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Originally Posted by rice rocket
I'd wager his house is much bigger than yours. Utilities scale pretty linearly to sq footage.
Also he has an electric car, and I'm betting a fairly large scale computer backup setup to store footage, since that's part of his job.
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Perhaps you are right about the house size, but the photos he showed made the house look reasonably modest in size. He also mentioned by a HUGE factor that his car charging was the largest load, and his AC was next and after that was the microwave and toaster, so I dont think there is any hidden data centers in there.
My only point is that he mentioned that he paid about $100k for the system out of pocket and he was using $10k/year, so the payback was about 10 years. I just dont think that's right. For a house the size he showed, using natural gas for heat in NJ, it doesnt sound right to me.
As mentioned, the bulk of the vid was very good and informative.