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Old 08-04-2007, 01:26 AM
mpolli mpolli is offline
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I am not the biggest PV expert but I will give you my .02 which agrees with what was just said. Currently solar is generally not cost effective without subsidies. Adding to that are the solar conditions in PA which are not necessarily bad but not as good as a lot of other areas (Arizona...). Further you are talking about a lot of energy there. Even in Arizona it might not be practical. You might want to look into a waste oil burner. Burning either WMO or WVO. You can look at the altfuelfurnace group at Yahoo for more info. They generally modify Beckett oil burners with siphon nozzles to burn waste oil. There are people in that group running these for kilns.

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