Basic Solar Math Chapters

Basic Solar Math chapter 1.
What is the interest rate in India?
How many months in the bank will double your money?
What is the rate of inflation?
What is your real rate of return?
Ditto for EU rates and US rates and yes Japan rates?
Please do some calculations and come out with your own figures on any one common currency basis like say Re. USD, Euro basis.

Basic Solar Math Chapter 2.
If your real rate of return from interest beats the inflation it is good news. You are in a fast growing economy with low inflation. But asset bubbles, currency crashes and inflation is just around the corner.
For the rest of us there is always the stock market, gambling and poverty.

Basic Solar Math chapter 3.
Catch hold of your neighborhood stock market buff who also invests in Ponzi schemes with great luck so far.
Ask him what is his best return and over what period of time?
Then ask him if his luck is same thru out his illustrious career.
Chances are you have already done and were disappointed with your own fate.
Ask old uncle who lives conservatively and invests in same way.
Now ask stock buff again after a few economic cycles.
His answer probably puts him in old uncles bracket or more likely much below him if he is not bankrupt that is.

Basic Solar Math Chapter 4?
Reflect on the conclusion of previous chapter have a sense of humor and now wiser look up to the sky during day time. You will see the Sun. Realize that it is by far the most regular thing in existence of planet earth. So can you bank on it?
"Yes but so boring and unexciting?"
Don't worry take Late Stock Buffs best Ponzi returns and average them and mutiply it by 2.5 just to make it look legal.
Compare it with much lower real rate of return.
There are some solar energy applications that have return similar to that of your Late friend multiplied by 2.5.
If done intelligently you may not even need to mutiply by 2.5 times.

Basic Solar Math pass out parade.
Meet Banker for financing who will say it is very long payback period, untested technology and unreliable .....
Explain to him returns on some applications (which are similar to the late stock market buffs ponzi returns).
Take Glares from your pocket wear them and look at the Sun after walking outside his door.
Friends payback period of more than 3 years and anything lesser is supposed to be illogical or illegal.
When the truth is that some applications are within 1 year also (due to energy efficiency).