Stewart Schatz

Those that know me know that I am not green, as they say.  However, they also know that I would love to own 40 acres and have my house right in the middle, surrounded by trees. 

A little anti-social?  Probably.

Anyway, what some may not know is that I think it would be very cool to live independent of the local electric utility company.  Not "off-grid", but have a way to create the amount of electricity to support my needs (believe me this would be no small task) and once in a while sell the utility company the excess.

Wouldn’t that be awesome!  Send someone else an electric bill.

Anyway, SUNGRI has developed a technology that uses a magnifying glass, high-efficiency photovoltaic cells and a proprietary heat transport technology to produce electricity from the sun at $0.05/kWh.  That’s definitely less than my last electric bill ($0.06977/kWh + $0.02270/kWh for "energy adjustment").  We average about 28 kWh/day (told you I wasn’t green).

Mr. Electricity has a good explanation about what a kilowatt-hour is and  other interesting facts about electricity.  Just a word of warning: he can be a little… blunt, but the information is great.