In article "F. Baum" writes:

Jay, Ill try to get things a little more on topic. The airport where I
keep one of my airplanes is run almost entirely on Solar power (There
is a small diesel engine for the well) . Most of the equipment ,
including the batteries, was purchased government surplus and the
system has payed for itself several times over.

And, paying for that stuff at retail would cost *lots* more. If the
taxpayers had not paid for it already, it would be way out of reach.

As an interesting side
note, all the hangars on the field are secondhand . I am 30 minutes
from a major metro area and I pay a buck fifty a month for a hangar.

And a bit farther than that out of San Francisco, $120/month will get
you a tail-in tie down outside, but talk is that it may go up substantially
in the next few months.

Alan