Reply #17: Isn't that a HUGE financial investment, though

[Heddi]

at least initially?

My grandparents were going to go solar about 10 years ago, and the cost for the panels and re-wiring their house (or whatever they had to do...I wasn't too involved in the details at the time) was going to cost them around $7k upfront.....they had high electric bills but just didn't have that amount of cash available to go that route.

Same with heating with wood---wouldn't you have to somehow make a vent in your house so the smoke can get out? How do you heat multiple rooms or a multiple-story home?

I'm not trying to be argumentative---right now, I rent a house, but will probably buy a house in the next 4 years when we get out of school and am interested in being as independent as possible.......