On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 13:41:43 -0700 (PDT), "
> wrote:

>On Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 3:30:46 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 16:22:06 -0400, Sheldon Martin >
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Those with the money for the installation are typically too old to get
>> >the payback... for me at my age it would be like kootchie at his age
>> >spending more on a roof than his entire house cost. When they did the
>> >survey they quoted me a price for the panels and installation of
>> >$240,000.
>>
>> That's insane. Maybe they thought you wanted solar for a whole
>> village.
>>
>It did seem way off the mark to me, too.
>
>I saw a new type on a home improvement type show a few months ago. It
>looks like a giant patio umbrella for the lack of a better explanation.
>It was H.U.G.E. and I do mean BIIIIIG and it was $30,000, U.S. dollars.
>Somehow I vaguely remember them saying it was like a sunflower and it
>turns and follows the suns path. Then again I may have just dreamed
>that part.

You can probably get solar panels for a 4 person family for half of
that.