WeAreMovingToArizona

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Avatar

We saw Avatar in 3D yesterday, and it was amazing!

The story is also very "actual", replace the rock (Unobtainium) with a 3 letter word ...

Too bad most Americans will not have made this link...

"This is why we're here," he explains. "Unobtainium. Because this little gray rock sells for 20 million a kilo. No other reason. This is what pays for the party."

One more week

And then we will have a well deserved 1 week break: Easter

We signed a contract to install a 10 Kw solar system which would give us about 18000-20000 Kwh a year. This is about 85% of our needs and maybe, just maybe, if we can get a bit more efficient ... 100% of our needs.

10 Kw system, 46 panels of 220W, 100m2 of panels, ground mount (not on our roof).

Project will be finished in about 3 months, in the meantime, the solar panel installer will pay for our electric bill in the meantime.

Taking into account all the rebates, and a 3% return on investments of the in solar invested funds, the return on investment would be around 8 years. Which makes this a no brainer. This doesn't take into account the added value of the solar panels to the house value.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Rancho Belgica will run on Solar panels shortly

We plan on installing solarpanels on our property to lower our energy bill by 90%-100%.

We will probably install between 8 and 10 Kw system and it would look a bit like this one:

Huge storms in Arizona

LINK

Our house is still there, however this homeowner wasn't that lucky:

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Internet, finally

After about 3 weeks, we finally have access to Internet (using this provider). We moved into the property on December 12. We have worked very hard over the last few weeks and we are glad with the progress. We also expanded our family.

(pics are not hi-res, taken with my cell E71 nokia)