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Originally Posted by elhigh
So dish: solar electric, hot air, hot water? The picture looked like evacuated tubes.
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I have 16 PV (electricity producing) panels that cover the deck and 30 evcuated tubes on the roof for domestic hot water. If I were to do it again I would go with flat plates. There is a great program here in Ontario where you can sell electricity back to the grid and they will pay you 80 cents a KW! That is how my panels can pay all my utilities for my house.
There may be similar programs that could help the rescue mission. I know in the US there a lot of program where they will rebate part of the capital cost of a solar system. You should look into that.
I know we have been approached by Habitat for Humanity so we are trying to get a supplier to give us a system which we will install would install for free.