Solar Panels, Smolar Panels. Who needs em?

Alright, after my last post I got some good remarks and some others who thought I was a little too soft at the end, but you know what, its my blog and my opinions :). I am glad that I can actually see these followers though.........(that is your cue to become a follower.)

Anyways, I was looking at some prices for solar panels for homes lately and was blown away. I read from a website that in order to power your home with Solar energy using Solar Panels you would need 41,000 square inches of Solar Panels to get 350 milliwatt hours per day. Just so that is written in pure English for all of us (please laugh really hard at me if I miscalculate) that would be 3416.666666666666666666667 square feet. For the average energy usage I calculated for a Central Air Conditioner. This is amazing, are you ready.......... In the energy calculations we need to convert the Milliwatt Hours to Kilowatt hours. This conversion factor is 1 milliwatt hour = 1.0 x 10^-6 Kilowatt Hours. So for that Solar Panel that would be collecting energy up to (notice the "up to" you probably wont get that all the time) 350 Milliwatt hours per day, you would be getting 0.00035 Kilowatt Hours per day. If you ran your AC during the summer for 30 days a month for 10 hours out of the day (I don't know if that is typical but I tried to pick a low number) you would use 945 Kilowatt Hours per month. That would be 94,500,000 Milliwatt Hours per month. But luckily you have those awesome Solar Panels that can get you 10,500 Milliwatt Hours per month. Wait that isn't even a fraction of the energy needed to run your A/C? Hmmm.

But wait, I haven't given you the awesome price of this wonderful Solar Panel. For this wonderful solar you can receive it for 600 easy payments of $26.66667! *or you can pay $16,000 up front. But wait, If you actually want to save that energy that you are getting for rainy days you can get the wonderful Battery system! *it will only double your cost of the Solar Panel and no we will not be throwing this item in when you call.

How could you walk away from such a great opportunity like this. You will never find the Sun's energy more expensive anywhere else.

Now you you can say it, "Solar Panel, Smolar Panel. Who needs em!"

Thank you to Google, Wikipedia, How Stuff Works, and Mr. Electricity.