I should consider linking to the bet:

http://www.longbets.org/117

-Adam
On 11/2/05, M. Adam Davis <stienman@gmail.com> wrote:
> And here's a long term bet with some links to the dept of energy.
> Apparantly inflation has been groing faster than the cost of
> electricity.  Therefore electricity is cheaper now than it was last
> year, in adjusted 1995 dollars.  The dept. of energy indicates that it
> will continue to fall through 2007.
>
> So I suppose I shouldn't complain.  Would still be nice to have sub
> $0.05/kWH electricity though.
>
> Then you look a solar power.  About $4 per watt for an average panel,
> new.  Over a year you get perhaps 4000 good solar hours (10 hours a
> day is 3650 hours).  So you are getting 4kWH per year out of a $4
> investment.  About 10 times the cost of electricity.  After
> installtion and all the other equipment needed you're still looking at
> a 15 year payback, at which point the solar panel might be running at
> 80% efficiency, if it's still running at all.
>
> -Adam

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