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[Don Bowen]

At 8/10/2005, you wrote:

>I think you are right on both counts.... but solar and wind are just plain 
>silly, because of the low energy density.  The much ballyhooed hydrogen is 
>even sillier.

This message is being sent via solar power.  I have a single 120 Watt panel 
on the trailer roof and two group 24 marine batteries.  I can run a week 
without firing up the generator.  This winter I will be adding a second 120 
Watt panel, a, MPPT controller and two T105 Batteries.

An important point about wind and solar is that you need either a complete 
second generator of the same capacity because wind does not blow all the 
time and there is always night.

Don Bowen                          Awl Knotted Up

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