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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 7, 2011 4:33:49 GMT 12.75
Prices on solar panels are starting to come down... I'm a look into getting enough of them to run the fridge and chest freezers in case of a power outage, like what happens here each hurricane season when one of them big winds pays us a visit. I'm going to get a small generator too. Dad's got one that's pretty big, but I'm needing one big enough to run a couple drop lights and a small window unit.
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Post by Paws on Sept 7, 2011 4:48:12 GMT 12.75
I think Toby that you are headed in the right direction. Foreman Predicts: Should the Lord tary and the world stand there will be a day not far off when all homes and businesses will be powered by their own resources through solar, wind, battery, and geothermal sources putting commercial distribution companies out of business and on the book shelf of history. Linking that solar with a battery back up might get you a tax credit and reduce your overall power bill there buddy.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 7, 2011 9:42:48 GMT 12.75
Used to be, it'd take ten years of power savings for a solar powered home to begin to actually become cost efficient due to the price of the panels themselves. I was just reading that that is now cut in half and that it takes only five years for a home to become cost efficient. I'm not so much worried about cost efficiency andsaving on the light bill as much as I am not wanting to lose all of our frozen meat should something happen and the power get cut off. Also, I been looking at land parcels in Montana. Eighty acre lots in the very Southwest corner of the state (beautiful country) off the grid for $62K. Another place in central Mt on the plains...160acres of prarie with a fifteen acre lake for $63K. It wouldn't take much to have a modular home placed out t here and powered by solar and wind energy. With a good wood burning heater/stove, I think a feller might live fairly comfortably.
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Post by Two Tales on Sept 7, 2011 9:55:04 GMT 12.75
Toby, what you thinking lad...ya'll freeze up when it get's down ta 50, whatcha gonna do when the mercury hits 30 below, wid da winds ablown a +50mph and ya got 4 1/2 feet of snow piled up again yourn door?
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Post by Paws on Sept 7, 2011 11:21:08 GMT 12.75
Montana has some good points. Having spent a year in New Mexico I can tell you that it can get right worrysome when you need to find a car part, particular brand name or item and when you do find it you pay through the nose. Town might mean a half dozen buildings grouped close together with real civilization a hundred miles up the road and the road might be snowed in for five months. Hospitals can be thin. Huntin' and fishin well it just depends on where you are but can be great. I sure do like the gun laws there. And there is a woman behind every tree; both of 'em! Well if you decide to go let me know if you need a cook. I don't need no salary just room and board and maybe a little alone time with the calves that got the purdiest eyes once in a while.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 7, 2011 13:30:11 GMT 12.75
The properties are remote, but the hunting is GREAT! I want to buy a place for a hunting season retreat, but have enough land that I can sell enough hunts on it to help pay for the poperty and my travel back n forth to Florida. That 160 acre parcel is enclosed on three sides by BLM land under a one hundred year lease to some big cow outfit. ound to be game coming to that water and geese n ducks as it's on the flyway. I'm figurrin is all...trying to get it all sorted out in my lil head!
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