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From the Dept. of Progress
Jun. 24th, 2014 04:49 pmThe weather was gorgeous on Sunday evening, so I decided to take a stroll around the western slope of Phinney Ridge where what ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stroppy_baggage calls the real estate porn is abundant. I had just spotted a house with solar panels on the roof when, as luck would have it, a family was walking in.
I hurried across the street and asked them how they liked their solar panels. Very much, said the lady of the house. They'd only had them a year, but partly thanks to incentives, they'd already paid for themselves. And that was before the prices for panels dropped, she said.
Solar panels, covering much of the roof of a medium-sized old house in Seattle (which is above 47°N), and paying for themselves in under a year. I wasn't sure I'd live to see the day. This looks to me like the start of something big.
stroppy_baggage calls the real estate porn is abundant. I had just spotted a house with solar panels on the roof when, as luck would have it, a family was walking in.I hurried across the street and asked them how they liked their solar panels. Very much, said the lady of the house. They'd only had them a year, but partly thanks to incentives, they'd already paid for themselves. And that was before the prices for panels dropped, she said.
Solar panels, covering much of the roof of a medium-sized old house in Seattle (which is above 47°N), and paying for themselves in under a year. I wasn't sure I'd live to see the day. This looks to me like the start of something big.
