11K would probably be more than I need, but would cost many thousands of dollars to install. Same with most of the elaborate preparations shown. Just the setups might cost more than I've earned in salary in my entire 30+ year work history. So, they're not exactly realistic for us 99 percenters.
You keep eluding to my place as if I won the lottery or inherited a pile. Neither happened. Don't play games for the math challenged,and both our widowed moms flat didn't have anything to give us.
My career consisted of a self employed carpenter, at which I never made more than 30k. Did an 8 year stint as a vocational teacher in the 80's, my first year salary was 12k.....wife was teaching 1/2 time, made 6k that year. With an 18k combined income, we bought (owner financed, bank would still be laughing)our 70ac in 1982 and have been working on it ever since. I went back to construction work after 1990, my wife stayed with the school system for 32 yrs.....do I need to tell you what school teachers make (even today) in a rural Tennessee system ??
What we've done involved a lot of hard work, using materials grown on our land (my Woodmizer sawmill was the best thing I ever FINANCED), saving our pennies, the very rare new vehicle, smart financial decisions and so on.
That solar system ? Yes, I bought the components....over a period of 4-5 years, (started with 2.1kw and kept adding as money permitted ) and did 100% of the work on setting it up......along with dang near everything else around this place. Yes, it did cost thousands anyway....but we have zero electric bill and will never have one in the future. I simply pre-paid our electric costs for the next 30 years AND have the advantage of having power when the power company can't provide it.
Don't know what hand life has dealt you, but wish you'd knock off the sour grapes.....because if 2 kids that left home as married teens 46yrs ago with all their worldly goods in the back of a well used Rambler can do what we've done, then DANG NEAR ANYONE CAN.....
if they want to.
