this regional scale
let us say
Promote made in the North America wind mills
and the corollary
promote other made in North America energy.

Become a conscientious Pickens environmentalist (CPE)

cites
http://www.iea-pvps.org/
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/FTPROOT/renewables/017406.pdf
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/solarphotv/table...
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/assumption/pdf/electricity.pdf#page=3