Solar Energy Calculator

After my last post about Solar Energy, a few people had some words with me. One person though pointed out Solar Heating. I checked it out.

I found the following Solar Energy Calculator, which allows you to figure out cost versus savings for both Solar Electricity and Solar Heating.

This calculator had some interesting figures. The cost for a 32 square feet setup would be about $1,920. Significantly less than for the solar shingles. It would save me $120 per year, and take about 16 years to pay for itself. It would produce 361 gallons of hot water per year, and prevent 2,265 pounds of CO2 emissions per year, or 45,294 pounds over 20 years.

It also gave me some loan figures. You can put in a down, change the interest rate and the term of the loan.

So, thanks "pc" for pointing me towards Solar Heating.