Comment on "Mom, we can just go back to burning wood"
tomi000@lemmy.world 11 hours agoIf this is seroiously your current situation, the “cant afford solar” part does not make sense. If you pay 500$ a month for electricity, buying a solar panel for roughly 100$ should be easy. It will cut your electricity for the next month by 30-50$ and save you money after 3.
Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
If his winter heating need is that large he may live in an area where solar does not produce that much electricity during winter. I myself live in an area that has 0 (yes zero) sunlight for one winter month because of the polar night and just 1-4 hours of very low intensity sunlight for the rest of the 5 month long winter. In summer when we have midnight sun, literally 24 hour sunlight, the electricity is almost free so whatever the solar panel produces then is near useless. Also you simply don’t use that much in that season. For me at least it’s not really a worthwhile investment.
tomi000@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
If it was 1100$ on average this year, I dont think thats 2200$ in winter and 0$ during summer. Even if its 300 during summer those solar panels pay for themselves after a few months