Homeowners: Are you interested in installing solar panels and rain barrels on your property?
Answer:
No.
Me personally, would rather see incentives for building smaller, highly efficient, energy star or LEEDs homes instead or retrofitting older homes with better insulation, tighter windows, and etc. I'd also like to see impact fees applied to people who build those energy guzzling McMansions.
As far as rain barrels ~ no way, not with West Nile Virus around these here parts.
Yes. A low cost or no interest loan would be a great incentive.
I would also like to see city governments encouraging grey water systems in homes & apartments, especially apartment laundry rooms.
Rain barrels attract mosquitoes. My family used to do it with a vacation home that we once had. There was not available water so the rain barrels were for washing, and flushing. The mosquitoes were constantly coming out of the standing water.
YES. as long as it actually helps reducing pollution and dependance on foriegn oil.
Have had rain barrels for decades, why would I put solar panels? It would take panels to cover 2 acres to give enough power to run a very SMALL apartment. You really should do some research, at this time solar is a poor, poor joke, it can not produce enough energy to run your lights let alone anything else, all this does is make some people quite wealthy off others ignorance.
YES AND NO!
NO BECAUSE YOU'R RIGHT, TOO COSTLY TO INSTALL! BUT YES IF THE GOVERNMENT WILL FIRST INNITIATE SOME INCENTIVES, RESEARCHED OF HOW TO LOWER ITS COST BY USING OTHER MATERIALS BESIDE SILICONE, THOUROUGH STUDY AND TEST, TAP OTHER POWER PROVIDER TO SELL EXCESS GENERATED POWER, AND LASTLY, A BIG YES TO DO IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO SAVE OUR ENVIRONMENT AND OUR POCKET BECAUSE OF HIGH POWER RATES !! .RAIN BARRELS DEPEND IN YOUR SEASON AND WATER SCARCITY.
No. My homeowners association won't allow it.
I myself like the idea of the city filtering and testing my water. After they do their thing I then filter it myself. So not to the barrels of water.
Now as far as putting solar modules on my home.. I already have them there. And with the savings they provide I myself don't understand why everyone don't do it even if they can't get a freebee from the government.
If people would just take the time and do the math they would see that over the years they will make money from adding a system to their home. And if they sell the house they get their money back for the install.
I don't get it..?
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