Quote Originally Posted by STMahlberg View Post
If you would just install $50,000 worth of solar panel, you could run those computers for free! You know, free power from the Sun. Go green!
Saw an ad the other day - just $150 for 45w solar panel. It looked about 4' x 4' in size. So... to power the 2 x 2200w backup power supplies alone would require 98 of them which is only $14,210 plus tax, shipping etc. To power the entire hose would be about $40K (including batteries, switch to put excess into the grid, etc.). The problem is that I would need over 3000 square feet of solar panels and I don't have that much southern facing roof area, the trees block the sun in the back yard, and there's not enough sunlight in the front yard (shadow of the house most the day).

Maybe I need a wind farm!