GREAT DISCUSSION THREAD!

I know a couple of families who can afford it and have assembled solar/wind packages for total off grid normal (though very efficient) households. Out here by the mouth of the Columbia River we DO get a lot of bright days, but I also know that a good solar panel will produce even on cloudy days. With the addition of wind, these folks have really got a sweet (though not inexpensive) deal going!

I read the websites about the solar Seattle incentives and whatnot and have emailed to see if there is any sort of program for a 66 year old veteran on limited fixed income way out here on a dead end road off the dead end highway 103. I try to be optimistic....

If we can just get the Koch/Tea/publicans off our backs, we just might be able to progress to mass use of appropriate tech in this country!