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RICS report claims Solar Thermal energy takes 208 years to pay back

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

I saw a report in today’s (Saturday 13/oct/2007) Times, Mail or Telegraph that Solar Thermal energy takes 208 years to pay back. In fact, ALL of the figures in the report are drastically wrong – the figures and costs quoted are 5-8 times greater than “real world” quotes, and the figure for solar energy is completely incorrect. As member of the Solar Trade Association (STA) , Solar Powered Services abide by the strict ethical guidelines for both marketing and suitability of solar products. I’ve contacted the STA and RICS for explanation, and look forward with interest to see where they go the figures from. Click the image below and you’ll quickly see just how wrong the figures are.

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Enviro-home energy saving claims.

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

I nipped down to Reading to see, amongst other things, the Enviro Home at the St James Kennet Island development.

I noticed a couple of inconsistencies and figures I didn’t recognise. This isn’t in any way meant to badmouth or sound skeptical about solar and environmental stuff, I’m all for it. The trouble is that when random and artificially high figures are bandied about, and then rubbished by BBC’s Rogue Traders special on Solar Salesmen, it’s not really going to help the industry.

Anyway, I’m going to be lazy and let people make some comments, then I’ll come back in a couple of days and integrate the facts and figures.

As you walk into the house, you are greeted by this:

List of claims

Ignoring the wayward apostrophe for a moment, inside the house, it’s…

Solar PV 30 to 40 percent

This sounds a bit high for PV. Unless they plan on using 1 lightblub. I mean, bulb.

And now we’re up to 40 percent!

Solar PV 40 percent

Now, what about that hot water?

It provides 13% of the hot water…

13% hot water tiles

but provides a 25% gas saving. Not sure I can reconcile those figures. Anyone?

Solar hot water 25 percent

Then there’s the spelling, grammar and punctuation.

Light Blubs
Bad spelling

Links: Solar Century

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