{"id":2241,"date":"2012-05-11T21:48:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T10:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seawind-network.com\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2012-05-11T21:48:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T10:48:35","slug":"catching-up-with-uros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/20120511\/catching-up-with-uros\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up with Uros"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Solar Panel in Uros Island, Lake Titicaca - Peru<\/p><\/div>This photo was taken at Uros Island in Lake Titicaca. This modest house has a solar panel and inside there’s a TV set. Today we had our solar panels installed. Part of which are rebated by the government to promote green energy. When I sent the photo of the panels being installed<\/a> to Jeanne – she replied – ‘At last we have caught up with Uros’.<\/p>\n

Solar panel rebate has been around for a while but the cost has been prohibitive – at least to us – until now. There has been an increase on the number of homes installing solar panels that the price has now become a lot affordable. <\/p>\n

Last week, I walk into one of those supermarket stall offerring solar panel installations. Against my nature, I signed up. I would have normally research all of this – name all the different type of panels, outputs, inverters etc. Compared 5 different suppliers, but this time – I just said: Sign me up – when can you install it?<\/em> That was last Saturday. (Don’t do what I did – as soon as I signed up, I found out that my neighbour paid substancially lower after agreeing to display an advert in his lawn. I would not have minded that.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, the installer showed me how my electric meter is now turning the opposite direction. Instead of consuming electricity – we are now selling it back to the grid – cool! But to be honest, it would probably take 5 years before these panels will pay for itself in electricity savings. However – it feels good to think that if we switch on the dishwasher or the washing machine during the day – that we are using the power of the sun and not fossil fuel.<\/p>\n

We also have a lot of appliances that are just connected to the power all day – computers, clocks, Foxtel, photo frames, tvs etc. Now, all their idle power drain comes from the sun – theoretically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This photo was taken at Uros Island in Lake Titicaca. This modest house has a solar panel and inside there’s a TV set. Today we had our solar panels installed. Part of which are rebated by the government to promote green energy. When I sent the photo of the panels being installed to Jeanne – she replied – ‘At last we have caught up with Uros’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sydney-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}