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Dale - If you get a chance, sign up under our Congressional district group NC-02. Thanks. - Bob Koszelak

Hi Dale!

It has been a while since we kept in touch last!

We are now over 1.2 million suporters. We will need many more if we are to beat back the damn lobbyists and special interests. Can you help with the pledges? Every American needs to sign on. With pledges we can fan out and reach so many. It is an easy ask- Boone has done the hard work. I was able to get 300 signed in the first 4 days - everyone wants to to get off of foreign oil. We may never have a golden opportunity like this again!
ARE YOU IN?

Best
Kim

Hi Dale!

Thank youf roy or ofer of menaingful help to aid the plan. Would you be a part of the pledge drive? We asked for weeks for a petition, and now we have one. Do we have the fortitude to WORK IT? Or will we just stay on this site and talk? Would love to have you as part of the 100CLUB- for folks who fax in 100 or more signed pledges. If only a small persentage (5% = 10,000) of our members each shouldered this small tak, we would have over a million in short order. ARE YOU IN?

Glad to meet you and see how involved you are . Graeful for your effors!
Kim

Dale, I am trying to figure out the practicallity of producing a single family home windmill that doesn't cost 25k. As a builder it is hard for me to figure out what costs so much. The technology is pretty simple ( I think). My experience with other green technologies as they relate to residential construction are cost prohibitive. Spray foam insulation has at least a 50% margin; talk about a marketing sham. We have at least two boat mfgs. in Brunswick county= the propeller and turbine housing, all we need is a oversized alternator mfg. Melt down a few million Bud Light empties and there is our tower. I'll hire a minority female as the CEO and have all kinds of grants and other free money at my disposal. (sound like a plan?) Easy on the French, Napoleon kind of screwed those guys. Short man syndrome. I think if Busch was married to a former super model his approval rating would be higher. Til this plan gets some legs I will keep my day job, God knows Wall Street needs my tax dollars. Did you surf Hannah's waves? Vance

Could you use an alternator and achieve the same thing. Vance

Dale, I live on Oak Island in Brunswick county. Western Brunswick county as well as Columbus county have unlimited land available and it is my understanding they have some wind potential. God knows we could use some mfg. jobs in this state. I would be interested in learning how you made a wind mill out of spare parts. I am an NCSU alum and I contacted them for available info. If you have time, write me back. Vance Kimball

I meant to say 1000 installations instead of 100 in CA for the pilot phase rollout.

Jack Harrell
Citizenre Independent Associate

Dale,

The quotes I used for a 10Kw system in my response to Jim were from two sources.

The first was BP Solar USA which has an online solar calculator. You input your zip code, usage/system size and it quotes a price after including the NC tax credit of $72,625 for Northeastern NC.

The other source is SC Solar, the company that installed a 10Kw rack mounted system in Edenton NC which is in the NC Greenpower program. They informed me that the installation cost was approximately $80,000. They also told me the amount of power that the system generates in a year (approximately 14000Kwh) and what the owner receives from NC Greenpower which was at that time $0.18/Kwh plus $0.04 from the utility. So the income from this system is a about $3100/year. At $80,000 it will take approximately 25 years for the system to pay for itself.

I appreciate that you consider the idea of renting a solar electric system for some homeowners that can't afford the high upfornt cost as an option. Citizenre has a vision that 25% of the power supplied to the grid will be from solar power by 2025. It is a lofty goal for sure. The latest I heard from the company is that will roll out a pilot with a many as 100 installations by the end of the year. Those installations will be in California. They then plan if the financing comes through to start making installations in other states beginning next year. NC is on the list for installations. I know that many homeowners across the U.S. cannot take advantage of this program due to poor net metering laws or no net metering at all. In NC only investor owned utilities can participate and unfortunately my utility is a Coop so I can't get a system on my home just now even though I would sign up in a heartbeat if I could. It would only cost me $89/month for a 10Kw REnU system.

I know it still seems like it is too good to be true. But I for one choose to believe that it will happen and that it will be at least part of the solution to the energy crisis in this country.

Thanks for your comments and for keeping an open mind to the possibilities. I think renting solar is a part of the solution.

Jack Harrell
Citizenre Independent Associate
www.jointhesolution.com/affordable_energy
www.powur.com/affordable_energy