Comments on: Power4 Home Scam – Is The E-Book Power 4 Home A Fraud?

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:34:10 +0000

Several things didn’t add up after watching the 7 min video that was more like 20 min.+. (that’s the first clue). Secondly, John Russel claims to live in Duluth, MN and at one point in the video, shows a copy of his supposedly electric bill with Reliant Energy as the electric utility. First, Reliant does not do business in Minnesota. Their corporate office is in Houston and supplies electricity in Texas and New Jersey. However, Reliant does provide an avenue to sell back power to the grid. Maybe that’s why they used a Reliant bill in case anyone checked up on this thru Reliant’s website. Few utilities are setup to pay you for excess electricity. Secondly, at one point in the video, John claims to give an extra incentive to spend $50 on his plethora of crap and that is waiving the usual $14.88 (I’m guessing the cost, but it was $14 something) shipping and handling. However, when I decided to order by clicking on the Add to Cart button, all options added $7.99 to the order for shipping and handling. Who is being scammed now? Like others have said, he leads you to believe that parts costing $97 for one little solar panel can produce enough KWh to power a whole house. I call foul!

By: Jaco Louw

Jaco Louw — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:55:08 +0000

I’m not an expert but I tend to agree with Tim “One solar panel a system does not make”. Seen a system in operation on an uncle’s farm in Namibia. There were at least 8 panels, can’t remember the output / panel but it was fairly substantial and all he could run from it was a fridge, a freezer (only during the day), a television and +/- 9 low wattage bulbs. No stove, or heater or a geyser. I suppose it is possible to built a solar panel at home but there are other components that you will need like a converter and battery pack for starters. The solar panels collects and supply 12 volt or 24 volt to charge the batteries (not sure about the volts) and the inverter changed the 12 volt to the standard 220 volt for appliances in South Africa and Namibia. These items are very expensive in South Africa and Namibia. This system that I saw battle to keep just the bare essential utilities going – I cannot see that you will be able to generate excess electricity to sell with it. From what I read small windmills is is not the powerhouse that people claim.

My recommendation: change your geyser to a solar geyser, change your stove and heater/s to gas and run your lights from a small solar system. Run other appliances like fridges, computers and tv’s from the power grid.

By: John

John — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:31:07 +0000

I agree with Tony. I can not get to the store page at the web sight Power4home “error 404 and no store page”. You can do solar energy youself but you need more knowlage then he gives you. Refund please.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:45:29 +0000

I think the power 4 home is very misleading, not only for some of the reasons above but it leads one to believe that these instructions are complete and have you up and running in no time. The truth is they show you how to build the solar panel and a wind generator and the video ends. I really thought I would at least learn the types of items i needed in order to get this up and going. I have had the video for one day, i will be returning it this week. What good does the knowledge of putting these together to place in your yard and not be able to use. I felt ripped off at first but what you do find out is at the very beginning of the video is that you must have these installed by a professional once you have built them. I did not get that sense watching a 7 min video of his ( John Russell’s) reason for the making. I really thought this contained the building instruction and installation, boy was i wrong… Oh well, maybe i will get the refund for the video is worthless to me and the cost of a professional to install, amazingly high….

By: CorpAu

CorpAu — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 06:55:06 +0000

Misleading information can also be classified as false advertising which is illegal.

In oder to get a refund on your electricity bill one must be generating more electricity than one consumes.

This is IMPOSSIBLE under a single $100 Photovoltaic cell, even combined with a wind generator, as advertised by John Russel.

A wind generator needs wind speed of 12.5m/s or 45 km/h 28 mph to make 500 watts of power. This is a strong breeze of Number 6 under the Beaufort Scale. These wind speeds do NOT occur in the most of suburbia.

The average Australian home can use 25kwh per day. a 1kw solar panel system ‘may’ produce 5.5kwh per day or 1/5 of the power needed to power the average Aussie home.

for more information see: http://corpau.blogspot.com/2010/10/alternative-energy-deliberate.html

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