[ausev] What to do when the grid goes kaput

[Gil Dawson]

At 1:12 P -0500 5/18/07, MLAB wrote:
>Maybe one's home-based solar and wind devices would be enough to charge
>up the car, but not likely.

500 kWh a month (15 kWh a day) is reasonable to expect (per 
http://www.mrsolar.com).  That'll get you to the store and back.  But 
it costs $10K.

Solar is so expensive and grid electricity is so cheap that the 
payback period is still 5-7 years, down from 9-12 at the end of the 
last millenium.  But solar's coming down slowly and grid will be 
going up steadily, so it's becoming ever more a viable alternative.

--Gil