Power your heater without raising ur eletric bill?!

[dawnmarie]

Remember, if it was cheaper to build and generate your own power over a certain number of years then everyone would be doing it and not paying someone else to provide their power for them. All these home solar and wind generators are for people that want to feel like they're doing something environmentally friendly and saving the planet (but don't get me started on what a waste of time and your hard earned money that is!)

I dont know about that.
Solar panel technology is progressing at a good rate and I would be willing to wager that if you were 13 like the OP you would be likely to see solar power in wide use before you retire.
The ROI on solar systems, in California at least, is decent.
I also live within eyesight of a huge wind farm facility that is expanding exponentially.

Perhaps solar panels designed for swimming pools are an option.

 

[Just Toby]

I dont know about that.
Solar panel technology is progressing at a good rate and I would be willing to wager that if you were 13 like the OP you would be likely to see solar power in wide use before you retire.
The ROI on solar systems, in California at least, is decent.
I also live within eyesight of a huge wind farm facility that is expanding exponentially.

Perhaps solar panels designed for swimming pools are an option.

I have a pool and I have been looking in to this, you currently need 2/3rds of the surface area of the pool in panels, when I costed this I needed about £10,000 worth. A simple boiler was £3000, leaving me with £7000 to apy the gs bills which is about 15 years worth or more. An Air source heat pump costs about £6000 fitted an they draw a lot more elctricity than advertised!

This thread needs closing as we are trying to add logic to a daft question!

 

[Satan's Goldfish]

I dont know about that.
Solar panel technology is progressing at a good rate and I would be willing to wager that if you were 13 like the OP you would be likely to see solar power in wide use before you retire.
The ROI on solar systems, in California at least, is decent.
I also live within eyesight of a huge wind farm facility that is expanding exponentially.

Perhaps solar panels designed for swimming pools are an option.

I'll agree they are coming down in price and probably will be a lot more common in the future with improved technology. But as it stands right now it's more financially viable to build these things on a huge scale and sell the power than it would be for each individual person to build small scale to their own personal usage.

I have a pool and I have been looking in to this, you currently need 2/3rds of the surface area of the pool in panels, when I costed this I needed about £10,000 worth. A simple boiler was £3000, leaving me with £7000 to apy the gs bills which is about 15 years worth or more. An Air source heat pump costs about £6000 fitted an they draw a lot more elctricity than advertised!

This thread needs closing as we are trying to add logic to a daft question!

I dunno, it wasn't really a daft question considering the age and position the op was in and although it was a bit extreme, giving sensible answers to questions like that is what the forum is about. I'd put the first 3 pages down as daft uneductated answers to an understandbly uneducated but not daft question. But that's just me.

That is a brilliant practical example of the costings though, and you've just put me off wanting a swimming pool over here

 

[dawnmarie]

What he said.

Us Yank's are good for that whole logic thing, especially us wierdo dope smokin hippies from Cal.