On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 04:09:28 -0400, "Roger (K8RI)"
wrote:

He's a long way from Michigan and we may see that some day, but no
real incentives to install solar that I know of plus Michigan is a
cloudy 43'37" N ~ 85W. Here it' would take many years to pay off a
system that size.

Agreed. Here's US map showing how much sun everyone around the
country gets:

http://projectsol.aps.com/solar/data_insolation.asp

Don (NR7X, FWIW)