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Al gores house solar panels.
At the time of the greening of gore s home the installation of solar panels including labor and the electronic components necessary to convert solar energy into a current that can be fed into the commercial electric grid cost approximately 3 to 5 per watt.
No matter how the numbers are viewed al gore uses vastly more electricity at his home than the average american a particularly inconvenient truth given his hypocritical calls for all americans to reduce their home energy use.
Those solar panels produce an average of 1 092 kwh per month only 5 7 of gore s typical monthly energy consumption.
Gore paid an estimated 60 000 to install 33 solar panels.
At the time of the greening of gore s home the installation of solar panels including labor and the electronic components necessary to convert solar energy into a current that can be fed into the commercial electric grid cost approximately 3 to 5 per watt.
Those solar panels produce an average of 1 092 kwh per month only 5 7 of gore s typical monthly energy consumption.
Gore paid an estimated 60 000 to install 33 solar panels.
A 2007 report from the tennessee center for policy research tcpr claiming that al gore s tennessee home uses over 20 times more energy than the average u s.
I found out about the ncppr report when friends and readers of this blog began sending me links to the report and articles about it because they mentioned one of my.